21 may — 04 june 2014

programme BERGEN international festival 2014

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Welcome!

The year 2014 is a historical milestone in The Bergen International Festival aims to turn , celebrating the bicentenary of the established truths upside down and create Constitution – freedom from foreign rule – inspiring friction. Most of all however this and this is evident in the Bergen International great spring festivity is a fantastic explosion Festival programme. In the diversity of events of energy, of joie de vivre and of exuberance – a under the headings Festivities, Foundations, festival to infect our bodies for a long time. and Friction, you will recognise associations with the bicentenary from key words such as dream, hope, freedom and future.

What does it mean to be Norwegian in 2014? Anders Beyer What is typical of those of us who live in this Festival director country, and how can we adjust to a society Twitter: @AndersBey undergoing major changes? We hope the numerous encounters between art and people during the festival will open the way for new PROUD SPONSOR thoughts and make space for discussions about ourselves and our relationships with OF DIVERSITY others. Through music, stage art, literature and surprise performances – indoors and out – we offer experiences in which tensions between the DNB values its partnership with Norwegian past and the present and between the personal cultural institutions, sports associations and and the universal may put us in a state of flux. other non - profit organisations, both locally and In this way the festival and the bicentenary on a national level. celebrations will not be mere traces of time gone by. The bridge to the past can enhance our presence in the present and create new For more than 60 years, we have sponsored the paths into the future. Bergen International Festival, one of Norway´s most dynamic cultural events. Through our sponsorship, we aim to make the arts accesible to as many people as possible.

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Festivities Index

ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES You will find the programme calendar at Foundations the very back of the catalogue. k dramaTISED CONCERT 007 Opening Ceremony 008 Voices & Votes THE BEST OF THE BEST IN 011 The Tiger Lillies THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION 012 LODHO Performs Tom Waits m 016 Always Been a Good Girl Music 017 Women en mi 028 The Beethoven Journey III Other 029 Hollywood Exiles f m music 030 Andsnes and Shooting Stars 014 Hard-Boiled Columbi Egg 031 Closing Concert 014 200 Years at a Marching Pace! 032 Le Concert Spirituel other 015 RIFF 033 Nordic Mass 007 Outdoor programme 016 Voksne Herrers Orkester 034 Theatre of Voices Friction 064 Oseana: The Osophone and k 018 Frode Grytten with band 035 The Engegård Quartet 200 years in 2 hours m 018 Festival After-party at Lysverket 035 Franz Liszt Chamber 065 Austevoll: Operatic Pearls in Bekkjarvik 036 Isabelle Faust RECKLESS AND 065 Other Festival Satellites EXPLORATORY o d dance 037 Green Glimpses 066 Debates 038 The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra 067 Festival Exhibition u 019 Bivrfrost m Music 039 Handel in Italy 074 Festival Lounge 021 Les Nuits 054 Metropolis with BIT20 Ensemble f 040 Grieg’s villa: Navarra String Quartet, 074 Visit us online 026 Rival vs Rival 056 Reich/London Sinfonietta Mari Eriksmoen and Natalie Clein 074 Talk to us! 058 Victoria Johnson s 042 Troldsalen: Johan Reuter, 075 The Festival thanks conTEMPORARY circus 058 Colin Currie 020 Traces ú Esbjerg Ensemble and Kristina Mkhitaryan 044 Troldsalen: Sitkovetsky Trio, Practical information t Theatre t Choral Celebration with Choir and 068 Festival Venues and Restaurants theatre 059 All My Dreams Come True Lunchtime Concert with Rune Alver 071 Accommodation and transport 022 Murmel Murmel 060 The Likes of Us 045 Siljustøl: Vilos Trio 072 Tickets 060 Pearl of Scandinavia ú 046 Lysøen: Eugene Ugorski, 074 Accessibility family 060 Manifesto 2083 010 Fa fa fa m Guro Kleven Hagen, Mari Poll and td Peter Sheppard Skærved 024 Pinocchio k dramaTISED CONCERT m dtk 048 Valestrand: Lydia Hoen Tjore and Unni Løvlid 025 Children & Youth Programme 062 Cardamomyang 049 Drop in Concerts, The Academy’s Selection, Masterclass and Piano concert d DAnce 050 Time Travel in the Cathedral 063 A Collection of Short Stories u 050 A Norwegian New Orleans

f Film t THEATRE 066 Pussy vs Putin o 051 OCEAN

k dramaTISED CONCERT 051 Burnt love

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Outdoor programme

During the Festival, the city is filled with music, humour and stunts. Dancers great and small, puppeteers, children’s drill corps and a number of guerilla musicians will bring the city to life. The Festival city is filled with surprises!

The full outdoor programme will be launched in late April. Please visit www.fib.no/outdoors for an overview.

Opening Supported by the Kavli Trust and FESTIVI- H. Westfal-Larsen og hustru Anna TIES Ceremony Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige fond Outdoors The 62nd Bergen International Festival opens with a grand outdoor event on Festplassen, Festplassen ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG with teasers by Festival artists, speeches and AND OLD. PLAYFUL SCENES IN THE STREETS AND EVENTS AT NEW AND FAMILIAR VENUES. BROAD APPEAL. EXPERIENCES FOR DATE/TIME surprises. Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET. Wednesday 21 May Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit are at 12:30 attending, as is the Prime Minister. This year’s duration Festival speech will be held by author Tor 1:00 Bomann-Larsen. Free admission We hope to see you there!

The Festival wishes to thank Festival ambassadors Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber.

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Voices & Votes

A grand celebration of freedom!

The Bergen International Festival and Bergen National Opera are proud to Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra World present a spectacular, colourful and Orlando Gough concept and music premiere thought-provoking performance about Charles Hazelwood conductor the journey towards liberation. Olivia Fuchs director GRIEGHALLEN Wimme Saari, Reem Kelani, Manickam GRIEGSALEN The starting point for this world premiere is the Yogeswaran, Thandi Swartbooi, Hanna DATE/TIME bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution, and Husáhr and Njabulo Madlala soloists Wednesday 21 May the struggles for freedom in India, South Africa Karl Bomann-Larsen and at 18:45 and Palestine. Sulekha Ali Omar actors Thursday 22 May Nils Økland, Ole André Farstad, Stein The British composer Orlando Gough, the cre- at 19:00 Urheim, Anders Bitustøyl ator of the performance, is well known for his and Snorre Bjerck musicians duration imaginative projects, which often bring together 1:25 Edvard Grieg Choir professionals and amateurs, local artists and Ålesund Chamber Choir other international choirs and soloists on stage. Introduction (in Sangkoret Lyderhorn English) by Or- In Voices & Votes, various musical expressions Singers from Bergen Philharmonic Choir lando Gough in the Music students from Bergen Private Gymnas Grieghallen foyer: are linked by excerpts from constitutions, dec- Wednesday 21 May larations of independence, protest songs, folk Bergen National Opera’s children’s choir at 18:00 songs and poetry of resistance. Author Astrid Singers from Fargespill Thursday 22 May at 18:15 Luisa Niebuhr (19), inspired by the young mem- bers of the local multi-national musical perfor- Presented by the Bergen International TICKETS* mance group Fargespill, has contributed to a Full price: Festival and Bergen National Opera in 200–700 new Norwegian constitution, which concludes associaton with the Bergen Philharmonic Under 30: 150 Voices & Votes. Orchestra and Den Nationale Scene.

* Festival card: Palestinian Reem Kelani, Manickam Yogeswaran 30% discount Festival pass: from Sri Lanka, South African singer Thandi Supported by Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber free entry if seats Swartbooi and the Sami musician Wimme Saari are available perform together with opera singers Hanna Husáhr and Njabulo Madlala. Violinist/fiddler Nils Økland, a band led by Ole André Farstad, choirs from all over and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra also take part.

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The Tiger Lillies Fa fa fa The Tiger Martyn Jacques vocals, accordion & piano Adrian Stout double bass, musical saw, theremin & vocals Lillies Mike Pickering drums & percussion

with Datarock and Mark Holthusen animation & photography a gigantic choir Rime of the Produced by Maison de la musique de Nanterre, The Tiger Lillies & Quaternaire, Ancient Mariner co-produced by with Théâtre de Nîmes – scène conventionnée pour la danse contemporaine and Scène Nationale de Sète Let the extraordinary three-piece band et du Bassin de Thau. The Tiger Lillies take you on a surreal ocean journey, with spectacular visual effects. Sponsored by DNB See one of Norway’s best live acts Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells the story of GRIEGHALLEN backed by several hundred children! Scandinavian GRIEGSALEN premiere the mariner who shoots an albatross and must Having played an impressive number of con- forever do penance for it. The epic poem was DATE/TIMe certs worldwide, Bergen band Datarock has DEN NATIONALE written by the English poet Samuel Taylor Saturday 24 May Fredrik Saroea vocals & guitar SCENE become a phenomenon. International dance Coleridge (1772–1834) and has inspired both at 14:00 Tarjei Strøm drums STORE SCENE hits Fa-fa-fa, Computer Camp Love and Give Iron Maiden and The Pogues. Kjetil Møster sax & synth Duration It Up are played in trendy New York clubs – as DATE/TIME 1:00 Thomas Larssen bass Saturday 31 May well as in schoolyards in and around Bergen. Now it is The Tiger Lillies’ turn to create a musi- Birk Nygård VJ at 18:00 Tickets* Now the band is coming to Grieghallen, and cal adaptation of Coleridge’s greatest work. Lasse Baklien sound Full price: 150–290 promise to rock the whole family! Sunday 01 June With grand projections made by San Francisco Under 30/children: Shelton Stanislaus lighting at 19:30 artist Mark Holthusen, the dramatised concert 150 Bjørn Morten Christophersen arrangement This autumn sees the release of the band’s new duration will take you out to sea, through frozen land- * Festival card: album. They had originally not planned any for choir 1:30 scapes, to the gates of hell and underneath the 30 % discount concerts until then – that is, until the Bergen Ung i Kor – Vest surface of the sea. On the way you encounter Festival pass: Skranevatnet Children’s Choir tickets* free entry if seats International Festival gave them an offer they Full price: 240–340 mermaids, sea monsters and Death himself, and are available could not refuse. How about creating the ulti- Olsvik School Choir Under 30: 150 of course, the infamous albatross. The result mate Datarock concert with a choir featuring Ruth Nonseid choirmaster is somewhere between a baroque movie and * Festival card: at least 300 children? 30 % discount a concert. Supported by Grieg Foundation Festival pass: In addition to all the band’s major hits, the con- free entry if seats The Tiger Lillies are known for their unique live cert at the Bergen International Festival will also are available performances. The band plays a startling mix- feature material from their upcoming release Sponsored by Statoil ture of opera, gypsy song and left-bank Paris. – all of it backed by a gigantic children’s choir. Masters of dark humor, their music plays in the intersection between offensive and delightful. It has been called macabre, darkly humorous, per- versely beautiful and impossible to pigeonhole.

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L’Orchestre d’­ Hommes-Orchestres

Performs Tom Waits

Norwegian Musical circus with six multi-instru- premiere mentalists and a hundred objects in L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres the world of Tom Waits. Bruno Bouchard voice, one-man band, guitar, Late Night suitcase, spaghetti, Logen Armed with the colourful repertoire of legend- Jasmin Cloutier voice, guitar, banjo, ary American music icon Tom Waits, Quebec megaphone, boots LOGEN TEATER City’s L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres offers Simon Drouin voice, harmonica, wood saw, an event that is more of a carnival show or musi- DATE/TIMe scissors, boxing gloves Friday 23 May cal circus than just a concert. Simon Elmaleh voice, electric bass, hammers, at 22:00 baby cradle This bustling orchestra performs the music

Saturday 24 May of Tom Waits using nearly 100 objects and at 22:00 The New Cackle Sisters with guests invented instruments on stage, which they ham- Gabrielle Bouthillier & Danya Ortmann Duration mer and caress in madcap scenes of unbridled voices, tea pots, handkerchiefs 1:40 including energy. interval

Tickets* In this powerful tribute to the world of Waits, Supported by Québec Government Office, Full price: 340 the performers remain faithful to the spirit of London Under 30: 150 his work, but also turn it into a playing field for * Festival card: viewers. Mixing styles and adapting the arrange- 30 % discount ments, these six frenzied multi-instrumentalists Festival pass: perform in front of each other and over each free entry if seats are available other, trading instruments and vocals, putting their fingers between the strings, spokes in the wheels, ropes round their necks …

‘… one of the most original acts I have ever seen on stage’, wrote the Danish newspaper Børsen, while the reviewer from The Guardian thought that ‘The resultant cacophony emphasises the vaudeville and Weimar cabaret elements of Waits’s work while possessing the slapstick whim of a Saturday morning kids’ TV show.’

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Hard-Boiled Columbi Egg

The Bergen folk music club celebrates its 15th anniversary! RIFF Late Night Columbi Egg is the place to go to Logen listen to the Hardanger fiddle and harmonium, Balkan and LOGEN TEATER Spanish baroque guitar – music from DATE/TIMe Norway and around the world. People Monday 26 May often burst out singing, and strange at 22:00 things might happen. 200 Years at Duration 1:50 As Columbi Egg celebrates its 15th a Marching Pace! including interval anniversary, the club’s musical host, other , invites you to an eve- LOGEN TEATER An evening that celebrates music, film, Crash course in ning of celebration with plenty of DATE/TIMe and dance from Bergen and the World. Halling dance at surprises and an exquisite selection The world’s finest marches. 20:45 included in Thursday 29 May the ticket. of guests at Logen Teater. Doors open Raw energy and rhythms from Danish-Malian Daf (2003) at 18:00 Experience marches that describe Moussa Diallo Quintet and the Bergen-Latin Director: Bahman Ghobadi Logen teater Tickets* On stage we will see the trio Utla, historical events through 200 years duration ensemble Sexteto Cubatropical. Bollywood Full price: 250 consisting of improvisational and DATE/TIMe performed in their original versions Under 30: 150 5:00 dancing by the Tamil-Bergener Dancing sisters jazz musicians , Karl Hussein Zahawy daf Tuesday 27 May by the Norwegian Navy Band Bergen. and Nepalese dances by Nepali Bergen Society. at 20:00 * Festival card: Seglem and Håkon Høgemo. The Other Ali al Badri vocals Jan Eriksen, the greatest connoisseur Finger food will be Soulful Arabian ballads by Iranian-Bergener 30 % discount latter is said to be one of the world’s Armin Amo piano Duration of military music in Norway, will be Festival pass: served at 18:00. Ali al Badri and an exciting encounter with the best Hardanger fiddle players. Berit The ticket grants Martha, Maria and Nichola Stephen dance 1:30 hosting the concert. free entry if seats Kurdish drum daf through the beautiful movie are available Opheim, with her infinitely beautiful access to the Nepali Bergen Society dance whole evening, by the same name and with musician Hussein Tickets* voice, will also be performing this Full price: 190 Throughout hundreds of years, marches and it is possible Zahawy. Under 30: 150 have roused soldiers to battle against evening, as will ’s musical to come and go as Sexteto Cubatropical one pleases. external enemies. But they have also guru, Peter Bastian. It is both easy and hard to describe this night Hades Hernandez vocals & percussion * Festival card: been used to commemorate special See www.fib.no/riff out at Logen Teater. It is a menu brimming with HC Dalgaard drums & vocals 30 % discount This is also a night for dancing! After Festival pass: events, and not least for feasts and for details flavours from around the world, a meeting place Sigmund Vik bass the concert everyone are welcome to free entry if seats celebrations. and a pleasing polyphonic party. It presents a Eirik Minde piano are available kick down hats and let loose. Tickets* Purchase programme based on big words such as roots, Are Ovesen The Norwegian Navy Band Bergen was in advance: 190 identity, diversity and community. Håvard Sannes founded in 1792 and is one of five pro- At entrance: 150 Gabriel Fliflet musical host & accordion Under 30: 150 fessional bands in the Norwegian Army. But above all it is a boundless celebration of vocals The band has made its mark within * Festival card: music for your feet, heart and mind! Safia Abdi Moussa Diallo Quintet Terje Isungset percussion & Jew’s harp several genres, including contemporary 30 % discount Haase will be our guide throughout the evening. Moussa Diallo vocals & bass saxophone & Billygoat’s horn Festival pass: music, and tours extensively in Europe. Preben Carlsen guitar Håkon Høgemo Hardanger fiddle free entry if seats Presented in collaboration with Det felles are available Dawda Jobarteh kora Peter Bastian innvandrerråd (The Joint Immigrants’ Council) Marco Diallo drums The Norwegian Navy Band Bergen Olav Tveitane double bass and Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter (Bergen Salieu Dibba percussion Ingar Bergby conductor Sigbjørn Rua dancer & instructor International Culture Centre). Jan Eriksen host Småjondølenes Dansarlag

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Always Been Bettina Flater vocals & flamenco guitar a Good Girl Victor Guadiana violin Karen Lugo flamenco dance Naike Ponce flamenco song Iván Mellén percussion with Karoline Krüger Marina Barba Yelsy Heredia bass Toni Mangas drums From Broadway’s back alleys. Women Unni Boksasp vocals, Norwegian folk song In this world premiere, Bergen artist Beatriz Anievas sound World Karoline Krüger selects the best from en Mi Suh-Güein Romero Muñoz lighting premiere the American cabaret scene. With a Lucia Mancheño stage manager jazzy flair and a hint of Charleston, Late Night she moves cheekily from American Voksne Herrers Logen pre-war days to the king of satire, Orkester Tom Lehrer, to more modern song- LOGEN TEATER writers such as Sondheim and Chap. DATE/TIMe Scandinavian A flamenco evening with Bettina Flater. Friday 30 May ‘The American cabaret scene is the at 22:00 premiere great Broadway lady’s somewhat less Popular Monday club in an Women en Mi is a Norwegian woman’s journey Saturday 31 May politically correct little sister. It has a extended Festival edition. Late Night into flamenco and a tribute to some of the at 22:00 cheekier slant, but it is also wonderfully Logen women who have inspired her along the way. captivating’, says Karoline Krüger. Late Night Monday nights at Logen Teater with Duration Logen Voksne Herrers Orkester have become LOGEN TEATER 1:10 Bettina Flater is a flamenco guitarist, singer and Now she looks forward to taking to a Bergen institution. Throughout LOGEN TEATER DATE/TIMe song writer. Her musical core lies in flamenco, Tickets* the stage at Logen Teater with a new hundreds of Mondays, these gentle- Sunday 01 June which is elegantly woven into Bettina’s songs, Full price: 290 dramatised concert. In it we will hear DATE/TIMe men have shared their great musical at 22:00 Under 30: 150 but you can also hear echoes of Norwegian folk some of her favourite songs, includ- Monday 02 June commitment and samples from their at 22:00 Duration music. Two flamenco singers and a flamenco * Festival card: ing Sondheim’s wonderful Children vast repertoire. The experienced instru- 1:15 dancer appear onstage accompanied by a 30 % discount Will Listen and Lehrer’s Poisoning Duration mentalists are known for combining a Festival pass: full band including strings, drums, bass and Pigeons in the Park, performed with 2:00 including cheerful, relaxed atmosphere with high Tickets* free entry if seats interval Full price: 250 percussion. are available suitable pathos. musical quality, and often invite guests Under 30: 150 Tickets* to join them. As a flamenco guitarist, Bettina Flater has Full price: 250 * Festival card: played at the most prestigious venues in Spain Karoline Krüger idea, script & vocals At the door: 190 Voksne Herrers Orkester never 30 % discount Under 30: 150 Festival pass: with artists from the flamenco elite. Her music, Hilde Sol Erdal direction reveal their guests beforehand, but free entry if seats like herself, is both Nordic and ‘flamenca’ at Sjur Hjeltnes piano & sidekick * Festival card: you should not be surprised if you are available the same time. Eline Sundal cello 30 % discount have seen and heard some of this Festival pass: Ole Ludvig Krüger drums free entry if seats evening’s musicians in other parts ‘Bettina Flater has proved that a Norwegian Magnus Brandseth tuba are available of the Festival programme. woman can triumph in the world of flamenco.’ Bjørnar Skutleberg lighting design El País Tore Nysæther and others Voksne Herrers Orkester Norwegian lyrics Harald Dahlstrøm keys Thomas T. Dahl guitar Presented in collaboration with HiHat Steinar Krokstad drums Management. Guests will be announced later.

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Frode Grytten with Band GRIEGHALLEN Bivrfrost GRIEGSALEN The fairy tale also has a more sinister under- Festival DATE/TIMe tone, and raises questions of identity, national- Poetry, pop music and pure joy. Monday 26 May After-party at at 19:30 ism and xenophobia, and includes propaganda Frode Grytten is a popular and award- with FRIKAR movie clips on folk dancing made by former CHAGALL winning writer based in Bergen. This Lysverket Tuesday 27 May Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling. at 19:30 Dance Company DATE/TIMe year he has been chosen as festival Choreographer Hallgrim Hansegård was taught Saturday 24 May poet for the literature festival De Duration how to dance by 80–90 year old dancers who at 19:00 End the Festival evening on 1:10 litterære festspillene. Grytten is A fairy tale about bridging the gap of had lived through the Second World War. the dance floor! Duration known for his sharp characteriza- Other xenophobia. 2:00 tions and humorous texts, and for Aftertalk with Hall- ‘I asked them about the Nazis and folk dance, Lysverket is the new restaurant and his poetic and sincere language. His grim Hansegård FRIKAR Dance Company is known for mixing but they didn’t want to talk about it. In Bivrfrost Tickets* bar in the art museum KODE 4, in the and Alf van der Full price: 250 most famous novel, Bikubesong, was traditional Norwegian dance with contemporary I wanted to see how the dancers would cope middle of Bergen’s central arts avenue Hagen after both Under 30: 150 nominated for the Norwegian Council performances expressions. In their playful and exploratory with bodily invasion and exploratory work in overlooking Lille Lungegårdsvann, Literature Prize and has been trans- in the foyer at dance style the company tells a spectacular unfamiliar territory’, he says. * Festival card: Festplassen, Fjellsiden, and Fløyen. Grieghallen. 30 % discount lated into several languages. story: A king promises to grant his princess and On weekends it is a popular nightclub Festival pass: Tickets* half his kingdom to anyone who can build a free entry if seats where a handful of the best DJs in Grytten is very interested in and Full price: 150–350 bridge between the peoples in it. Narrow-eyed Hallgrim Hansegård concept, script, are available LYSVERKET town spin records. Under 30: 150 inspired by music, and has performed KODE 4 break-dancers and fair-haired Halling dancers choreography & design with his own band since 2008. Frode For the Bergen International Festival, * Festival card: enter into a contest unlike any other, creating Anne Bryhn direction Grytten Beatband began as a musical DATE/TIMe 30 % discount Thursday 22 May they have found inspiration in the the most amazing bridges. But what does it Bugge Wesseltoft and the musicians lecture on beat poetry, but has long Festival pass: from 22:00 great programme that is presented free entry if seats look like – the bridge that makes people trust composers since turned into a flexible orchestra The Duo Morten at the festival venues, and guests at are available each other? Lene Therese Teigen dramaturgy that explores the tradition of words Traavik & Kjetil Traavik Møster Lysverket will hear disco, funk and Camilla Tellefsen assistant choreographer encountering various forms of popu- soul mixed with everything from Tom Anastasia Isachsen video lar musical expression. Expect pointy Friday 23 May Waits and Steve Reich to Norwegian Anders Aasberg, Bjørnar Blåvarp Heimdal, lyrics, songs and shoes. from 22:00 DJ Skatebård favourites Cardamom Town and Vetle Springgard, Trond André Hansen, Edvard Grieg. The goal is to create Mathias Jin Butzt and Saturday 24 May entertaining and funky combinations Hallgrim Hansegård dancers Frode Grytten vocals from 22:00 Datarock from a broad selection of musical Amina Sewali, Bendik Kjeldsberg Pedro Carmona-Alvarez vocals ingredients. Hang out at the bar, or and Erlend Viken musicians & guitar Thursday 29 May preferably, let loose on the dance Teater Innlandet costumes & scenography Annlaug Børsheim vocals & fiddle from 22:00 DJ Rotekopf! floor. Michael Barnes saxophone Karene Lyngholm (FRIKAR) Tor Bjarne Bjelland drums Friday 30 May At the after-party you may also meet from 22:00 and Kari Dæhlin (Teater Innlandet) Ole Amund Gjersvik bass guests from our Festival programme DJ Thomas Urv producer Einar Sogstad piano such as Morten Traavik and Datarock. Saturday 31 May Lysverket is a Festival restaurant and from 22:00 Produced by DJ Bjørn Torske the kitchen is open until 22:00. The Sponsored by DNB Norsk Forfattersentrum Vestlandet nightclub atmosphere takes over Duration from around midnight. Lysverket closes at 03:00

tickets Produced by Lysverket Free

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Norwegian premiere

GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN Traces Les DATE/TIMe Saturday 31 May at 19:30 Nuits Sunday 01 June at 13:00 & 19:30 with Les 7 doigts Duration de la main 1:30 with Ballet Preljocaj Tickets* Full price: 190–490 Under 30: 150

* Festival card: 30 % discount Get ready for a kick! A dance story based on 1001 Nights. Festival pass: Shana Carroll, Gypsy Snider direction & Angelin Preljocaj choreography free entry if seats Combining acrobatics, skateboarding, basket choreography Scandinavian Fascinated by the mysticism and sensuality of Natacha Atlas & Samy Bishai, 79D music are available ball and a dash of dance and music, a group of Sébastien Soldevila acrobatic designer premiere the collection of tales in One Thousand and Azzedine Alaïa costume design urban youngsters push their limits to the max as Nol van Genuchten lighting One Nights, choreographer Angelin Preljocaj Constance Guisset set design they challenge each other in the search of the GRIEGHALLEN Manon Desmarais costumes started dreaming. What about a full-scale dance Giovansili-Vissière lighting design unforgettable moment. Nothing is left unsaid, GRIEGSALEN Flavia Hevia set & props original design performance that grows out of the eroticism in Gaëlle Chappaz, Natacha Grimaud, Émilie unseen or undone. Les 7 doigts de la main set & props DATE/TIMe the stories? Lalande, Céline Marié, Wilma Puentes Tuesday 03 June adaptation, music & soundscape Linares, Aude Miyagi, Nagisa Shirai, Behind this pulse pounding show is the at 19:30 He involved his entire ensemble and invited Les 7 doigts de la main, Paul Ahad (MEDIA Charlotte Siepiora, Anna Tatarova, Patrizia Canadian circus ensemble Les 7 doigts de la Natacha Atlas to be in charge of the music. This FX) & André Biron (NEO6) video Duration Telleschi, Cecilia Torres Morillo, Yurie main (‘Seven fingers of the hand’). 1:40 Belgian artist has made an international name Bruno Tassé props adaptation Tsugawa, Sergi Amoros Aparicio, Marius for herself with a seductive blend of Arabic Contemporary circus, or new circus as it’s Jérôme Le Baut head coach (acrobatics) Tickets* Delcourt, Sergio, Diaz, Jean-Charles Jousni, music, drum’n’bass and electronica. For the often called, entered the stage in the 1970s, Isabelle Chassé coaching, aerial strap Full price: 190–490 Fran Sanchez and Julien Thibault dancers Under 30: 150 dance performance Les Nuits she has created mixing ballet, rock, film and variety arts with Yann Fily-Paré coaching, skateboards a powerful soundscape which combines oriental the traditional circus show – only now with Ethan Law coaching, single wheel * Festival card: and western elements. Supported by Institut Français, people performing all the tricks! Canada has Sophie Houle coaching, piano 30 % discount Festival pass: given rise to a number of acclaimed new cir- Lucas Boutin, Mathieu Cloutier, free entry if seats The performance by the eighteen dancers cus companies like Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Kalyn LJ Sylvester, Hou Kai, Fletcher are available of Ballet Preljocaj is in demand worldwide. Éloize, and currently Les 7 doigts de la main Sanchez, Naomie Zimmermann, Seething with sensuality and more costume is rising to the position as one of the world’s Renaldo Williams artists changes than Lady Gaga, it draws us into its greatest contemporary circus companies. world of oriental mystery. The technical skill of Traces eloquently mixes elements of new circus Supported by Grieg Foundation and Québec the dancers in a wide variety of styles combines with street elements, creating an astonishing Government Office, London with the joy they put into their expression to performance filled with poetry, humour and create a fantastic experience. explosive energy. Sponsored by Dagens Næringsliv ‘Mad, pulse-raising magic’, writes the New York Times.

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Murmel Murmel

Scandinavian An acrobatic slapstick comedy! premiere Herbert Fritsch direction & set design Based on a single word, the Berlin ensemble has Victoria Behr costumes DEN NATIONALE created a fun, elegant and completely absurd Ingo Günther music SCENE STORE SCENE performance. Gorgeous 1960s costumes, psy- Torsten König light chedelic set design and an unlimited number of Sabrina Zwach dramaturgy DATE/TIMe pronunciations provide the framework and the Florian Anderer, Matthias Buss, Werner Eng, Friday 23 May at 19:30 rhythm for this colourful show. Murmel Murmel Ingo Günther, Jonas Hien, Simon Jensen, became a great success after its premiere at the Wolfram Koch, Annika Meier, Anne Ratte- Saturday 24 May famous German theatre Volksbühne in 2012. Polle, Bastian Reiber, Stefan Staudinger and at 18:00 This is the first time the performance is staged Axel Wandtke actors duration outside Germany. 1:30 It started as a captivating thought – a wild idea Tickets* Full price: 350–450 about carrying out an unlikely exercise. How Under 30: 150 would you stage artist Dieter Roth’s script, in which all of the 178 pages are filled with * Festival card: 30 % discount the word ‘murmel’? Director Herbert Fritsch Festival pass: carried this dream with him for more than 30 free entry if seats years before settling on a final form for the are available performance.

Could the performance be described as a surreal acid trip? A pointed comment on our jabbering society? As pure pleasure?

However it is described, the ensemble, the technique and the seamless cross between dif- ferent genres and settings are impressive, and together they create a seductive and liberating theatrical mixture.

‘… renews your joy of life, enlightens your mind, stirs your heart and makes you happy (…) a genuine theatre miracle!’ – Berliner Zeitung

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The finest young talents in Western Nor- LANGUAGE way have been handpicked for this gala Norwegian performance. TICKETS* Children & Youth Sponsored by Statoil Under 16: 90 Under 30: 150 Programme Full price: 170 José Manuel Pagán music Music, experiments and fun for the entire The Thought Laboratory Anna Planas choreography family with the and Pinocchio CORNERTEATRET Norwegian children’s television presenter Gonzalo Colosia lighting and sound Solveig. Jordi Pont video Family Day at Siljustøl DATE/TIME Manel Taberner image production Friday 23 May at 18:00 SILJUSTØL Saturday 24 May at 12:00 Ester Rodriguez artistic production iPLAY, uPLAY, wePLAY Mariona Camelia & Marcos Elvira dancers DATE/TIME DURATION CORNERTEATRET Sunday 25 May at 12:00 0:40 RECOMMENDED AGES DATE/TIME DURATION Tuesday 03 June at 18:00 Supported by Grieg Foundation 4:00 4 and up Scandinavian Like you’ve never seen Pinocchio DURATION RECOMMENDED AGES LANGUAGE premiere before! Norwegian 0:45 All RECOMMENDED AGES DEN NATIONALE Poor Gepetto desperately wants a son, and is TICKETS TICKETS* SCENE Under 16: 90 9 and up overjoyed when The Blue Fairy brings his pup- Free entrance STORE SCENE Under 30: 150 LANGUAGE pet to life. But in order to become a real boy, Go exploring with the whole family on com- Full price: 150 Danish DATE/TIMe Pinocchio must learn the difference between poser Harald Sæverud’s beautiful estate! Monday 02 June Cirka Teater has created a performance TICKETS* at 18:00 right and wrong, and temptations abound … about how easily we misunderstand each Under 16: 90 other and how our thoughts run wild when Festival Youth Day Full price: 150 Tuesday 03 June The Catalan dance company Roseland Musical we feel that others do not understand us. at 18:00 The world is full of apps, tablets, smart specialises in children’s performances. Now LOGEN TEATER phones and laptops, and it is time to play in Duration they visit Bergen with a musical and innovative DATE/TIME Dæ-dææ!!! this world premiere created by multi-artist 0:55 version of this classic tale. The fairy tale is given Wednesday 28 May at 10:00 Thomas Sandberg. CORNERTEATRET a new and modern wrapping, as movements, Recommended DURATION ages: choreography and music are combined with 5:00 DATE/TIME Another Sami 8 and up the latest in image and video technology. The Monday 26 May at 14:00 & 17:00 RECOMMENDED AGES CORNERTEATRET dancers share the stage with animated versions 6 and up DURATION other 0:20 Please note of Jiminy Cricket, The Blue Fairy and many oth- TICKETS DATE/TIME that the limited ers. The result is a magical mixture between Free entrance RECOMMENDED AGES Monday 02 June at 18:00 dialogue in this animation and live performance. 0–3 performance is Experience young performing arts – music, DURATION performed in dance, theatre and visual arts – at this open TICKETS* 0:50 Spanish without The story, which was originally written in the all-day performance. Under 16: 60 Full price: 90 RECOMMENDED AGES surtitles. 19th century, is recast in our time: Pinocchio 13 and up now has a laptop, plays computer games and This story about a little girl who does Tickets* LANGUAGE has even learned to surf! Festival Youth Performance not want to sleep is tailored to the very Full price: 180–290 youngest. Norwegian Under 30: 150 GRIEGHALLEN TICKETS* * Festival card: PEER GYNT-SALEN Under 16: 90 Roseland Musical & Urano Films Chasing the Sound Wave Full price: 150 30 % discount DATE/TIME Festival pass: Marta Almirall artistic director & manager Wednesday 28 May at 18:00 CORNERTEATRET The Sami are Norway’s indigenous people. free entry if seats Manel Veiga script Another Sami is a documentary musical are available DURATION Franc Aleu audiovisual director DATE/TIME about what it means to be a real Sami today. 1:15 Tuesday 27 May at 18:00 Tabea Rothfuchs assistant audiovisual director RECOMMENDED AGES Musical Roseland costumes DURATION The children and youth programme is sup- 6 and up 0:35 ported by the Grieg Foundation.

TICKETS* RECOMMENDED AGES *Festival Card: 30% discount on tickets 90 4 and up priced NOK 100+. Festival Pass: Free entry if seats are available.

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FYSAK All­ aktivitetshus

DATE/TIMe Saturday 31 May at 10:00

Duration 8:00 Rival vs.

Tickets* Full price: 90 Children: 60 Rival 2014

Festival pass: free entry if seats are available

The breakdance competition is held in Norway for the first time! Founda- Rival vs. Rival is the largest breakdance event in Brazil. Each year around 1000 break-dancers from all over South America gather for a single day of battling and hip-hop in São Paulo. tions The concept was developed by AfroBreak Crew, a group that was created through the THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION. preventive work that Kolibri – Children At Risk TRADITION AND RENEWAL, DEPTH AND REFLECTION. Foundation runs in the Brazilian metropolis. PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS WITH A HISTORY.

At the Bergen International Festival, AfroBreak Crew visits FYSAK at Sletten to organise a Norwegian version of Rival vs. Rival. Break- dancers from all over the country are invited to compete on Saturday 31 May. The winner gets a trip to the Brazilian event in São Paulo in December.

There will be workshops and courses with Produced by Kolibri – Children At Risk AfroBreak Crew and Absence Crew from Bergen, Foundation among others, in connection with the great con- test. The entire weekend will be influenced by street art and hip-hop in various forms.

For more information, or to register, visit www.fib.no/rival.

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The Hollywood Hollywood Beethoven Exiles

GRIEGHALLEN Exiles Journey III Griegsalen

date/time Wednesday 28 May at 19:30 with Bergen Philharmonic with , Duration 1:50 including Orchestra the Chamber interval Film: Orchestra and the Film classics from exiled artists. and is thus one of the world’s oldest . Norwegian Soloists’ Choir Shadows Edvard Grieg was its artistic director during the in Paradise Los Angeles became a safe haven for some years 1880–82. – Hitler’s of the world’s best-known composers in the Exiles in thirties and forties. Artists from a variety of art Immediately before the concert we present the Hollywood forms lived practically within walking distance documentary film Shadows in Paradise – Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood. Through interviews with GRIEGHALLEN of one another, fruitful collaborations arose, and GRIEGHALLEN Leif Ove Andsnes ends his Beethoven At this concert we shall also hear Schoenberg’s FOYER European refugees soon became important as friends and family and unique photographs and GRIEGSALEN Journey with the Emperor concerto Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) from 1907, a a resource for Hollywood. film clips we are given an insight into the condi- and the Choral Fantasy. milestone in twentieth century choral music, and date/time tions under which the German-speaking artists Date/time Wednesday 28 May Friday 23 May Stravinsky’s chamber work Dumbarton Oaks. at 18:15 The exiled composers contributed to a revival lived and worked. The film depicts the longings at 19:30 The Norwegian virtuoso pianist has devoted of film music in the USA’s growing entertain- and frustrations of the exiled artists, and brings three years to Beethoven. This major project, Duration ment industry. They composed film music as out the contrast between the sunshine around Duration Mahler Chamber Orchestra 0:55 1:50 including undertaken in collaboration with the Mahler though it were opera, letting the music follow them and the chill surrounding the homelands Leif Ove Andsnes piano & conductor interval Chamber Orchestra from Germany, involves Tickets* the action. Erich Wolfgang Korngold is consid- from which they came. The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir recording and touring with performances of Full price: 190–470 ered the man behind ‘the Hollywood sound’. other Grete Pedersen conductor Under 30: 150 Introduction in all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. The Max Steiner received 26 Oscar nominations for Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Norwegian by project, entitled The Beethoven Journey, has * Festival card: his work, which includes the music to Gone With Gunnar Danbolt elicited superlatives from reviewers in several (1882–1971) 30 % discount Andrew Litton conductor in the Grieghallen the Wind. Miklos Rosza’s music to Ben Hur and countries. The BBC review described the first Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in E flat major, Festival pass: Daniel Hope violin foyer at 18:45 ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ free entry if seats El Cid has a place among the great classics too. release as ‘some of the the best Beethoven ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951) are available. Dialogue playing you will ever hear’. Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth), op. 13 This concert includes excerpts from these and ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897–1957) Andsnes & Vaage (1770–1827) Excerpts from The Snowman Sunday 25 May other works signed by European refugees in Now the journey approaches its end with the Fantasy for Piano, Choir and Orchestra in C minor, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 at 14:00, Chagall ‘Choral Fantasy’, op. 80 Southern California before and during World War II. Excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream fifth and final – the ‘Emperor’ – Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’, op. 73 MAX STEINER (1888–1971) Tickets* and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, often viewed Conductor Andrew Litton says, ‘This pro- Excerpts from Intermezzo and Gone With the Wind Full price: 200–530 MIKLOS ROSZA (1907–1995) Under 30: 150 as a precursor of his renowned ninth symphony, gramme affords a marvellous chance to hear Supported by the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Excerpts from Ben Hur and El Cid which will close this year’s Bergen International music by composers who, because of their con- ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) * Festival card: Festival. Foundation nections with the film industry, are rarely heard Humoresque, op. 101/7 30 % discount arr. Franz Waxman Festival pass: in the concert hall. The music is rich, varied, Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber HANNS EISLER (1898–1962)/Sting free entry if seats passionate, colourful, descriptive and beautiful.’ The Secret Marriage are available Orchestra are joined by the Norwegian Soloists’ KURT WEILL (1900–1950) Choir. The choir holds a unique position in The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, one of two Suite for Violin and Orchestra Norwegian musical circles, having premiered Norwegian National Orchestras, dates from 1765 arr. Paul Bateman (Scandinavian premiere) over two hundred works.

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Andsnes Closing and Shooting Concert Stars The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir

GRIEGHALLEN A trio of Norway’s most talented GRIEGSALEN young musicians in ensemble with

Date/time internationally acclaimed pianist Leif Monday 02 June Ove Andsnes. at 19:30 Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde, (born 1996), between the three string players and Leif Ove Duration 2:00 including Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, (born 1994) and Andsnes, who was only 18 years old himself GRIEGHALLEN Delicate razor-sharp versions of piece of music ever composed. It closes with interval Sandra Lied Haga, (born 1994) are all prizewin- when he made his Bergen International Festival GRIEGSALEN symphonic classics. four soloists and a large chorus praising the

ners on the brink of international careers. This debut with Grieg’s A minor Piano Concerto. Date/time joy of existence. Other The 2014 Bergen International Festival closes Introduction in is a rare opportunity to hear them all at the Wednesday 04 Norwegian at 18:45 same concert and with their mentor Leif Ove June at 18:00 with Edvard Grieg’s A minor Concerto, the by Morten Eide In association with the Barratt Due Institute festival’s signature work, and Beethoven’s The Swedish Chamber Orchestra Andsnes in a programme of Beethoven, Brahms Duration Pedersen in the of Music. intoxicating Ninth Symphony. Thomas Dausgaard conductor Grieghallen foyer and Britten. 2:05 including interval Simon Trpceski piano Conductor Thomas Dausgaard recalls hear- Agneta Eichenholz soprano Tickets* All three young musicians have trained at Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde violin Full price: 190–420 Other ing the annual Bergen International Festival Marianne Beate Kielland mezzosoprano the Barratt Due Insitute of Music, one of the Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad Introduction in Under 30: 150 performances of the A minor Concerto on the Per Håkan Precht tenor country’s foremost music academies, and have Sandra Lied Haga cello Norwegian in the * Festival card: scored well at the Virtuoso music competition Grieghallen Foyer radio. ‘Because of that it is a special pleasure Audun Iversen baritone Leif Ove Andsnes piano at 17:15 by Gunnar 30 % discount run by NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting for me to be involved in carrying on this power- The Swedish Radio Choir Festival pass: Danbolt Corporation. In 2012 the winner was Eivind ful tradition. It is one of the pieces of music I free entry if seats LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) are available. Holtsmark Ringstad, viola, who went on to be Tickets* have known longest, and I love conducting it. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Piano Trio in C minor, op. 1:3 Full price: 190–470 the first Norwegian to gain first place in the BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) Grieg’s music has a certain hypersensitivity for Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 Under 30: 150 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Eurovision Young Musicians contest, one of Lachrymae, reflections on a song, ‘If My Complaints me – thin-skinned music with an exposed nerve.’ Could Passions Move’ by John Dowland (1563–1626), Symphony no. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’, op. 125 the most prestigious in the world for young * Festival card: for viola and piano, op. 48 30 % discount Under Dausgaard’s baton the Swedish Chamber musicians. Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde, JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) Festival pass: Orchestra has over the past few years recorded violin, won the Virtuoso competition in 2014, no. 2 in A major, op. 26 free entry if seats Supported by the Swedish Embassy Beethoven’s complete orchestral works, receiv- and will go on to compete in Eurovision Young are available. ing wide critical acclaim. Beethoven’s ninth Musicians this May. Supported by the GC Rieber Funds symphony, which features in this evening’s Sponsored by Radisson Blu Hotel Norge The three young musicians appear together for programme, has been referred to as the greatest the first time at Grieghallen, the festival’s prime Sponsored by Statoil venue. It will be a unique concert encounter

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Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir Mogens Dahl conductor Toke Møldrup cello

Sven-David Sandström (1942–) Le Concert Nordic Mass (World premiere) Commissioned by the Bergen Spirituel International Festival Supported by Oticon Fonden

A tribute to Italian early music. instruments. At the Bergen International Festival eighteen instrumentalists and forty singers HÅKONS­ A 450 year old 40-part mass (with a 60-part will perform Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco si HÅKONS­ HALLEN Nordic HALLEN Agnus Dei) is the centrepiece of this concert. beato giorno and polyphonic masterpieces Date/time After years spent tracking it down, it was by Monteverdi and Benevolo. The ensemble Date/time Thursday 22 May eventually unearthed – Alessandro Striggio’s Friday 23 May at 21:00 has received several coveted prizes, and their Mass at 19:30 monumental mass from 1561, of which musicolo- recent recording of this repertoire was nomi- Duration gists had until then only dreamt. nated for a Grammy award. Duration 1:10 1:10 Striggio was the favourite composer of the Other Medici family in Florence. The manuscript of the Le Concert Spirituel Other Introduction in Dialogue on Friday A newly composed mass on Nordic follows the traditional structure of the mass to Norwegian by mass was referred to in letters, but first turned Hervé Niquet conductor 23 May at 15:00 natural phenomena. texts reflecting the life experiences of modern Gunnar Danbolt up in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in in the Grieghallen at 20:15 foyer. humankind. Paris in 1978, and several years were spent on ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO (1537–1592) In this world premiere the Mogens Dahl Chamber Tickets* its transcription. It will now resound in the regal Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno, 40 and 60 part mass Tickets* Choir combines forces with the Swedish Nobel Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Full price: 420 Motet Ecce beatam lucem in cinque corri (1561), banquet hall in Håkonshallen. Full price: 390 literature laureate Tomas Tranströmer and the Prize in literature in 2011 ‘because, through Under 30: 150 40-part motet Under 30: 150 FRANCESCO CORTECCIA (1502–1571) composer Sven-David Sandström. his condensed, translucent images, he gives The French ensemble Le Concert Spirituel is * Festival card: A selection of polyphonic propers * Festival card: us fresh access to reality’. Through a selection 30 % discount recognised worldwide for its performances of CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643) 30 % discount The Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir from Denmark Festival pass: Memento for 8 voices of his poetry Nordic Mass describes an exis- French and Italian early music using authentic Festival pass: is at the forefront of carrying on and further devel- free entry if seats ORAZIO BENEVOLO (1605–1672) free entry if seats tence in which truths may no longer be taken are available. Laetatus sum are available. oping the unique Nordic a cappella tradition, and for granted, and in which people must often Miserere Sven-David Sandström has distinguished himself Magnificat foray into the borderlands of loneliness in order as a composer of major choral works. to find their roots. First performance in Scandinavia The new monumental mass focuses on the After the work is premiered in Bergen it will be rugged Nordic countryside and the prevail- performed on an extensive Nordic tour. Supported by Institut Francais, Oslo ing human quest for identity and meaning. It

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Theatre of The Engegård Franz Liszt HÅKONS­ Quartet Chamber Orchestra Voices HALLEN Date/time Sunday 25 May at 19:30 If Beethoven had had his way, The Holberg Suite in Eastern this concerto would have European company. Duration been very different. 1:40 including The 18 musicians of Franz Liszt Chamber interval HÅKONS­ ‘The quartet is written for a small Orchestra have created a solid interna- Atmospheric vocal music from the HALLEN Other circle of connoisseurs, and is never tional reputation through concerts in 12th century to the present day. Introduction in to be performed in public,’ Beethoven Date/time more than 50 countries. This is their Norwegian by Tuesday 27 May Superlatives have recently flowed freely in ref- Morten Eide wrote to a conductor in 1816. His at 19:30 first performance in Norway. erence to the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices. Pedersen at 18:45 Quartetto Serioso is in many ways Duration – We are very happy to meet the Last year’s nomination for the Nordic Council a distilled version of the great com- Tickets* 1:55 including Norwegian audience after fifty years. Music Prize is only one of the many ways it has Full price: 370 poser himself. Here are all his violent, interval A first encounter is always very impor- been acclaimed. Under 30: 150 tragic, furious and reflective facets, condensed into twenty-one minutes Other tant so Grieg, the outstanding figure of * Festival card: Introduction in Romanticism, was an obvious choice. Theatre of Voices, founded by tenor-conductor 30 % discount of highly compressed music. Norwegian by Paul Hillier in the USA in 1990, is currently based Festival pass: Gunnar Danbolt We have been playing the Holberg in Denmark. free entry if seats This concert also presents Grieg’s at 18:45 Suite for quite a long time, but it will HÅKONS­ Theatre of Voices are available. well-known G minor String Quartet be quite a different experience to play HALLEN Tickets* Its repertoire ranges from contemporary com- Paul Hillier artistic director and the world premiere of a work by Full price: 400 it in the town and country where he Date/time posers to early music. The ensemble enjoys Else Torp soprano Olav Anton Thommessen, based on a Under 30: 150 was born. In fact, I am very curious Saturday 24 May juxtaposing music from different eras while Iris Oja alto work of Mendelssohn. Thommessen, to see and hear the reactions to our at 19:30 * Festival card: using music and words to create a narrative Chris Watson tenor who was Festival Musician in 1985, is 30 % discount interpretation, says Janos Rolla, artistic Duration that provokes thought. Jakob Bloch Jespersen bass the composer of over eighty works. Festival pass: director since 1979. 1:50 including YXUS String Trio free entry if seats interval are available. In this concert Theatre of Voices is joined by Harry Traksmann violin The Engegård Quartet was founded According to Rolla, The Holberg Other the Estonian String Trio YXUS to perform works Torsten Tiebout viola under the midnight sun in the Suite practically defined the rest of Introduction in by Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) and Arvo Leho Karin cello Lofoten Islands in 2006. Though the programme, and led the orches- Norwegian by Pärt (1935–). The ensemble has made several its core repertoire is Haydn, Mozart tra to choose works by Tchaikovsky, Morten Eide critically acclaimed recordings of works by and Beethoven, the quartet is also re- Dvorák, Orbán and Farkas. Pedersen at 18:45 GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT (c. 1300–1377) these composers. Gramophone claimed that ‘as Creator spiritus cognised for its performances of well- Tickets* Pärt’s longtime friend and collaborator, Hillier’s GAVIN BRYARS (1943–) known and lesser-known composers. Full price: 390 Incipit vita nova Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Under 30: 150 interpretations are about as definitive as you ARVO PÄRT (1935–) Janos Rolla artistic director can get.’ Most Holy Mother of God * Festival card: Es sang vor langen Jahren The Engegård Quartet Laszlo Fenyo cello 30 % discount Da pacem domine Arvid Engegård violin Festival pass: Stabat Mater Alex Robson violin free entry if seats GUSTAV HOLST (1874–1943) EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) are available. 4 songs Juliet Jopling viola From Holberg’s Time (Suite in Old Style), ANONYMOUS Jan Clemens Carlsen cello ‘The Holberg Suite’, op. 4 Benedicamus Domino (13th century) GYÖRGY ORBÁN (1947–) Stond wel moder under roode (13th century) Farewell to Count Rasumoffsky, HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098–1179) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) ‘The Razumovsky Trilogy’ Columba aspexit String Quartet no. 11 in F minor, ‘Serioso’, op. 95 FERENC FARKAS (1905–2000) OLAV ANTON THOMMESSEN (1946–) Concertino all’antica for cello & strings Felix Remix (World premiere) (1840–1893) Pezzo capriccioso in B minor for cello and Supported by Oticon Fonden EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) String Quartet no. 1 in G minor, op. 27 orchestra, op. 62 ANTONÍN DVORÁK (1841–1904) Serenade for Strings in E major, op. 22

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The jury comment on awarding the Nordic Isabelle Faust violin Council’s Music Prize in 2010 was: ‘Lasse Isabelle Alexander Melnikov piano Thoresen not only uses folk sounds to spice up art music, he also integrates its finely tuned LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) microtonality, spectral overtones, harmonies Faust Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 4 in A minor, op. 23 and rhythms into the contemporary, modernist Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 5 in F major, Spring Sonata, op. 24 project in a truly pioneering manner.’ Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 10 in G major, Cockcrow, op. 96 Ragnhild Hemsing violin with Alexander Øystein Birkeland cello Ellen Sejerstedt Bødtker harp Melnikov Jostein Stalheim accordion Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen percussion Nordic Voices Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas. Tone Elisabeth Braaten soprano Ingrid Margrethe Aas Hanken soprano HÅKONS­ The German violinist Isabelle Faust started her Green Ebba Katarina Ryd mezzosoprano HALLEN own string quartet at the tender age of eleven. Although she has made solo appearances with Per Kristian Amundrød tenor Date/time Frank Havrøy baritone some of the world’s greatest orchestras, cham- Håkons­ Glimpses Thursday 29 May at 19:30 ber music has always been close to her heart. hallen Trond Olav Reinholdtsen bass Mats Claesson sound design Date/time Duration She and her regular pianist Alexander Melnikov The composer himself will introduce the 1:45 including Saturday 31 May interval have recorded Beethoven’s complete Violin at 19:30 The story of concert. Sonatas, a release which received an ECHO Duration a nation Other Klassik Award, a Gramophone Award and a Introduction in 1:00 (1949–) Grammy nomination. BBC Music Magazine Norwegian by The award-winning composer Lasse Thoresen Green Glimpses – the story of a nation Gunnar Danbolt wrote: ‘These are the most stimulating and Tickets* (world premiere) Full price: 390 often derives inspiration from folk music. In this at 18:45 fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin Under 30: 150 commissioned work he focuses on Norwegian sonatas I have heard in many years. … [They] Tickets* history. He is joined by first-class musicians: the Commissioned by the Bergen International Full price: 370 demand to be heard.’ * Festival card: Under 30: 150 30 % discount vocal ensemble Nordic Voices and an orches- Festival Festival pass: tra directed by the internationally recognised ‘Beethoven composes a new dimension into free entry if seats * Festival card: accordion soloist Jostein Stalheim. 30 % discount an old genre’, a biography claims. The current are available Festival pass: concert programme demonstrates something Fragments of Norwegian history since the free entry if seats of Beethoven’s breadth and development, from are available constitution was written in 1814 are presented his early violin sonatas to the tenth and last. The in the form of a traditional folk song (stev), and lyrical Spring Sonata is one of his most popular sound documents are reproduced over loud- works, beloved by audiences and soloists alike speakers. The musicians, as living people of from the very first. today, extract thoughts, sounds and motifs from the documents. Repeat them, evaluate them – sometimes expanding on them, sometimes commenting on them, or parodying them, or fantasising over them.

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The The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Helsinki Baroque Orchestra Terje Tønnesen director, concept and Aapo Häkkinen conductor Norwegian musical adaptation Julia Lezhneva soprano Teodor Janson narrator

Chamber George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) Ouverture in F major, HWV 342 String Quartet no. 2, ‘Intimate Letters’, JW 7/13 Pugneran con noi le stele, Rodrigo, HWV 5 Orchestra String Quartet no. 1, ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, JW 7/8 Concerto Grosso in B flat major, HWV 313 (op. 3/2) LEO TOLSTOY (1828–1910) Salve Regina in G minor, antiphon for soprano, Excerpts from the Kreutzer Sonata strings & continuo, HWV 241 Ouverture Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, HWV 96 Aria in F major, HWV 411 The Kreutzer Sonata, HWV 302b Ouverture, HWV 331 Sonata and Intimate Prelude, Agrippina, HWV 6 Un pensiero nemico di pace, Letters Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a Ouverture, Agrippina, HWV 6 Pensieri, voi mi tormentate, Agrippina, HWV 6 Leoš Janáček’s String Quartets in a Come nembo che fugge col vento, version for chamber orchestra. Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a

‘It is fascinating how music you never offered a second thought suddenly becomes a mas- Handel in HÅKONS­ terpiece. Vivaldi was never popular before HÅKONS­ HALLEN our time, and Mahler and Shostakovich rarely HALLEN Italy Date/time appeared on concert programmes until the last Date/time Sunday 01 June three decades changed that dramatically. We Tuesday 03 June at 19:30 predict the same fate for some of Janáček’s at 19:30 and opera, with powerful patrons and highly Duration works,’ says Terje Tønnesen, the artistic director Duration with Julia ­Lezhneva respected artists investing massively in the 2:00 including of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. 1:40 including interval interval & Helsinki Baroque cultivation of opulent and innovative music. Then came the presence and talent of Handel, Other Janáček’s two String Quartets, presented in this Other Orchestra straight from his German organist’s educa- Introduction in concert in string orchestra version, are musical Introduction Norwegian by narrative art at its best and most dramatic. The in Norwegian by tion, but already with a unique personal gift Erling Dahl jr. Gunnar Danbolt Welcome to Handel’s Italy! for expressive writing, especially in the vocal at 18:45 Kreutzer Sonata is inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s at 18:45. music that was enormously appreciated by the novella of the same name. Terje Tønnesen has In 1706, 21-year-old George Frideric Handel Tickets* adapted the manuscript so that Janáček’s Tickets* Italians, says the conductor. Full price: 400 went to Italy and stayed until 1710. Here he music and Tolstoy’s story fuse together as Full price: 400 Under 30: 150 Under 30: 150 wrote the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina The arias are performed by Russian soprano music drama in the true sense of the word. and the oratorium Il trionfo del Tempo e del Julia Lezhneva (24). International media have * Festival card: The narrator is actor Teodor Janson, who has * Festival card: 30 % discount Disinganno, which you will hear highlights from described her as among ‘few young sing- experience from Bergen’s DNS theatre and The 30 % discount Festival pass: Festival pass: at this concert. ers being widely celebrated so early in their free entry if seats Norwegian Theatre in Oslo. The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has since free entry if seats careers’ (Independent) and as possessing a are available its inception in 1977 received outstanding are available – Handel’s time in Italy in his early 20’s must voice of ‘angelic beauty’ (New York Times), The music is amongst the most demanding reviews at many prestigious concert halls and have been one of the most fascinating periods ‘pure tone’ (Die Welt) and ‘flawless technique’ written for a quartet. In the string orchestra festivals worldwide. Almost 40 recordings to in music history, says Aapo Hakkinen, conduc- (The Guardian) while Norman Lebrecht outlined version it appears with new dramatic authority, date demonstrate the orchestra’s mastery of tor and artistic director of the Helsinki Baroque her as ‘heading for the stratosphere’. given the timbral opportunities provided by an chamber orchestra repertoire and feature dis- Orchestra. entire orchestra. tinguished soloists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Terje Tønnesen, Iona Brown, Lars Anders – It was already a high point in the age-old tra- Tomter and Tine Thing Helseth. dition of Italian music, both for church, court

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Grieg’s Experience the atmosphere in Edvard Mari villa Grieg’s living room. Navarra String Eriksmoen with Jie Zhang Quartet

GRIEG’S VILLA GRIEG’S VILLA

Date/time Date/time Friday 23 May & Friday 30 May at 22:30 Saturday 24 May at 22:30 Natalie Clein Duration 1:00 Duration GRIEG’S VILLA 1:00 This May evening will be filled with Date/time The quartet, with musicians from arias from The Marriage of Figaro and Saturday 31 May at 22:30 England, Ireland and the Netherlands, The Magic , Swedish songs by duration has since its inception in 2002 Ture Rangström and of course familiar ‘No opus has filled me with greater 1:00 distinguished itself by its joy of per- pearls by Edvard Grieg. The soprano GRIEG’S VILLA delight,’ said Edvard Grieg of the formance and frequently innovative Mari Eriksmoen (born 1983) is known Natalie Clein is one of the best known villa at . Grieg’s Steinway Tickets* interpretations of the great String for her forceful operatic interpreta- musicians in Britain. She has been Full price: 460 grand piano from 1892 has a particu- Quartets. Performance venues include tions and expressive concert perfor- described by The Times as ‘mes- Under 30: 150 larly warm and gentle tone, and the Wigmore Hall and Konzerthaus Berlin mances. In 2005 she won the Chamber merising cellist [who] plays every- acoustics of the drawing-room are Transportation and events include the BBC Proms Music Prize in the International Lied thing with passion’. Since winning the included in the superb. ticket. More infor- and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Competition for Youth in Germany. BBC Young Musician of the Year and mation on page 71. Professor Peter Herresthal at the Last year they received an award She was selected to participate in the the Eurovision Competition for Young during the Banff International String Académie Européenne de musique Musicians at the age of sixteen, she * Festival card: Norwegian Academy of Music has 30 % discount curated concerts in the composers’ Quartet Competition and established d’Aix-en-Provence in 2009 and made has acquired a large international Festival pass: homes. their own Festival. At her debut the same year at the Royal audience and collaborated with some free entry if seats this Festival concert, the quartet will Opera in . Two years later of the world’s greatest conductors. In are available. be performing Edvard Grieg’s string she received the Statoil talent stipend Bergen, she will be performing Zoltan quartet no. 1 in G minor, op. 27, and for classical music. Since then she has Kodály’s Cello sonata, short works by Franz Schubert’s string quartet no. 8 pursued an international career, with György Kurtág and Johann Sebastian in B flat major, D. 112. performances at major operatic and Bach’s Cello Suite no. 3 in C major. In concert venues throughout Europe. In an interview she claimed that Bach’s the summer of 2013 she made her La Cello Suites give nourishment to all Navarra String Quartet Scala debut. parts of the brain – both to the emo- Magnus Johnston violin tions and to the intellect. Marije Johnston violin Simone van der Giessen viola Mari Eriksmoen soprano Brian O’Kane cello Jie Zhang piano Natalie Clein cello Eilif Løtveit concert host Erling Dahl jr. concert host Erling Dahl jr. concert host

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Kristina Troldsalen Mkhitaryan with Valerija Prokofeva

Great acoustics TROLDSALEN Date/time for small formats Thursday 29 May at 13:00

Duration 1:40 including interval

The Russian soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan, born in 1987, beat forty Johan Reuter Esbjerg ­ competitors to win the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in with Jan Philip Schulze Ensemble August 2013, and was invited on the evening of the final to participate

TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN Duration in the 2014 Bergen International 1:30 including interval Festival by director Anders Beyer. Date/time Date/time She has been at the renowned Thursday 22 May at 13:00 Friday 23 May at 13:00 Bolshoi Theatre since 2012. The pro- Duration gramme for this concert is Russian The composer Bent Sørensen 1:00 through and through. In addition to has curated this concert, in which Esbjerg Ensemble arias from operas by Tchaikovsky and Johan Reuter, baritone, is currently the world premiere of his work Katrine Gislinge piano Rachmaninov, Kristina Mkhitaryan one of Denmark’s most popular opera Pantomime is joined by Mozart and Bent Sørensen concert host will sing the aria which clinched her singers. He has been a soloist at the Nielsen. It is not quite a traditional first prize: the Snow Maiden’s Aria Royal Theatre in Copenhagen since concert however: Mozart’s Piano from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow 1996, and has performed at presti- Concerto and Nielsen’s Quintet are (1756–1791) Maiden. gious venues including the Salzburg merged together. Why Bent Sørensen From Piano Concerto no. 12 in A major, Festival, the BBC Proms in London, has chosen just these works will come arranged for Piano Quintet, KV 414 Troldsalen is adjacent to Grieg’s Villa at (1865–1931) the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to light when he introduces his new Kristina Mkhitaryan soprano Troldhaugen, overlooking his composing hut. From Quintet for flute, , clarinet, horn TROLDSALEN and the Metropolitan in New York. work, composed specially for Esbjerg and , op. 43 Valerija Prokofeva piano The hall is considered to have particularly good He is also sought after internationally Ensemble. The Danish ensemble, BENT SØRENSEN (1958–) Erling Dahl jr. concert host Tickets* acoustics for chamber music. It opened in 1985 Pantomime, from Papillon (World premiere, for his concert performances. The acclaimed for its innovative and Full price: 250 and was fully renovated in 2012. commissioned by the Bergen International Under 30: 150 Troldsalen audience will be served a eclectic programming, consists of Festival and Esbjerg Ensemble) menu of Romantic pearls, mainly from eleven impassioned and expressive * Festival card: Use the opportunity to visit Grieg’s Villa and Norwegian and German composers. musicians from all over the world, all 30 % discount look around the beautiful grounds after the Supported by Oticon Fonden Festival pass: concert. selected for their unique qualities. free entry if seats are available. Johan Reuter baritone Jan Philip Schulze piano Entrance to the Museum/Grieg’s Eilif Løtveit concert host villa and transporta- tion included in the ticket. More infor- Supported by Oticon Fonden mation on page 71.

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Choral Celebration with Edvard Grieg Choir Siljustøl Sitkovetsky TROLDSALEN Lunchtime Date/time Piano Trio Sunday 01 June at 13:00 Concert Duration with Rune Alver In Harald Sæverud’s TROLDSALEN 0:55 beautiful home Date/time Tickets TROLDSALEN Saturday 31 May at 13:00 See page 42. Date/time Duration Edvard Grieg Choir (formerly Monday 02 June at 13:00 and 1:05 KorVest) has started with Grieg’s Tuesday 03 June at 13:00

Tickets song repertoire and added a cappella Duration See page 42. works for choir by Claude Debussy, 0:30 Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc and Alexander Sitkovetsky, Leonard Tickets* other composers. Poulenc’s is one Elschenbroich and Wu Qian met Full price: 190 of the most virtuoso song cycles Under 30: 150 as students at the Yehudi Menuhin for choir ever written, according to School, and founded the Sitkovetsky * Festival card: 30 % discount Nicolas Fink, who has been the artis- Piano Trio in 2007. Since then they Festival pass: free entry if seats tic director of Bergen’s professional are available have been widely acclaimed by music SILJUSTØL vocal ensemble since 2012. critics on several continents, won Entrance to the Museum/Grieg’s villa and Date/time transportation included in the ticket. More several prizes and toured in China The choir is actively involved in Sunday 01 June Vilos trio information on page 71. at 15:00 and Australia. Among the highlights opera, concerts and recordings, both of the current season are concerts alone and in close collaboration with Duration Rune Alver from Bergen is a soloist Vilos Trio consists of the Norwegian pianist Ole in Wigmore Hall in London and the the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra 2:00 including and chamber musician with exten- interval Christian Haagenrud and the Lithuanian string Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Their and Bergen National Opera. As an Vilos Trio sive concert experience. He has players Dalia Dėdinskaitė and Gleb Pyšniak. first album, to be recorded in 2014, a cappella ensemble the choir has Tickets Dalia Dėdinskaitė violin recently given concerts in China, Over the last three years that they have been includes works by Dvořák, who is also worked under several distinguished Full price: 250 Gleb Pyšniak cello France, Germany, Russia, South Under 30: 150 performing together they have won several on the programme of the Troldsalen conductors, including Simon Halsey, Ole Christian Haagenrud piano Africa and the USA. He feels a par- prizes and made themselves an international concert. The Strad music magazine director of the Berlin Radio Choir Transportation Eilif Løtveit concert host ticular affinity with Edvard Grieg, reputation. They have also received the benefit was impressed by their ‘… unbounded, and Sigvards Klava, director of the included in the having recorded his early works at ticket. More infor- of the prestigious European Chamber Music tireless energy … Bravo!’ Latvian Radio Choir. Troldhaugen. This concert includes mation on page 71. Academy programme. In association with the Norwegian Academy several of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. of Music * Festival card: Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Edvard Grieg Choir 30 % discount This concert in Harald Sæverud’s home is also Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Festival pass: the diploma concert of Ole Christian Haagenrud Nicolas Fink conductor Rune Alver piano Leonard Elschenbroich cello free entry if seats for the Norwegian National Academy of Music. are available. Wu Qian piano Erling Dahl jr. concert host

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Drop In Concerts

Tickets* In collaboration with the The Academy’s Advance purchase: 60** Vale­ Grieg Academy – Depart- At the door: 20** Selection ment of Music, University * Festival pass: Free if capacity of Bergen. strand Unni Løvlid & ** Free in the Bergen Cathedral and Gunnar Sævig’s Hall Sponsored by Statoil THE GRIEGHALLEN FOYER The Sound of Håkon Thelin Norway? THE GRIEGHALLEN FOYER Monday 02 June Tickets* Lydia Hoen 12:00 & 14:00 Full price: 90 Date/time Music in VALESTRAND Date/time * Festival pass: free entry if Tuesday 03 June Sunday 25 May at 13:00 Tjore Friday 23 May seats are available a rural idyll Date/time 12:00 & 14:00 Sunday 01 June at 13:00 & 15:00 12:00 & 15:00 With students from the Ole with Tor Erik Seime Pettersen The Grieg Academy – Monday 26 May THE BERGEN CATHEDRAL** Bull Academy and others. Duration 12:00 & 14:00 Department of Music, VALESTRAND Date/time 1:00 Tuesday 27 May have Thursday 22 May Young Talents of Date/time 12:00 & 14:00 the pleasure of welcoming Sunday 25 May at 13:00 & 15:00 Unni Løvlid, who hails from the 12:00 the Grieg Academy Wednesday 28 May you to a concert in which Norwegian fjords, is one of Norway’s 12:00 (percussion students Duration GUNNAR SÆVIG’S hall** the Academy’s students, Date/time foremost folk singers. With critically with music by Steve Reich) 1:00 and 14:00 Date/time teachers and young talents Saturday 31 May at 13:00 acclaimed bassist Håkon Thelin she Thursday 29 May Thursday 22 May present their activity on a Lydia Hoen Tjore, soprano, has at takes local folk tunes to sacred and With students from the 12:00–15:00 14:00 larger scale. the age of eighteen already made secular texts into a new landscape. (Grieg marathon) Saturday 24 May national programme Young her mark as one of the most tal- The result is personal and distinctly Friday 30 May 12:00 & 14:00 Musicians, consisting of ented young classical musicians in untraditional interpretations of 12:00 Sunday 01 June especially talented young and 14:00 (Baby concert) Norway today. Having followed the traditional repertoire. The contrast 12:00 & 14:00 persons aged between 13 Grieg Academy’s talent programme between religious and at times murky and 19. she is currently a student at the poetry on the one hand and bright, Royal Danish Academy of Music in cheerful folk songs is striking. Ole Bull’s villa at Valestrand on the Copenhagen. After her memorable Masterclass Piano Concert participation in a television talent isle of Osterøy was completed in 1869. Unni Løvlid vocal show in 2009 she was mentored It became an important artistic meet- Håkon Thelin double bass by Solveig Kringelborn in an NRK REKSTENSAMLINGENE Other REKSTENSAMLINGENE Other ing place in Ole Bull’s lifetime. Every Knut Hendriksen concert host tv series. Lydia has performed as a Free admission to the Audun Free admission to the Audun year the Bergen International Festival Date/time Hetland Festival exhibition Date/time Hetland Festival exhibition continues the tradition of concerts soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Tuesday 27 & ‘The Bergen International Fes- Thursday 29 May at 14:00 ‘The Bergen International Fes- Folk songs from Sogn and Fjordane amidst the beautiful surroundings. Orchestra on several occasions. Wednesday 28 May tival through five decades’. tival through five decades’. HÅKON THELIN (1976–) at 10:00 Duration B minor (world premiere) The concert, which presents a musi- Tickets* 1:30 * Festival card: Words: Are Frode Søholt (1974–2012) Duration Full price: 100 30 % discount cal dialogue around the music and EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) 5:30 * Festival pass: free entry if Tickets* Festival pass: Tickets* times of Ole Bull, includes music by Excerpts from op. 66 seats are available Full price: 200 free entry if seats Full price: 350 OLE BULL (1810–1880) Grieg, Puccini and Bellini. Under 30: 150 are available. Under 30: 150 Excerpts from Fjellstuen Professor Jiří Hlinka turns Hadland. At these mas- Transportation included in the ticket. 70 in the spring of 2014. For terclasses you can experi- More information on page 71. Lydia Hoen Tjore soprano almost four decades he has ence Hlinka working with Hear the result of two days Master class and piano Tor Erik Seime Pettersen piano taught many of Norway’s selected Norwegian and of master classes with Jiří concert in collaboration * Festival card: 30 % discount Festival pass: free entry if seats Knut Hendriksen concert host leading pianists, including foreign piano and chamber Hlinka. with the Jiří Hlinka Grand are available. Leif Ove Andsnes, Håvard music students. Piano Academy. Gimse and Christian Ihle

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Time Travel A Norwegian New OCEAN in the Cathedral Orleans by

Timeless music from the Choral concert with The key scenes of life. Renaissance to today. Ytre Suløens Jass-ensemble World The new performance OCEAN takes BERGEN Mediaeval homophony, folk tunes Traditional gospel, spirituals us into the symbol-laden universe of CATHEDRAL premiere and psalms. When Bergen Domkor and happy jazz. Jon Fosse. A bright light is shed on date/time (Cathedral Choir) meets Trio Mediaeval the lives of his playful and amenable Burnt Love Ytre Suløens Jass-ensemble, the New ERVINGEN Friday 30 May and trumpeter in celes- KULTURHUS, ‘little people’. at 19:30 tial harmony, they draw from nearly nine Orleans jazz singer Tricia Boutté and GIMLE 150 choir members are ready to serve A new dramatised concert Duration hundred years of music. The story is – possibly – taking place up traditional American jazz, gospel Date/time about Edvard Grieg and the 1:20 Thursday 22 May on a boat in the middle of the ocean. This evening’s concert takes us all the and the best of the Afro-American at 18:00 & 20:00 Familiar and unfamiliar people meet women in his life. Tickets* way back to the time (1217–1263) when JOHANNES­ song tradition in St John’s Church Full price: 290 KIRKEN here – some are known to each other, Håkon Håkonsson reigned in Norway (Johanneskirken). Friday 23 May Infatuation, death, betrayal and re- Under 30: 150 Sunday 25 May at 18:00 & 20:00 others meet as strangers. and a Franciscan monastery was built at 16:00 & 18:30 conciliation – powerful emotions are * Festival card: in Bergen. We will however also hear Ytre Suløens Jass-ensemble has Saturday 24 May Jon Fosse from Strandebarm is re- in play when two of Norway’s fore- 30 % discount made its mark on the Norwegian trad at 18:00 & 20:00 most classical performers, Solveig Festival pass: newly composed music. GAMLE KINO cognized as one of the most influen- scene throughout last four decades Kringelborn and Gunilla Süssmann, free entry if seats Saturday 24 May Duration tial Norwegian writers of today. His are available. Bergen Cathedral from 1150 is one of at 18:00 or so. They have released over twenty focus on Nina and Edvard Grieg’s life 0:45 works have been translated into more CHAGALL the oldest churches in Bergen. It has recordings and have toured through- together and the composer’s relation- Duration than 40 languages, and his plays have long traditions as a venue for church out Norway and extensively in the LANGUAGE Date/time ship with Leis Schelderup, a female 1:10 Norwegian been staged more than a thousand music performances. Cathedral organ- USA, Africa and Europe. Ever since Tuesday 27 May painter from Bergen. English text avail- times around the globe. at 19:30 ist and choirmaster Kjetil Almenning Tickets* Tricia Boutté made a recording with able Full price: 260 Letters, pictures and a newly written says that the concert programme Under 30: 150 the ensemble in 2002 she has been Wednesday 28 May Tickets* at 19:30 text combine to portray a moving came from wondering ‘what the their soloist of choice. Full price: 290 Jon Fosse script Franciscan monks sang in the mon- * Festival card: Under 30: 150 Kai Johnsen director personal story expressed through 30 % discount Thursday 29 May astery church – what it sounded like For this concert they are joined by Ingrid Tønder stage design & at 19:30 Grieg’s women. Festival pass: * Festival card: in the Cathedral around 1814 when the free entry if seats a large chorus with members from a lighting design 30 % discount Duration The music is by Edvard Grieg and Norwegian constitution was written – are available. wide area in the west of Norway. Festival pass: Ola Bø dramaturgy 1:35 including several of his contemporaries: Clara what place folk music was permitted.’ free entry if seats Liv Hege Skagestad producer interval are available. and , Richard Hardangerkoret Siren Jørgensen, Hildegun Riise, Trio Mediaeval’s exquisite vocal sound Other Wagner, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Sunnivakoret Morten , Kyrre Hellum, Meet Solveig has enchanted audiences world- Halfdan Kjerulf, Julius Röntgen and Ytre Suløens jass-ensemble Svein Tindberg and Kringelborn in wide. The San Francisco Chronicle dialogue with Frank van der Stucken. Per Oddvar Hildre conductor Øystein Røger actors described the trio thus: ‘To hear the Hanne Bramness Tricia Boutté solo singer on Wednesday 28 group’s note-perfect counterpoint – as May at 17:00 at pristine and inviting as clean, white Presented and commissioned Chagall. Solveig Kringlebotn concept, linens – is to be astonished at what by the Bergen International Festival, text & song Bondeungdomslaget in Oslo, Tickets* Gunilla Süssmann piano the human voice is capable of. Full price: 290 The Norwegian Theatre and Unde 30: 150 Bjørnar Borlaug concept & research Theatre. Bergen Cathedral Choir * Festival card: Kjetil Almenning conductor 30 % discount Presented by HiHat Management Produced by Bondeungdomslaget Festival pass: in association with the Bergen Trio Mediæval free entry if seats Arve Henriksen trumpet in Oslo are available. International Festival

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Silent film classic with live music.

Grieghallen Experience the reconstructed film clas- Griegsalen sic accompanied by live music by Martin Metropolis (1927) director: Fritz Lang DATE/TIME Matalon with the composer himself Sunday 25 May wielding the baton. at 19:30 BIT20 Ensemble The German silent film from 1927 is regarded as Duration Martin Matalon composer & conductor the first full-length science fiction film. Director 2:35 Alf van der Hagen presenter Fritz Lang painted his vision of a futuristic, TICKETS* dystopian society with enormous differences Full price: 290 Under 30: 150 between the social classes. Shortly after the A co-production by the Bergen International premiere the original version was cut by about Festival and BIT20 Ensemble. * Festival card: a quarter. The excised footage was believed lost 30% discount Festival pass: – that is, until a copy of Fritz Lang’s original ver- free entry if seats sion was discovered in 2008 in a small museum are available in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After painstaking reconstruction and restoration the film had its new premiere in 2010.

The Argentinian composer Martin Matalon has composed a jazz-inspired score to the film. On this occasion his music is performed by BIT20 Ensemble under his direction. The Bergen con- temporary music ensemble has performed the world premiere of close to a hundred works and participated in some 20 recordings.

During this extraordinary evening in Grieghallen the audience is seated on the stage and the bar is open. Former newspaper editor Alf van der Hagen holds a 15-minute introductory talk (in Norwegian) on the film before the performance.

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GRIEGHALLEN Reich/London GRIEGSALEN

Date/time Thursday 29 May Sinfonietta at 19:30

duration 1:50 including interval

other Introduction in Norwegian by Morten Eide Steve Reich, legendary composer, visits Pedersen in the Bergen to perform with one of the London Sinfonietta Grieghallen foyer at 18:45 world’s leading orchestras. Brad Lubman conductor Steve Reich performer, Clapping Music Meet Steve Reich Steve Reich, born 1936, is considered one of the Mats Bergström solo electric guitar in conversation most influential composers in the world today. with Paal-Helge Sound Intermedia sound projection Haugen 29 May His music is performed in concert around three at 14:00 at Chagall hundred times a year worldwide. He told the STEVE REICH (1936–) Guardian: ‘I don’t know exactly who my audi- tickets* Clapping Music Full price: 190–470 ence is these days. There are blue-haired ladies Electric Counterpoint Under 30: 150 in the old sense of the phrase, and blue-haired 2 x 5 Radio Rewrite ladies in the new sense.’ * Festival card: Double Sextet 30 % discount Festival pass: At this Bergen International Festival concert free entry if seats Reich is joined by the renowned London are available Sinfonietta, one of his favourite ensembles. He himself performs in the work Clapping Music, composed for two performers and four hands.

Reich’s sources of inspiration have been Stravinsky, Bach, bebop and Coltrane. While he and his music have influenced many pop and electronica artists, the converse has rarely occurred. It therefore created quite a stir when Reich at the age of 75 made use of music by the British band Radiohead. Radio Rewrite, first performed by the London Sinfonietta in March 2013, is on the programme in Grieghallen. So is Electric Counterpoint, featuring Mats Bergström on electric guitar.

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Victoria Teller II, based on a student exercise Victoria Johnson originating from the Armenian philosopher and LOGEN TEATER mystic George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Christian Lollike text & direction DATE/TIME From Sappho to The concert will be introduced by composer Sunday 25 May Rufus Didwiszus set design at 22:00 Gurdjieff Simon Steen-Andersen. Ulrike Gutbrod costume design Mathias Hersland light design Duration 1:45 including Electric violin in harmony with video Victoria Johnson acoustic & electric violin Marie Louise Wille, Morten Burian, interval and sound art. Simon Steen-Andersen electronics, Henriette Dinesen, Kristian de Linde, Carsten Mathiesen, Mikkel Lund & Andreas TICKETS* sound design & presenter Full price: 190 Victoria Johnson’s concert is an invitation Peter Tornquist electronics, sound design Petersen cast Under30: 150 to join a journey of discovery into a new and Thorolf Thuestad electronics, sound design unknown poetic soundscape. * Festival card: Henrik Hellstenius electronics, sound design A co-production by CaféTeatret & 30% discount Elisabeth Kjeldal Nilsson lighting design Victoria Johnson performs, commissions and Aarhus Teater Festival pass: Hans Christian Gilje video free entry if seats presents new music for acoustic and electric Cato Langenes sound design are available violin, and on this occasion she fuses video art, Supported by Oticon Fonden lights and laptops into the music. HENRIK HELLSTENIUS (1963–) Victoria Teller ll The concert programme is constructed around GERHARD STÄBLER (1949–) Messenger of Spring several world premieres and new adaptations of (world premiere) PETER TORNQUIST (1963–) New work works commissioned for the occasion. Amongst (world premiere) Den Nationale them is a Gerhard Stäbler world premiere SIMON STEEN-ANDERSEN (1976–) Study for Scene Store Scene inspired by a classical Greek poem by Sappho, String Instrument #1–3 All My Dreams KNUT VAAGE (1961–) Multimorf ll and a new version of Henrik Hellstenius’s DATE/TIME Tuesday 27 May at 19:30 Come True Wednesday 28 May Colin Currie at 19:30

LOGEN TEATER Thursday 29 May at 19:30 What if we have lost the ability to imag- dreams and new adventures they decide to cre- DATE/TIME Percussion fireworks. ine the world differently? If our imagina- ate their own drama. They bring along a load Tuesday 03 June Duration at 20:00 1:40 tion has actually been sterilised? of Disney characters, a 7-foot tall man wear- ing a tutu, little people in princess dresses, an Duration The Scottish percussionist Colin Currie is known language The main characters in All My Dreams Come Performed in Dan- overweight woman with a skipping rope and a 1:40 including for his charismatic and energetic performances True are depressed. interval ish with English jerkily moving person dressed up as a gorilla. of works by prominent contemporary compos- titles available. TICKETS* ers. Passionate about music from an early age, It is Disney’s fault. Disney has emasculated the Director Christian Lollike is a powerhouse in Other Full price: 190 he has premiered some seventy works. fairy tales, castrated them and made them into Danish theatre. His universe is always entertain- Under 30: 150 Dialogue Wednes- day 28 May at educational stories. ing, weird and chaotic, but also mind-blowing He has received a Gramophone Award and a * Festival card: 16:00 in Logen Bar and thought-provoking. 30% discount ELLIOT CARTER (1908–2012) Figment V for marimba Grammy for his recordings. He and his percus- The two of them are fed up with the daily grind Festival pass: PER NØRGÅRD (1932–) Fire over water from I Ching sion ensemble, the Colin Currie Group, have TICKETS* and cornflakes, with therapy and stereotyped TOSHIO HOSOKAWA (1955–) Reminiscence Full price: 180–290 free entry if seats been highly praised for their interpretation of body ideals, with Disney babble and the eco- are available BRUNO MANTOVANI (1947–) Moi, Jeu for Marimba Under 30: 150 DAVE MARIC (1970–) Sense & Innocence music by another Bergen International Festival nomic crisis, with politicians whose answer to JOSEPH PEREIRA (1972–) Word of Mouth II artist, the great composer Steve Reich. * Festival card: everything is ‘growth’. In their hunt for fresh (Scandinavian premiere) 30% discount ROLF WALLIN (1957–) Realismos Magicos (Scandi- Festival pass: navian premiere. Commissioned by the Bergen Interna- free entry if seats tional Festival, Wigmore Hall and Sound Festival) Colin Currie percussion are available

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DATE/TIME Saturday 10 May–Saturday 07 June Weekdays at 19:30 Saturdays at 18:00 DEN NATIONALE SCENE No performance on Sundays LILLE SCENE and on Thursday 29 May DATE/TIME LANGUAGE Thursday 22 May–Saturday 07 June Norwegian Weekdays at 19:00 No surtitles Saturdays at 18:00 No performance on Sundays THE CULTURE TICKETS* and on Thursday 29 May Full price: 290 Manifesto Student/children: 150 DURATION 1:20 2083 HOTEL... LANGUAGE Norwegian PROUD SPONSOR OF BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL No surtitles

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DATE/TIME A Minister of Justice, a security guard Monday 02 and Tuesday 03 June at 19:30 and a terrorist are aboard the ferry to Denmark. The performance examines DURATION an act of terror from different ideo- 1:30

logical perspectives and challenges LANGUAGE our prejudices. Danish English text available

TICKETS* Full price: 250 Under 30: 150 This year’s Festival Author, Frode Grytten, has written a family drama *Festival Card: 30% discount set in Bergen. Three generations, a Festival Pass: Free entry if seats are available. secret from the past and the evoca- tive songs of Bergen artist John A controversial piece about terrorist Nilsen are essential ingredients of Anders Behring Breivik’s view of the this realistic psychological drama, RADISSON BLU HOTEL NORGE world and his self-perception. Nedre Ole Bulls Plass 4, 5807 Bergen, Norway which is Grytten’s first play. T: +47 55 57 30 00 F: +47 55 57 30 01 Supported by Oticon Fonden [email protected] radissonblu.com/hotelnorge-bergen

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Cardamom- A Collection Ina Christel Johannessen choreography World Kathrine Tolo costume design premiere yang of Short Chrisander Brun lighting design Anastasia Isachsen and Rui Horta LOGEN TEATER Stories exhibition concept DATE/TIME Thursday 22 May A boundary- at 20:00 breaking theatre Duration 1:00 concert. Carte Blanche Other Dialogue World 25 ‘Cardamom is only a little town, and Friday 23 May premiere at 17:00, Chagall it lies so far away that almost nobody knows about it. It’s a rather remarkable Studio Bergen TICKETS* Full price: 250 town, and a lot happens there that DATE/TIME See the dancers close up and experi- Under 30: 150 doesn’t happen anywhere else.’ Saturday 24 May at 18:00 ence their stories! * Festival card: From North Korea, which in our part of the world 30% discount Monday 26– A world premiere and a multimedia exhibi- Festival pass: is often spoken of as “the world’s most closed Wednesday 28 May tion mark the 25th anniversary year of Carte free entry if seats country”, comes a group of young talents from and internal difficulties with the help of military at 18:00 & 20:00 are available the prestigious Kum Song to the alertness and the teachings of the leaders Kim Blanche, Norway’s national contemporary Bergen International Festival. They bring with Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un. Friday 30– dance company. This is a unique opportunity to Saturday 31 May become better acquainted with each individual them their own interpretations of the famous at 18:00 & 20:00 songs from Thorbjørn Egner’s children’s play To generations of Norwegians, Cardamom Town dancer and the company as a whole. When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, has presented as a model society with a strong Monday 02– Tuesday 03 June The celebrated choreographer Ina Christel as well as examples of their own popular North sense of community, where the law prescribes at 18:00 & 20:00 Johannessen is very familiar with Carte Blanche. Korean songs. that people should be good to each other. An old wise man in a tower provides spiritual guid- TICKETS* She was resident choreographer in the 1990s, The world premiere Cardamomyang is commis- ance and the robbers become better people Full price: 290 and has over the past twenty years created Under 30: 150 sioned by the Bergen International Festival, and through voluntary community service. thirteen performances for the company. She created by director Morten Traavik. In recent * Festival card: is currently creating a completely new perfor- years, he has carried out several large-scale and 30% discount mance based on each dancer’s personal style Thorbjørn Egner (1912–1990) Festival pass: often controversial artistic collaborations and history. Within an intimate framework the music and lyrics free entry if seats with North Korean young artists and cultural are available personal stories pan out like a string of pearls. Morten Traavik concept and authorities. artistic direction exhibition Portuguese Rui Horta, one of Europe’s most Jørgen Træen sound design The exhibition is renowned choreographers, has also attracted In addition to brilliant musical skills and new open 10:30–15:00 interpretations, Cardamomyang offers the Valnoir visual and graphic design on days when there attention as a designer. In collaboration with audience an opportunity to reflect on different Kum Song Middle School No.1 are performances video artist Anastasia Isachsen he has con- musical arrangements and performance and on 04 June. structed an exhibition including video projec- forms of organizing societies and values such Admission free. as freedom and community – themes that carry tions, photographs and anecdotes from Carte Blanche’s 25 years of history. an additional importance on the occasion of the A co-production between the Bergen bicentennial of Norway’s Constitution in 2014. International Festival and Traavik.info, in ‘The best company in the Nordic countries collaboration with the Democratic People’s For more than 60 years, North Korea has put today?’ Dagens Nyheter, Sweden Republic of Korea Committee for Cultural every prediction of its demise to shame. The Relations with Foreign Countries country has withstood both external threats

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The Operatic Osophone Pearls in Austevoll Bekkjarvik ATRIUMET, The sound BEKKJARVIK of Os TORG DATE/TIME This organ of voices will touch Saturday 24 May at 19:00 Experience Carmen, Lohengrin and your heart! other operatic highlights in fantastic OSEANA Duration is famous for his unique 1:30 surroundings. DATE/TIME creative abilities in communicat- TICKETS* Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir collaborates Sunday 25 May ing with people through music. He at 19:00 Full price: 290 with almost a hundred local singers to create has produced numerous innovative Under 30: 150 a concert to fill all of Bekkjarvik Harbour with Duration projects and performances, and his * Festival card: beautiful sound. 1:00 music has made use of non-traditional 200 years 30% discount Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, based in TICKETS* instruments like ship’s whistles and the Festival pass: Accompanied by the Royal Norwegian Navy free entry if seats Copenhagen, consists of classically trained Full price: 250 sounds of Bergen’s local population. in 2 hours Band, they will perform excerpts from Giuseppe Under 30: 150 are available singers from throughout the Nordic countries. Verdi’s Aïda and Nabucco, Johann Strauss’ Die This time the target of Ole Hamre’s The ensemble has received wide acclaim for its * Festival card: Fledermaus, Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of musical playfulness is the population concerts and recordings. 30% discount Windsor, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt and much Festival pass: of Os, one of Bergen’s neighbour- free entry if seats OSEANA Based on the 200-year anniversary more. ing municipalities. Seeking out the The Royal Norwegian Navy Band are available of the Norwegian Constitution, Linda sounds and images characteristic of DATE/TIME The young talented soprano Lina Johnson has Mogens Dahl conductor Friday 23 May Eide and Sjur Hjeltnes have produced the Os area and the unique traits of her roots in the area around Austevoll, but cur- Lina Johnson soprano at 20:00 a personal and alternative presenta- the people living here, Ole Hamre cre- rently performs frequently at the Royal Theatre Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir tion of the Norwegian national his- ates an Osophone – a ‘voice organ’, Duration in Copenhagen and the Norwegian Opera in Oslo. which will be the main instrument in 2:00 tory, getting slightly sidetracked on the way. They embrace both national this spectacular live concert. Two of TICKETS* Norway’s finest musicians, trumpet Full price: 375 events and everyday situations, and player Arve Henriksen and keyboard- Under 30: 150 the show is filled with music ranging from Grieg to the Eurovision Song ist Ståle Storløkken join him on stage. language Other Performed in Contest. Ole Hamre has a versatile musical Norwegian without Festival satellites background, and collaborates regu- surtitles. Produced by Oseana larly with a number of well-known * Festival card: Norwegian artists. 30% discount Festival pass: Linda Eide script A Norwegian Always Been a OCEAN Voices & Votes free entry if seats Arvid Ones director New Orleans Good Girl Produced by Oseana are available Strandebarm Stavanger Sjur Hjeltnes musical adaption Voss gamle voss, Haugatun Konserthus kino Park hotell Ole Hamre osophone DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Saturday 31 May Friday 23 May Arve Henriksen trumpet DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Saturday 24 May Sunday 01 June at 18:00 & 20:00 at 19:30 Ståle Storløkken keyboard at 18:00 at 19:30 See page 51 See page 8 See page 50 See page 16 NB! Different cast

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Pussy vs. In association with the Rafto Foundation and Logen teater Putin Bergens Tidende date Saturday 24 May Supported by Fritt Ord and the J.W. Eide Film: Pussy Foundation vs. Putin The film and the people who tell it all Time about Pussy Riot’s struggle for freedom. at 16:00 In 2012 members of the anarchist women’s band Duration 0:55 Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for singing a protest song in the Discussion largest Orthodox church in Moscow. Debates time The documentary film Pussy vs Putin from 2013 at 17:15 is an ‘insider’ film by Gogol’s Wives Productions. Duration The two filmmakers have followed every step The Festival presents a number of talks, con- 0:45 of the punk collective’s struggle against Putin, versations and debates based on themes from

TICKETS from their first performance on the roof of a the 2014 programme. These events are all held Full price: 90 trolleybus wearing brightly coloured balaclava in Norwegian, except: helmets. There are scenes from music video Festival pass: recordings, their performance of Mother of God, Festival free entry if seats are available Chase Putin Away in the Cathedral of Christ the Meeting place Bergen Kunst- Saviour and scenes from their internment. The CHAGALL hall Exhibition film also follows support groups and protests in Russia and abroad. date/time DATE/TIME Thursday 29 May at 14:00–14:45 23 May–17 August

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina. Composer Steve Reich talks to author Monday–Friday Tone Vigeland are now focusing on the project Zona Prava Paal-Helge Haugen 11:00–18:00 (the zone of the law), working for human rights In collaboration with Norsk Forfattersentrum Thursdays and improved conditions for people in prison. Vestlandet at 11:00–20:00 They will be attending the Bergen International New sculptures and installations by Festival accompanied by the filmmakers and TICKETS Saturday & Sunday Festival artist Tone Vigeland. Free admission 11:00–17:00 a Russian cultural leader. Here they will meet She is perhaps best known for her work with helped redefine the field and attracted inter- for debate with Martin Paulsen, a postdoctoral Other artistic jewelry and handicrafts, but for the 2014 national interest. In recent years, her work has fellow at the University of Bergen and the chair- Meet the Winner of Opening Thursday 22 May Festival Exhibition the sculptural aspects of her moved towards having more sculptural features. person of the prize committee of the Rafto. the Holberg Prize at 13:00 work will be presented in a large-scale format Tone Vigeland’s works are presented at the CHAGALL Billett for the first time. The exhibition will consist of Pussy vs. Putin (2013) Full price: 50 recent sculptures and installations created spe- Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Direction: Gogol’s Wives Production date/time Student/seniors: 25 Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Monday 02 June at 17:00–18:00 cifically for Bergen Kunsthall’s exhibition halls. National Museum of Modern Design in Tokyo Maria Aljokhina artist and activist TICKETS The Festival Exhibition has been produced by and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She Free admission Nadezjda Tolokonnikova artist and activist Bergen Kunsthall since 1953, annually highlight- has received numerous awards, including the Gogol’s Wives Production filmmakers Former newspaper editor Alf van der Hagen interviews ing a contemporary Norwegian artist. Tone Jakob Award (1965), the Swedish Prince Eugen Alexander Cheparukhin cultural leader the winner of the 2014 Holberg Prize, Michael Cook. Vigeland (born 1938) is one of Norway’s most Medal (1988) and the Anders Jahre Culture renowned artists. Her work with iron and nails Prize (2002). Martin Paulsen associate professor, UiB In collaboration with the Holberg Prize Hilde Sandvik debate chair

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Bergen International Festival collaborates with a number of restaurants, all of them Festival located close to our festival venues. Here you will find quality food in different price ranges and a wide selection of menus. Restaurants Venue map www.fib.no/restaurants. 2014

7 19 4 8 ROZENKRANTZ GATE Håkonshallen 7 Bryggen 1 BARE Restaurant 8 Fløien Folkerestaurant 15 Colonialen Restaurant P 15 4 Gimle 3 Domkirken Hotel Norge, Nedre Ole Bulls pl. 4 Fløyfjellet 2 Kong Oscars gate 44 BRYGGEN KONG OSCARS GATE 2 9 16 1 Bocca Restaurant Hanne på Høyden Restaurant Entré Øvre Ole Bulls pl. 3 Fosswinckelsgt. 18 Scandic Neptun, Valkendorfsgt. 8 3 Boha Restaurant 10 Holbergstuen 17 Restaurant Lucullus ORGE T rget T SKOSTREDET o

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1 Boat to Lysøen 1 Chagall Austevoll Park hotel Vossevangen 2 Bus to composers’ homes 2 den Nationale Scene Bekkjarvik havn, 5399 Austevoll Uttrågata 1-3, 5700 Voss i Tourist Information 3 Domkirken Cornerteateret Rekstensamlingene P car park 4 gimle, Ervingen kulturhus Thormøhlens gate 45, 5006 Bergen Statsminister Michelsens veg 34, 5230 Ticket sales 5 gunnar Sævigs sal Fysak Allaktivitetshus Paradis festival Office 6 Grieghallen Vilhelm Bjerknesvei 42, 5081 Bergen Siljustøl 7 Håkonshallen Haugatun Siljustølvegen 50, 5239 Rådal 8 Johanneskirken 5630 Strandebarm Troldsalen/Griegs villa 9 logen Teater & Logen Bar Lysøen Troldhaugvegen 65, 5232 Paradis 10 ole Bull Scene Søvikvegen 15, 5215 Lysekloster Valestrand 11 Studio Bergen Oseana 5291 Valestrandsfossen 12 Østre Mobergsbakken 20, 5200 Os Voss gamle kino Skulegata 15, 5700 Voss

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Combine your visit in Bergen with Bus to Troldhaugen (Round Trip) Bus to Valestrand (Round Trip) beautiful West Coast scenery! We col- The bus journey is approx. 30 min. The bus journey is approx. 45 min. laborate with several travel bureaus CONCERT at 13:00 Departure from Strandkaien, CONCERT at 13:00 to be able to offer you the Festival Turistinfo/Mathallen at 12:15. Departure from Strandkaien, experience you want. Return from Troldhaugen, Turistinfo/Mathallen at 12:00. departure at 15:30 Return from Valestrand, departure at 15:00

Please contact us on +47 55 21 06 30 * Exceptions: 01 June: CONCERT at 15:00 for group bookings or any questions Choral Celebration with Edvard Grieg Choir Departure from Strandkaien, Turistinfo/Mathallen at 14:00. regarding your visit. Departure from Strandkaien, Turistinfo/Mathallen at 11:30 Return from Valestrand, departure at 17:00 Return from Troldhaugen, Bergen has many hotels and dif- departure at 14:30 Bus to Siljustøl The bus journey is approx. 30 min. ferent types of accommodation for * Exceptions: 02 & 03 June: Lunch Concert travellers. For more information, visit Departure from Strandkaien, CONCERT AT 15:00 www.visitbergen.com/accommodation Turistinfo/Mathallen at 11:30. Departure from Strandkaien, Return from Troldhaugen, Turistinfo/Mathallen at 14:15. departure at 14:00 Return from Siljustøl, departure at 17:30 The festival hotel Radisson Blu Hotel Norge is located in the middle of CONCERT at 22:30 Departure from Strandkaien, Bergen city centre. It is within walk- Turistinfo/Mathallen at 21:45 Transport to Bergen ing distance of most of our venues. Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 00:00 For booking, contact Hotel Norge at Entrance to the museum and Grieg’s Villa (+47) 02525 or visit is included in the concert ticket www.radissonblu.com/ There are many routes to Bergen. hotellnorge-bergen Boat to Lysøen (Round Trip) For a complete overview, go to Visit The boat journey is approx. 50 min. Bergen at www.visitbergen.com/

Radisson Blu Hotel Norge offers transportation speakiNg oF Norway ... CONCERT at 11:30 package deals on accommodation Departure from Dreggekaien at 10:00 scattered across Norway there that you wouldn’t at Bergen International Festival. Visit Return from Lysøen, departure at 14:00 For information about flight times, are a few really unique and expect – we promise www.bergenhelg.no (in Norwegian) or routes and transport to and from characteristic hotels and you! read more about CONCERT at 14:30 Bergen Airport Flesland, visit restaurants. The best of these these fantastic hotels call (+47)09901. Departure from Dreggekaien at 13:00 www.avinor.no/bergen are collated in de historiske and restaurants at Return from Lysøen, departure at 16:15 – historic hotels & restaurants www.dehistoriske.com You may also purchase selected Bergensbanen (The Bergen Line) of festival package deals at Norway. www.dehistoriske.no between Oslo and Bergen has These several daily departures. For more places can offer you information, visit www.nsb.no. You food, hospitality can also travel to Bergen by bus and stories or boat.

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Full price tickets Your festival pass ticket must be pre- Regular ticket prices (ticket fee sented for a festival wristband at our included) are listed for each event www.fib.no Festival Card ticket booth at Torgallmenningen or in NOK. Buy your tickets online from your at the ticket office in Grieghallen from computer, tablet or smart phone. If 2014 BT Card 12 May. The wristband is personal and you are using your computer, you 50 % ticket discount for holders of Under 30 years must be presented upon entrance at can select your seats at venues with the Bergens Tidende card on per- Maximum NOK 150 per ticket. the venue. seating charts. formances marked with a ‘BT Card’ nok 390 logo.* A maximum of 2 tickets per Grieghallen Children The festival card includes the card holder per event. A limited num- Ticket sales and programme Children’s tickets are sold at chil- Festival Ticket Booth at following benefits: Other Offers ber of discounted tickets are avail- information. dren’s and family performances. For Torgallmenningen ¡¡30 % discount on tickets able at Grieg’s Villa and for Pinocchio. HOURS 12 MAY–04 JUNE* ¡¡ performances at Cornerteateret, the 09:00–19:30 HOURS Satisfaction guarantee *Exceptions: 20 % discount on price is maximum NOK 90 for children Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00 ¡¡Receive a free programme Voices and Votes, 200 Years in Two up to and including 15 years of age. *Exceptions: Thu 10:00–19:30 by presenting your card at Hours, The Osophone and Rett fra Sat 11:00–14:00 Children under the age of 2 go free 12 & 18 MAY: 13:00–19:30 the venue Gift vouchers skrumpleveren. 16 & 17 MAY: Closed ¡¡ Order at www.fib.no/giftvoucher, by if sitting on an adult’s lap. Exception: 04 JUNE: 09:00–16:00 OPENING HOURS DURING THE 20 % discount at Festival The baby performance Dæ-dææ!!!. FESTIVAL* restaurants phone (+47) 55 21 06 30 or e-mail Mon–Sun 10:00–19:30 ¡¡The best seats at Grieghallen and [email protected] and we will mail you *Exceptions the voucher at no extra charge. You Billettservice (Ticketmaster 21 May: 10:00–19:00 DNS (for early bookers). Senior may also purchase gift vouchers from Norway) 22 May: 10:00–18:00 Discounted Tickets NOK 50 discount per ticket. 24 May: 10:00–14:00 our ticket booth at Torgallmenningen. www.fib.no/buytickets KORTET When claiming discounted tickets, a 29 May: 18:00–19:30 Gift vouchers are valid for one year 30 May: 10:00–17:00 valid ID must be presented when pur- Companion Ticket PHONE (CALL CENTRE) 04 June: 10:00–18:00 from the date of purchase. +47 815 33 133 (regular rate) chasing the ticket and at the venue. If you require an assistant you can get Discounts are only given on ticket PHONE one free ticket for your companion at HOURS: (+47) 55 21 61 50 prices over NOK 100. Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00 Groups our sales offices in Grieghallen, Den HOTEL PACKAGE DEALS, PHONE Discounts do not apply to the ticket Sat 10:00–14:00 09901 Groups of more than 10 people get Nationale Scene and at the Festival fee, which must always be paid in full. a 20 % discount on tickets. Contact ticket booth on Torgallmenningen. The fee is calculated based on the Bergen International Festival ((+47) Den Nationale Scene discount ticket price. Companion tickets are also avail- At the door 55 21 06 30) or [email protected] for HOURS: On certain performances there is a able at other Billettservice outlets Mon–Fri 09:00–20:00 Remaining tickets are sold at the programme recommendations, ticket limited number of discount tickets at NOK 16 (due to booking charges). Sat 11:00–18:00 venue one hour before the event. At offers or assistance with table reser- and one hour before performances. available. For more information on accessibility sold-out performances, uncollected vations, VIP room rental at the venue at our venues, please visit: www.fib. PHONE tickets will be sold 15 minutes before and food and drinks at the festival Subject to change. no/venues. (+47) 55 60 70 80 the performance begins. restaurants.

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The Bergen International Festival is dependent The Festival thanks on many different supporters to continue spring’s big Visit us adventure. All the help Dukkenikkerverkstedet online you have extended has Public Sector Partners Edvard Grieg Choir enabled us to make Ministry of Culture Ervingen kulturhus, Gimle Accessibility the experience a City of Bergen Fargespill greater one. Hordaland county Ferske Scener At www.fib.no you will find videos, background Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fosse-Gruppa material and the latest news on all concerts Fysak Allaktivitetshus The Festival events take place at about 20 and performances. Stay up to date and receive Festival Ambassadors Project Supporters The Grieg Academy - Department of venues. Some of these are very old, and/ special offers by registering for our newsletter! Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber Arts Council Norway Music, University of Bergen or have previously been private residences. You will also find a digital version of the Festival Grieg Foundation Institut Français, Oslo Grieghallen Unfortunately, this means that not all venues programme catalogue. Trond Mohn Oticon Fonden HiHat management are equally accessible to the disabled. Nordisk kulturfond The Holberg Prize Main Partners J.W. Eides Stiftelse Hordaland Teater The following venues can be challenging or DNB Bergens Riksmålsforening Jiří Hlinka Grand Piano and unaccessible for wheelchair users: Talk to us Statoil Fritt Ord Chamber Music Academy Radisson Blu Hotel Norge Embassy of Sweden Kirkemusikk i Bergen ¡¡Håkonshallen Dagens Næringsliv Québec Government Office Kolibri – Children At Risk Foundation ¡¡Lysøen Kompani Camping Do you have any questions? Please don’t ¡¡Logen Bar Project Partners Cultural Partners Kritikerlaget hesitate to contact us. The Festival wants your ¡¡Valestrand The Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Arrangement Tjenester Kulturoperatørene feedback and opinions. What can we do differ- ¡¡Siljustøl Foundation Avab Cac KODE Art museums of Bergen ently and what do we do well? ¡¡Chagall The Kavli Trust Austevoll municipality Logen Teater and Chagall ¡¡Gimle Barratt Due Institute of Music Norwegian Academy of Music You can get in touch with us in the following ways: Sparebanken Vest – Investing in Western Norway Bekkjarvik Guest House The Norwegian Band Federation In Grieghallen, the main concert hall has www.fib.no H. Westfal-Larsen and hustru Bekkjarvik Torg Norsk Forfattersentrum Vestlandet infra-red sound distribution. Unfortunately, We answer your questions via live chat on Anna Westfal-Larsens Bergen Backline Ole Bull Scene this technology is not available at any other weekdays from 10:00 to 15:00. Our opening Almennyttige fond Bergen Dansesenter Ole Bull’s villa, Valestrand Festival venues. hours are extending during busy periods. The GC Rieber Funds Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Olsvik school choir Bergen Culture School Oseana For more information on accessibility, trans- SMS: Send a text message with codeword Bergen Kunsthall Park Hotel Vossevangen portation, parking, toilets etc, please visit www. Festival Partners FIB MENING, followed by your message, to Bergen National Opera The Rafto Foundation fib.no/venues. For information on companion Bergens Tidende 2077. BIT20 Ensemble Revy & Teaterservice tickets, please see page 72. Nespresso Anti Bergen Buekorpsenes dag Rekstensamlingene E-mail: [email protected] PwC Bymuseet i Bergen Norwegian Navy Band Bergen Tickets: +47 55 21 61 50 Telenor Café Teatret Skranevatnet school choir Other questions/groups: +47 55 21 06 30 Festival Lounge Atea Carte Blanche – the Norwegian Stiftelsen Bryggen Norwegian Hull Club national company of Stand Up Norge @Festspillene 07000 Bergen Taxi contemporary dance Student organisations in Bergen Logen Theatre and Bar is our Festival Lounge. Galleriet Cornerteateret Teater Innlandet facebook.com/bergeninternationalfestival There are concerts and performances in the A7 Print Columbi Egg University of Bergen theatre, and in the bar upstairs, a Festival #Festspillene / #festspillene14 Avinor Det felles innvandrerråd, Hordaland Ung i Kor-Vest Lounge for artists, members of the audience Securitas Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter Voss gamle kino and all those who work for the Festival. See Tesla Den Nationale Scene Østre you there! Olden Det Norske Teatret Aarhus Teater Steinway Piano Gallery Oslo Dramatikkens Hus , Norwegian centre for new playwriting

074 www.fib.no www.fib.no 075 076 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL The Festival Thanks The Festival Thanks BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 077 FESTIVAL 2014 FESTIVAL 2014 The Festival The Festival thanks thanks The Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Foundation was established in 2009 in honour of Kristian Gerhard Jebsen and his contribution to Norwegian and international shipping and busi- ness. Following his example, a com- mon denominator for the foundation’s engagement is a vision of contribut- ing to the realisation of projects of The Grieg Foundation’s main focus the highest international standard. is to support children and young O. Kavli and Knut Kavli’s Almennyttige people on a global basis, and to a Kristian Gerhard Jebsen (1927–2004) Fond (the Kavli Trust) owns the Kavli group, and this ownership enables large extent through education. Our founded the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Sparebanken Vest wishes to share Trond Mohn the fund to contribute to activities support goes through SOS Children’s Skipsrederi AS (KGJS) shipping the responsibility for developing the for the public benefit. Part of the Villages International. We also sup- company in 1967. Jebsen’s unique region of Western Norway, by sup- Through his continued support of profit of the Kavli group is reinvested port several large and small scale knowledge of international shipping, porting social developments. Every the Bergen International Festival, in order to consolidate and develop projects in environmental and medi- combined with his visionary talents, year, a part of Sparebanken Vest’s Trond Mohn has helped invest in our the group, while the rest is spent cal research. great capacity for work and ability surplus is distributed as grants, development. In the years to come to motivate and lead, allowed him to for the public benefit on research, Another area of ​​focus is art and cul- including funding for culture and we will expand our activity and have build up a business which ranks today culture and humanitarian work. The The GC Rieber Funds support social ture with a focus on western Norway. projects aimed at children and youth. defined new goals and ambitions for as a world leader in its fields. He is Kavli Trust has supported the Bergen welfare and the arts, primarily in In this sector, we have for several the Bergen International Festival. We remembered as a distinctive and International Festival for many years, Bergen, and contribute to medical The Bergen International Festival years been a major sponsor for the want to influence the international innovative player in the development and we are delighted to be support- and other research. Among many sup- would like to thank Sparebanken Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the art scene through our work. In order of the shipping industry. ing the Festival’s outdoor programme ported schemes, priority is given to Vest for supporting the develop- various opera companies in Bergen as to do this we need committed and in 2014. talented young people locally, partic- ment of the cultural sector in Western well as other cultural activities. Through its research initiatives the ambitious Festival ambassadors ularly in music, to ensure a continued Norway. Grants from the bank allow foundation has so far created four- The Bergen International Festival has that recognize the value of a strong diversity of cultural activity in the city. the Festival to keep generating wide- teen K.G. Jebsen centres in medicine been recurrent in our portfolio and Norwegian cultural life and contribute One of the principal projects has been spread interest and involvement in and in 2013 also a K.G. Jebsen centre we are proud of how the Festival has to affirming our position as a leading Ung Symfoni (Young Symphony), the city and the region. dedicated to the study of the law of established itself with its high quality European arts festival. including its collaborators in devel- the sea. As the sole sponsor of the H. Westfal-Larsen og both internationally and local. We are oping these young talents. Trond Mohn is one of these ambas- new high-tech learning centre at The Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsen’s happy to be a part of this more than sadors and we appreciate his support Norwegian School of Economics – Almennyttige Fond is another significant 60 years old brilliant Festival tradition of the Bergen International Festival. NHH – the foundation wishes to sup- recipient of funding. The GC Rieber in Bergen. It enables us to reach our goals for port NHH’s vision of being a business H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna Funds were instrumental in estab- the benefit of our visitors, the city school of high international standard. Westfal-Larsen’s Almennyttige Fond lishing the Master studies in Music of Bergen, Western Norway and the is a charitable foundation, the pur- therapy at the Grieg Academy in Our cultural commitment currently country as a whole, as we continue to pose of which is to further cultural Bergen. inspire and challenge the audience. includes support to the Bergen interests with a view to the welfare International Festival, Leif Ove of the citizens of Bergen. The foun- The Bergen International Festival Andsnes’ project “The Beethoven dation wishes to contribute to the would like to thank Trond Mohn for Journey”, the Bergen Philharmonic development of a balanced and ver- his support. Orchestra and the International satile cultural life in Bergen. Each year Edvard Grieg Piano Competition 2014. the foundation distributes grants We congratulate the Bergen to various institutions and cultural International Festival with a wonder- activities. ful 2014 Festival programme!

076 www.fib.no www.fib.no 077 078 to come. tion and continue its development for years convinced that theFestival will solidify its posi approach andinternational ambitionmake us Festival director Anders Beyer’s collaborative cultural scene. tant to Bergen both andtheentire Norwegian challenging the audience. The Festival is impor cultural event, expanding thecity’s horizons and Wement. believe theFestival isanimportant International Festival with delight and excite Every year forward welook to theBergen 078 Bjarne Rieber Y The F vonne and BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2014 www.fib t es ival - - - .no diverse 2014 Festival programme. We are forward looking to themanifold and making its markontheEuropean cultural scene. exciting, andweare delighted to note howitis Festival’s investments inoriginalproductions in theBergen International Festival. We findthe Over theyears, wehave invested considerably t hanks The Festiv

al Thanks Statoil isproud sponsor of Bergen International Festival. For everyone’s benefit andjoy. We like to callthemheroes of tomorrow. future –notjustfor our company butfor societyas a whole. It isindividualslike these who holdthekey toasuccessful the skillsanddeterminationtoachieve remarkable results. strive tomake theimpossiblepossible.Individuals with ability anddesire tothinkoutsidethebox. Individuals who The successof Statoil isdown toindividuals with the TOMORROW THE HEROES OF WE SUPPORT music scholarship 2013 Winner of Statoil’s classical Guro Kleven Hagen

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