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Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schönberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, one moonlit night, confesses in a wood to the man she loves that she is pregnant with the child of another man. The poem’s scene resonates in the music’s persistent strings, at times heavily loaded with passion, at times subtle as a timid voice, seemingly in unison with its protagonist’s ordeal. Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Danced by (alternating) Boštjan Antončič, Nordine Benchorf, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Igor Shyshko, Samantha van Wissen Music Arnold Schönberg, Verklärte Nacht, op. 4, by Pierre Boulez & New York Philharmonic Light design Luc Schaltin, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Kostuums/Costumes Rosas / Rudy Sabounghi Musical dramaturgy Georges-Elie Octors, Alain Franco Production Rosas Coproduction Ruhrtriënnale, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg World Premiere Ruhrtriennale, 16 August, 2014
