PRESENTED BY THE BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, THE BERGEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA Berlioz' grandiose requiem masterfully mixes the...
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Grieghallen, Griegsalen
Charming operatic superstar. Irresistible vocal power. Genuine acting charisma. Enviable repertoire. And not least – charm that reaches well beyond the back...
Have you ever wished that the concert would start with the encore? This was exactly what the music comedy duo Igudesman & Joo thought when they created Play it...
Signature works by Gubaidulina and Grieg: Offertorium and the A minor Concerto. When Offertorium was premiered in Vienna in 1981, Sofia Gubaidulina was...
A genre sweep for all the senses. Within a quarter of a century, the musical collective from Oslo has dipped into black metal, classical music, improvisations,...
A live version of the TV programme Hovedscenen with violinist Charlie Siem and presenter Arild Erikstad. Charlie Siem is an international classic violinist who...
Orchestrated chaos with wild and exquisite music. The Australian postmodern diva and cabaret artist Meow Meow has hypnotized, inspired, and vowed theatres...
Sink into the captivating shadows of the Parisian night. Starting up his contemporary circus company Recirquel in 2012, artistic director Bence Vági decided to...
Lyrical tenor with a voice from the golden age of opera. Joseph Calleja is often compared with such operatic icons as Caruso, Björling and Pavarotti. The...
A formidable international production exploring the alchemical synergy of sound, motion and imagery. Take an award-winning Danish choreographer (Kim...
Sometimes we have to choose a different way of travelling in order to keep moving. Since her debut in 1992, Anja Garbarek has been provoking the musical...
Den Nationale Scene, Store Scene
A South African musical about a life of fleeing. Asad is a young Somalian refugee with a traumatic past, miraculously good luck, and a nose for business. After...
This performance is in Swedish. Please see the Norwegian description for more information.
A musical journey through centuries. "In French slang, 'soufflette' means blowing the smoke from one person's mouth back into another's. This is an intimate...
Studio Bergen
Musical masters interact. The composers featured in this evening's concert shared the fate of oppression by the Soviet state for decades. When they emigrated...
Håkonshallen
A charismatic and uncompromising master pianist. Hungarian-born British pianist Sir András Schiff was first recognised as a genius long ago. A Norwegian...
'Darkness and sentimentality are musical qualities that have always appealed to me. Sibelius offers plenty,' says Norway's great mezzo-soprano. Randi Stene has...
Mouvance I–III is the culmination of a three-year artistic research project at the University of Bergen under the auspices of the Norwegian Artistic Research...
Jazz quartet looking to the east. Undoubtedly, Trygve Seim could be said to have always looked to the east: from close collaboration with Finnish Jazz star...
A landmark in modern music history with students and staff at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In the period 1974–1976 Steve Reich (1936–) wrote one of his...
Futurist jazz with tubular bells and cello. The unexpected is an important feature for saxophonist-composer Marius Neset. His music is inspired by...
World premieres on extraordinary popes and a Greek mystery cult. A dead pope in the dock, a pope who gave birth during a church procession and the Vatican's...
Francis of Assisi's song in praise of creation. Festival composer Sofia Gubaidulina has used words by Francis of Assisi on several occasions. His Canticle of...
Domkirken
Sing along with Bergen Cathedral Choir at the Sunday service Of Schubert's masses no. 2 in G major is probably the most popular. It is a Missa Brevis (Latin...
Informal concerts with a low threshold and a high standard. The students at the Grieg Academy invite you to enjoy great musical experiences during daytime. The...
Johanneskirken
Violin concertos by Mendelssohn and Bach. Violinist Gidon Kremer is one of this year's Crescendo mentors. The Crescendo programme connects experienced...
Troldhaugen, Troldsalen
A lifelong friendship with Mozart and Grieg. Soprano Ann-Helen Moen and pianist Liv Glaser have both grown up with Mozart and Grieg, and the composers have...
Songs and romance for viola and piano. Ellen Nisbeth and Bengt Forsberg, both Swedish, perform a programme inspired by nature, with works by Tchaikovsky,...
Grieg and music from the Soviet era – with the Italian-Russian duo Alice Di Piazza & Ivan Monighetti. She was considered a child prodigy on the piano, Sofia...
'What happens when talented Norwegian string players perform with international stars? A musical meeting of equals.' Thus began a Norwegian daily paper's rave...
A double concert with Norway's trumpet queen. Tine Thing Helseth has a CV to take most people's breath away. Only 30 years old, she has a gold album, has won...
A double concert with young and established artists. The New York Times has called Leif Ove Andsnes 'a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight'....
Trumpet and percussion virtuosos. There is not much established repertoire for the combination of percussion and trumpet. However, that is no problem for Håkan...
Fireworks in Grieg's sitting room. As the winner of the 2016 Edvard Grieg International Piano Competition, South Korean Ah Ruem Ahn is familiar to Bergen...
Troldhaugen, Villaen
Scandinavian love in Grieg's home. 9 August 1928 pianist and composer Percy Grainger played for a full house in Hollywood Bowl. At the end of the concert he...
German Romantic music from three strong personalities. When Johannes Brahms performed his own compositions for the pianist-composer couple Clara and Robert...
Captivating and nostalgic from a violinist in remarkable development. The Strad was effusive in praise of the young Norwegian-Swedish violinist: 'His delicate...
Lysøen
Virtuoso and beautiful in an atmospheric Sunday concert. If we are to believe the critics, Catharina Chen and Jie Zhang are virtuosos with practically no...
From the heart of European art music to national roots. The Strad praises Ragnhild Hemsing for the emotional depth of her playing, and BBC Music Magazine is...
Musical fireworks. Eldbjørg Hemsing made her solo debut with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11. This spring she launches her first solo album,...
Enchanting Sunday close to nature in Sæverud's own paradise. The great family day at Harald Sæverud's property is a valued and popular tradition. "Nature is my...
Siljustøl
Cellist Birgitta Elisa Oftestad won the Virtuos 2018 competition show on NRK, the Norwegian state broadcaster. This concert is part of the prize. Birgitta...
Festival debut for this Norwegian-Russian pianist Marina Kan Selvik was seven years old the first time she appeared as a soloist with a symphony orchestra. Now...
Torbjørn Rødland's photographs combine mythology, popular culture and reality. For over 15 years Torbjørn Rødland has been developing a singular...
Bergen Kunsthall
Welcome to the grand opening of the 66th Bergen International Festival in the heart of the city! The official opening ceremony includes a broad menu of...
Torgallmenningen
A film concert out in the open. Torgallmenningen is turned into Bergen's largest outdoors cinema and venue for the classic monster movie Frankenstein (1931),...
Artists, musicians, community activists, therapists and teachers use arts practices in their work with individuals and groups across a range of public,...
KMD, Møllendalsveien 61
Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter (BIKS)
Hymns from Festival Poet Edvard Hoem. The themes of Edvard Hoem's hymn lyrics span from heaven to earth, from everyday matters to the solemn, in a...
St. Jakob kirke
Grieghallens foajé
A spellbinding literary work becomes theatre. In 2015 Jon Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his trilogy Andvake (Sleepless) – Olavs...
Hordaland Teater i Logen
The Bergen International Festival a meeting place for artists of many genres. Each day you will meet some of them on the small stage at Torgallmenningen.
Live radio from Bergen's main quare, Torgallmenningen. The Bergen Student Radio – Studentradioen i Bergen (SRIB) – will broadcast the festival mood from their...
If it is impossible to stop an electron, what's the point in building fences against flocks of birds? Two mirages. On the one hand wars, droughts, massive...
Cornerteateret
A musical journey from past to present. Norwegian composers Einar Selvik and Ivar Bjørnson created a work solidly rooted in our Norse past for last year's...
Os, Solstrand Hotel & Bad, Fjellhallen
Is the digital world becoming humankind's new planet? With this love letter to a world in flux, US director Annie Dorsen takes us on a journey through inner...
Lysverket, Tårnsalen
The tender sound of ice. Icepercussion, icehorns, iceophone. Ever since fulfilling his dream of adding ice to his instrument collection in 1999, Terje Isungset...
Grieghallen, Peer Gynt-salen
Imagine Torgallmenningen, Bergen's main square, full of pianos! Yes, and these are not just normal pianos. These have been tampered with, untempered and...
Enter into the orchestra and the performance! Bergen International Festival invites you to two virtual art experiences in the lobby in Grieghallen – and it is...
The performance Birdie is based on Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece The Birds – perhaps one of the scariest movies in the world. What can such and an old classic...
Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek (Bergen Public Library), Amalies hage
This event is in Norwegian without surtitles. Please see the Norwegian description for more information.
Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek (Bergen Public Library), Musikkavdelingen
A private performance about sex work. – I challenge you to tell the difference between a naked prostitute and any other naked woman. With these words, Danish...
Vaskerelven 8
Concert for drum corps and soloists Bergen's proud drum corps tradition meets improvisational music in a massive 17-minute orchestral work never heard or seen...
Festspillplassen
How do we know that the algorithms which rule our society are fair? What might be done to better the situation? Og what does the average data consumer even...
For more than fifty years, Gidon Kramer has been one of the world's most sought-after violinists within the classical repertoire and new music. As a 1980...
Litteraturhuset, Auditoriet
Musical-poetic overture for a packed fløibane wagon. Bergen International Festival and Fløibanen invite you on a very special tour to celebrate the funicular's...
Fløibanen
Sounds from the mountain and songs from the city by the water's edge at Skomakerdiket. While the May evening is closing in, people find a place to sit down in...
Fløyen, Skomakerdiket
Young festival art from Sunnhordland. Pupils from the Cultural Schools in Stord, Bømlo, Sveio, Tysnes, Kvinnherad, Fitjar and Etne perform on this second...
Stord Kulturhus
The wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the world. The Great Journey is an expedition in mini format. Together with your fellow passengers you...
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Lille Ole Bull Scene
This performance is in Norwegian without surtitles. Please see the Norwegian description for more information.
Fana Kulturhus
Confrontation and improvisation in the destructive world of online trolls. Landscape of Hate is an improvised multimedia project that promotes and encourages...
Performed in Norwegian without surtitles.
Den Nationale Scene, Lille Scene
Den Nationale Scene, Teaterkjelleren
Bekkjarvik, Løo
Two men, a chicken, and a great many machines. In a messy workshop, there are two mechanics in dirty overalls. With immense fascination and passion for...
Look out for a fascinating and mysterious journey. One by one someone disappears into Tombs Creatius' decorated trailer. The Trip is an individual journey,...
The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires. Violinist Sonoko Miriam Welde and string ensemble Kremerata Baltica appear in Knarvik Church with an exciting musical...
Knarvik kyrkje
A theatrical installation and four performances. The theatre company Vinge/Müller sets up their own construction at Sentralbadet, staging a cross between an...
Sentralbadet
Mariakirken
T-Michael, Christian Michelsens gate 1
Traditional food with a twist by Lysverket. Einar Selvik, Ivar Bjørnson and Eivor meet chef Christopher Haatuft for an informal food talk in the restaurant,...
Lysverket
Artful street theatre that comes with a giggle guarantee Masterly juggling, physical comedy, unsynchronized dance steps, and an extraordinary way with the...
Talented future artists on the stage all day. The Festival Youth Day is a free all-day event where Cultural School pupils from all over Hordaland get the...
Film scholar Marc Siegel from Hildesheim/Berlin hosts a conversation with director Vegard Vinge and scenographer Ida Müller, who moves in to Sentralbadet...
KODE 1, Festsalen
The strong, delicate voice from the Faroe Islands that finds music everywhere. The vocalist, instrumentalist, and composer from the majestic islands possesses...
Hulen
Festival performance with selected young talents. In this evening performance in the Peer Gynt Hall in Grieghallen you will see and listen to artists who...
Cape Town ensemble creates an explosion of joy of Mozart's Magic Flute. At this Festival concert, The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's...
Oseana Kunst- og Kultursenter
The violin playing sisters from Valdres are deeply rooted in Norwegian folk music, one of Edvard Grieg's most significant sources of inspiration, and their...
Landås lystgård
Come and play! The playground at Festspillplassen will be filled with interactive artworks, games, and brain teasers for all ages. Catalonian street art...
Festspillplassen, Tullemutten
Thomas Valeur takes you on a tour of the guitar world, starting with Edvard Grieg and moving on to Spain, Latin America, and Scotland. He trained as a...
Three days packed with music, dance, theatre, boxcar races, boating activities, veteran cars, guided tours, markets, museums, games and other activities near...
Laksevågparken
Hardanger, Hotel Ullensvang
'God is white, but God is dead. The future is BLACK.' The white woman lives her white life. (It is safe, it is good, it is boring). The white woman no longer...
A touching presentation of the emotional life of foam rubber. Two foam rubber figures meet by a red ball. They fall in love, builds a home, and have cute foam...
Bømlo, Moster Amfi
Treasure jazz for toddlers. Big eyes. Small fingers. Sharp ears. A whole new world of completely new sounds. Kling Klang is a musical experience for the senses...
Grieghallen, Klokkeklang
Jazz and flamenco in golden fusion. Award winning flamenco dancer and choreographer Selene Muñoz completely charmed the people in Os when she last visited the...
Mime, comedy, music, and acrobatics UduL is an entertaining performance about the art and non-art of body language. In this performance, the Catalonian company...
A masked journey between worlds. In a dimension between the living and the dead, a space between purgatory and limbo, begins a journey through an imaginary...
Bergen sentrum
Join us at the table! With Karen Blixen's famous story «Babette's Feast» in hand, we invite the audience to a celebration meal at Lystgården in Landås. While...
with Leif Ove Andsnes, Marianna Shirinyan & Håvard Gimse Experience the pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Marianna Shirinyan and Håvard Gimse at work with eight...
Rekstensamlingene
A duo packing a punch becomes a trio in a mentoring encounter. Bjørn-Christian Svarstad from Trondheim and Kristoffer Almås from Mosjøen met as students at the...
Universitetsaulaen i Bergen
Møhlenpris skole
During five days of master classes, the piano students will have honed their technique, working with and receiving guidance from Leif Ove Andsnes, Marianna...