Collegium Vocale Gent

s Collegium Vocale Gent

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE

14/01/2021 — 20:00

Muziekcentrum De Bijloke | Gent | BE

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy [1809–1847]

Ein Sommernachtstraum op.61

Sara De Bosschere, Sofie Sente,

Luc Nuyens, Michael Vergauwen actors

Pynoo costumes

De Roovers stage direction

Ilse Eerens soprano

Dorothee Mields soprano

Collegium Vocale Gent choir

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Philippe Herreweghe conductor

Canceled

More concerts

02/06/2023 | 20:30Dido and Aeneas Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, FR
10/06/2023 | 20:00Singet dem Herrn Leipzig, DE
08/06/2023 | 20:30Singet dem Herrn Paris, FR
09/06/2023 | 20:00Singet dem Herrn Gent, BE
13/07/2023 | 20:00Officium Defunctorum Wiesbaden, DE
14/07/2023 | 20:00Officium Defunctorum Ludwigsburg, DE
16/07/2023 | 15:00Officium Defunctorum Brussel, BE
16/07/2023 | 17:00Officium Defunctorum Brussel, BE
25/07/2023 | 20:00Silenzio mio Asciano, IT
28/07/2023 | 20:00Solo e pensoso Asciano, IT

Only sixteen years after the famous overture Ein Sommernachtstraum, Mendelssohn composed the complete stage music for this 17th-century romantic comedy about a magical flower, an amateur theatre company, four complicated love lives, fairies in a moonlit forest and a man with a donkey’s head. Mendelssohn’s stage music, like Shakespeare’s undisputed masterpiece, still stands like a house centuries later. Philippe Herreweghe and theatre company de Roovers seal this successful marriage between music and theatre with a magical theatre concert.