Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (OBV) presents opera, ballet, concerts, and music theatre as contemporary and living art, from its home bases in Ghent and Antwerp. Through its Vonk productions, the house provides a platform for young people to experiment and innovate, focusing on participation and co-creation. OBV is the largest cultural institution in Flanders. The organisation has a symphony orchestra, a choir and children's choir and a ballet company. Annually, OBV merges opera and ballet into unique hybrid productions such as Alain Platel's C(H)ŒURS 2022 (Verdi, Wagner), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Satyagraha (Philip Glass) and Alan Lucien Øyen's Rusalka (Dvořák). Other notable opera productions recently staged by the house include Franz Schreker's Der Schmied von Gent by Ersan Mondtag, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde by Philippe Grandrieux, Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust by video artist Julian Rosefeldt and choreographer Femke Gyselinck, and the world premieres of Les Bienveillantes (Hèctor Parra) and The Convert (Wim Henderickx). The Ballet's associate artists are Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jermaine Maurice Spivey and Jan Martens, whose FUTUR PROCHE premiered in 2021 at the Cour d'honneur in Avignon. Other successful ballet productions in recent years include Mozart / Concert Arias by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Creature by Akram Khan, and the double bill New Ballet mécanique / Half Life by Richard Siegal and Sharon Eyal.