After Life - De Nederlandse Opera

After Life
Michel van der Aa (1970)

Opera in one Act

libretto by Hirokazu Kore-Eda

premiere 28 September 2009
performances 29 September 2 3 4* October 2009
Het Muziektheater Amsterdam

What was the most defining moment in your life?
This is the question that stands at the heart of Michel van der Aas opera. Taking the film of the same name by Hirokazu Kore-Eda as its basis, the opera introduces us to people who are taken directly from their earthly existence into heaven. They may experience their most important memory once more in the form of a film and then take it with them into eternity. A complex structure results from a combination of live action, film, live music and electronic sounds, which van der Aa builds further onto his successful one act opera One - itself awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in 2004. Extremely diverse time-periods are reflected in the music and in the plot, although the work nevertheless preserves its clarity and an unequivocality that flows ceaselessly from its humanistic base.

musical direction
Otto Tausk
director
Michel van der Aa
set design
Dries Verhoeven
lighting
Floriaan Ganzevoort
costumes
Robby Duiveman
video
Peter Wilms
sound
Clare Gallagher
dramaturgy
Klaus Bertisch

Aiden
Roderick Williams
Mr. Walter
Richard Suart
Sarah
Yvette Bonner
Ilana
Margriet van Reisen
Chief
Claron McFadden
Bryna Pullman
Helena Rasker

orchestra
Asko | Schönberg

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