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Nederlandse Reiopera’s Il Barbiere Di Siviglia – it is pure fun from beginning to end. It is played entirely for laughs, all the stops pulled out, and it gets them. This production is akin to an English pantomime with bright colours, garish sets and costumes and over the-top characters – and it all works brilliantly.
I joined over a hundred other music lovers under the soaring, dark beams of Lourdes church in preparation for a guided tour of 6 undisclosed venues in Scheveningen. Divided into five groups we set off into the quiet, cobbled streets of this quaint fishing village . . .
A few sketches in the exhibition show Apol performed his share of tasks on board the wooden sailing vessel Willem Barents. It set sail for its third attempt to reach Nova Zembla in June 1880. Its captain recorded, the odd crew-member took a sketchbook with him everywhere, even on duty.
Moving mostly in unison to Jeske de Blauw’s incessant, hypnotic soundscape, the movements become more frenetic, more obsessive until finally some sort of liberation is achieved. The movements toward the end were almost out of control – the dancers could easily have been at a gig by the Sex Pistols or The Clash in the late 1970s.
As of 1st February 2020 she will succeed the former General Director Axel Rüger, who is – as of 1st June 2019 – Secretary and CEO at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Rembrandt’s influence can be detected in works like Maes’ charming Christ Blessing the Children, loaned by the National Gallery. Another work was long thought to be by Rembrandt: the thoughtful The Apostle Thomas, loaned by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel.
It took de Hooch a while to find his little niche, his artistic identity, but when he did his work blossomed and he found a rich vein painting ordinary people in Delft’s muddy alleys and brick-paved back-yards . . .
There are lots of apes and native North and South Americans throughout. Each act is presented in context and one of the most beautiful was the roller skating act which arrived, as though for a wedding, all in white, in two canoes. There was an amazing Chinese unicycling act with five girls catching metal bowls on their heads . . . an exciting and truly unique experience.
