MEDIATHEK

A Love Unsung is the second music theatre production made by The Stolz Quartet with their team. The musicians perform the music while being part of the scenery and story. They tell the story with the music, performed by heart, and with their presence on stage. The actor on the screen, the music, the musicians, the scenery and scenografy merge in such a way that the individual disciplines no longer exist as such but together create a new dimension.

A Love Unsung is a new opera by Robert Zuidam without vocals: "There will be spoken text, whispering, shouting, music making, but no singing. The heartbeat of the muse will form a special element in the piece, at times being amplified and sounding together with the music that is being played. It’s a strange sort of multi-layered percussion piece that leaves the listener without a moment’s rest.”

This multimedia music theatre piece shifts continuously between the present moment and past memories in which passionate love offers various perspectives on beautiful music, and the composer is tormented by remorse, haunted by phantoms from his past. The four musicians of The Stolz will perform A Love Unsung live. The impressive contribution from Flemish actor Johan Leysen will be pre-recorded and projected on a screen. This obsessive quest will continue to resonate long after the liberating finale.