Korzo Zaal
A Myth
| Duration | 90 min |
How do we, as humans, relate to the world?
What stories and myths do we tell ourselves? And what happens when we let them go? Together with six performers, composer-director Mees Vervuurt wraps us in a dreamlike musical experience that blends movement, percussion, brass with beautiful vocals from Arturo den Hartog and Anat Spiegel.
Amid all this dreaminess, one of our era’s most stubborn myths is questioned: that humans are at the center of the universe and nature exists outside us. Echoing voices drift in the distance. A trombone calls out from the shadows. A screaming siren transforms into angelic song. A piano is pulled across the stage. Everything you try to grasp slips right through your fingers. Experience instruments like never before and find yourself on the edge of your seat as you discover how things truly are.
Mees Vervuurt's music moves between attraction and repulsion. Harmonies and melodies evoke the memory of a vague dream, while colors, distances, and intentions of sound feel new, sharp, unexpected, and even dangerous. In A Myth, echoing arias meet screaming sirens. Slow-motion baroque harmonies warp into the creak of a starting machine. Percussion and trombone whip up a storm of sound that eventually fades into meaningful silence.
With his musical performances, Vervuurt moves effortlessly between genres, roles, and disciplines. His most recent works—A Myth for Piano (2024), VACUÜM (2023), STABAT MATER (2022) and Sometimes I Visualize Myself Back in the Belly of my Mother (2021)—defy categorization.
Concept, composition & direction: Mees Vervuurt
Vocals: Marthe Koning
Vocals: Arturo den Hartog
Vocals Anat Spiegel
Performer: Charlotte Gillain
Percussion: Mees Siderius
Trombone: Salvoandrea Lucifora
Dramaturgy: Roel Meijvis
Lighting design: Wout Panis
Costumes: Lisanne Bovée
Production: Belle Lammers
Business management: Doortje van Duin
PR & marketing: Pien Visser
Production: Studio Vacuüm
Co-production: O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre. Muziekgebouw Productiehuis
With the support of: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Cultuurfonds, Municipality of Utrecht, Municipality of Rotterdam, AFK, Elise Mathilde Stichting, Volkskracht & Van Der Mandele Stichting
Korzo Zaal