General Information
- Production title:Shell Shock - La Monnaie (2015)
- Creation date:24/10/2014
- Work - Composer:Shell Shock - Nicholas Lens
- Opera house:Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie - De Munt.
Description
World Premiere
"Whether you call it shell shock or post-traumatic stress disorder, war creates serious psychological wounds. A hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Belgian composer Nicholas Lens and Australian author and musician Nick Cave have written a new opera on this theme. In twelve poems or canti he evokes the anonymous protagonists of the war in a highly personal and fluent style : soldiers, mothers, orphans, prisoners, etc. The testimonies of these individual characters, with whom everyone can identify, make the universal call for a humane and peaceful world. The ‘choreographic directing’ of this international project is in the hands of the Belgian-Moroccan ‘choreographer of the year’ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. This new creation by La Monnaie has been incorporated into the official calendar of the Federal Committee for the Organisation of the Commemoration of World War I".
More information is available on the operahouse's official website
Schedule
October 24, 2014 20:00:00
October 25, 2014 20:00:00
October 26, 2014 15:00:00
October 28, 2014 20:00:00
October 29, 2014 20:00:00
October 30, 2014 20:00:00
October 31, 2014 20:00:00
November 01, 2014 20:00:00
November 02, 2014 15:00:00
Casting
Work's characters list
Conductor
Soprano
Mezzo soprano
Contratenore
Tenore
Basso
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