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A multi-disciplinary performance about the tragic love story of Adam and Lilith.
World Premiere | 2 June 2012 | Holland Festival
Claron McFadden– voice, concept
Dimitar Bodurov– composition, piano & electronics
Carola Luther– libretto
Frans Weisz– film
Jeroen Willems– actor
World Premiere
2 June 2012
Holland Festival
Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
In the lounge bar of the Hôtel du Paradis we meet a man who tells us about his lost love. A woman then arrives who starts to talk about her failed relationship. Slowly it appears that he is Adam and she is Lilith, Adam’s first wife in Jewish mythology, who was created as Adam’s equal. Lilith refused to submit to Adam, and finally decided to leave Paradise. They recount their tragic love story, ending in a dramatic finale.
With Lilith, opera singer Claron McFadden stages an emotionally charged music theatre performance, combining contemporary classical music, jazz, sampling, acting, film and poetry to ask some fundamental questions about the relationship between man and woman, and between man and God.
Credits
Tom Schenk- lights and decor
Sara Vanderieck- dramaturgy
Tim Persent- movement coach
Clare Gallagher- sound
Zoe Monti- costume
Shout! Partners in Cultuur (Annette Schautt)-project management preproduction
Muziektheater Transparant- tour management and acquisition
A coproduction with Holland Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam and Muziektheater Transparant
In cooperation with Concertgebouw Brugge
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