ĀRT HOUSE 17 & Friends
Over the Rainbow
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Livestream from Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal on 1 September 2026 at 20:00
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About this concert
On the Baroque opera stage, gender boundaries were surprisingly blurred. Men sang women’s roles, women sang men’s, and castrati sang everything in between. ÀRT HOUSE 17 continues in this vein with a flamboyant revue where genres and conventions cheerfully clash. Music by Bach, Handel, Bertali, Schmelzer, and Vivaldi stands fraternally alongside Sufjan Stevens' Mystery of Love and Somewhere over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz – all played on historical instruments.
The dance is directed by leading Antwerp choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, while the stage action features around 170 members of the inclusive Space Choir and a host of clowns, dancers, and acrobats. This concert format, anything but ordinary, is an ode to the beauty of diversity.
Programme
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Georg Friedrich Händel
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Allegro
(from: Solomon, HWV 67, Londen 1748)
Ombra mai fu
(from: Serse, HWV 40, Londen 1738)1685-1759 -
Antonio Bertali
Sonata no. 3 a 3
(from: Prothimia Suavissima, 1672)1605-1669 -
Georg Friedrich Händel
Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!
(from: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Londen 1718) -
Johann Sebastian Bach / Thomas Höft
Choral no. 26 ‘In meines Herzens Grunde’
Arioso no. 19 ‘Betrachte, mein Verstand’
Aria no. 20 ‘Erwäge’
Choral no. 40 ‘Ach ja, ob da lieb Engelein’
(from: Utrechter Passion, after BWV 245, 2022)1685-1750 / *1961 -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata I a otto in C major
Allegro
(from: Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes, Salzburg 1676)1644-1704 -
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Saltarello
(from: Creso, Vienna 1678)
Sonatina zu der Kayserlichen Serenade
Allegro
Presto
(from: Sonata con Aria, Vienna 1672)
Gigue
(from: Il pomo d’oro, Vienna 1668)c1623-1680 -
Dinah Washington / Max Richter / arr. Michael Hell
This Bitter Earth
1924-1963 / *1966 / *1976 -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto per flautino in G major, RV 443
Largo
Allegro molto1678-1741 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Schlummert ein, Ihr matten Augen
(from: Geschwinde, geschwinde ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201) -
Sufjan Stevens / arr. Lucas Vermeer
Mystery of Love
*1975 / *1998 -
Philipp Jacob Rittler
Ciaccona a 7
c1637-1690 -
Harold Arlen / arr. Michael Hell
Somewhere over the Rainbow
(from: The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
Programme subject to change1905-1986
Musicians
- Thomas Höft presentator
- Johanna Rosa Falkinger soprano
- Sophie Daneman soprano
- Benedikt Kristjánsson tenor
- Dietrich Henschel baritone
- Anca Huma, Klara Beyeler, Anne-Marie Warburton dance
- Jonas Vandekerckhove, EASTMAN Company dance
- Mareike Franz clown, dance
- Adrián Schvarzstein clown
- The Space Choir
- Lucas Vermeer choir director
- ĀRT HOUSE 17
- Maria Kubizek concert master, violin I
- Blanca Prieto, Sofija Krsteska violin I
- Manako Ito, Raffaele Nicoletti, Agata Front violin II
- Barbara Konrad viola
- Hannah Freienstein, Silvain Rullier cello
- Georg Kroneis viola da gamba, violone
- Kurt Körner, Peter Weinzierl clarinet
- Ester van der Veen bassoon, contra bassoon
- Ivan Trenev accordion
- Sofie Vanden Eynde theorbo, guitar
- Ana Nicolás de Cabo percussion
- Michael Hell musical direction, recorder, harpsichord, organ
- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Mareike Franz choreography
- Thomas Höft dramaturgy
- Bettina Dreissger costumes
- Georg Kroneis head of production
- Bart Abeel facilitator
About the performers
ĀRT HOUSE 17 is an ensemble conducted by Michael Hell. Besides using historical instruments, the ensemble considers it important to do justice to the broader context in which the music was performed. The central question here is: what does the music have to say today? ĀRT HOUSE 17 has been a guest at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht several times in recent years with their music theatre performances such as Kaffeekantate and The Crocodile Bar. The ensemble also created the Utrechter Passion during Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2022.