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conceived and directed by JOSSE DE PAUW
musical direction CHRISTOPH SIEBERT
music FRANZ SCHUBERT, ANNELIES VAN PARYS
text ARMANDO, HANS SLEUTELAAR
text adaptation TOM JANSEN, JOSSE DE PAUW
set and light design HERMAN SORGELOOS
image courtesy DAVID CLAERBOUT
performers DIRK ROOFTHOOFT, CARLY WIJS
singers soloists COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT
Production Muziektheater Transparant

Muziektheater Transparant
Going from the artistic and social topicality, production house Muziektheater Transparant enters into an intensive dialogue with artists from various disciplines and wants to create, renew and present musical-theatre in its entire diversity for a wide audience. The voice is placed firmly at the centre of the projects, and it continually blends the old and the new. Also other disciplines like visual arts, film, video, graphics are integrated in the productions. The company pays particular attention to offering contemporary musicians the chance to develop and try new work. It has produced operas by Wim Henderickx and worked with composers like Jan Van Outryve and Eric Sleichim.
A more theatrical approach is added with directors Caroline Petrick, Wouter Van Looy and Ramsey Nasr. Annelies Van Parys and Joachim Brackx, two most promising Flemish composers, are invited for a three-year residence to put their first steps in music theatre.
Transparant is internationally active: touring productions are an important part of their work, and it has performed at many festivals, including the Salzburger Festspiele, Edinburgh International Festival, the Holland Festival, the KunstenfestivaldesArts and at several European Capitals of Culture (Bruges 02, Lille 04, artist in residence in Stavanger 08, etc.) . This variety of shows, artists and production methods gives Muziektheater Transparant a unique national and international character Collegium Vocale Gent
Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 on the initiative of Philippe Herreweghe. It was one of the first ensembles to use the then-new ideas about baroque practice in vocal music performances. Musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and Nikolaus Harnoncourt immediately took an interest in the Flemish ensemble’s fresh, new approach, which led to intensive collaboration. In the mid-1980s the ensemble acquired international fame and was invited to all the major concert halls and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russian, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
The repertoire of Collegium Vocale Ghent is not limited to one particular stylistic period. The ensemble’s greatest strength is that it can put together the ideal combination of voices for performing Renaissance polyphony, Classical and Romantic oratorios or contemporary music. Since 2009 a collaboration has been set up with the Accademia Chigiana in Siena for the performance of the major symphonic repertoire and recruitment of singers at the European level. Baroque music, and in particular the works of J.S. Bach and G.F. Händel, is the mainstay of the ensemble’s concert schedule.
The ensemble has built up an extensive discography of over 65 recordings under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, both singing a cappella and accompanied by the baroque orchestra of Collegium Vocale Ghent or the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, primarily with the Harmonia Mundi France and Virgin Classics labels. Recent CDs include the splendid Cantiones Sacrae sex vocum by Orlandus Lassus (HMC901984) and J.S.Bach’s cantatas Jesu, deine Passion (HMC901998). In 2010 Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 will be released by Pentatone.
Collegium Vocale Ghent has worked with various baroque orchestras and ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester and Ricercar Consort as well as with traditional symphony orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. Besides Philippe Herreweghe the ensemble has been conducted by leading conductors such as Sigiswald Kuijken, René Jacobs, Daniel Reuss, Philippe Pierlot, Paul Van Nevel, Bernard Haitink, Ivan Fischer, Marcus Creed, James Wood and Peter Phillips.
Collegium Vocale Ghent is sponsored by the Flemish Community, the Province of Eastern Flanders and the city of Ghent.

Production Muziektheater Transparant,
Has the production been supported financially coproduced by KunstenFestivaldesArts and Zeeland Nazomerfestival. In collaboration with Festival Spielart, München.