Inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s meta-theatre, composer Tom Johnson wrote a piece for a group of singers who have only four notes at their disposal (A, B, D and E) and couldn’t sing about anything other than the opera they are now performing in. Of course, such is an impossible situation: the opera ends in utter rigidity.

The Four Note Opera - tour

Hotel de Doelen

Limburgzaal Heerlen

Schouwburg Odeon

Giacomo Puccini composed his Il trittico as a triptych of one-act plays in which shudder, sadness and laughter are successively evoked. The three short operas are now being performed together for the first time at Dutch National Opera and are the culmination of the three-year Puccini series by conductor Lorenzo Viotti and director Barrie Kosky .

Georgiy Derbas-Richter

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12 - 28 Nov, 2024

The Four Note Opera - tour · Nationale Opera & Ballet

3 - 19 May, 2024

Il trittico · Nationale Opera & Ballet

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