Hagar (2025)
A bold and creative partnership between composer Jan-Peter de Graaff and librettist Eleanor Barlow, Hagar is a daring, modern and fiercely human reimagining of the ancient tale that explores resilience, scandal, and consequence.
Parallax (2021)
“Whose opinion really counts?” Parallax is a song cycle/monodrama for soprano and ensemble, based on a libretto by Yuri Robbers and Eleanor Barlow. In 14 songs a presentation is given by someone who believes the earth is flat and wants to confirm her beliefs by launching herself from the earth’s surface.
Bonsai Garden (2020)
During the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Jan-Peter de Graaff (composer) and Kenza Koutchoukali (stage director) started the initiative to create eight online miniature operas that shed light on the life behind the closed doors of the imposed ‘lockdown’ during the height of the first wave of the coronavirus in Europe.
De Synode (2019)
In De Synode, a merchant tries to gain financially from the outcome of the religious conflict by collaborating with both opposite sides of the conflict. Unfortunately for him, both outcome of the religious conflict and the outcome of the political conflict don’t go as planned, resulting in him losing his daughter and all his possessions, leaving him to the mercy of his debt owners.
De Grens (2018)
In this opera, a local Station Manager informs Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II that he has to wait at the station until the Dutch Government had made a decision about his asylum application. But the manager has his own thoughts about the Emperor staying at his station.
All Rise! (2016)
A translator in a fictional multilingual parliament is tempted by a politician to make a translation error. The consequences of this mistake turn out to be far less innocent than expected, and the situation spirals completely out of control.