“So looooong, Moon!” cries Anton when he goes home and discovers that he can’t take the moon along with him. But the moon doesn’t go away despite Anton’s goodbye. It is only when a storm comes along that the moon disappears, or doesn’t it?

“Bye Moon” tells the story of the unique friendship between Anton and the moon, or of how the persistence of a faithful friend can make everything seem grander. On stage, the haunting music of a solo violin plunges the audience into a world of poetry and peace.

This enchanting production by Pantalone theatre from Belgium, is a small miracle of captivating visuals and atmospheric music.

“Bye Moon” is presented through the kind support of the Flemish Government (Belgium).

About the company:
Pantalone, based in Brussels, brings together artists from several different fields to take part in a wide variety of productions: a musical illustrated book, a multimedia opera for children, a visual concert…. The common thread is the music that Pantalone performs to evoke a world full of poetry, colour, shapes and forms, movement and play. A world that touches grown-ups as well as children. Pantalone is subsidised by the Flemish Government.

Composition by Filip Bral, artistic director of Pantalone,
Violin by Katrien De Bièvre,
Illustration and animation by Axel Jacobs,
Mastering by Tom Daniels.

About Filip Bral:

Conductor and composer Filip Bral was born on 22 January 1966 in Kortrijk. He undertook his professional studies at the Lemmens Institute, where he earned diplomas for horn, fugue and orchestral conducting with, respectively, Piet Dombrecht, Christian Vereecke and Edmond Saveniers. He also took lessons with composer Luc Van Hove. Bral pursued advanced studies in conducting at the Musikhochschule in Vienna with the renowned orchestral conductors Karl Österreicher and Leopold Hager. In 1993-94 he was a postgraduate conductor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Filip Bral can already look back on a successful career as a conductor. In 1996, he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was invited by Seiji Ozawa to work together with other illustrious conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Reinbert de Leeuw, Gustav Meier and Robert Spano. Bral has worked regularly as an assistant at the Opéra Royal de la Monnaie and the Flemish Opera. In 2000 Filip Bral took over the musical direction of the miniature opera Brundibár by Hans Krasá, directed by Tine Buyse and performed at the Monnaie.

In March 2001, his musical fairytale, Luna van de boom (Luna of the tree), a composition for narrator and chamber music ensemble, which was developed together with author Bart Moeyaert and illustrator Gerda Dendooven, was awarded the Gouden Uil Prize for Youth Literature. Luna van de boom has toured widely in recent years both in Belgium and abroad, and appeared for three weeks on Broadway in April 2005.During the 2005-2006 season, Luna van de boom was taken to Barcelona for the second time.

The musical comic strip Mijn hart is een pinguïn (My heart is a penguin, 2002), directed by Willem de Coster, was created as part of the Culture 2000 Program of the EU in collaboration with Kulturhuset (Stockholm), Szene Bunte Wähne (Vienna), Teatralia (Madrid) and Stichting Kamermuziek Amsterdam.

A number of productions form part of the concept of the Pantalone Art House, which as a musical theatre organisation and publisher strives to arrive at a poetic synergy between music, word and image. Filip Bral is in charge of the artistic direction of Pantalone and also works for the organisation as conductor, composer and arranger. Bral provided the musical concept for MaanDag, a “bunny ballet” about little deeds and big worries.
MaanDag unfolds as a live picture book, energetic and poetic, light-footed and philosophical, as if a paragon of the harmonious relationship between music, word and image.

Other productions include Mozart Onvoltooid (Mozart unfinished, 2006), a multimedia children’s opera, with music taken from such operas as Zaïde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte, performed by 3 soloists (tenor, soprano and bass) and an orchestra of 10 musicians, all under the musical direction of Filip Bral.

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