On Saturday, 22 November, the Pathe Buitenhof spoils us with a further live broadcast from New York, bringing La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz to The Hague. Subtitled ‘a dramatic legend’, Berlioz’ musical creation feeds on the ancestral quest for right, wrong and the transitions thereof, whilst this particular staging makes use of the [...]

Claiming to stage a novelty performance of Mozart’s Requiem in this day and age is either boisterous or daring or foolish or all of the aforementioned, to say the least. And yet, the consummate musicians gathered under the aegis of Musica Poetica, a very young baroque orchestra rapidly gaining the respect of their peers worldwide [...]

What was a try-out last season returns now as a full-fledged event in its very own rights – the live, high definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, to be enjoyed leaning back into the red velvet chairs at the Pathe Buitenhof, here, in The Hague, This is not only about hearing and [...]

The opening night of the direct, high definition broadcast series from the Met in New York brings you an opera that was considered to be so scandalous that wealthy patrons went out of their way to ban its performance. Based on Oscar Wilde’s play Salome, the opera has all the ingredients of a saucy blockbuster: [...]