photo by Marco Borggreve

The Shell Trial  |  multicam registratie

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This is the background to The Shell Trial, Dutch National Opera’s new opera based on the play De zaak Shell by Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens, which premiered in 2020 and caused a stir on the Dutch and international stage. Presenting a range of voices and perspectives in the climate crisis, the opera shows complexity of the case. The boundaries between guilty party and innocent victim, between good and bad, and individual and collective responsibility become blurred as more and more viewpoints are expressed. Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Ellen Reid, who is artist-in-residence at the Royal Concertgebouw in 2024, has composed the music for Roxie Perkins’ libretto. The Shell Trial is co-produced, developed and directed by Gable Roelofsen and Romy Roelofsen of Het Geluid Maastricht. The opera is a collective production, an approach with which musical director and co-creator Manoj Kamps had much success in Faust [working title]. Dutch National Opera also practises what it preaches; the production has been made as sustainably as possible.

Muziek Ellen Reid
Libretto  Roxie Perkins; gebaseerd op het toneelstuk De zaak Shell van Anoek Nuyens, Rebekka de Wit, Frascati Producties en De Nwe Tijd

Muzikale leiding en co-creatie  Manoj Kamps
Regie, concept en co-adaptatie  Gable Roelofsen en Romy Roelofsen (Het Geluid)
Decor  Davy van Gerven
Kostuums  Greta Goiris en Flora Kruppa
Licht  Jean Kalman
Video  Wies Hermans
Choreografie  Winston Ricardo Arnon
Bewegingsregie ‘Elders’  Nita Liem
Dramaturgie  Willem Bruls, Saar Vandenberghe, Jasmijn van Wijnen