But isn’t it?! A well-known figure made a surprise appearance at the Closing Concert of the 2019 Bergen International Festival when soprano Sara Hershkowitz performed György Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre together with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner and shooed Festival director Anders Beyer off the stage.
A preliminary count shows a robust increase in the number of visits for the Bergen International Festival 2019. The combined audience number is around 75,000, of which approximately 31,000 are for ticketed events.
