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Ragazze Quartet plays both classical and modern string quartet repertoire: inspired and on the highest level. With attractive but unconventional programmes the quartet has come to be one of the most fresh and leading voices in the world of classical music.
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Intimate Letters
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TUE 28 JAN, 2.15pm
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam / NL
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SUN 01 MAR, 12:00 AM
Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven / NL
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WED 04 MAR, 8:00 PM
Theater a/h Vrijthof, Maastricht / NL
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WED 11 MAR, 8:15 PM
De Vereeniging, Nijmegen / NL
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SUN 22 MAR, 3:00 pm
Ruinekerk, Bergen NH / NL / CANCELLED
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SUN 29 MAR, 11:00 AM
Muzenforum, Bloemendaal / NL / CANCELLED
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MON 25 MAY
Operadagen, Rotterdam / NL / CANCELLED
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TUE 03 NOV, 9:30pm
Grand Theatre, Groningen
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SUN 15 NOV, 4:00pm
Verkadefabriek | November Music, Den Bosch / NL / CANCELLED
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SUN 15 NOV, 8:00pm
Verkadefabriek | November Music, Den Bosch / NL
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Love letters are not about love; they are about the impossibility of it. About suspension,
disappointment, imagination, memory, hope…

The Ragazze Quartet enters into a liaison with soprano Claron McFadden. Intimate Letters is a theatrical concert around two compositions that are centered around love letters: Janaček’s second string quartet (titled ‘Intimate Letters’) and the song cycle’ The Juliet Letters’ by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.  Intimate Letters connects both works in one theatrical programme about a form of love that can’t or shouldn’t become physical and that seems to draw its force from the distance between the lovers.  The interaction between the five female musicians on stage –with each other and with the music- slowly becomes a mirror image of the growing tensions and complexities in a romanic relationship that rises and falls in letters and messages.

Repertoire
Janaček
String quartet ‘Intimate Letters
Costello and Brodsky kwartet
The Juliet Letters
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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
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Sjaron Minailo - direction
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.
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Wout van Tongeren - text
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.
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Maarten van Warmerdam - lighting design
Maarten Warmerdam is a Dutch lighting designer. He graduated from the Theaterschool of the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2006. He is active as a lighting designer in theater in disciplines such as opera, drama, music theater, modern music and location theater.
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