The Leap - Try-out
Exclusively for Splendor members, and especially for those who don’t speak Dutch! Join Nora for her try-out of the English premiere of her acclaimed – and partly rewritten – solo performance The Leap. To celebrate the release of her book about the same story, Nora brings her show back on stage: this time also in English. Tonight, Splendor members have the opportunity to attend her try-out for free!
The Leap is a one-woman performance by vocalist Nora Fischer, except for the unexpected twist that Singer Nora will not be present on stage. Instead, Person Nora will be explaining why she will not be singing. For a while, she was unable to do so because of a complex cramp that was keeping her larynx in such a strong headlock that even Happy Birthday for her best friends was no longer an option. How could such a thing happen?
With this burning question, Nora starts digging for answers: from the pressure of the world’s largest stages, to the inner pressure that she had to remove from her system like a wasp’s poisonous sting. She unravels how the joy with which she once produced her first notes, gradually got overshadowed by piercing eyes and razor sharp judgments. There is no shortage of demons behind the successful performer she had become – and among those demons is Nora’s sister, who falls deeper and deeper into darkness as Nora’s voice falls into silence. But Nora is not the type to simply give up: there is a reason her parents used to call her “The Tank”. In the midst of the ruins, she demands answers: how can the radiating joy with which two girls started their lives, evolve into such an all-encompassing cramp? Who told us to get so caught up in suffocating perfectionism? In this grippingly tragic yet humorous storytelling performance, Nora invites her audience to join her in a highly intimate disclosure of what we secretly all know: nothing is what it seems.
“The Leap, her first performance as a storyteller makes a huge impact (...) She lifts you up and carries you along, over mountains and through valleys, and then she plunges you in the river.”
(De Theaterkrant)
About Nora Fischer:
For a decade and a half, Nora was a highly successful singer, touring the world with her adventurous and creative approach to live performance. She appeared at prestigious venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall and LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also at pop festivals such as Lowlands and Into the Great Wide Open, at squat houses and roof terraces, and in mysterious forests at Oerol Theatre Festival. Until she got completely stuck and couldn’t sing one note anymore.
After disappearing for a while from the public eye, Nora reinvented herself as a writer and storyteller. She reappeared on stage in 2024 with her one woman show The Leap, in which she told the story of how she fell prey to high pressure and suffocating perfectionism. The Leap was received with unanimous praise, and led to several invitations to write a book version of the story. This book will be released in November 2025 with renowned publisher Pluim.
Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to over 50 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?
The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!
Normally, tickets are available, also for non-members, but this event is exclusively for Splendor members.
