Archive 1994 

The 1994 festival opened with Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, and it would not be this edition’s only opera: Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Schubert’s Winterreise each underwent a current-day adaptation by Bruno Maderna and Hans Zenders, respectively.

Also featured were Chinese operas: not classical Chinese operas, but works by artists like Qu Xiaosong, Lu Pei and Tan Dun. Tan Dun attended the festival not just as a composer, but also as a singer.

It was also theatre innovator Peter Brook’s first visit to the Netherlands with The Man Who, based on the work of psychologist Oliver Sacks.