A heart-warming family concert about the beauty of grief and the inseparable love connected to it. The Belgian National Orchestra brings solace and joy with orchestral music by Purcell, Khachaturian and Saint-Saëns, arias by Mozart, Thomas and also music by Sinatra and Brel.

Do you believe in life after death?
Yes - says Anna - in that way, death scares me less.
Oh, then I believe in it too - says Emile.

With À la vie, à la mort, singer and stage director Helene Bracke aims to forever break the taboo around grief and loss. Physical actor Anatoli Akerman (Cirque du Soleil, Circus Roncalli, Walt Disney), with his subtle antics, strikes a perfect balance between sorrow and entertainment, between mourning and laughter.


Interview Helene: 
www.nationalorchestra.be/nl/nieuws-verhalen/helene-bracke-i-want-to-put-the-fun-in-funeral

https://www.cultuuroptil.be/inspiratie/a-la-vie-a-la-mort​

CREDITS 

Belgian National Orchestra
Gabriel Hollander | conductor
Helene Bracke | concept , mezzo , director , text
Charles Dekeyser | bas-bariton
Anatoli Akerman | clown 

Voice-over French speaking child | Pablo Goovaerts García.
Voice-over Dutch speaking child |Laure Vande Ginste

Tijl Wellens | stage technique
Evelyne Meersschaut | costumes and props

Thanks to asbl/vzw Missing you, asbl/vzw Internationaal Comité, Joëlle Charlier, Benoît De Leersnyder and especially to all the children who helped philosophise.
Created with the support of the Belgian Tax Shelter through Casa Kafka Pictures.
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