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Stefan Herheim is regarded as one of the most significant and innovative opera directors of our time. He will be opening the Bergen International Festival with...
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Grieghallen, Griegsalen
- Beethoven’s music is for me both the most human and deeply spiritual music there is, says Leif Ove Andsnes. In the course of the next three years the...
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Venezuelan Brass Ensemble from El Sistema is renowned for getting the audience on its feet. This concert also features The Norwegian National Brass Band. The...
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Chouf Ouchouf presents a mix of traditional acrobatics, contemporary circus and stage art, challenging audiences not to take things at face value. ‘Chouf...
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Tchaikovsky is known as a master of melody, and his works are among the most performed classical music. In the course of two evenings in Grieghallen the...
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Norway’s best folk dancers meet Chinese kung fu monks Choreographer Hallgrim Hansegård of Frikar dance company took four of his best folk dancers to the Wudang...
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The 2012 Bergen International Festival is the sixtieth of its kind, and at this concert we celebrate this Diamond Jubilee with one of the festival’s oldest and...
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160 young musicians from Norway and Venezuela form a new symphony orchestra. The Caracas Symphony Youth Orchestra raised the roof at the 2011 Bergen...
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Experience Bryn Terfel as the very devil alongside fellow operatic stars Paul Groves and Christine Rice when The Damnation of Faust concludes the 2012 Bergen...
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What happens when we realise that we never became everything we intended to? Expect a dramatic premiere from Carte Blanche at the Bergen International...
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Studio Bergen
Truls Mørk has invited Khatia Buniatishvili and Marianne Thorsen to join him for his two concerts in Håkonshallen. Together they present the most emotional and...
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Håkonshallen
Experience the distincitve song traditions of Georgia! Despite a turbulent history with strong influences from other nations, the Georgians have managed to...
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The Bergen International Festival presents two concerts with an impact on Danish music history. Curating the concerts is the violinist Peter Herresthal, who is...
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Per Nørgård, born 1932, who has written over 300 works – symphonies, chamber music, choral music, opera, electronic music and film music – is considered an...
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The Norwegian soprano Trine Wilsberg Lund comes from Germany bringing a handful of beautiful Nordic lieder with her. A major part of this concert is devoted...
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The French chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble Les Arts Florissants, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2009, has made a major contribution to the...
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This concert gives unique insight into the cultural history of China Tan Longjian’s Quartet has specialised in traditional Chinese music, which it strives to...
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Louis Schwizgebel makes his first visit to the Bergen International Festival after debuts at several major festivals: the Verbier Festival, the Menuhin...
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My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom, my son, my son!’ II Samuel, 18:33 King David’s reaction to the death of his son has...
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Vilde Frang spellbinds audiences with her intensity, musical insight and personal expression. In this concert she plays some of her favourite pieces by...
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Maja SK Ratkje is one of the most interesting experimental composers and performers around today. Aided by electronic instruments she alienates, multiplies and...
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Johanneskirken
Berthold Brecht described his writings on ‘the Egotist Johann Fatzer’ as among the finest he created, but the play remains unfinished. Director Tore Vagn Lid...
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Logen Teater
The world is full of information, mumbling, codes, languages, noise and knowledge, with people and black boxes connecting or mixing them all. But is there...
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The British choral instructor, singer and composer Phil Minton is known for his so-called feral choir projects, a series of vocal workshops with...
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Voices and electronics from three musical, mental and geographical continents meet. The controversial New York-based Dave Philips is known for his powerful...
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Socrates challenged established authorities and was sentenced to death. The trial is considered the world’s first miscarriage of justice. In the spring of 399...
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Ragnhild Hemsing (born 1988) made her debut with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of thirteen. Her performances include the Nobel Concert and...
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Troldhaugen, Villaen
Ksenija Sidorova, born in 1988 in Latvia, is quite a rarity: a classical accordionist. According to a critic she makes ‘this big, unwieldy instrument seem as...
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Christian Ihle Hadland (born 1983) has been a guest at the Bergen International Festival every year since 2004. Last year he was the first Norwegian soloist to...
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The Norwegian Soloist Prize is awarded for the seventh time during the 2012 Bergen International Festival, going to the winner of the solo competition Virtuos....
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Bergen Kunsthall
Everyone is invited to attend the opening ceremony in the CitySquare, where the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble and other artists will kick off the 60th Bergen International Festival. Welcome to all!
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Torgallmenningen
Welcome to a series of informal concerts presenting young musicians from the Grieg Academy – the Music Department of the University of Bergen. We hope...
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Grieghallens foajé
Hampus Lindwall is praised as a performer of the 20th century repertoire and as an improviser in the famous line of French improvisers. Linwall was the last...
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Bergen Domkirke
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! Ksenija Sidorova was born in Riga in 1988 and studied in her hometown before going to...
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Secret House Concerts Two well-known artists from western Norway open their homes for a very special musical project called Living Room. The Danish curators...
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Festspillene i Bergen
Ole Bull concerts with Arve Tellefsen and Håvard Gimse have become a popular Bergen International Festival tradition. The ‘Ole Bull of our time’ presents the...
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Museet Lysøen
Despite a turbulent history with strong influences from other nations, the Georgians have managed to preserve their culture and language, and furthermore their...
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The artistic duo Elmgreen & Dragset look askance at contemporary art. In the performance of Happy Days in the Art World, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are...
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DNS, Store Scene
For over 20 years, all around the globe, Fretwork has brought music for viols to life through live concerts, recordings and broadcasts. Their repertory...
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Rekstensamlingene
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Hardanger fiddlers Knut Hamre and Benedicte Maurseth have commissioned a new work from composer/musician Nils Økland, with a request for a combination of old...
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Valestrand, Bullahuset
Accordion music played by Ksenija Sidorova from Latvia, the men of Rustavi Choir from Georgia, a brass band from Venezuelaand fiddler Ragnhild Hemsing from...
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Oseana Kunst og Kultursenter
End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! Trine Wilsberg Lund from Oslo, who has been a member of the International Opera Studio...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! This newly formed duo – Heine Bugge and Marius Neset – met in 2011 in connection with...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! A meeting of folk music masters – winners of the Folk Musician of the Year Award:...
Read more about Concert: Fliflet & Moldestad
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! The folk music artists Benedicte Maurseth, Åsne Valland Nordli and Berit Opheim...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! Kåre Nordstoga, organist of Oslo Cathedral, brings us organ music old and new in this...
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Kåre Nordstoga, who trained at the Norwegian Academy of Music, is organist of Oslo Cathedral. He frequently gives concerts and recitals, and has appeared as a...
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This version of Peer Gynt is subtitled ‘A disturbing odyssey into the heart of darkness’. This central part of theatrical history is shown from a completely...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! The ensemble performs music from the late Middle Ages to early Baroque, and focuses...
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Come with us into a world of intrigue and entanglement, contrast and contradiction, in a fantastic landscape. Wedding preparations with complications. A...
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DNS, Småscenen
Ethnoporn A courageous and forthright comment on the multi-cultural society we live in. Aisha is a rebel-rouser who starts the organisation Women’s Front for...
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DNS, Lille Scene
After many years she returns to her childhood home, heavily pregnant, to introduce the father-to-be to her parents. The family is dysfunctional. Conversation...
Read more about Theatre: The Name (The Loneliness Trilogy)
Skanselien 6
The Bee Symphony explores the vocal harmonies between humans and honey bees in a unique choral collaboration. The symphony consists of recordings of bees by...
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Once long ago the couple was young, newly married and optimistic. They did not manage to stay together, but now, many years later, a major tragedy in their...
Read more about Theatre: Death varations (The Loneliness Trilogy)
Henning Kraggerud and Christian Ihle Hadland are established as two of our foremost soloists. Both are closely connected to the Bergen International Festival....
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He and She have bought a house far from town to ‘be alone together’. Is it possible? They are both uneasy, and when the former owner of the house turns up and...
Read more about Theatre: Someone Is Going to Come (The Loneliness Trilogy)
Annar Follesø’s recording of Ole Bull’s Violin Concertos in 2010 was extremely well received. A national newspaper wrote that he ‘makes the music come so...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! The glass duo Draup is familiar to many Norwegians from the Norwegian Talent...
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End your day at the festival with a night concert in the city cathedral! Bergen Cathedral Choir is the Cathedral’s resident chamber choir. Established in...
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Jeppe is just a poor peasant farmer. In his words and John Lennon’s, a ‘working-class hero’. Bullied both by his wife and by the count’s bailiff. She sends...
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