Romeo en Julia

paradise lies under your Mother's feet

 
PRESS

Theaterkrant * 5 stars
'It is amazing how all the different musical works fit together. This is not only because all the music is played by winds and percussions (it is after all a concert wind band), but it is also due to the arrangements and the new music by Floris van Bergeijk, which complements it perfectly. This young composer seems to be able to hold his own with the great masters.'
'Musically the performance is carried by the very young French soprano Sandrine Buendia. She sings with great ease both Gounod or Berlioz in French and songs from West Side Story in English. Oedo Kuipers is an entrancing young Romeo.'
'…It is hilarious and moving as well as incomparably clever, as is the whole production. It was by no means a hotch potch, it sounded magnificent and proved that the tale of these star-struck lovers is of all times, all nations, all (conflicting) cultures.'\

Leeuwarder Courant
'Corina van Eijk’s triumph in Spanga. Grabbling to the core of Shakespeare.'
'…It is precisely through this post-modern cutting and pasting, by eagerly grabbling from every conceivable adaptation of that universally familiar story,  that Van Eijk cleverly gets to its very core. When a tale is so well-known, what matters is how it is told. You can definitely leave that to Corina van Eijk and her team.'
'…Hope remains, if only because of such a strong, imaginative production.”

NRC Handelsblad * 4 sterren
'… very well accompanied by the Frisian Youth Concert Wind Orchestra.'
'Van Eijks integration of video and stage action reaches in this case into the orchestra pit. It is from there that Romeo (the disarmingly innocent musician and tenor Oedo Kuipers) climbs up to the balcony of Juliet (the outstanding French soprano Sandrine Buendia).'