Sammy Van den Heuvel — scenography

Each space grows within a specific frame that is formed through conversations; with the director, with the choreographer, with the text, the music, the material, with the dramaturg, with the production team, with the artists and builders in the workshops, with the stage technicians. Ultimately, the built space engages in a conversation with the performers, and, through them, in a conversation with the audience.
Wozzeck
Seraphim
No yogurt for the dead
Tipping point
Angel's bone
Le nozze di Figaro
The man who fell from the sky
A safe space for male bodies
Szenen aus Goethes Faust
The world’s wife
Vanishing point
Die Vorüberlaufenden
The future is not what it used to be
Solitary dialogues
Solitude
Each time we fall a city rises
Quartett
A requiem for lost things
Als niemand me ziet
Totentanz
#truth: ein sokratischer Abend
Ich rufe meine Brüder
3000 Euro
Ich bin wie ihr, ich liebe Äpfel


sammyvandenheuvel@gmail.com

Le nozze di Figaro

What starts as a seemingly simple desire — Susanna and Figaro want to get married— quickly degenerates into a comedy of intrigue. This opera is the first of three collaborations between composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte.

The ideas of the Enlightenment are omnipresent in this work. These are characters who want to build the world anew. And to do that the old must be deconstructed. First the castle is flattened and neatly laid out on the floor, then the architectural drawings that preceded the castle are washed away, and finally the floor itself is lifted to uncover the garden, nature as its most comfortable. 


musical directionMarie Jacquot 

directionTom Goossens

dramaturgyLalina Goddard and Tom Swaak

scenographySammy Van den Heuvel

costume design    Dotje Demuynck

light designLuc Schaltin

/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen 2023