Also experience The Mad King live | June 10 premiere at Theater Rotterdam
It is really happening! Finally, the theaters can once again receive audiences in the safe manner they have long been ready for.
Following our online premiere in January and numerous enthusiastic responses, we look forward to seeing the effect of this performance, as oppressive as it is elated, on a live audience. Baritone Wiebe-Pier Cnossen is the virtuoso “mad king,” who, amidst the garishly dressed musicians of the New European Ensemble, fights his delusions by teaching his songbirds melodies. We complemented Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King with music by Handel, and arrangements and a soundscape by Brendan Faegre under the musical direction of Hernán Schvartzman. NRC in its review of the live stream praised this “golden touch,” the German O-Ton found the production “sumptuously dressed and musically strong,” and the international Bachtrack gave The Mad King the maximum rating: five stars!
The Mad King will tour Rotterdam, Utrecht, Alkmaar, The Hague and Amsterdam starting June 10, 2021.