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© SVEN VAN BAARLE Impact, 1902 Revisited © HUGO MAERTENS De Kunstbende © PHILE DEPREZ 27 CONCISE Patatboem Opera As regards opera, we programmed Schöne Geschichten by the Prometheus Ensemble conducted by Etienne Siebens, L’Orfeo by I Barocchisti conducted by Diego Fasolis and Il Re Pastore by Il Fondamento conducted by Paul Dombrecht. In co-operation with the Brussels festival Ars Musica we programmed What Next, which was performed by deFilharmonie under the direction of Peter Eötvös. But the greatest challenge lay in the new opera production Antigona, which BRUGGE 2002 co-produced with Muziektheater Transparant and Salamanca 2002. The baroque orchestra Il Fondamento conducted by Paul Dombrecht and the La Sfera del Canto choir performed this opera by the 18 th -century composer Tommaso Traeta in a surprising production by Gerardjan Rijnders. Antigona opened in Bruges and played a total of three times before a packed Concert Hall.

Pop, rock and underground BRUGGE 2002 worked with the Bruges music centre Cactus for four concerts: Chocolat Genius, Tindersticks, Mafalda Arnauth and Marianne Faithfull, and for four Label nights, with well-known and less well-known labels and peppered with DJs, VJs and multimedia effects. And there was the 21 st Cactus Festival in the Minnewater Park, with St Germain as one of the big crowd-pullers. But the most intense music events for a young public were to be experienced on the Stubnitz. BRUGGE 2002 brought this converted cargo ship from the German port of Rostock to Bruges, where it played host to 170 performances by a large number of underground groups, bands starting out, and well-known and less well-known groups. 28 BRUGGE 2002 World music and folk Rembetika organised three projects with world music and folk. The fifteenth edition of the Brugges Festival had a strong programme, including Madredeus, Guo Yue, Anouar Brehem, Koen De Cauter, and many others. There was just as much appreciation for the festival Old and New Belgians, in which established Belgian folk was on offer alongside new names: Jan De Wilde, Catherine Delasalle, Olla Vogala, Brise l’Ame, Fluxus, Tango al Sur, and so on. And then there were also The Caravans, with musicians travelling through various suburbs of Bruges for three days, to end with a two-day happening in the Sebrechts Park. And let’s not forget... BRUGGE 2002 also had its own “in-house orchestra”. Flat Earth Society opened the cultural year with a procession from Toyo Ito’s pavilion at the Burg to the Concertgebouw. During the opening weekend they performed at a number of locations. They also went into the prison to give a concert, worked on Patatboem and played the tiles off the roof during the Sail sailors’ parade. As a closing event, FES excelled con brio on the main stage of the Concertgebouw. Finally, it should also be mentioned that a number of dance and theatre performances were accompanied by live music. We can cite, for example, Ictus in Rosas, the Flemish Radio Orchestra in Swan Lake, and the Madrigal Chorus in SS. © PIERRE CONSTANT © ANDRÉ VAN RIET & KARINA LEIJNSE 100 Zeeland Portraits

© SVEN VAN BAARLE<br />

Impact, 1902 Revisited<br />

© HUGO MAERTENS<br />

De Kunstbende<br />

© PHILE DEPREZ<br />

27<br />

CONCISE<br />

Patatboem<br />

Opera<br />

As regards opera, we programmed Schöne Geschichten by the Prometheus Ensemble<br />

conducted by Etienne Siebens, L’Orfeo by I Barocchisti conducted by Diego Fasolis<br />

and Il Re Pastore by Il Fondamento conducted by Paul Dombrecht. In co-operation<br />

with the Brussels festival Ars Musica we programmed What Next, which was performed<br />

by deFilharmonie under the direction of Peter Eötvös. But the greatest challenge<br />

lay in the new opera production Antigona, which BRUGGE 2002 co-produced<br />

with Muziektheater Transparant and Salamanca 2002. The baroque orchestra<br />

Il Fondamento conducted by Paul Dombrecht and the La Sfera del Canto choir performed<br />

this opera by the 18 th -century composer Tommaso Traeta in a surprising production<br />

by Gerardjan Rijnders. Antigona opened in Bruges and played a total of three<br />

times before a packed Concert Hall.

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