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Thank you for visiting Opera Forward Festival '21.

No fewer than 30.000 virtual visitors discovered what opera also could be during the 4-day festival. We hope you enjoyed it!

Programma

The Seven Deadly Sins

In the satirical music theatre piece Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins, star soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and renowned actress Anna Drijver embody two sides of the same young woman. In seven American cities, they come into contact with the seven deadly sins.

Upload

During OFF we take you on a journey through the making off Michel van der Aa's newest opera Upload and give you a preview. The film version of the opera will follow in the spring and the theatre version in a later opera season.    

Een lied voor de maan

Feeling lonely, Mole decides to write a song that will cheer up the moon. Grasshopper rehearses his orchestra until they know the song by heart. Then, one night, they put on a beautiful concert. So why does the moon look so sad afterwards…?

OFF Performances

OFF 2021 presents three special operas: the satirical music theatre piece Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins, the family opera Een lied voor de maan (6+) and a preview of Michel van der Aa's latest opera Upload. You can also enjoy the special collaboration between Gregory Caers and students of the MBO Theaterschool in Rotterdam, which resulted in the performance HCoV-NL63. And last but not least: this edition of OFF will be opened by writer and poet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.

OFF Talents

An important place in OFF is reserved for the opera makers of the future: the students of today. Within the festival they create their first opera.

OFFSpring

OFFspring is a series of special productions by young theatre makers and artists who have participated in previous editions of our Opera Forward Festival. For their projects, the different creative teams engage in a dialogue with the major opera titles that Dutch Nationale Opera had originally programmed this autumn, as well as with the various districts of the city of Amsterdam and its residents.

OFF Talks

Besides impressive operas and musical performances, OFF 2021 presents ten inspiring talks that will stimulate your head and heart during OFFNight #1 and OFFNight #3. The OFF Talks will be available all night long.

OFF Music Sessions

During OFF 2021 you can enjoy various short musical performances. With musical styles ranging from jazz to close harmony, there is something for everyone! The OFF Music Sessions will be available all night long.

OFF Live Studio

During the OFF Nights on Thursday 18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 March, we invite you into our live studio, in which we talk to various guests and take you along everything the festival has to offer: spoken word, talks, music and of course opera.

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Een persoonlijke opera over verandering

Het team van Good Be I was lang op zoek naar een passend verhaal voor hun opera. Een heel persoonlijk ingrediënt bepaalde uiteindelijk de richting. Een interview met componist Izak de Dreu, regisseur Agnese Kumpina en dramaturg Roosmarijn Brans.
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