Bring Me A Storm, 2020

Text & Music: Boris Bezemer
Director: Stephen Liebman
Scenography: Django Walon
Dramaturgy: James Whiting
Conductor: Coen Stuit
Lighting Design: Jasper Nijholt
Video Director & Editor: Maurice Angenois

Soloist: Angelo Custodio
Recorders: Juho Myllylä
Flutes: Tatiana Rosa
Clarinets: Marco Danesi
Trumpet: Sven Berkelmans
Tuba: Arne Visser
Tube: Boris Bezemer
Mandolin: Martine Sikkenk
Pedal Steel Guitar & Banjo: Jeroen Kimman
Harpsichord: David Jansen
Harp: Juan Sebastián Blanco
Percussion: Niek KleinJan
Violin: Fiona Robertson
Viola: Mark Mulder
Viola da Gamba: Constance Allanic
Double Bass: Dominique Chabot

Photos: Kim Krijnen

Commissioned by the Dutch National Opera

The libretto of Bring Me A Storm draws inspiration from a famous monologue in Pierre Beaumarchais’s play The Marriage of Figaro. This monologue does not appear in Mozart’s operatic adaptation and served as one of the starting points for Bring Me A Storm.