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Events in Art and Archaeology

Michael Najjar: laokoon198 x 178 cm, framed, edition 6Photo courtesy of The Hague Museum of Photography
Michael Najjar: laokoon
198 x 178 cm, framed, edition 6
Photo courtesy of The Hague Museum of Photography
Augmented Realities Through Genetic Engineering
THE HAGUE  •  The Hague Museum of Photography  •  5 April - 30 June 2008
 
 

German artist Michael Najjar (b. Landau, 1966) is fascinated by scenarios for the future of mankind. In his large-format photographs and video works, he creates a simultaneously exciting and disturbing picture of human beings as artificial, technological beings. Najjar can be regarded as a pioneer in the digital manipulation of photographic images. He himself calls his work 'hybrid photography': a new visual idiom created by the marriage of analogue and digital technology.

Based on ideals of beauty derived from Ancient Greece and the Italian Renaissance, the artist has constructed a new image of mankind that is refined and ethereal, transcending everyday reality.

Michael Najjar's creative process is based on current scientific ideas in the field of genetic engineering. He uses these to visualise new visual worlds in which fact, fiction and pure fantasy tumble and interweave. The resulting images can be chilling representations, fascinating interpretations or entertainingly imaginative guesswork. The current exhibition entitled Michael Najjar Augmented Realities 1997-2008 includes eight series, all dating from the 1997-2008 period. The earliest is entitled ¡viva fidel! - journey into absurdity and could easily be taken for a traditional black-and-white photo-documentary on Cuba. However, the digital manipulation that permeates the images casts doubt on the truth of the photographic account.



The Hague Museum of Photography Web Site


Contact: The Hague Museum of Photography
Stadhouderslaan 43
2501 CB Den Haag
The Netherlands   
Tel: (31) 70 3381144

Events in Classical Music

Golijov & Ginastera
AMSTERDAM  •  Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ  •  6 June 2008
 

Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960) : Last Round (1996)

Osvaldo Golijov: Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994)

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983):Concerto for Strings op. 33 (1965)

Osvaldo Golijov: Youth without Youth Suite (2007)

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Accessible instrumental music from two modern Argentinean composers, from a homage to Piazzolla to a religiously-tinted string quartet.



Holland Festival 2008 Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
20h 30

Contact: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Amsterdam
Tel: (31) 20 523 77 87

Events in Dance

The Forsythe Company
AMSTERDAM  •  Westergasfabriek Zuiveringshal West  •  2 - 3 June 2008
 
Kammer / Kammer (2000)
The Forsythe Company

The Dutch debut of William Forsythe’s new company: a danced, filmed and spoken tale of impossible love.

Choreography: William Forsythe
Music:  J. S. Bach, H. von Bieber, J. S. Bach / F. Busoni, Thom Willems, Lynn Anderson (Cry)

Actors: Dana Caspersen (Catherine Deneuve) en Antony Rizzi (Boy in the blue sock hat)

Holland Festival 2008 Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
20h 30

Contact:

Westergasfabriek Zuiveringshal West
Amsterdam

 


Tel: (31) 20 523 77 87

Events in Opera

La Commedia: By Louis Andriessen
AMSTERDAM  •  Koninklijk Theater Carré  •  12 - 18 June 2008
 
 

Louis Andriessen (b. 1939): La Commedia

Filmopera in five parts
Texts by Dante, Vondel and others, and from the Old Testament

Louis Andriessen’s latest music-theatre work, a collaboration with film director Hal Hartley, is based principally on Dante’s Divina Commedia

Beatrice, Claron McFadden  
Dante, Cristina Zavalloni 
Lucifer, Jeroen Willems 
Marcel Beekman  
   
Asko Ensemble 
Schönberg Ensemble 
Synergy Vocals 
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor
Hal Hartley, director
Sets: Paul Clay 
Costumes: Robby Duiveman 
Lighting: Scott Zielinski 
Electronic sound samples: Anke Brouwer



De Nederlandse Opera Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
Premiere  12  June 2008
Performances  14  15  16  17  18  June 2008

Contact: De Nederlandse Opera
Waterlooplein 22
1011 PG Amsterdam
Tel: (31) 20 625 54 55

Saint François d’Assise : By Olivier Messiaen
AMSTERDAM  •  Het Muziektheater  •  1 - 29 June 2008
 
 

Olivier Messiaen: Saint François d’Assise

Ingo Metzmacher, conductor
Pierre Audi, director 
Sets and Lighting: Jean Kalman
Costumes: Angelo Figus

Orchesrta and Chrous of De Nederlandse Opera

Cast:
Camilla Tilling (L’Ange) Rodney Gilfry (Saint François) Hubert Delamboye (Le Lépreux) Henk Neven (Frère Léon) Tom Randle (Frère Massée) Donald Kaasch (Frère Élie) Armand Arapian (Frère Bernard) Jan Willem Baljet (Frère Sylvestre) André Morsch (Frère Rufin)

The opera’s key scenes are the Appearance of the Angel, the Healing of the Leper and the Sermon to the Birds.



Holland Festival 2008 Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
18 h

Contact: Het Muziektheater
Amstel 3
1011 PG Amsterdam
Tel: (31) 20 523 77 87

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

Bon Jovi
AMSTERDAM  •  Amsterdam Arena  •  13 June 2008
 
Bon Jovi

Amsterdam Arena Stadium Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
6:00 pm

Contact: ArenA Boulevard 1
1101 AX Amsterdam Zuidoost
Tel: (31) 020 311 13 33

Celine Dion
AMSTERDAM  •  Amsterdam Arena  •  2 June 2008
 
Celine Dion

Amsterdam Arena Stadium Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
18 h

Contact: Arena Boulevard 1
1101 AX Amsterdam Zuidoost
Tel: (31) 020 311 13 33

Happy Days: By Samuel Beckett
AMSTERDAM  •  Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam  •  31 May - 2 June 2008
 
The Holland Festival kicks off with the British production of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), in which a middle-aged woman is buried in sand up to her waist. Everything that she needs lies within her reach: a pocket mirror, a toothbrush, an umbrella and a pistol. Untiringly optimistic, she is determined to love life, even when only her head remains above the sand. The Irish actress Fiona Shaw plays one of Beckett’s most famous characters in collaboration with Deborah Warner, her regular director.

Holland Festival 2008 Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
20h 15

Contact: Stadsschouwburg
Leidseplein 26
10147 PT
Amsterdam
Tel: (31) 20 523 77 87

Toppers in Concert
AMSTERDAM  •  Amsterdam arena  •  23 - 27 May 2008
 
 
Toppers in Concert

Amsterdam Arena Stadium Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
19h 30

Contact: ArenA Boulevard 1
1101 AX Amsterdam Zuidoost
Tel: (31) 020 311 13 33



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