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CHERRY TOWN Will Come to the Nationale Opera & Ballet's Main Stage
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2026

De Nationale Opera will present a new production of Dmitri Shostakovich's Cherry Town in October at Nationale Opera & Ballet's Main Stage in Amsterdam.

BWW Feature: POCKETOPERA LA TRAVIATA: STERVEN AAN JE DIEPSTE WENS at Violetta Is In Het Concept Van Regisseur Dorike Van Genderen Een Trans Vrouw!
by Chantal Kunst - Oct 26, 2021

Van 5 november - 9 december 2021 toeren wij met de nieuwe pocketopera La traviata door Nederland. In de bewerking van regisseur Dorike van Genderen is Violetta een trans vrouw. Het concept is gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931), die als een van de eersten geslachtsveranderende operaties onderging en daar uiteindelijk aan stierf.

BWW Feature: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Dutch Tour: opening night this weekend!
by Chantal Kunst - Mar 13, 2019

From the 16th of March to the 9th of April 2019, the Nederlandse Reisopera (Dutch National Touring Opera) will be taking a new production of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music around the country. This is an English-language version produced by an American artistic team. In this staging, Director Zack Winokur looks back to the film that the musical was originally based on, Ingmar Bergman's Smile of a Summer Night: 'What I found lacking in the musical, at least in the productions that I saw, was the bodily, sensual and erotic comedy which is at the heart of the film. Why are people continually trying to seduce each other and why are they continually failing? This work is about feelings that everyone deals with in daily life, which is comforting, alienating and disquieting at the same time.'