Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
MEA BIG CULPA
The opera Mea Big Culpa reflects Benjamin's emotional world, with Georg Friedrich Händel's Cara Sposa as its musical basis. A vocal improvisation about love and obsession, about dreams and fire.
Benjamin calls himself a self-proclaimed narcissist and a wannabe countertenor. His eccentric personality is at the heart of his work, in which he deliberately redefines ego, beauty and feelings. This artist longs to be called an enfant terrible and believes that the audience should definitely witness this.
BIO
Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe (born 1995, Belgium) studied performing arts at the Theatre Academy in Maastricht, focusing on musical performances. In addition to his solo vocal performances such as My Inner Songs and My Protest (in collaboration with Laurens Mariën), he tried his hand at directing in 2018 with the performance The Ballet (in collaboration with ballet dancer Emiel Vandenberghe, Vooruit, Ghent). Other collaborations include The War (Marieke de Zwaan and Daan Couzijn), Het Sterven (Kim Karssen) and Also Sprach Zarathustra (Anna Luka da Silva).
