| Fellowship Participant – Miranda Lakerveld |
Fellowship Participants Miranda LakerveldArtistic Director/Stage Director Miranda Lakerveld (Utrecht, 1976) creates opera’s that bridge cultural differences and reflect on contemporary issues in poetic ways. The opera repertoire is the beating heart of energetic performances where myths, music and dance from different cultures and artistic disciplines meet. She is the founder and artistic director of World Opera Lab. Her works were created and performed in extraordinary locations: from the Azadi Tower in Tehran to Mercatorplein in Amsterdam-west; from the Rotterdam Afrikaanderwijk to the Indian city of Ahmedabad and from Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City to the Holland Festival. To support her creative work she has done extensive research in traditional music and drama practices from India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Japan, Guatemala and Tibet. Important works include Orfeo in India an adaptation of Monteverdi’s opera with Indian and European musicians in Ahmedabad, The Inner Landscape about Sichuan Opera, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, with communities in Amsterdam-west, Majnun & Leyla fusing music and performance practices from India, Iran, Morocco and Turkey, a series of debate-opera’s with De Balie in Amsterdam on conflicts in the Middle East. Recent works include Temple of Time an interreligious ceremony with gamelan-installation with composer Sinta Wullur, The Sacrifice for World Opera Lab, which fused Afro-Surinam, Iranian and Arabic trance-rituals, The Passion of Now, a St. Matthews Passion in seven languages, Turan Dokht a Persian adaptation of Puccini’s Turandot with Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi, a reconstruction of Monteverdi’s Arianna and Ine Aya’ – Voice from a fading forest, with Kalimantan composer Yadi Nursalim Anugerah, which had its premiere at the Holland Festival. Miranda has been an advisor at several Dutch arts foundations, and is currently an advisor at the Dutch National Arts Council. >>View Miranda's member profile (member sign-in required) ISPA would like to thank Dutch Performing Arts / Performing Arts Fund NL for their partnership in this important regio |
