Jan Versweyveld

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)

American composer Jake Heggie's compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean's memoir about her fight for the soul of a cond ...

Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite (2022)

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth on 15 January 2022, Ivo van Hove reunited with the Troupe for their third collaboration, a production of Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite, the original version in three acts, banned at its premiere in ...

The Glass Menagerie (2021)

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be. ...

A Little Life (2021)

No novel has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A Little Life by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Ivo van Hove adapted Yanagihara's novel to theater and created a penetrating performance. Ramsey Nasr won the Louis d'Or ...

ITA Live: Kings of War (2021)

In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaste ...

Don Giovanni - Palais Garnier - from June 8 to July 13, 2019 (2019)

What is this flame that compels Don Giovanni to seduce, subjugate and conquer women one after the other, with the fervour and cold indifference of a predator securing his prey; to pursue through his conquests some obscure and ever‑elusive objective? For ...

Électre / Oreste (2019)

National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Catherine maneuvers her way into Eve's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil i ...

National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this ch ...

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler (2017)

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel. ...

Antigone at the Barbican (2015)

Cameras exclusively capture the Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche playing the title role in Sophocles's tale of family loyalty, courage and tragedy. The Barbican's visionary new English language translation by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet and cl ...

National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge (2015)

The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that free ...

Rain (2014)

Recording of a performance by Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris of the ballet on Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. ...

Two Men (2022)

A portrait of Ivo Van Hove, internationally the most highly regarded stage director of the Low Countries. And of his partner in love and work, scenographer Jan Versweyveld. ...