Dutch National Opera and RIGHTABOUTNOW INC.
Lennox
Dates
27 October 2024 - 7 April 2025
Location
Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Studio Boekman and on tour
Running time
1:00, no interval
Tickets
From € 12,50
Hiphop opera in adaptation of thrilling children's book (8+)
Lennox wanted to become brave soon. Preferably as quickly as possible, because he was ready for it. Fortunately, Lennox looked pretty cool for a boy who wasn’t yet brave.” RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. and Dutch National Opera have turned the exciting children’s book Lennox en de gouden sikkel (Lennox and the golden sickle) into a dynamic hiphop opera. A musical story about courage, friendship and the discovery that your world gets bigger when you know more.
Photo: Michiel Spijkers
About the creators
Bnnyhunna (Benjamin Ankomah) is a multi-instrumentalist and producer known for his unique blend of jazz, gospel, afro, and hip-hop. In 2023, he was awarded the Buma Music in Media Award. With Lennox, he is writing his first opera, collaborating with composer Neo Muyanga, who previously composed the music for How Anansi freed the stories of the world.
Maarten van Hinte, a writer and theater maker, is adapting Lennox en de gouden sikkel into an opera libretto. In 2023, he won the Toneelschrijfprijs for the music theatre production Queen of Disco and made his debut as a librettist with How Anansi freed the stories of the world.
Marjorie Boston is a theatremaker and artistic leader directing Lennox. Together with Maarten van Hinte, she founded the production company RIGHTABOUTNOW INC., which emerged from Made in da Shade, the company that introduced urban theatre to the Netherlands in 1992. Boston and Van Hinte are pioneers of hip-hop theatre in the Netherlands.
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Performance information
Sung in Dutch
Composition Bnnyhunna (Benjamin Ankomah)
Libretto Maarten van Hinte
Musical dramaturgy Neo Muyanga
Stage direction Marjorie Boston
Musical direction Lochlan Brown
Set design John Lippens & Koen Jantzen
Costume design Iris Elstrodt
Lighting and video design Wes Broersen
Assistant stage direction Kaja van Bruggen
Dramaturgy Wout van Tongeren
Violin Celeste Engel
Guitar / bass Noah Stakenborg
Keyboards Lochlan Brown / Charlie-Bo Meijering (alternating)
Percussion Dimairon Catal
Lennox Jonathan Eduardo Brito
Aya Charlene Sancho
Mrs. Babel / Tram conductor / Receptionist / doctor Miebond Nienke Nasserian
Mr. Babel Ayrton Kirchner
Glimmerik Gustav Borreman
Commission Dutch National Opera
Co-production Dutch National Opera and RIGHTABOUTNOW INC.
Performances for schools
We offer exclusive school matinees for primary school students (group 5-6). Please visit this page for more information.
The original book, Lennox en de gouden sikkel, by Zindzi Zevenbergen, Hedy Tjin and Brian Elstak is published by De Harmonie, Amsterdam 2021, at the initiative of IXL Sickle Cell Awareness, an organisation working to raise awareness of sickle cell disease.
Donate to the Sickle Cell Fund
Sickle cell disease plays an important role in Lennox's story. The Sickle Cell Fund was established in 2017 with the aim of funding scientific research into sickle cell disease. With, among others, Miffy as ambassador, the fund creates more attention to this unknown hereditary blood disease with which 300,000 children a year are born worldwide. Without treatment, they do not live longer than 5 years. By financially supporting the Sickle Cell Fund, you contribute to pioneering research that will enable better treatment and ultimately a cure.