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Shell Shock at La Monnaie

Dates: (10/24/2014 - 11/2/2014 )

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La Monnaie


23, rue Léopold
Brussel,Brussels 1000

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Phone: +32 (0)2 229 12 11

Tickets: €12.00 - €90.00

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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.

Cast and Creative team for Shell Shock at La Monnaie

Music direction ¦ Koen Kessels
Choreography & direction ¦ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Set design & video ¦ Eugenio Szwarcer
Costumes ¦ Khanh Le Thanh
Dramaturgy ¦ Ruth Little
Chorus direction ¦ Martino Faggiani
Soprano ¦ Claron McFadden
Mezzo soprano ¦ Sara Fulgoni
Contratenore ¦ Gerald Thompson
Tenore ¦ Ed Lyon
Basso ¦ Mark S. Doss
Dance ¦ Eastman Dance Company
Orchestra & chorus ¦ La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
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