Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Muziektheater Transparant, d e t h e a t e r m a k e r

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe (1995) is a theatre/performance-maker, performer and director. He graduated from the performance art course at the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht and his graduation production The Ballet (2018) was created with ballet dancer Emiel Vandenberghe. In addition to this he appears as an autodidact counter-tenor in his own musical performances, which put in question the traditional pop concert. Madrigals premiered in early 2022. Here, Meirhaeghe worked Claudio Monteverdi's effervescent vocal works about war and love, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi, into a cry for freedom fueled by militancy and passion, and mixed them with Jesse Kanda's experimental pop. In his working practice he studies archaic forms of opera and ballet and tries to give them a new interpretation in a contemporary context.