
Love letters are not about love; they are about the impossibility of it.
The Ragazze Quartet enters into a liaison with soprano Claron McFadden in a theatrical concert centered around love letters.
People still write letters to Juliet, once Romeo’s lover in Verona. These and other fictional letters were the inspiration for Elvis Costello’s ‘The Juliet Letters’. These letters correspond beautifully with Janácek’s second string quartet.
About Intimate Letters
The direct, poignant numbers of ‘The Juliet Letters’ show countless ways to enter the intimate world of Janaček’s string quartet; and vice versa, Janaček’s notes place these musical letters in a new dramatic field of tension. Intimate Letters connects both works in a theatrical program about yearning, fulfilled and unfulfilled love, remembering and being forgotten.
No concerts or performances are scheduled
Repertoire
Elvis Costello & Brodsky kwartet
Janaček
Credits
Direction
Text
Lighting design
Technique
In collaboration with
Claron McFadden – soprano
The American soprano Claron McFadden (1961) graduated cum laude from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and has lived in the Netherlands since 1984. She is known for her very diverse repertoire – ranging from baroque to contemporary music – and has worked with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Frans Brüggen and Sir Andrew Davies.
Photo by Sacha de Boer

Sjaron Minailo is an Israeli-born opera director and performer who lives and works in Amsterdam. After training in theatre and dramaturgy in Israel and at the University of Amsterdam, he founded Studio Minailo, a laboratory for experimental contemporary opera in Amsterdam. Minailo specialises in opera creations outside the regular opera halls and the conventions of opera and theatre.
Photo: Sandor Lubbe

Wout van Tongeren (1982) studied dramaturgy and philosophy and is a dramaturge at the National Opera & Ballet. In addition, he worked as a dramaturge with various Dutch (music) theatre groups such as Silbersee, Orkater, Opera Zuid and Mugmetdegoudentand. Through Dr Script, an agency for script development, he is involved in various theatre, film and TV productions.
Photo: Martin Dijkstra

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