Archive 1994 

The 1994 festival opened with Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, and it would not be this edition’s only opera: Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Schubert’s Winterreise each underwent a current-day adaptation by Bruno Maderna and Hans Zenders, respectively.

Also featured were Chinese operas: not classical Chinese operas, but works by artists like Qu Xiaosong, Lu Pei and Tan Dun. Tan Dun attended the festival not just as a composer, but also as a singer.

It was also theatre innovator Peter Brook’s first visit to the Netherlands with The Man Who, based on the work of psychologist Oliver Sacks. 

De affiches waren van de handen van Jeroen Henneman, Pieter Roozen en Mart Warmerdam.