Photo: Nichon Glerum

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

The Juliet Letters

Janaček

String Quartet no. 2 / Intimate Letters

Credits

Direction

Sjaron Minailo

Text

Wout van Tongeren

Lighting design

Maarten Warmendam

Technique

Koen Keevel

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Listen to The Juliet Letters by the Brodsky Quartet