Be My Superstar

Music theatre
The interactive opera Be My Superstar is a collaboration between director Alexandra Lacroix and composer Šimon Voseček. The performance — for everyone above 14 — is based on Yann Verburgh’s H.S. tragédies ordinaires, a touching text about bullying. Sooner or later, from nearby or at a distance, it affects young and old.

One glass box. Big.
People in an open space. Dancing.
The background: galvanizing beats.
No stage, no chairs,…
Awkward inconvenience?

The omnipresence of social media, in time as well as in space, hardly leaves any room for escape. Lacroix and Voseček translate everyday harassment in word, image and music thus confronting us with the banality of the violence we are all capable of.
Where does violence originate? Where does it feed? Where does it emerge ? How long do we keep on watching or enduring before taking action? Spectator and performer, bully and victim, all seem interchangeable in a powerful, physical show that leaves traces.

Programme & credits

CREDITS

concept & stage direction
Alexandra Lacroix

composition
Šimon Voseček (°1978)

libretto
based on H.S. tragédies ordinaires (Yann Verburgh)

adaptation libretto
Aïda Gabriels, Alexandra Lacroix

soloists
Astrid Stockman, soprano
Logan Lopez Gonzalez, countertenor

performance
SPECTRA
Pieter Jansen (violin), Anna Jalving (viola), Hanna Kölbel (cello), Cédric De Bruycker (clarinet)

video
Franziska Guggenbichler-Beck

dramaturgy
Aïda Gabriels

scenography
Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy

costumes
Céline Perrigon

production
LOD muziektheater

coproduction
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Operosa Festival Montenegro, Helsinki Festival, Cie MPDA - Alexandra Lacroix, Festival d?Aix-en-Provence, SPECTRA, Snape Maltings Aldeburgh & Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

In collaboration with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
With the support of the TAX Shelter maatregel van de Belgische Federale overheid, enoa: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, la Fondation Orange tax shelter partner Flanders Tax Shelter

Calendar

Wednesday 14 August 2019, 20:00
Gent, LOD Studio
 Wednesday 21 August 2019, 21:00
Herceg Novi (ME)
 Thursday 22 August 2019, 21:00
Herceg Novi (ME)
 Tuesday 28 January 2020, 10:00
Gent, LOD Studio
 Wednesday 29 January 2020, 20:00
Gent, LOD Studio
 Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:30
Gent, LOD Studio
 Tuesday 11 February 2020, 10:00
Antwerpen, Opera Ballet
 Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:30
Antwerpen, Opera Ballet
 Wednesday 12 February 2020, 20:00
Antwerpen, Opera Ballet
 Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:30
Antwerpen, Opera Ballet
 Thursday 11 June 2020, 20:00
Aix-en-Provence (FR)
UITGESTELD
 Friday 12 June 2020, 20:00
Aix-en-Provence (FR)
UITGESTELD
 Wednesday 26 August 2020, 20:00
Helsinki (FI)
UITGESTELD
 Thursday 27 August 2020, 20:00
Helsinki (FI)
UITGESTELD
 Friday 28 August 2020, 20:00
Helsinki (FI)
UITGESTELD
 Tuesday 01 June 2021, 20:00
Luxembourg (LU), Grand Théâtre
 Wednesday 03 November 2021, 20:00
Amsterdam (NL), Nationale Opera & Ballet
 Thursday 04 November 2021, 20:00
Amsterdam (NL), Nationale Opera & Ballet

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