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

Wozzeck

Alban Berg’s opera is based on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner. In his composition, Berg gave an unstoppable momentum to the fragmentary scenes. Johan Simons takes us inside the mind of a man who is losing his grip on reality, or rather, a man who finds himself at the mercy of ruthless, mad world.

The space is the inside of Wozzeck's head: his canvas, an off-kilter and eerie playground over which he has no control. Moving shadows make one question the static nature of the space. 

musical direction
Alejo Pérez
direction
Johan Simons 

dramaturgyMaarten Boussery and Koen Tachelet

scenography Sammy Van den Heuvel

costume design    Greta Goiris and Flóra Kruppa

light design Friedrich Rom

/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen 2025