Amsterdam 750
A world of sounds featuring mezzo-soprano Tania Kross
Tania Kross sings arias from the first opera in Papiamentu and cabaret songs about Amsterdam. Bas Wiegers conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in works by Revueltas and Verbey and a world premiere by Calliope Tsoupaki.
A world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell.
Concert programme
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Theo Verbey
Notturno
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Joop Stokkermans
Meisje uit de provinsie in het magies centrum (orch. Thomas Beijer)
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Joop Stokkermans
Zo tolerant (orch. Thomas Beijer)
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Calliope Tsoupaki
Another Day (commission, world premiere)
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Silvestre Revueltas
Cuauhnáhuac
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Randal Corsen
Suite ‘Katibu di Shon’ (from the opera based on Carel de Haseth’s book)
Performers
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Bas Wiegers
conductor
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Tania Kross
mezzo-soprano
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Ivan Podyomov
principal oboe
About this concert
Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, a world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell. Tania Kross sings fifty-year-old songs in which the more distressing sides of Amsterdam are not glossed over, while the rich culture of the Antilles resounds in a suite from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first ever opera in Papiamentu.
Greek-born composer Calliope Tsoupaki has been living and working in Amsterdam for over 35 years and was Composer Laureate of the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga. Conductor Bas Wiegers concludes this programme of many voices with de exciting music of Silvestre Revualtas evoking the pre-colonial Mexican landscapes and cultures.
This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.
This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, a world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell. Tania Kross sings fifty-year-old songs in which the more distressing sides of Amsterdam are not glossed over, while the rich culture of the Antilles resounds in a suite from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first ever opera in Papiamentu.
Greek-born composer Calliope Tsoupaki has been living and working in Amsterdam for over 35 years and was Composer Laureate of the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga. Conductor Bas Wiegers concludes this programme of many voices with de exciting music of Silvestre Revualtas evoking the pre-colonial Mexican landscapes and cultures.
This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.
This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.