Robin Coops

What does masculinity mean in 2025? With club opera DONS, director and composer Robin Coops challenges traditional ideas about gender roles.
In a society where narratives are shaped by political and commercial interests, DONS invites audiences to let go of entrenched gender norms and embrace a fluid, authentic way of being.
A club opera inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni.

All the Pleasures is a performance, installation, and album inspired by songs of 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell. Themes of night, sensuality, and desire are reimagined in a nocturnal blend of voices, cello, and electronics.

Exoplanets is a music a.i. image generated graphic novel. Exoplanets is part of the transmedia art project The Saga of Sage, where we collectively explore the stories of Sage, who travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of home. Each story is a collaboration with a new musician/composer of the Batavierhuis.

Using theatre and VR technology, Coops and Changa let the audience experience the story from three different perspectives: Orpheus’, Eurydice’s, and L’Amour’s, captured in three short performances, which can be experienced either separately or together. Gluck’s music is transformed by Dutch-Polish composer Zbigniew Wolny into an intimate and colorful arrangement for tenor, guitar, and electronics.

The Saga of Sage is one of the first Metaverse-music projects that will allow a global audience to engage with a metaverse concert, both with and without VR-glasses. This opens an unprecedented audience potential. Each mission in the series is created with a new guest visual and musical artist. Mission 1: Defrost is part of the overarching transmedia project The Saga of Sage.

A photographer becomes his own subject after he meets a mysterious figure. He is seduced by this animal-like creature, but as his desire grows, so does his fear. Exhilarating music and provocative movements slowly guide us into a nightmare in which the character eventually loses control over his own body.