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Meriç Artaç: Requiem for Mariza

Opera Forward Festival

until
21
Mar
2026
13
Mar
-
21
Mar
2026
partner
Dutch National Opera & Ballet
location
Amsterdam
year
2026
discipline
performing arts
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What happens in the final seconds before you disappear forever? This intriguing question forms the basis of a new music theatre work by Meriç Artaç (1990). The main protagonist, Mariza, suddenly finds herself in a twilight zone between the life she knew and an unfathomable future. This contemporary requiem offers a poetic and multi-layered perspective on the transition between life and death.

This production is part of the Opera Forward Festival, an annual festival for new contemporary opera productions that explores the future of opera and presents opera as a relevant and forward-thinking artform to a wide audience.

Photographer: Hugo Thomassen