After the successful The Woman Who Walked into Doors (2001), composer Kris Defoort and director Guy Cassiers are now working on a new opera.
Their starting point is the novel House of the Sleeping Beauties by Japanese author and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. The book recounts the several visits by the old Mister Eguchi to a strange, tender brothel, where older men can spend the night beside the warm bodies of sedated, very young girls. It is a story about goodbyes, old age, and death.
Dirk Roofthooft and Katelijne Verbeke perform.
Credits
director
- Guy Cassiers
author
- Marianne Van Kerkhoven
after
- Yasunari Kawabata
performance
- Mieko Harada
- Dirk Roofthooft
- Katelijne Verbeke
- Kyozo Nagatsuka
dance
- Kaori Ito
- Kaori Ito
- ensemble Tokyo Geidai Sinfonietta
styling/set design
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Arjen Klerkx
light design
- Enrico Bagnoli
video
- Arjen Klerkx
music
- Kris Defoort
vocals
- Katrien Baerts
- Omar Ebrahim
- Barbara Hannigan
music director
- Patrick Davin
choir
- Megumi Yoshimura
- Megumi Shiozaki
- Chihiro Hara
- Yoko Hayashi
costume design
- Tim Van Steenbergen
choreography
- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
production
- De Munt / La Monnaie
- LOD muziektheater
- LOD muziektheater
coproduction
- Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
- Toneelhuis
- Operadagen Rotterdam
- Musica - festival international des musiques d’aujourd’hui de Strasbourg
- Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
- Asko | Schönberg
- La Filature, Mulhouse
with the support of
- Ars Musica
- BOZAR Music
- Orchestre National de Belgique
- Kunstenfestivaldesarts
- Concertgebouw Brugge
