’u’ will be playing at the Frascati Theater in Amsterdam on the 23rd and 24th of November.
Book your tickets quickly, there are only a very limited number of seats still available!
Check http://www.theaterfrascati.nl/english/box-office for tickets.
Last weekend we had the honor of performing ‘u’ at the annual gathering of the Khemorex Klinzhai fleet in Farnsberg Germany. This was the first time the opera was performed in front of an almost exclusively Klingon audience.
We battled rain and mud to set up the stage on a spectacular outdoor location at the top of the Farnsberg. The effort was more than worth it as this was by far the most epic perfromance of ‘u’ to date. Our friends of Khemorex Klinzhai seem to think so too. Read some of their reactions below.
To top everything off they decided to make the whole cast and crew of ‘u’ honor members of the fleet! We are greatly honored by this noble gesture and will will try to live up to it in the future.
We want to thank all the members of Khemorex Klinzhai from the bottom of our tiq for this profound experience and hope to seem them again soon!
Qapla’!
Some reactions from members of the fleet:
‘It was a true honour to see ‘u’ in Farnsberg! I never have seen anything like it before! This was truly inspired by the fire of the klingon heart! majQa’! Qapla!’
qoraS aka Lothar Irrgang
‘Ein Buchstabe genügt: ‘u’u'u’u'u’u'u’u'u’u'u’u'u’u’
jotmoS Kobol puqloD & Vantania
‘Die Frage von Floris, ob das Erlebte nun klingonisch genug sei, ist für die Anwesenden unverständlich- es ist bei weitem das klingonischste Erlebnis, welches in den Jahren des Khemorex Klinzhai gegeben hat.’
Tobi B.
The opera ‘u’ was performed at Zeebelt, The Hague on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of September to full houses.
Thanks to all the people who made this fantastic event possible! The cast and crew! The Zeebelt! Marc Okrand! and all those people involved!
A great big QAPLA’! to you all.
We have gotten amazing media coverage for the event from amoungst others Time Magazine, msNBC, BBC Worldservice, NPR music and the Guardian. For an oversight of the different articles visit our facebook page.
For press materials please email publiciteit@zeebelt.nl
We are currently planning our international tour. If you are are interested in staging ‘u’ or know a venue who does please let us know at info@zeebelt.nl
Check this website for updates about where we will be playing in the future.
We are very happy to welcome the worlds foremost Klingon language expert Marc Okrand as our guest of honor!
Marc will attend the premiere of the piece on the 10th of September.
We hope he likes what he hears…
‘u’ is going into it’s final weeks of rehearsal at the Zeebelt theater in The Hague.
Many battles have been fought and there are still many to fight!
Multi-talented composer Eef van Breen and the amazing Erik Kouwenhoven complete the team in this final push.
We are looking forward to the premiere!
Qapla’!
DavwI’ mIv or character masks reconstructed by Piia Maria and Kees de Haan
After receiving a few questions concerning the whereabouts of the home planet we thought it would be good to answer them.
The position of Qo’noS was identified by Andre Bormanis in collaboration with Mikael Okuda.
Andre Bormanis wrote several episodes of the Voyager and Enterprise series, as well as acting as science/technical advisor on the “Next Generation” films. He’s the author of the book Star Trek: Science Logs.
Michael Okuda worked for Star Trek as a graphic designer, scenic artist, and technical consultant. He’s the author of Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.
Based on the available knowledge we have they deduced that Qo’noS is an M-class planet orbiting the star Arcturus aka Alpha Bootis.
This is a giant orange K2 star 36 light years away.
For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus
We want to thank Andre and Mike for their invaluable contribution to our project!
We had the privilege to present the project ‘u’ to the press at FedCon 2010.
Here is the result of our efforts and a general impression of the event.
We have taken the plunge!
With the start of the last leg of the project ‘u’ we thought it was time to contact our most important potential audience members: the Klingons on Qo’noS.
The first ever radio message was sent to Qo’noS on Sunday the 18th of April! Translated and voiced by non other than Marc Okrand the message invites the Klingons of the Home world to attend the special premiere of the opera on our special location in Kijkduin.
This task was left in the very capable hands of the communication experts at Pool Worldwide.In the following video you will witness the result of their campaign; a message to Qo’noS.
The message was sent with the CAMRAS telescope at Dwingeloo in the Netherlands. We want to thank the whole CAMRAS team for their work and highly recomend you have a look on their website.
‘u’ to play Voi-Z opera festival in Zwolle
‘u’ will be playing the Voi-Z opera festival in Zwolle on the 5th of April 2011.
http://www.voi-z.nl/programma/127-u
This is also a good option for those of you coming from Germany to see the show.
Come and do battle with us!