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2013 PROGRAMME BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

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The Art of Playing With the City

‘...and with spring comes the spring celebration where, year after year, you get the chance to experience the We identify ourselves through play and explora- world’s best art. It is not surprising, tion of our wonderful world. By placing serious then, that the extravagant spring in play at its centre Bergen International Festival Bergen has been given its own name: explores a world undergoing rapid changes – Bergen International Festival.’ Jon Fosse and reflects these changes in various ways. At the same time, this celebration upholds tradi- Bergen International Festival is an explosion of tion and our cultural heritage. joy and energy that fills concert halls, theatres and brand new venues both indoors and out- This year we have created new guides for the doors. This proud Norwegian cultural festival is colourful, vast landscape that is the festival a local event that attracts international atten- programme. We believe it has something for tion through its constant process of renewal. every taste and occasion, and by arranging the events under the three terms Diversions, We want to invite, inspire and challenge a large Dialogues and Disturbances, we hope to make local and visiting audience. During the 15 days it easier to find what you are looking for. of the festival we declare a state of emergency in the city. With our partners in and outside Welcome! Bergen, we o!er music, theatre, dance – and much more – that reflect our lives and dreams and has unexpected e!ects on the way we perceive the world. Anders Beyer PROUD SPONSOR Through the festival programme we wish to Chief Executive & Artistic Director interpret the city’s identity through themes that OF DIVERSITY centre on nature, journey and water. Taking the 100th anniversary for women’s su!rage in DNB values its partnership with Norwegian cultural institutions, sports Norway as our starting point, this year’s festival associations and other non-profit organisations, both locally and on a national presents a number of projects that focus on the level. ‘feminine’ in the broadest sense of the word. For more than 60 years, we have sponsored the Bergen International Festival, one of Norway’s most dynamic cultural events. Through our sponsorship, we aim to make the arts accessible to as many people as possible.

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Dialogues "+) Igudesman & Joo: And Now Mozart

THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE CLASSICAL "+# Late night Logen: Piazzolla Variety ART TRADITION "+* Late night Logen: Voksne Herrers Orkester / Marius Neset Septet ""# Marco Polo "+$ Late night Logen: Bjørn Thoroddsen’s Guitar Fest / ""$ The Beethoven Journey with Andsnes and Gjertrud’s Gipsy with Susanne Lundeng Mahler Chamber Orchestra "+% Late night Logen: Music for a While ""% The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) / "(" Cirque Éloize: Cirkopolis Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra "(& BLAM! "&& War Requiem "(' Children & Youth Programme "&' The Norwegian Soloist Prize "(( Outdoors: Water / Sudden Festival / Thirst "&( Soloists and Hemsing "() Outdoors: Mobile Homes / The Festival Quarter "&) L’Arpeggiata "(# Outdoors: Our Wonderful World / Street Entertainment "&# DIALO, "(* Festival Satellites: Austevoll "&* Andreas Scholl: Wanderer "($ Festival Satellites: Rosendal / Solstrand / Havfest "&$ Freiburg Baroque Orchestra "(% Festival Satellites: Selja – A Wonderful Journey "&% Kreutzer Quartet / European Guitar Quartet "'" & Michail Lifits "'& Mørk & Ihle Hadland / Mørk, Frang & Hadland GUES "'' Duos at Dusk (concert series) Disturbances "'+ Bergen Choir / Hvoslef’s Chamber Music THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION. TRADITION AND RENEWAL, DEPTH AND REFLECTION. "'( Grieg’s Villa: Håvard Gimse / Follesø & Plagge / RECKLESS AND EXPLORATORY PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS WITH A HISTORY. Sheppard Skærved & Chadwick ")' with KORK "'# Lysøen: Tellefsen & Gimse / Süssmann & Tetzla! ")+ Between Sound (Mellom lyden) "'* Valestrand: Stærnes & Kjekshus / ")( Vaage/Valen Trio Lundeng & Økland ")) Masterpiece Revisited "'$ Troldsalen: Villadsen & Lorentzen ")# Carte Blanche: Not here/Not ever "'% Troldsalen: Sasha Grynyuk ")* Coelacanth Troldsalen: Juilliard & NMH ")$ Origin of Species Troldsalen: Møldrup & Kohlberg ")% Woman Know Your Body / Miss Julie / Mad Blood "+" Drop in / Selection / Reksten- "#" The Bearded Lady / Desiring Machines samlingene: Master Classes / Concert "#& Neither "+& Skram vs Kråkevik / Olav’s Dreams / meet me/ "#' Meet Sofi Oksanen The Seagull

"#+ Debates and Conversations Diversions "#) Festival Venues and Restaurants "## Accommodation and Transport "#* Tickets ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES "#$ Prices and O!ers "++ Outdoors: Opening Ceremony / Murmuration "#% The Festival Thanks "+( Colourshow

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Premiere

GRIEGHALLEN Marco Polo GRIEGSALEN

DATE-TIME Wednesday 22 May at 18:45 The whole world Thursday 23 May at 19:00 in one

DURATION 1:40 Without interval Tan Dun brings the whole world togeth-

TICKETS er in an opera. Now in Scandinavia for Produced by Bergen National Opera Standard: 200/350/ the first time. 500/600/700 Under 30, child: 150 In this performance of the opera Marco Polo Presented by the Bergen International Festival card: 30% Festival and Bergen National Opera in discount the director Netia Jones creates a rich visual representation of the composer Tan Dun’s musi- association with the Bergen Philharmonic Thursday 23 May cal tapestry, based on Marco Polo’s legendary Orchestra and KorVest. Standard: 200/300/ 450/550/650 voyage from Italy to China. A variety of lan- Under 30, child: 150 guages, cultures and eras are woven together, Netia Jones director, film, set, costumes and with Beijing opera, Japanese kabuki theatre, Festival card: live video 30% discount Tibetan bells and Indian sitars forming some Baldur Brönnimann musical director Festival pass: of the threads. Thomas Young Polo free if capacity Fredrika Brillembourg Marco Tan Dun from China has made his mark on the Dong-Jian Gong Kublai Khan music scene worldwide with works that cross Nancy Allen Lundy Water the boundaries between eastern and western Zhang Jun Shadow 1: Rustichello, Li Po LANGUAGE musical traditions. He has received both a Performed in Nina Warren Shadow 2: Scheherazade, Grammy and an Oscar for best film music in English with Mahler, Queen Norwegian Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. subtitles Stephen Bryant Shadow 3: Dante, Netia Jones makes Marco Polo into a liv- Shakespeare Introduction in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Norwegian in the ing visual journey, with film, projections and Grieghallen foyer: opulently beautiful sculptural costumes. This KorVest young British director/video artist has been Wednesday 22 May at 18:00 called Britain’s most exciting opera director, TAN DUN .1957/ not least because of the way she uses film to Marco Polo Thursday 23 May bring new dimensions to performances. at 18:15 Supported by TTS Group The visual imagery is not completed beforehand Thanks to our Festival Ambassadors, but is rather created in real time. She performs Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber everything live from her computer with the score in front of her, following and building up the music. Baldur Brönnimann conducts an international team of singers alongside KorVest – a Bergen-based professional choir – and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Journeys and The Fairy Tales Beethoven With the Norwegian Radio Journey GRIEGHALLEN Festive Evening with GRIEGSALEN Orchestra (KORK). A fairy tale evening with Cinderella and DATE-TIME Kristiansand Symphony Tuesday 28 May a newly discovered work by at 19:30 . Orchestra

With DURATION The Norwegian Radio Orchestra vis- 2:00 including its the Bergen International Festival & the Mahler Chamber interval GRIEGHALLEN Grieg’s A minor Concerto is with its newly-appointed principal GRIEGSALEN Norway’s musical figurehead. Orchestra TICKETS conductor from the 2013–14 season, Standard: DATE-TIME 180/250/320/ Miguel Harth-Bedoya. The concert Thursday 30 May The orchestra performs the signa- 370/420 combines new music from his native at 19.30 ture work of the Bergen International Under 30, child: 150 Peru with older but unheard music DURATION Festival with Marianna Shirinyan, the GRIEGHALLEN ‘Shatteringly good’, wrote one critic of Festival card: by Ole Bull. One of his most signifi- 2:00 including Armenian pianist, under the baton of GRIEGSALEN the first stage of the journey through 30% discount cant works, Norges fjelde (Norway’s interval Rolf Gupta. The concert also includes Festival pass: Mountains), has been lost to poster- DATE-TIME Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. The jour- free if capacity TICKETS Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, which Friday 24 May ney continues in Bergen. ity. However, musicologist Harald Standard: the KSO has performed on tour in at 19:30 Herresthal, composer Wolfgang 180/250/320/ Germany with great success. The Norwegian world-class pianist has reached ‘unusual pianistic mastery.’ Plagge and KORK’s Ole Bull specialist 370/420 DURATION Under 30, child: 150 2:00 including the second part of the Beethoven Journey, a four- – Dagbladet Annar Føllesø have collaborated to KSO commissioned the work interval year project in which he and the Mahler Chamber produce a score, making possible a Festival card: Resurgence from the Bergen com- Orchestra tour worldwide and make recordings ‘Now that he has found his way into new premiere of the work, 180 years 30% discount poser Ørjan Matre for the opening of TICKETS Beethoven, may he keep on going.’ Festival pass: Standard: of all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. The after it was originally written. free if capacity the city’s Kilden theatre and concert 190/290/420/ orchestra, founded by the Italian conductor – New York Times hall last year. The work is dedicated 470/520 Claudio Abbado, consists of some forty musi- The concert finishes with Prokofiev’s LANGUAGE to Rolf Gupta, for whom this concert Under 30, child: 150 ballet music and the evergreen story Introduction in cians of soloist calibre from twenty countries. Leif Ove Andsnes conductor and soloist Norwegian by marks the end of eight years as musi- of Cinderella. Festival card: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Rolf Gupta in the cal director and principal conductor 30% discount An newspaper wrote of last year’s Bergen Grieghallen foyer of the KSO. Festival pass: International Festival concert, where they played at 18:45 free if capacity The Norwegian Radio Symphony to a full house: ‘They play together as though .188201971/ Concerto for String Orchestra in D major, ‘Basel’ Orchestra (KORK) driven by one shared perception of the work on Rolf Gupta conductor .177001827/ Miguel Harth-Bedoya conductor the programme. The texture is a joy to listen to, no. 2 in B flat major, op. 19 Marianna Shirinyan piano Annar Follesø violin the tone is rich and warm and the communication IGOR STRAVINSKY .188201971/ Kristiansand Symfoniorkester Octet for Wind Instruments Wolfgang Plagge presenter with Andsnes almost telepathic.’ LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN .177001827/ Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, op. 58 ØRJAN MATRE .19790/ The recording released in autumn 2012 was JIMMY LÓPEZ .19780/ Resurgence reviewed as ‘shatteringly good’, ‘unusual pianistic América Salvaje, Symphonic Poem .184301907/ Supported by The Kristian Gerhard OLE BULL .181001880/ Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 mastery’ and ‘a brilliant release’. Norway’s Mountains, premiere of comple- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN .177001827/ Jebsen Foundation tion (2013) by Wolfgang Plagge Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, op. 55, Eroica ‘Beethoven was committed to the belief that SERGEI PROKOFIEV .189101953/ music could change the world, that music is Excerpts from Cinderella, ballet music, op. 87 (1940–44) truth,’ says Leif Ove Andsnes, who dared not start working seriously on Beethoven until he was forty.

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DATE-TIME a chorus of over 200 perform Britten’s We have been a part of the thriving Wednesday 5 June grandiose protest against war. at 18:00 cultural events in Bergen for many War Requiem is a monumental experience. DURATION 1:25 On stage there are three soloists, two orches- years, and we are delighted to be tras, two choirs and a full-size organ. Behind TICKETS it lies the personal involvement of the pacifist the host for the artists and guests Standard: 190/290/370/ and horrifying stories of the from Bergen International Festival. 420/470 destruction of war. Under 30, child: 150 Andrew Litton conductor The work was commissioned for the recon- Halldis Rønning conductor Festival card: Emily Magee soprano The hotel is situated in 30% discount secration of Coventry Cathedral, which Festival pass: was rebuilt after much of the 14th century John Mark Ainsley tenor the heart of Bergen, and is free if capacity structure was destroyed in a World War II air Florian Boesch baritone raid. Britten himself lost close friends and Håkon Matti Skrede choirmaster the obvious choice for anyone wanted to warn future generations against Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra going to war. The work was very well received, Chamber Orchestra who needs conference Introduction in Collegium Musicum Choir Norwegian in the and over 200,000 copies of the recording were facilities, accommodation Grieghallen foyer sold. It has acquired the status of a classic, and Bergen Philharmonic Choir by Erik Lodén is still as powerful and relevant as it was in 1962. KorVest or a delicious meal during at 17:15 Bergen Boys’ Choir War Requiem is based on the Latin mass for the Solihull School Boys’ Choir Bergen International festival. dead and poems by Wilfred Owen, the British Oliver M. Walker leader Solihull boys’ choir poet who was shot in World War I. Britten hoped he had written a work to inspire reflection. The Hotel Norge- a proud BENJAMIN BRITTEN .191301976/ score quotes Owen: War Requiem op. 66

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Individual Concert Five promising musicians com- tries, and the foremost symphony concerts package pete for the title of the greatest in each country has The Norwegian Nordic solo talent. nominated a candidate. Each musi- TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN The Norwegian Soloist Prize, which cian gives a concert at Troldhau- & HÅKONS0 gen, in Troldsalen. Eventually all DATE-TIME HALLEN is awarded to a particularly talented of them congregate for the final in See information Soloist Prize musician, has been presented at CANDIDATE 5 under individual TICKETS the Bergen International Festival Håkonshallen. The prize, 100,000 soloists All individual NOK, is donated by Bernt Fossum. concerts and the since 2004. This year the competi- DURATION final: 590 tion is open to all Nordic coun- Johannes 1:00 / concert Piirto TICKETS Standard: 250 Under 30/child: 150 TROLDSALEN Tickets include transportation. DATE-TIME Sunday 26 May at 13.00 For information on bus transport CANDIDATE 2 CANDIDATE 4 Johannes Piirto (1993) trained to and from Trold- ICELAND in piano and composition at the haugen please see Sibelius Academy. He has received page 66 CANDIDATE 1 CANDIDATE 3 NORWAY Johann Mathias the Pro Music Stipend twice, and has Festival card: appeared as a soloist with the Finland 30% discount Nardeau Kjøller Festival pass: Miriam Ellen Radio Symphony Orchestra. He per- free if capacity forms works by Beethoven, Schumann TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN Helms Ålien Nisbeth and Sibelius, and additionally his own Final DATE-TIME DATE-TIME composition Virta, which he first TROLDSALEN Friday 24 May at 13:00 TROLDSALEN Saturday 25 May at 16:00 performed at the inauguration of the HÅKONS0 Music Centre in Helsiniki in 2011. HALLEN DATE-TIME Johann Nardeau (1987) is train- DATE-TIME Mathias Kjøller (1985) received Thursday 23 May at 13.00 ing at the Paris Conservatoire, where Saturday 25 May at 13:00 his training at the Royal Danish DATE-TIME he is due to receive his masters Conservatoire. In 2011 he was Johannes Piirto piano Sunday 26 May Miriam Helms Ålien (1991) from Alta Ellen Nisbeth (1987) is regarded as at 19:00 degree in 2013. He is a prizewinner appointed second solo clarinettist has played the violin since she was one of the most promising young at the international trumpet competi- in the Danish National Symphony DURATION six years old. She has won first prize violists today. She recently became tions in Budapest and Moscow, and Orchestra. He is a recipient of the 2:15 in the Music Competition for Youth ‘Soloist of the Year’ after winning the has performed at the Paris Opera Sonning Music Stipend and the Victor (EMM) four times, the international 2012 Swedish Soloist Prize. As a solo- TICKETS and with the Iceland Symphony Borge Prize. His programme is varied, Standard: 290 Kocian Competition in the Czech ist Ellen has appeared with several Orchestra. His programme is varied, including music by Brahms, Debussy, Final Under 30/child: 150 Republic in 2007 and Princess of the major Nordic orchestras. Ellen ranging from the Baroque composer von Weber and the Norwegian con- Astrid’s Music Prize in 2012. Next has a great interest in chamber Georg Philipp Telemann to the temporary composer Ørjan Matre. HÅKONSHALLEN The Jury to Bach her favourite composers music and has played in many of the Norwegian contemporary composer are Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms most important festivals, including DATE-TIME Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen. Sunday 26 May at 19.00 Anders Beyer, Denmark and Shostakovich. At the concert the Risør Chamber Music Festival, Mathias Kjøller clarinet (Chief Executive & Artistic Director, she plays works by Leos Janacek, and Bergen International Festival. Simon Crawford-Phillips piano The five candidates for the Norwegian Bergen International Festival) Béla Bartók, Anton Dvorak, Moritz Johann Nardeau trumpet She recently graduated from the Soloist Prize meet in Håkonshallen, Hermann Stefansson, Iceland Moszkowski, Edvard Grieg and Gisle Jan Kingdom piano Norwegian Academy and held her followed by the announcement of (principal clarinettist, Royal Kverndokk. soloist diploma concert with the the winner and awarding of the prize. Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra) Norwegian Radio Orchestra in March. , Norway, (trumpeter) Miriam Helms Ålien violin The Norwegian Soloist Prize is Camilla Lundberg, Sweden Gunnar Flagstad piano Ellen Nisbeth viola supported by Bernt Fossum and the (Head of Music at Sveriges Ginzalo Moreno piano Nordic Culture Fund. Television)

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A musical journey filled with sunshine Trondheim L’Arpegg iata and poetry. This is how the ensemble L’Arpeggiata Soloists and describes its most recent project, Mediterraneo. They invite us to join them on a cruise from Hemsing Portugal to Turkey along the coasts of Tunisia, Italy and Greece to the cradle of our civilisation. The musicians promise you a whi! of sea breeze and the feel of sand between your toes while you enjoy the sound of traditional instruments from the Mediterranean.

HÅKONS, Hear the world premiere of Sprang by HÅKONS, HALLEN Lasse Thoresen performed by Grammy HALLEN L’Arpeggiata consists of some of the best DATE-TIME nominees the and DATE-TIME baroque musicians in Europe, led by Christina Thursday 23 May the Hemsing sisters. Friday 24 May Pluhar. The ensemble rose quickly to at 19:30 at 19:30 international fame thanks to its innovative

DURATION With six Grammy nominations in four years DURATION interpretations of baroque classics. It has 1:45 including the chamber ensemble Trondheim Soloists has 1:25 been described both as a troupe of musical interval attained international acclaim for its quality, jesters and as upbeat baroque musicians. ‘An ensemble with a unique and TICKETS TICKETS originality and youthful energy. Standard: 390 The atmosphere they create at their concerts Standard: 390 delicious accent.’ Under 30, child: 150 is magical. With finely tuned tone, driving Under 30, child: 150 The ensemble was originally formed to provide – BBC rhythm and expressive singing it swings like concert training for young string players, but Festival card: Festival card: 30% discount nothing else. made its mark on the international concert 30% discount The Trondheim Soloists Festival pass: Festival pass: scene with performances in Europe and tours free if capacity Øyvind Gimse artistic director free if capacity in the USA, Japan and Brazil. Now professional, Christina Pluhar theorbo and conductor Ragnhild Hemsing violin Introduction in the Trondheim Soloists have also received the Vincenzo Capezzuto vocal Introduction Eldbjørg Hemsing violin Norwegian by in Norwegian Norwegian Grammy Award Spellemannsprisen Gunnar Danbolt Raquel Andueza vocal Gjermund Larsen violin by Morten Eide on two occasions. The ensemble, known for at 18:45 Aikaterini Papadopoulou vocal Pedersen at 18:45 Einar Olav Larsen violin its versatility, is as comfortable with baroque Margit Übellacker psaltery and romantic works as with tango, , rock Marcello Vitale chitarra battente or contemporary music. Collaborators include EDVARD GRIEG .184301907/ Doron David Sherwin cornett Holberg Suite, op. 40 Boris Schmidt double bass Katzenjammer, Knut Reiersrud, Susanne LASSE THORESEN .19490/ Sundfør, Leif Ove Andsnes, , Arve Sprang (Leap, world premiere) David Mayoral percussion Tellefsen and Anne-Sophie Mutter. GEIRR TVEITT .190801981/ Francesco Turrisi harpsichord From a Travel Diary Sokratis Sinopoulos Greek lyre GJERMUND LARSEN The Trondheim Soloists’ over twenty recordings Osa Suite Nikolaos Mermigkas Greek lavta include all of Edvard Grieg’s compositions for strings, and the ensemble has commissioned Supported by Institut français, Oslo and premiered several works. In Håkonshallen Sponsored by Statoil they will give the world premiere of Sprang by Lasse Thoresen, 2010 Nordic Council Music Prize winner, with sisters Eldbjørg and Ragnhild Hemsing as violin soloists.

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Lukas Hagen violin Andreas Scholl countertenor Rainer Schmidt violin Tamar Halperin piano Veronika Hagen viola

Clemens Hagen WORKS OF JOSEPH HAYDN .173201809/ FRANZ SCHUBERT .179701828/ JOHANNES BRAHMS .183301897/ LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN .177001827/ .175601791/ String Quartet no. 3 in D major, op. 18 String Quartet no. 5 in A major, op. 18 String Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131

Hagen Quartet

HÅKONS, Virtuoso family concern interprets In 2013 the quartet is concentrating on HÅKONS, HALLEN HALLEN childhood, when his father conducted the local Beethoven. Beethoven, performing his string quartets in Andreas choir singing works by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert DATE-TIME major musical centres around the world: Vienna, DATE-TIME and Brahms. Saturday 25 May The Hagen Quartet is considered one of the Salzburg, Paris, London, New York and Tokyo Monday 27 May at 19.30 world’s foremost string quartets. In the course at 19.30 Scholl – and Bergen. ‘I learned many of the Brahms songs as a child, of 30 years and more than 40 recordings DURATION DURATION in simplified choral arrangements, and it was a 2:00 including they have covered the rich repertoire for the ‘The richness of colours and emotions 1:40 including pleasure to renew my acquaintance with them interval ensemble, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to is spellbinding’ interval Wanderer after so many years,’ says Andreas Scholl. TICKETS György Kurtág and Georg Friedrich Haas. – FonoForum, Tyskland TICKETS Standard: 390 Standard: 390 Critical response to the result is extremely Under 30, child: 150 Founded in Salzburg in 1981 by four siblings, ‘Their performance was filled with subtlety Under 30, child: 150 positive: ‘Wanderer gives the listener abundant today’s quartet has had the same members and wonder…the playing was breathtaking Festival card: Festival card: pleasure’ wrote the Times, while Classic FM since 1987. This long-standing collaboration in its precision, dynamism and agility … 30% discount 30% discount named it Album of the Week: ‘Andreas Scholl Festival pass: has given the ensemble a uniquely high level a thrilling encounter’ Festival pass: Enjoy German Romantic songs person- is a real joy to listen to. Scholl’s performance free if capacity of intuitive interaction, though its vital curiosity – The Independent free if capacity ally interpreted by the unique counter- is sublime and coupled with the pianist Tamar and brightness has not tarnished over the years. tenor Andreas Scholl. Introduction Introduction Halperin you shouldn’t hesitate to rush out and in Norwegian As recently as in 2011 the Hagen Quartet won in Norwegian Supported by Bernt Fossum Accompanied by his wife Tamar Halperin, he buy this.’ by Morten Eide the prestigious German award by Morten Eide Pedersen at 18:45 Pedersen at 18:45 sings a selection from his latest recording. ‘My for Ensemble of the Year. voice is an instrument I use to paint sounds The award-winning counter-tenor and his regu- and colours, always in the service of music and lar pianist, Tamar Halperin, are in great demand storytelling,’ says Andreas Scholl. throughout Europe and North America. On his last visit to the Bergen International Festival In his most recent recording, Wanderer, he in 2011, enthralled audiences elicited several delves deep into repertoire familiar from his encores.

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HÅKONS, HÅKONS, HALLEN Freiburg Freiburg Baroque Orchestra HALLEN Kreutzer Petra Müllejans violin DATE-TIME DATE-TIME Tuesday 28 May Gottfried Von Der Goltz violin Friday 31 May Baroque at 19.30 Quartet at 19:30 Anne Katharina Schreiber violin

DURATION DURATION Orchestra 1:45 including 1:45 ANTONIO VIVALDI .167801741/ Overture RV 725 ‘L’Olimpiade’ interval TICKETS JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH .168501750/ Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull in Standard: 390 Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 TICKETS modern company. Under 30, child: 150 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043 Standard: 350 ANTONIO VIVALDI .167801741/ Under 30, child: 150 Festival card: Sinfonia for Strings and Continuo in A major RV 158 Based on Grieg’s unfinished quintet, 30% discount JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH .168501750/ Festival card: the British composer Michael Finnissy 30% discount Festival pass: Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042 has created two versions of the work. free if capacity Concerto for Three Violins in D major BWV 1064R Festival pass: free if capacity Grieg wrote three movements, and European Introduction in in one of the versions Finnissy has Introduction by Norwegian by completed the work as he believes Gunnar Danbolt Michael Finnissy Guitar at 18:45 One of the great names in early at 18:45 Grieg himself would have done. ‘I like music visits Bergen for the first time, to build bridges to reference points bringing brand new interpretations of with which audiences hopefully can Quartet Vivaldi and Bach. identify in one way or another’, says Finnissy. ‘To brighten up the world of Baroque music with new sounds’ was Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s The British-based Kreutzer Quartet HÅKONS, Seeks to create the ultimate manifesto when it was formed in 1987. Since collaborates closely with compos- HALLEN concert experience. then their revived ancient music has resounded ers and is responsible for numerous DATE-TIME in some of the world’s greatest concert halls. critically acclaimed recordings. With Saturday 1 June The European Guitar Quartet have all of its members soloists in their at 20:00 compiled a rich programme consist- FBO is considered to be at the forefront of own right, the quartet has attracted DURATION ing of familiar classical guitar works early music orchestras. Their aim is to perform attention with its performances in art 1:30 alongside improvised works and every work as though the ink on the manuscript galleries, including the Tate, and at pieces inspired by folk music. They paper was still drying, on instruments built in TICKETS major European festivals. Standard: 350 also present newly-written works. All the same way as in the Baroque era. The music Under 30, child: 150 four members are in demand as solo- should resemble as closely as possible the way ists. Steeped in the classical-romantic Kreutzer Quartet Festival card: it sounded when it was new. Determination to tradition, they are also known for Peter Sheppard Skærved violin 30% discount present the music as contemporary has gained Festival pass: innovative and entertaining crossover Mihailo Trandafilovski violin the orchestra a wide audience. free if capacity projects. The programme includes Morgan Go2 viola works by Piazolla, Dirks and Mangoré. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra has participated Neil Heyde cello in over 30 recordings, has received several of Roderick Chadwick piano the most prestigious classical music awards Pavel Steidl (CZ) guitar

and has toured extensively in Europe, Asia and BÉLA BARTÓK .188101945/ Thomas Fellow (DE) guitar the USA. String Quartet no. 3 in C sharp major Sz. 85, BB 93 Zoran Dukic (CRO) guitar MICHAEL FINNISSY .19460/ Reentko (DE) guitar The orchestra now invites you to join them in a Grieg Quintettsatz Sæterjentens fridag Tino Andersen concert host journey in time within the walls of Håkonshallen EDVARD GRIEG .184301907/ back to the golden era of the Baroque. Piano Quintet B flat major, EG 118 (completed by Michael Finnissy)

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART .175601791/ Truls Mørk Mørk, Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 22 in A major, K. 305 FELIX MENDELSSOHN .180901847/ Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major (1838) & Christian Ihle Frang & JOHANNES BRAHMS .183301897/ Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 2 in A major, op. 100 MAURICE RAVEL .187501937/ Hadland Hadland Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major

HÅKONS, TICKETS HALLEN Standard: 390 Vilde Frang Under 30, child: 150 DATE-TIME Tuesday 4 June Festival card: 30% discount & Michail at 20:00 Festival pass: free if capacity DURATION Introduction in Norwegian by Lifits 1:00 including Erling Dahl Jr. at 18:45 interval

A wide variety of chamber music. Look forward to this meeting of musical masters! HÅKONS, Immediately prior to Truls Mørk’s concerts HALLEN at the Bergen International Festival last year, ‘Truls has been my hero from the very first

DATE-TIME Christian Ihle Hadland stepped in as his note!’ said Vilde Frang in an interview. Joined by Sunday 2 June accompanist, and their performance together Christian Ihle Hadland, they constitute Norway’s at 19:30 enthralled audiences and critics alike. This foremost trio. All three have received interna- HÅKONS, Fresh and disturbing, demanding and to Bergen with pianist Michail Lifits. Their long- HALLEN sparkling encounter begged for more of the tional recognition for their characteristic tone daring, warm and intimate – this year’s term collaboration is evident in their music. DURATION 2:00 including same, so this year they have compiled a concert and intensity and have gained numerous solo DATE-TIME concert experience with Vilde Frang interval programme to display the extent of their skills. awards. Truls Mørk, the senior member of the Monday 3 June spans a great range of music. ‘Classical music is a journey, at 19:30 and I am a total addict.’ TICKETS Bach’s Sonata in D is a virtuoso work for both trio, even has a Grammy. Vilde Frang has long been in great demand – Vilde Frang Standard: 390 instruments, and Debussy’s Sonata embod- DURATION Under 30, child: 150 The three of them have however performed 2:00 including as one of the best violinists of her generation. ies a broad range of expression: in the last together on only one previous occasion, in interval On hearing her perform at the age of 15 at the Festival card: movement alone there are 17 di!erent tempo Vilde Frang violin Gstaad in Switzerland last year. For this special Bergen International Festival, Anne-Sophie 30% discount markings. They have also included works by TICKETS Michail Lifits piano Festival pass: occasion in Håkonshallen they have selected Standard: 390 Mutter encouraged her to move to Germany to the Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi free if capacity a handful of favourites to showcase individual Under 30, child: 150 develop her musicianship. The Times wrote of and the Belgian César Franck. technical brilliance and sensitive and energetic her most recent recording: ‘Adroit, impassioned, Introduction in Festival card: Norwegian by ensemble playing. 30% discount never shallow, Frang is the real thing’, and here Erling Dahl Jr. Truls Mørk cello Festival pass: in Norway she has captivated audiences and at 18:45 free if capacity Christian Ihle Hadland piano critics alike with her superb technique, intensity Truls Mørk cello Introduction in and personal interpretations. After an extensive JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH .168501750/ Vilde Frang violin Norwegian by tour in the USA in early 2013 followed by con- Cecilie Løveid Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord no. 2 Christian Ihle Hadland piano at 18.45 certs in Germany and Switzerland, she comes in D major, BWV 1028. ERNST VON DOHNANYI .187701960/ Cello Sonata in B flat major, op. 8 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN .177001827/ .186201918/ Piano Trio no. 5 in D major, op. 70 no. 1, ‘Ghost Trio’ Sonata for Cello and Piano nr. 1 in D minor, L 135 MAURICE RAVEL .187501937/ CECAR FRANCK .182201890/ Piano Trio in A minor Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major, ANTON DVORAK .184101904/ (arr. of Violin Sonata by Jules Delsart). Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor, op. 65

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BERGEN CATHEDRAL .DOMKIRKEN/ Sun Dogs DATE-TIME Saturday 25 May– and Stars Tuesday 4 June at 23:00 with Bergen DURATION approx. 0:45 Duos JOHANNESKIRKEN Domkor .ST. JOHN’S CHURCH/ TICKETS Standard: 90 (Bergen Cathedral at Dusk DATE-TIME 27–29 May at 21:00 Festival pass: Choir) free if capacity DURATION 1:00

TICKETS Standard: 190 BERGEN CATHEDRAL TICKETS Under 30, child: 150 .DOMKIRKEN/ Standard: 190 All three Hvoslef’s Under 30, child: 150 concerts: 390 DATE-TIME Friday 24 May at 22:00 Festival card: 30% discount Complete your festival evening with a Larsen & Utnem Maidre & Ermilov Festival card: Chamber Festival pass: free if capacity duo in Bergen Cathedral. Saturday 25 May Friday 31 May 30% discount DURATION Festival pass: 1:00 at 23:00 at 23:00 Music free if capacity Most evenings during the Bergen International Festival can be rounded o! with a tranquil Spissky & Spissky Askeland & The intensity of the moment. Javanese gongs, six-part glasses acoustic concert in Bergen Cathedral – Sunday 26 May Bromander and heaven-gazingly beautiful choral (1939–) from Bergen is one of Domkirken. at 23:00 Saturday 1 June music. Norway’s foremost contemporary composers. at 23:00 ‘In this series the format is “duo” – not a solo His music is distinguished by its clarity, dis- This is a unique concert in several respects. Seim & Haltli form but soloistic even so. A duo is rarely cipline, rhythmical drive and a characteristic Two composers are presented in three works, Monday 27 May Drage & Kates referred to as an ensemble, but is nevertheless ability to hold interest in the intensity of the all performed for the first time in Norway. at 23:00 Sunday 2 June an ensemble in its most intimate form,’ says moment. Central amongst his works are his Sofia Gubaidulina from Russia is one of the at 23:00 the curator of the series, cathedral precentor compositions for chamber ensemble – for two to great names in contemporary music. Jetzt Apeland & Økland Kjetil Almenning. thirteen musicians – in which he demonstrates immer Schnee is powerful and exquisite, with Tuesday 28 May Lien & Tallroth his attraction to somewhat unusual combina- uncommon instrumentation, in which gongs at 23:00 Monday 3 June With musicians covering a broad spectrum – tions of instruments. and timpani combine with strings and voices. at 23:00 both artistically and instrumentally – there will The same may be said of Stars by the Latvian Aagre & Ulvo be plenty of variety except in the number of Instrumentalists and singers associated with the composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, written for six-part Wednesday 29 May Olsen & Chassain performers. Another common denominator is Grieg Academy and the Bergen Philharmonic choir and six glasses. acoustic performances. at 23:00 Tuesday 4 June Orchestra will over the coming years record at 23:00 Hvoslef’s complete chamber works, 37 in num- ‘It is acoustic sound sources which suit the Hilmen & Hagen ber. In that connection the Bergen International Bergen Cathedral Choir (Bergen Domkor) cathedral’s fantastic acoustics best,’ says Thursday 30 May Festival presents a series of concerts of Ketil Kjetil Almenning conductor Almenning. at 23:00 Hvoslef’s chamber music. ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS .19770/ The cathedral’s Rieger organ also plays a central Stars (2011), Text: Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) part in some of the concerts, filling the church In cooperation with Grieg Academy Institute SOFIA GUBAIDULINA .19310/ with its variety of tone-colours. of Music at the . Jetzt immer Schnee (1993) Text: Gennadi Aigi ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS .19770/ Sun Dogs (2008)

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Annar Follesø Grieg’s Experience the & Wolfgang atmosphere of Grieg’s Plagge sitting room villa GRIEG’S VILLA

DATE-TIME Friday 31 May at 22:30

DURATION Peter 1:00 Håvard Gimse Sheppard Annar Follesø and Wolfgang Plagge Skærved & have performed individually and as GRIEG’S VILLA a duo in all the composers’ homes Roderick at the Bergen International Festival DATE-TIME Chadwick 24 and 25 May except for Grieg’s Villa. They have at 22:30 now compiled a virtuoso repertoire

DURATION suited to . In addition to GRIEG’S VILLA 1:00 music by Grieg, they perform com- GRIEG’S VILLA ‘No opus has filled me with greater positions by von Weber, Bartók and DATE-TIME pleasure,’ said Edvard Grieg of the Håvard Gimse is one of Norway’s Saturday 1 June TICKETS Ginastera. Like Grieg all three were at 22:30 Standard with villa at Troldhaugen. His Stein- foremost pianists. He has performed inspired by folk music from their own transportation: 490 way grand from 1892 has a unique at the Bergen International Festival and other countries. DURATION Under 30, child: 150 warmth and softness of tone, and every year since 1986, including 1:00 the acoustics are superb. Concert an appearance as soloist in Grieg’s Tickets include Peter Sheppard Skærved is one transportation, tickets for Grieg’s Villa include free A minor Concerto in 1996. For the Annar Follesø violin of Britain’s foremost violinists and see page 66 entry to the museum and villa be- concerts in Grieg’s Villa he has Wolfang Plagge piano has a particularly broad repertoire. fore or after the concert. compiled a programme of works by Festival card: During the 2013 Bergen International 30% discount Tveitt, Debussy and Grieg. It includes Festival he may be heard on several Festival pass: Morild, a work by Geirr Tveitt recently free if capacity occasions, including this concert reconstructed from a recording. The with pianist Roderick Chadwick. He original manuscript was lost when is undaunted in his will and ability Tveitt’s house burned to the ground to unearth out unknown works by in 1970. deceased composers, such as Ole Bull. This evening’s concert in Grieg’s Håvard Gimse piano Villa presents some of Skærved’s dis- coveries alongside works by Brahms, Delius, Liszt and several contempo- rary composers.

Peter Sheppard Skærved violin Roderick Chadwick piano

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Music in The homes of a rural idyll Ole Bull Lysøen Valestrand Susanne Lundeng & Gjertrud Økland Gunilla VALESTRAND DATE-TIME Süssmann & Sunday 2 June Tanja Tetzla2 13:00 and 15:00 When Susanne Lundeng and Gjertrud

Ole Bull’s summer villa on the islet of LYSØEN Ole Bull’s villa at Valestrand on the Birgitte Økland meet at Ole Bull’s home in Lysøen resembles a fairy-tale castle, & Håvard inland island of Osterøy was com- Valestrand, it will be the first time the DATE-TIME Stærnes & two superb violinists perform togeth- with its onion-domed tower and Saturday 1 June and Sunday 2 June pleted in 1869. Known as Bullahuset, elaborate ornamentation. The com- Gimse 11:30 and 14:30 it was an important cultural meeting- Helge Kjekshus er. Susanne Lundeng’s background is bination of the boat trip to Lysøen place in Bull’s lifetime. Every year the in the folk music of Northern Norway, and the concert in the unique sitting- LYSØEN Gunilla Süssmann and Tanja Tetzla! Bergen International Festival follows VALESTRAND while Gjertrud Økland is the leader of are both pre-eminent soloists with Gjertrud’s Gypsy Orchestra. Together room is for many people a treasured DATE-TIME up the tradition with concerts in its international reputations in their own DATE-TIME they deliver fresh versions of music tradition. Saturday 25 May and Sunday 26 May beautiful surroundings. Sunday 26 May 11:30 and 14:30 right. They have collaborated as a 13:00 and 15:00 by Chopin, Bull and others. TICKETS duo since 2000. In this concert they TICKETS Standard with transportation: 590 Standard with transportation: 350 Ole Bull in Words and Music. perform three great sonatas by three Birgitte Stærnes, violin, and Helge Under 30, child: 150 Under 30, child: 150 Susanne Lundeng fiddle great composers: Grieg, Debussy and Kjekshus, piano, recently released a The Ole Bull concerts with Arve Gjertrud Økland fiddle Tickets include transportation, Brahms. They open the concert with Tickets include transportation, CD with hitherto unrecorded music by see page 66 Tellefsen and Håvard Gimse see page 66 Pål Thorstensen double bass Ole Bull’s A Mountain Vision. Johan Halvorsen. The album received have become a popular Bergen Tom Karlsrud accordion Festival card: 30% discount Festival card: 30% discount great critical acclaim, and audiences International Festival tradition. Arve Festival pass: free if capacity Festival pass: free if capacity in Bullahuset will hear excerpts from Tellefsen has been referred to as a Tanja Tetzla2 cello the recording, in addition to works by modern-day Ole Bull, both as a per- Gunilla Süssmann piano Bull, Sinding and Debussy. former and a presenter of the Ole Bull legacy. Birgitte Stærnes violin Helge Kjekshus piano Arve Tellefsen violin Håvard Gimse piano

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Toke Møldrup & Great acoustics for Juilliard Yaron Kohlberg small formats & NMH Valdemar Sasha TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN DATE-TIME Villadsen & Grynyuk Sunday 2 June DATE-TIME at 13:00 Jakob Chris- TROLDSALEN Saturday 1 June at 13:00 A passionate duo in perfect tian Lorentzen DATE-TIME co-ordination. Friday 31 May Diploma students in world TROLDSALEN at 13.00 class collaboration. The duo Toke Møldrup and Yaron Kohlberg has been highly praised ever DATE-TIME Hear the winner of the Edvard since their collaboration started in Thursday 30 May Grieg International Piano In this concert you can experience at 13.00 2007. Their recently released record- Competition. collaboration between diploma stu- ing Passionate, which includes music DURATION dents from the Norwegian National by Stravinsky, Shostakovich and 1:10 The Edvard Grieg International Piano Music Academy and from New Ginastera, has gained critical acclaim Competition took place for the 13th time York’s renowned Juilliard School. Beautiful songs from a variety for the temperament and nerve typi- in 2012, but for the first time in Grieg’s The six students perform works by of eras. cal of their performances. In autumn own city, Bergen. The winner was the Mozart, Grieg, Ravel and others. young Ukrainian Sasha Grynyuk, who 2012 they played Beethoven’s complete The countertenor Valdemar Villadsen won the acclaim of the jury in competi- works for cello and piano in the Tivoli graduated recently from the soloist tion with 24 of the world’s best pianists Siwoo Kim violin Concert Hall in . class at the Royal Danish Academy of under 32 years old. With first places in Naomi Kudo piano Music. He has appeared as a soloist Toke Møldrup is one of the most more than ten international contests, Lionel Cottet cello in numerous concerts and oratorios, dynamic cellists from the Nordic coun- he was chosen as the ‘Rising Star’ of Maria Carlsen violin including Handel’s Messiah with tries. While solidly grounded in classical BBC Music Magazine and International Ellen Nisbeth viola Bergen Oratorio Choir in 2012. He cello repertoire, he is a regular member TROLDSALEN Troldsalen, set next to the villa at Troldhaugen Piano Magazine. Ole Christian Gullikstad and overlooking Edvard Grieg’s composing hut, is accompanied by Jakob Christian Haagenrud piano of Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, TICKETS Lorentzen, organist and precentor where he follows his interest in con- Standard with is known for its ideal acoustics for chamber Born in Kiev, he trained at the Ukrainian transportation: 250 music. It opened in 1985 and was fully reno- at Holmen Church and Christianborg Music Academy and followed further temporary music. Yaron Kohlberg, In cooperation with the Norwegian Under 30, child: 150 vated in 2012. Palace Chapel in Copenhagen. Their studies at the Guildhall School of Music born in Israel in 1983, has gained several National Music Academy and concert programme spans several and Drama in London. Charles Rosen prestigious awards and performed as a Tickets include Juilliard School of Music. transportation, centuries, including works by Purcell, described him as ‘an impressive artist soloist in a wide variety of ensembles. see page 66 Handel, Grieg and Britten. with remarkable, unfailing musicality, Festival card: always moving with the most natural, Toke Møldrup cello 30% discount Valdemar Villadsen countertenor electrifying and satisfying interpreta- Yaron Kohlberg piano Festival pass: tions’. Seize this opportunity to hear free if capacity Jakob Christian Lorentzen piano him perform works by Bach, Mozart, Gershwin, Pärt and others. Supported by the Danish Art Council.

Sasha Grynyuk piano

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Drop In Grieg Academy (Stikk innom) Selection Skram vs. Kråkevik

First showing Informal concerts of Bergen, we invite you GRIEGHALLEN FOYER The Grieg Academy once again to drop in con- DNS THEATRE* with tomorrow’s TICKETS Young Talent artists certs with students and 90 DATE-TIME A serious, funny, personally revealing DATE-TIME teaching sta!. Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 June and musical performance. Herborg Saturday 1 June at 19.30 In collaboration with the These concerts present tal- at 13:00 Kråkevik enters into a dialogue with Grieg Academy, Institute ented youngsters, students Sponsored by Statoil DURATION one of Norway’s greatest authors: of Music at the University and teaching sta! from the Twelve pupils in the nation- 1:30 Amalie Skram (1846-1905). academy in full breadth. al talent development pro- TICKETS gramme Young Musicians, GRIEGHALLEN FOYER BERGEN CATHEDRAL Standard: 290/320/370 .DOMKIRKEN/ Ustvolskaya’s performing both classical Under 30, child: 150 Supported by Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber DATE-TIME Unknown Sonatas music and jazz. and Fritt Ord Thursday 23 May, Thursday DATE-TIME Festival card: 30% discount 30 May and Friday 31 May Thursday 23 May and DATE-TIME Festival pass: free if capacity at 14:00 Thursday 30 May at 12:00 Saturday 25 May The Composers are at 13:00 coming! Friday 24 May, Tuesday GUNNAR SÆVIGS SAL 28 May, Wednesday 29 May, Piano master students from DATE-TIME meet me The Seagull Monday 3 June and DATE-TIME Sunday 2 June by Anton Chekov Tuesday 4 June Monday 27 May the Grieg Academy per- at 13:00 at 12:00 and 14:00 at 12:00 and 14:00 form piano sonatas by the DNS THEATRE *

Russian composer Galina The concert includes world DATE-TIME DNS THEATRE* Ustvolskaya. premieres and re-acquain- May 25–June 8 DATE-TIME tance with previously per- Weekdays at 19.00 Saturdays at 18.00 24 May–8 June formed works. No performances on Sundays. Mon–Fri at 19:30 Saturday at 18:00 DURATION Sunday no performance 1:20 Piano Concert Master Classes Olav’s Dreams DURATION by Jon Fosse TICKETS 2:15 Standard: 290 Under 30, child: 150 TICKETS REKSTENSAMLINGENE ØSTRE* Standard: 290 Masterclass with Masterclass with Under 30, child: 150 TICKETS A new drama concerning young DATE-TIME Standard: 200 Leif Ove Christian Ihle DATE-TIME Sunday 2 June Under 30, child: 150 Andsnes Hadland Saturday 25 May at 19.00 asylum seekers living in limbo as One of the most beautiful and trans- at 14:00 they await the answers to their DURATION parent texts in literature on what it Festival card: 30% discount THE REKSTEN THE REKSTEN applications. Festival pass: free if capacity COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS 1:00 means to be alive. In this classical DURATION performance of The Seagull we TICKETS 1 :45 DATE-TIME DATE-TIME encounter people talking to one Friday 31 May Saturday 1 June Standard: 190 at 10:00 at 10:00 Under 30, child: 150 another but hardly listening to the A concert with interna- reply. tionally and nationally Masterclass and piano DURATION DURATION Fosse’s language makes room for acclaimed pianists and an concert is presented in 5:30 5:30 sonority and music, which provided association with the Jiří ensemble. TICKETS* TICKETS* the inspiration for this performance. Hlinka Piano Academy 100 100 Jon Fosse’s text is adapted for impro- visational recitation and singing over *Language: Norwegian. ’s newly composed There will be no surtitles. score.

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Opening Ceremony

Outdoors

FESTPLASSEN

DATE-TIME Wednesday 22 May at 12:30

DURATION 1:00 DIVERS, Free admission The 61st annual Bergen International Festival opens with a grand event on Festplassen. It includes teasers by festival artists, speeches and I O NS surprises.

Murmuration You are most welcome!

ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. Thanks to our Festival Ambassadors, PLAYFUL SCENES IN THE STREETS AND EVENTS AT NEW AND FAMILIAR VENUES Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber BROAD APPEAL. EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET. Outdoors You have never seen anything like it!

FESTPLASSEN 35 small illuminated helicopters lead a spectacu-

DATE-TIME lar multimedia show by Lille Lungegårdsvannet. Wednesday 22 May The glowing swarm dances to an original score Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation at 22:30 and lures us into a universe that excites all the

Thursday 23 May senses. Intense electronica beats combine with at 22:30 lur and choral song as the musicians accom- Sven Sören Beyer director, concept pany the fantastical formations in the sky. Christiane Neudecker concept, composer DURATION Christian Steinhäser composer 0:45 Boris Blenn composer Free admission German phase7 uses the latest technology in Björn Hermann lighting designer their unique outdoor shows. They promise an Ars Electronica quadrocopters experience you will not forget!

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GRIEGHALLEN Colourshow DATE-TIME Monday 27 May Igudesman

THE FOYER 18:00 A taste of the world Fargefest & Joo

GRIEGSALEN 19:00 Musical gems and sensations from Performance around the world enter Bergen’s major concert hall. TICKETS And Now Standard: 150/190/ 230/260/290 Bergen International Festival and the per- Mozart Under 30, child: 150 formance Fargespill (Colourplay) celebrate Festival card: diversity and unity as children and youth from 30% discount around 30 di!erent nations present a perfor- GRIEGHALLEN Could 28 million YouTube fans be Festival pass: mance created especially for this occasion. GRIEGSALEN free if capacity wrong? Before the performance you are invited into DATE-TIME a rich world of tastes, flavours and cultural Saturday 1 June Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung- expressions. A number of communities gather at 19:30 ki Joo’s wild mixture of classical music and com- in the foyer to o!er exciting specialities. edy has become an Internet sensation. They DURATION 1:50 including have so much fun on stage that even stars such Fargespill is a close musical encounter with The performance is sponsored by DNB interval as , Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Billy young people’s history, who they are and where Joel and Roger Moore have asked to join in! they come from. Music and dance from their TICKETS Ole Hamre artistic director, percussion Standard: 180/250/ countries of origin unites with Norwegian music The duo does not flinch from performing I Sissel Saue artistic director 320/370/420 traditions and urban youth culture. Most of the Under 30, child: 150 Will Survive on violin and milk frother, or from Elizabeth Guinoo choreography children and youth in the performance have combining music from The Simpsons and west- Yngve Ådland guitar Festival card: arrived in Norway as refugees and asylum ern movies with works from the world’s most Øystein Fosshagen bass 30% discount seekers. The first Fargespill performance Festival pass: famous composers. For years, the classically Jaser Sayun percussion was staged at Bergen International Festival free if capacity trained musicians have laughed along with (and Jovan Pavlovic accordion in 2004. Since then the project has spread to not at) music. Harald Dahlstrøm keyboards other parts of the country. This year’s Fargefest Kåre Ivar Skjørestad lighting designer (Colorshow) also includes artists from these And now it is Mozart’s turn. Maybe. Jan Henrik Vindenes sound designer “satellite performances”. Frøydis Moberg project coordinator Igudesman & Joo are not really sure whether Fargefest shows the opportunities that open Britt Koldal scenographer, stage manager there will be a lot of Mozart in the performance up when di!erences meet! Kjersti Berge producer And Now Mozart. Nevertheless, you will get to Ingebjørg Nyhammer project manager, hear what really goes on in the head of a musi- A taste of the world cian, and experience a lot of music mixed with Marina-Johanne Sæthre coordinator other music.

THE FOYER IN GRIEGHALLEN Conversation The duo promises a show in the spirit of the

DATE-TIME Colourshow composer, if not musically speaking. As they Monday May 27 put it themselves: ‘Mozart was fun and crazy Aleksey Igudesman violin at 20.20 – 5 years after the year of Including: Shabana Rehman, Olemic and is one of our kindred spirits. We like Hyung-Ki Joo piano cultural diversity Thommessen, Ole Hamre and others. Philipp Treiber sound technician Free admission music. A lot. We hope that you do too – even after And Now Mozart.’ Florian Petermann producer

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Late Night Late Night Marius Neset Logen Logen Piazzolla Septet LOGEN TEATER

DATE-TIME Sunday 26 May Variety at 22:00 Voksne Herrers LOGEN TEATER DURATION DURATION 1:30 1:25 Orkester DATE-TIME Tuesday 28 May TICKETS* TICKETS The atmosphere of at 22:00 Standard: 250 Standard: 250 Under 30, child: 150 Under 30, child: 150 an Argentiniannightclub LOGEN TEATER DURATION Festival card: 2:00 The return of one of 30% discount DATE-TIME the great names in Festival pass: Passionate tango melodies and seduc- Monday 27 May TICKETS* jazz. free if capacity tive dance evoke the back alleys of at 22:00 150 Buenos Aires. In a few years, Marius Seeing Neset play on home Neset from Os outside ground with a tight and Tango class The Piazzolla Orchestra from Denmark visits Highly popular Bergen has established eager ensemble could be Bergen International Festival with a programme LOGEN TEATER Supported by the Embassy of Argentina Monday club – now himself as a saxophonist quite a feast. filled with the refined tangoes of Astor Piazzolla. and the Danish Arts Council. in extended festival of international stature. DATE-TIME Singer Andrea Pellegrini and tango dancers Sunday 26 May edition. His 2011 album Golden at 15:00 Linus Aabye and Ingrid Schmit join them on Xplosion received rave Marius Neset saxo- stage. Monday nights with audience can experience reviews, including five out phones DURATION Voksne Herrers Orkester at the following Late Night of five stars in newspapers Ivo Neame piano 1:30 Together they evoke the atmosphere of an has become a Bergen insti- concerts. such as The Guardian and Jim Hart vibraphone Argentinian nightclub and invite the audience to TICKETS tution. During the course The Irish Times. Ingrid Neset flute Standard: 200 enter a universe filled with musical enjoyment. of 300 Mondays, these And to top it all o!: The Heine Bugge accordion Under 30, child: 150 Piazzolla was inspired by the meetings between gentlemen have shared gentlemen promise several In 2012, he composed Peter Eldh bass di!erent immigrant groups in the poor neigh- Tango class great musical commitment surprises along the way. a commission piece for Anton Eger drums and concert bourhoods of Buenos Aires in the 19th century that he per- August Wanngren sound combined: 390 and samples from their – the sense of community between Argentinian formed with Trondheim technician Festival card: 30% vast repertoire at Logen Yngve Moe bass discount milonga, Afro-American beats, Cuban-Spanish Jazzorkester. Terje Mosnes Bar. The four experienced Harald Dahlstrøm habanera and European dance culture. in Dagbladet described the instrumentalists are known keyboard * Festival card: 30% discount concert as ‘a feast of cre- Festival pass: free if capacity The same afternoon, Linus Aabye teaches a for combining a cheerful, Thomas T. Dahl guitar ative, pulsating ensemble beginners tango class at Logen Teater at 15:00. relaxed atmosphere with Steinar Krokstad drums performances and whole- high musical quality. hearted solos’. Guests Andrea Pellegrini vocal On this Monday they take Marius Neset saxophone Neset brings his own sep- Linus Aabye dancer, choreographer on the main scene of Logen Heine Bugge accordion tet to Bergen International Ingrid Schmit dancer Teater and create a special Andrea Pellegrini vocal Festival. The concert at Bjarke Mogensen accordion Late Night version of their Logen marks the end of Per Arne Ferner guitar regular event. According *Festival card: 30% discount a long release tour for Tanja Zapolski piano to tradition they bring a Festival pass: free if capacity his new album Birds in Jesper Thorn double bass number of guests, includ- Germany and , Philippe Skow violin ing samples of what the among other places.

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Late Night Gjertrud’s Logen vocal Gipsy Orchestra accordion Music for w/Susanne Lundeng trumpet Bjørn tuba Thoroddsen’s Pål Hausken drums a While Guitar Fest Ingar Hundskaar sound LOGEN TEATER DURATION 1:30 DATE-TIME Weill Monday 3 June TICKETS* at 22:00 Standard: 250 melodies LOGEN TEATER DURATION Under 30, child: 150 2:00 including interval DATE-TIME Saturday 1 June TICKETS* A fiery encounter at 22:00 Standard: 250 Under 30, child: 150 between Hungarian Gypsy rhythms and folk music from Late Night Bergen musician Tora Augestad per- Northern Norway. Logen forms famous songs with a Icelandic jazz guitar- At Logen, Northern Norwe- dream team of Norwegian jazz musi- ist and Bergen col- Gjertruds sigøynerorkester gian folk musician Susanne LOGEN TEATER cians. leagues celebrate the (Gjertrud’s Gipsy Orchestra) Lundeng joins bandleader electric guitar. DATE-TIME is a group of virtuoso musi- Gjertrud Økland. This meet- Tuesday 4 June Improvisation masters Stian Carstensen cians with a strong connec- ing between two violin mas- at 22:00 Bjørn Thoroddsen has (Farmers Market), Mathias Eick (, tion to Eastern European ters will surely increase the released a number of Bjørn Thoroddsen guitar DURATION Manu Katché), Martin Taxt (Trondheim Gypsy music from Russia, temperature at the concert critically acclaimed Tor Bjarne Bjelland drums 1:15 Jazzorkester, Koboku Senju) and Pål Hausken Romania, and Hungary in by several degrees. albums and has received Peter Sæverud bass (In the country, Susanna Wallumrød) join particular. The ensemble TICKETS Iceland’s most prestigious Thomas Valeur guitar Standard: 250 Augestad on stage in the band Music for a While. has collaborated with many music awards. He is also Mads Berven guitar Gjertrud Økland violin Under 30, child: 150 of the great Hungarian On their first album, Weill Variations, the band the host of his own live Ole Thomsen guitar Susanne Lundeng violin musicians in the genre, Festival card: performed fresh and original versions of Kurt show on TV, Thoroddsen’s Kato Ådland guitar Trond Villa viola 30% discount and Ernest Bango from Weill’s immortal music. In 2012 Tora released Guitar Fest. Internationally The Commander Georg Reiss clarinet Festival pass: Budapest is now a perma- free if capacity an album filled with her interpretations of he has worked with In Chief guitar Ernest Bango cimbalom nent member on cimbalom. classical compositions with the same backing people like Niels-Henning Tom Karlsrud accordion musicians. Both albums received great reviews. Ørsted Pedersen, Tommy Helene Waage cello * Festival card: 30% discount Eastern European Gypsy This evening at Logen promises a tailor-made Emmanuel, Kazumi Festival pass: free if capacity Pål Thorstensen double music is characterised by programme including well-known songs from Watnabe, Alex Riel, Philip bass sudden breaks – from bitter . Catherine, Didier Lockwood melancholy to breakneck and James Carter. When he rhythms. Having played * Festival card: 30% discount Tora Augestad, who has been called Norway’s visits Bergen he has invited together for 20 years, Festival pass: free if capacity cabaret queen, studied at The Norwegian a group of local guitarists to Gjertrud Sigøynerorkester Academy of Music in Oslo and The Royal select their favourite songs. fully masters these nuanc- College of Music in Stockholm. She has lived Their excellent electric es. The group is known as a in Berlin since 2007, but has also worked guitar skills are what they wild live band that displays extensively in Switzerland, including with star all have in common. a lot of humour on stage. director Christoph Marthaler.

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by Cirque Éloize

GRIEGHALLEN Enter a fantasy world that defies the DEN NATIONALE Everyone needs to go all out once in GRIEGSALEN boundaries of both eyes and ears! SCENE a while. STORE SCENE DATE-TIME Saturday 25 May With Cirkopolis, Canadian contemporary DATE-TIME Die Hard meets The O!ice in this physical at 20:00 circus company Cirque Éloize takes us on a Monday 27 May action-comedy. Four movie geeks perform their journey through a strange industrial universe at 19:30 favourite scenes from the world’s wildest action Sunday 26 May at 14:00 and 19:30 strongly influenced by comics. Dance, circus Tuesday 28 May movies, fearlessly breaking down the open-plan and theatre meet in a place where characters at 19:30 o!ice and the boundaries between performance DURATION and objects come to life through poetry and and parkour in a real macho-performance. 1:20 Wednesday 29 May original music. The 12 artists display a range at 19:30 TICKETS of advanced acrobatic skills, enough to make BLAM! is as far out as the title suggests, and Standard: 190/290/ their audience dizzy. DURATION includes exhilarating madness, infinite ingenuity 390/440/490 1:20 and bodies that are able to perform impossible Under 30, child: 150 With humour and unique symbolism, Cirkopolis TICKETS feats. Icelander Kristján Ingimarsson has assem- RECOMMENDED transports the audience to a place between Standard: bled an uninhibited group of actors, including AGES: dream and reality in a stream of acrobatic 290/340/390 contemporary circus acrobat Lars Gregersen 7 and up Under 30, child: 150 Kristján Ingimarsson director, actor, writer manoeuvres, music, images and drawings to Jeannot Painchaud artistic director and parkour artist Didier Oberlé. They present Jesper Pedersen writer Festival card: delight both eye and ear. The word éloize (pro- and co-directing Festival card: breakneck stunts and physical comedy mixed Kristian Knudsen scenography 30% discount nounced ’el-oaz’) means glimpses of lightning Dave St-Pierre choreography and co-directing 30% discount with perfectly timed sound e!ects, and lighting Festival pass: Festival pass: Hanne Mørup costume free if capacity on the horizon, and the company is famous for Robert Massicotte scenography, illustrator, free if capacity and sound design sure to delight any movie bu!. Simon K. Boberg co-director combining circus arts with music, dance and co-design of video images Lars Gregersen actor ‘… bazooka balm for the soul …’ theatre in novel and energetic ways. More than Krzysztof Soroczynski choreography of Didier Oberlé actor – Information three million spectators have seen Cirque Éloize acrobatics and talent development Joen Højerslev actor perform live so far. Liz Vandal costume design Svend Kristensen sound designer Nicolas Descôteaux lighting design Produced by Neander Theatre Peter Kyed sound designer Alexis Laurence co-design of video images Sponsored by Radisson Blu Hotel Norge Edward Lloyd Pierce lighting designer Stéfan Boucher composer and DNB Gitte Nielsen producer Jonathan St-Onge producer Søren Keiser photography and graphic design

Sponsored by Dagens Næringsliv

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LANGUAGE Norwegian

TICKETS 90 Peter and the Wolf Experience young talent RADISSON BLU HOTEL from art and music schools NORGE all over ! DATE-TIME 23 and 24 May at 11:00 and The Three 18:00 Superladies 25 May at 16:00 and 18:00 OLE BULL SCENE Body Rhythm RECOMMENDED AGES Captain Credible 6 and up DATE-TIME Factory 27 May at 18:00 OLE BULL SCENE LANGUAGE SKATEHALLEN Norwegian RECOMMENDED AGES DATE-TIME 7 and up 29 May at 18:00 DATE-TIME TICKETS 1 and 2 June at 16:30 Full price: 190, children: 90 LANGUAGE RECOMMENDED AGES Norwegian 12 and up RECOMMENDED AGES 5 and up A jazzed-up family ver- TICKETS TICKETS Full price: 150, children: 90 sion of Prokofiev’s famous Full price: 150, children: 90 TICKETS: musical adventure! Full price: 150, children: 90 A fun- and action-packed Norwegian-British Captain opera about the magical Credible conjures up a Get carried away by the power of music. complete musical blowout. amazing guys from Stomp! Grieg in Outer Space

BERGEN KJØTT Mr. Ping Youth Day Wolfgaaang!!! at Bergen DATE-TIME OLE BULL SCENE SKATEHALLEN 23–24 May and International 30–31 May at 19:00 DATE-TIME Festival DATE-TIME 25 May at 14:00 28 May at 18:00 1 and 2 June at 14:00

RECOMMENDED AGES LOGEN TEATER RECOMMENDED AGES RECOMMENDED AGES 5 and up 5 and up 3 and up DATE-TIME TICKETS Language: Norwegian 29 May at 11:00 LANGUAGE Full price: 150, children: 90 Norwegian TICKETS LANGUAGE Norwegian Full price: 130, children: 90 TICKETS A new vessel is now TICKETS Full price: 150, children: 90

ready to be launched into Percussionist Knut Lothe Free entrance Tidende Bergens Valde, Vegar Foto: outer space to retrieve brings a large box of Mozart has ants in his Grieg’s lost pieces. sounds for the concert. pants and finds it di!icult to practise.

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Water Sudden Festival Mobile Homes

Naja Lee Jensen performer, lighting designer, Outdoors Come along for a drive into the blue. producer Outdoors An interdisciplinary student group Outdoors Sudden musical performances. from the educational institutions in Lisa Hjalmarson set design BERGEN The performance Mobile Homes explores BERGEN CITY Bergen have joined forces in an art AROUND IN Bergen International Festival turns Susanne Fjørtoft set designer’s assistant CENTRE- CITY CENTRE the relationship between sound, space and project that has water as its theme. BERGEN back time to the 1700s, when there BY CAR Anthony Barrat and Andreas Oxenvad GALLERIET movement and invites one person at a time This spring they have organised a was live music in the city’s dining sound technicians DATE-TIME DATE-TIME for a drive through the streets of Bergen. DATE-TIME number of workshops and meet- 23 May – 4 June establishments and watering holes. Saturday 25 May 27–31 May You lie on a bed with an electrical stetho- ings and on May 25 will present the Young performers play mini-concerts at 11:00–16:00 NAJA LEE JENSEN .1981, DK-NO/ scope attached to your chest. The curtains results! for guests and customers all over is an Oslo-based artist and performer who works at town. Times will be announced sud- SIGN UP AT are drawn. In the course of Mobile Home’s twelve- the intersection between performing and visual art. www.fib.no/mobile denly at a place near you. minute duration, the sound and movements of A collaboration between Bergen DEPARTURES the city, the car and your own amplified heartbeat International Festival, The University 00/20/40 merge with each other. In the end, you no longer of Bergen and The Hub Bergen. In collaboration with Ole Bull know who the listener is and who is playing, what is Akademiet and The Grieg Academy. moving and what is standing still.

A co-production with BIT Teatergarasjen Thirst APAP – performing New Europe

Outdoors Two women fill tubs of water questions that may have personal The Festival and walk towards their goal – TORG, consequences at an individual level. Quarter ALLMENNINGEN a drinking glass. But the tub What lies ahead? leaks and the glass is never DATE-TIME filled. Longva + Carpenter is a collaboration Saturday 25 May Outdoors Musical samples THURSDAY 23 MAY WEDNESDAY 29 MAY at 09:00–17:00 between Norwegian Terese Longva Thirst is inspired by the global water L’Arpeggiata Frøy Ågre / and American Jay Carpenter. They TORG, Bergen International Festival is a crisis and the story of the Danaides often use the body and time as tools ALLMENNINGEN meeting place for artists of many FRIDAY 24 MAY THURSDAY 30 MAY in Greek mythology. The Danaides Hordaland teater: Sjur Hjeltnes / to explore themes such as personal genres. Every day you meet some were King Danaos’ 50 daughters who DATE-TIME Excerpts from Peter og Tor Jarand Apold desire, feminist ideology and political 23 May–3 June of them on the small stage at ulven (Peter and the Wolf) were ordered to kill their husbands pressure. at 16:15 Torgallmenningen, next to Narvesen. FRIDAY 31 MAY whom they were forced to marry. As SATURDAY 25 MAY Body Rythm Factory A perfect place to stop! punishment, they had to pour water Note! On Saturday Musicians from Piazzolla In collaboration with S12 25 May, the mini- Orchestra SATURDAY 1 JUNE into a leaking tub. concert will be held Bjørn Thoroddsen at 18:15 SUNDAY 26 MAY By recalling and repeating this pun- De tre superdamene SUNDAY 2 JUNE Terese Longva ishment the artists behind Thirst DURATION (The Three Superladies) Bergen Impro Laug Laurel Jay Carpenter 15 min show the never-ending e!ort of the MONDAY 27 MAY MONDAY 3 JUNE entire labour force in society. They Marius Neset / Heine Susanne Lundeng / also raise questions more specifi- Bugge Gjertrud Økland

cally related to women’s history and TUESDAY 28 MAY Nils Økland / Sigbjørn Apeland

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Festival Satellites Everyone who has visited the islands of Austevoll Our has been enchanted by its nature and coastal scenery. Bekkjarvik is a trading post with a Wonderful 400-year history, a buzzing small-craft harbour The Mirror and beautiful views of both fjord and sea. We world arrange two festival days in this breathtaking coastal landscape. SJØFARTSMONUMENTET

DATE-TIME (Vår Sunday May 26 and Saturday June 1 Austevoll forunderlige at 12:00 and 14:00 /Bekkjarvik DURATION verden) Ca. 15 minutes

For years, Dukkenikkernes A woman in a mirror dress leaves BEKKJARVIK The morning concerts will be held teaterverksted has entertained on a journey. Using the maritime in the owner of the fishing station’s Sjøfartsmonumentet as a backdrop, DATE-TIME the people of Bergen with their Saturday 25 May private garden from 1920, which has clever, surprising and beauti- the woman – like the water – reflects Garden concerts now been extended towards the ful figures and tableaux. Now the world around her. Dance perfor- at 12:00 and 14:30 fjord and opened to the audience. Austevoll mance based on meditative butoh they have created three per- DURATION Renowned musicians Wolfgang formances for the festival. A dance. 1:00 Plagge and Annar Follesø, who take /Marstein Lighthouse delight for both eyes and heart! Edvard Grieg’s well-known folk melo- TICKETS Free admission. Standard: 190 dies as their point of departure, will Street Under 30, child: 150 perform the concerts. In the evening, MARSTEIN An unforgettable sea journey! This The Armed Forces´ Band West will LIGHTHOUSE Time Entertainment CONCERT islet is located out towards the open AT THE OLD take the audience on a musical ocean DATE-TIME sea, at the mouth of Korsfjorden. This TORGALLMENNINGEN HARBOUR journey. The programme is varied and Sunday 26 May is a place where you really feel the includes everything from Handel’s at 13:00: Concert The DATE-TIME Outdoors DATE-TIME with Austevoll male forces of nature. Marstein Lighthouse Transformation Friday May 24 Saturday 25 May Water Music and Grieg’s Stormy Night, choir and The was built in 1887 and has been unused at 13:00 and 14:00 AROUND at 20:00 to local music styles and performers. Armed Forces´ since 2002. This concert features IN BERGEN Band West. THE OLAV KYRRE STATUE, Austevoll male choir and The Armed THE OLAV KYRRE STATUE, DURATION For food and accommodation, see BY LILLE LUNGEGÅRDSVANNET BY LILLE LUNGEGÅRDSVANNET Free admission 1:20 TRANSPOR, Forces´ Band West and will be held www. bekkjarvikgjestgiveri.no TATION DATE-TIME at an outdoor venue connected to DATE-TIME Curiosities and odd characters, young TICKETS www.dehistoriske.com 12:30: Boat Thursday May 30 Friday May 31 Standard: 290 transport from the lighthouse. The concert boasts at 15.00 and 17:00 at 16: 00 and 17: 00 dancers and strange marionettes. Under 30, child: 90 Bekkjarvik and traditional music for male choirs and These are among the things you Storebø. Boat fare TORGALLMENNINGEN wind players, but also sounds that DURATION may encounter around town and at Festival card: is payable upon Ca. 15 minutes 30% discount embarkation and make use of the surrounding nature DATE-TIME Bergen Airport Flesland during the Festival pass: is not included in and scenery. Sunday June 2 Can we seize time, defy gravity and festival. There will be choral song and free if capacity the concert ticket. at 12:00 and 14:00 Return at 15:30 make it float? In this performance, lively music just around the corner. Access to Marstein is weather-depen- DURATION cogwheels and rusty objects become Get ready to be surprised and get TICKETS dent. The new tourist harbour by the Ca. 20 minutes a flying creation! carried away when you are out and Standard: 190 pier at the entrance to Bekkjarvik is about! Featuring figure theatre com- Under 30, child: 90 an alternate location. Four puppeteers manipulate the flow- pany Dukkenikkernes teaterverksted, ers of the magnolia tree and change Festival card: Bergen Dance Centre, Fyllingsdalen 30% discount the size and shape of its leaves. choir and Body Rhythm, among others. Festival pass: free if capacity

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Festival Satellites Festival Satellites Solstrand Selja Toke Møldrup The Danish cellist Toke Møldrup 850 Years & Yaron Kohlberg and the Israeli pianist Yaron A Wonderful – A Celebration SOLSTRAND Kohlberg began their collabora- HOTEL & BAD tion in 2007. Their performance Journey DATE-TIME includes excerpts from their VEREIDE CHURCH Saturday 1 June critically acclaimed recording ROUND TRIP INCL. CONCERTS Tryggvason later arrived on the island at 16:00 DATE-TIME Passionate. Diploma students from Regular ticket: 1200 he found the holy remains and had a Saturday 1 June Under 30 / children: 400 Juiliard & NMH the Norwegian National Academy church erected in that place. at 17:30 of Music (NMH) and the renowned DATE-TIME GLOPPEN PACKAGE TOUR DURATION: Saturday 1 June Juilliard School of Music in New Regular: 300 1:00 at 19:30 York play a varied programme, Under 30 / children: 160 A collaboration between Bergen (Concerts in Vereide Church and at Jølet TICKETS DURATION including works by Mozart, Ravel Saturday 1 June) International Festival, Selje 1:10 Standard: 150 and Chopin. Welcome to chamber municipality, Gloppen Musikkfest Under 30 /child: NOK 90 TICKETS music of international quality in the RETURN DATES - TIMES and The Diocese of Bjørgvin. Saturday 1 June at 19:00 – boat from Standard: 190 fireside room at Solstrand. An impressive concert programme Under 30, child: 150 Vereide Church to Bergen. Sunday 2 June at 13:30 – bus from Vereide including musicians from the Read more about this eventful Festival card: Church to Bergen. Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and 30% discount Toke Møldrup cello OSEANA festival weekend and the project’s singers from the commissioned work Festival pass: Yaron Kohlberg piano OSEANA SALEN Havfest FOOD AND ACCOMMODATION partners at fib.no/en. free if capacity [email protected] on Selja. DATE-TIME www.dehistoriske.com Hotel package: Friday 24 May www.solstrand.com at 19:00 Rosendal Saturday 25 May BERGEN0SELJA at 19:00 Wonderful folk opera! Sunday 26 May DATE-TIME at 19:00 A mysterious island has appeared in Saturday 1 June The Holy Sunniva Strong Juilliard On Sunday 2 June we welcome you at 07:00 Bjørnefjorden outside Bergen, and – A Tribute Voices Sing & NMH to exquisite chamber music in the DURATION Morning prayer (Laudes) at Red Room at the Barony. Diploma 2:30 preparations are now underway for Kristkirketomten by Haakonshallen. BARONY students from the Norwegian a grand party. The unpredictable THE HOLY ISLAND OF SELJA KULTURHUSET TRIVSELHAGEN ROSENDAL, RECOMMENDED at 07:30 Boat departure from Bontelabo AT SANDANE THE RED ROOM National Academy of Music per- AGES coastal goddess is marrying a human! Bergen–Selja DATE-TIME form with diploma students from 8 and up Could this marriage make us all take DATE-TIME DATE-TIME There will be talks and lectures on St. Sun- Saturday 1 June the Juilliard School in New York. better care of nature? at 12:30 Saturday 1 June Sunday 2 June TICKETS niva during the trip and a course in liturgi- at 23:00 at 15:00 The concert is timed to allow audi- Standard: 260/360 cal song. Featuring Bishop Halvor Nordhaug Havfest includes 60 actors, a new DURATION ences from Bergen to arrive and Under 30, child: 150 and others. DURATION DURATION score and a poignant story. The opera 1:30 1:00 1:10 leave by express boat from Bergen. LANGUAGE is a beautiful visual and musical expe- TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS Performed in Join us on a journey to the Norwegian rience, and in particular a statement Standard: 270 Standard: 200 Standard: 250 realm of St Sunniva Under 30/child: 150 Under 30/child: 120 Under 30, child: 150 Juilliard & NMH on the current environmental debate. Naomi Kudo piano Festival card: Festival card: 30% discount The legend of St Sunniva tells us A grand performance with a new Music and text by Therese Birkelund Ulvo Siwoo Kim violin and Maria Tryti Vennerød. 30% discount Festival pass: about the beautiful daughter of score and text by Therese Birkelund Festival pass: Lionel Cottet cello free if capacity Opera Omnia production Special Service an Irish king who fled the country Ulvo and Maria Tryti Vennerød. A free if capacity Ole Christian Gullikstad Heidi Tronsmo and Glenn Erik Haugland with her people in a ship without girls’ choir, local musicians, dancers VEREIDE CHURCH Boat transportation: Haagenrud piano script and music sails. The wind brought them to the and singers including Unni Løvlid and www.baroniet.no Ellen Nisbeth viola DATE-TIME or the tourist island of Selja. There, God let them Stine Motland. Sunday 2 June information. Maria Carlsen violin escape warrior heathens by letting at 11:00 Hotel package, lunch them achieve martyrdom. When Olav Note! Includes a 60-minute walk. With Bishop Halvor Nordhaug. or guided tour: www.baroniet.no

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The concert series Mellom lyden pres- w/KORK ents a selection of artists that explore the minimal elements of music – both audible and inaudible – in unique ways. The series is a collaboration with GRIEGHALLEN Efterklang takes us to Svalbard, where Borealis and the Ekko Festival. GRIEGSALEN they created their own unique sound- Hans Ek conductor DATE-TIME scape. Leaving something is as much about a journey Wednesday 29 May towards something new as leaving history at 19:30 The critically acclaimed Danish band Efterk- Mads Brauer electronics, programming, behind you. Similarly, absence, loss and what lang has made a name for themselves inter- various instruments DURATION is left is as important to musical experiences as nationally with their hypnotic mixture of mild Casper Clausen vocals, various instruments 1:10 the excitement of the moment and the expec- harmonies, post-rock, funk, electronica and Rasmus Stolberg bass, bass-synth tation of what is to come. Sound depends on TICKETS dream pop. Budgie drums Standard: 170/240/ Peter Broderick piano, vocals, synthesizer Between silence to exist – on the space between the 290/340/390 notes. The history of music is a story of deci- Under 30, child: 150 Their fourth album, Piramida, was released Katinka Fogh Vindelev vocals late last year and is recorded in and inspired Sound sions, about roads chosen and what is left Festival card: by the Russian mining town Pyramiden on behind. 30% discount Kringkastingsorkestret Billefjorden in Spitsbergen, which was va- Festival pass: Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, plays material free if capacity cated in 1998. There the community centre, from his debut album Treetop Drive with Hans swimming hall and Lenin statue still stand, Arr. Missy Mazzoli, Karsten Fundal (Mellom lyden) Magnus ’Snah’ Ryan () on violin but there are no people. The cool soundscape & Daniel Bjarnason and video artist Pekka Stokke. American sound echoes the ghost-town atmosphere. ØSTRE B/B/S * Festival card: artist and clarinet player William Basinski comes The concert version of Piramida was first per- 30% discount all the way from Los Angeles to take part. Deathprod: DATE-TIME Festival pass: formed at the Sydney Opera House in spring Wednesday 29 May free if capacity His best-known work, Disintegration Loops 2012. Since then the trio has performed with Treetop at 21:00 (2001–2003) is still a milestone in loop-based several major orchestras in Europe and toured Drive experimental music, ten years after it was first /Camilla TICKETS* with their own musicians in the USA, among 150 released. Accordion player and singer Camilla other places. Barrat-Due Barratt-Due creates auditory landscapes for her DATE-TIME Lis Rhodes improvised music with her amplified orgasms At Bergen International Festival they per- Monday 27 May Light Music and pulse. The Berlin based trio B/B/S have form with a constellation from Kringkasting- at 20:30 distilled their drone metal influences into one sorkesteret (KORK) (The Norwegian Radio DATE-TIME TICKETS* dense cloud of instrumental bleakness, beyond Orchestra), known for their collaborations Saturday 25 May – 150 Friday 31 May regular comfort zones. Throughout the entire with pop and rock musicians. period the audience can also experience the William installation Light Music by British artist Lis Basinski Rhodes. Sponsored by DNB. Supported by the Danish Arts Council. DATE-TIME The entire programme is curated and presented Tuesday 28 May at 22:00 in collaboration with Borealis and The Ekko Festival at Østre, Bergen’s new venue for sound TICKETS* art and electronic music. 150

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FAGERÅSVEIEN ‘Recreating classical works in your own expres- 19 D Vaage/Valen sion is a cross between remix, research and DATE-TIME theft. A good mechanic can take a car complete- Saturday 1 June ly apart and then put it back together again. at 14:00 and 17:00 Trio I take cars apart so that I can make rockets.’

Sunday June 2 – Gisle Martens Meyer, Ugress at 14:00 and 17:00

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TICKETS Standard: 190 Under 30, child: 150 Composer Knut Vaage invites you to a house concert. Knut Vaage (1961–) Festival card: concert host, composer Masterpiece 30% discount Festival pass: Hear Valen Trio’s premiere performance of a free if capacity new piece by Vaage – at his house. The concert Revisited programme also contains samples from Bach, Valen Trio Beethoven, Ravel, Valen, Cage and Vaage’s Ricardo Odriozola violin own music. Valen Trio works especially with John Ehde cello promoting less known Nordic composers and Einar Røttingen piano contemporary works, and their projects have ØSTRE What would the noise version of Mozart been very well received. Krachmacher sound like? Or the country music ver- DATE-TIME Stockhaus sion of Wagner? Knut Vaage (1961 ) works within di!erent genres Thursday 30 May at 22:30 Hypertext including instrumental music, opera and theatre Casiokids These two nights at Østre will give you an scores, with an emphasis on improvisation and DURATION Erik Fossen presenter answer that is perhaps somewhat surprising contemporary music. He is known for explor- 2:20 including interval and disturbing. We have challenged young ing the boundaries between improvisation and musicians from Bergen to create their inter- composition. TICKETS* pretation of the great masters of classical 150 music. The performance includes artists such In movement as Stockhaus, Casiokids and Ugress. Hear them perform their favourite classical works in brand The home is a place of quiet and rest, but also ØSTRE new ways! Music journalist Erik Fossen guides of movement. Space is transformed when it is Mari Kvien Brunvoll DATE-TIME us through these evenings and talks to the used in different ways. It takes the shape of the Empty Bottles Broken Hearts Friday 31 May artists. people who fill it. The people change along with at 22:30 Ugress it. The music creates its own space that fills up The Megaphonic Thrift the physical space. A room becomes more than DURATION 2:20 including Erik Fossen presenter In cooperation with Lydgalleriet a room when filled with sound. Different rooms interval affect each other. The moment influences time. Time moves through space at different speeds. TICKETS* 150 The senses create a window in time. The musi- cian moves as he plays. The guest moves upon * Festival card: entering the room, listening. The child moves 30% discount Festival pass: in the room, unstoppable. The family fills the free if capacity home, but it is emptied every morning when everyone leaves for their daily duties and silence takes over. What moves in the silent room? – Knut Vaage

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World World Premiere Premiere Not here/Not ever Coelacanth DEN GRIEGHALLEN NATIONALE GRIEGSALEN SCENE STORE SCENE DATE-TIME Monday 3 June DATE-TIME at 19:30 Thursday 23 May and Friday 24 May A playful, boundless odyssey about DURATION at 17:00 1:10 love, resurrection and how we learn to Carte Blanche Saturday 25 May be afraid of the dark. TICKETS at 15:00 Standard: 190/290/ w/choreographer Sang Jijia When the prehistoric fish coelacanth, presumed 370/420/470 LANGUAGE to be extinct 65 million years ago, was found Under 30, child: 150 Performed in English alive and kicking in 1938, people referred to Festival card: the phenomenon as Lazarus Taxon – resurrec- 30% discount Tibetan-Chinese choreographer Sang DURATION tion. When the hysterically unhappy Orpheus, Festival pass: Aprox. 5:00 free if capacity Jijia creates a night out with Carte Carte Blanche including interval according to the myth, dives into the under- Blanche from his multicultural melting Sang Jijia Choreographer, set design, props world to bring back his dead sweetheart, it is pot of influences. Dickson Dee composer TICKETS also an attempt at resurrection. Standard: 290/ Indrani Balgobin costumes 340/390 As a young boy in the Gansu province, he Adalsteinn «Alli» Stefansson ligting design Under 30, child: 150 Inspired and fascinated by these and other planned on becoming a monk. However, when Adrian Yeung video design similar myths and stories, Alan Øyen began he was accepted to study folk dance at Minzu Festival card: planning his biggest project so far for the win- 30% discount University in China as a 13-year old, everything Festival pass: ter guests ensemble. Together with co-author changed. Jijia excelled in the study of the dance A co-production between L’Onde Théâtre et free if capacity Andrew Wale, he collected ideas and materials traditions of over 20 di!erent minorities, and Centre D’Art Vélizy Villacoublay and Bergen for a performance that playfully blends pop also discovered modern dance and the freedom International Festival. culture references with classical mythology. that came with it. Alan Lucien Øyen script, director Coelacanth has become a grand, humorous and Andrew Wale script Sang Jijia is concerned with his Tibetan self-referential play – an odyssey that spans Åsmund Færavaag stage designer roots while he is also inspired by the rest of several countries and eras. Jørgen Knudsen composer the world. His work is characterised by visual Bjørnar Habbestad musical arrangement The performance is accompanied by live art, architecture and multimedia that he has Stine Sjøgren costume designer music composed by Jørgen Knudsen. In Bjørn moved towards an Eastern aesthetic. Sang Jijia Torkel Skjærven lighting designer Habbestad’s arrangement it is performed in is now looking to develop this expression within Gunnar Innvær sound designer several orchestral constellations depending on a Nordic framework through his collaboration Martin Flack technical producer with Carte Blanche. the story on stage. Six actors, ten musicians and one dancer accompany Øyen on stage. Carte Blanche – The Norwegian National Kate Pendry, Suzie Davies, Yvonne Øyen, Company for Contemporary Dance – receives Andrew Wale, Daniel Proietto, Huy Le Vo & international attention for their innovative Anton Skrzypiciel actors productions and are constantly touring. They also have a large and enthusiastic Norwegian A co-production between winter guests and audience that can look forward to another Bergen International Festival. ground-breaking performance.

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World Woman, Know Mad Blood Premiere Origin of Your Body LOGEN TEATER Species DEN NATIONALE SCENE DATE-TIME STUDIO BERGEN DATE-TIME Thursday 23 May 31 May at 19:30 and 1 June at 18:00 at 19:30 DATE-TIME 28, 29 and 30 May DURATION Friday 24 May at 21:00 1:30 at 19:30 by Jo Strømgren LANGUAGE LANGUAGE Saturday 25 May Danish, no subtitles Performed in Danish, subtitles in Norwe- at 19:30 Duration: 1:30 gian and English

DURATION We climb aboard the HMS Beagle and *TICKETS TICKETS 1:20 Standard: 290 Regular: 180/ 240/290 share the thoughts, discussions and Under 30, child: 150 Under 30 / Child: 150 TICKETS dreams of the man who changed the Contact in cooperation with Betty Nansen Teatret Standard: 320 world. Under 30, child: 150 Loaded drama about culture The year is 1832 and the brig HMS Beagle is LANGUAGE Miss Julie clash. Danish headed for the Galapagos Islands. On board is Subtitles in English Charles Darwin, on the voyage of his life. STUDIO BERGEN Where lies the limit of tolerance? Festival card: The classroom atmosphere is at The adventurous 22-year old Charles had Jo Strømgren director and set designer DATE-TIME 30% discount boiling point. The students are on Festival pass: agreed to keep Captain FitzRoy company, Peter Christo2ersen, Anders Budde 31 May and June 1 June at 20:00 Duration: 1:20 a collision course with the teacher free if capacity and made notes of new discoveries in wildlife Christensen, Nicolai Jandorf actors who tries to teach them about and geography in wide-eyed amazement. On Nukaka Coster-Waldau director’s consultant LANGUAGE Western culture. The award-winning the almost five-year long journey around the Katrine Bunton costumes and props Swedish, subtitles in English performance Mad Blood became a world he developed his theories on the origin Jacob Rasmussen lighting designer TICKETS sensation in Germany and Denmark. of species – a theory that would revolutionise Rasmus O. Hansen sound designer Standard: 250 A thought-provoking performance our entire world-view. But his findings clashed Under 30, child: 150 which treats di!icult social issues of with Biblical interpretation and led to loud dis- Co-production between Bergen International Why do so many women in integration and tolerance in a humor- cussions in the captain’s cabin. An amusing and liberating Festival, Mungo Park Company and Jo presentation of the Danish the theatre classics commit ous and surprising way. Jo Strømgren has gained an international Strømgren Kompani “feminist bible”. suicide? reputation with his productions at the intersec- Through the handbook Kvinne, kjenn This is one of the questions Anna tion between dance and theatre. Absurd and din kropp (Woman, Know Your Body), Pettersson has based her theatre humorous situations are always at the centre, women encouraged each other to research project on, in her version of and he often brings up controversial topics. This take control of their own bodies the classic play Miss Julie. Prepare brand new theatre production was created in God or and sexuality. Danish Mungo Park is yourself for anatomical theatre where collaboration with the Danish ensemble Mungo Darwin? behind the first dramatisation of this Anna takes Strindberg’s text apart Park. Three male actors illuminate evolutionary modern classic. The performance is and plays with it – boldly, sensitively theory with equal parts fact and fiction, and Debate a collage of excerpts from the book’s and humorously. The project has been include devices from the world of film. (in Norwegian) guidelines intertwined with reflec- referred to as “ground-breaking” by the Swedish press. The performance has its world premiere at LITTERATURHUSET IN BERGEN tions, emotions and experiences from Bergen International Festival, after which it real life womanhood. DATE-TIME will be staged in Copenhagen. Friday May 24 May A celebration of women of all ages! AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849–1912) at 17.00 Fröken Julie See page 63 *Festival card: 30% discount Supported by Fritt Ord Supported by Fritt Ord Festival pass: free if capacity

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World Premiere Desiring Elisabeth Holmertz vocal Erik Dæhlin idea, concept, director STUDIO BERGEN Machines and composer DATE-TIME Jon Tombre co-director Monday 3 June Tormod Lindgren scenography at 18:00 and 20:00 Amund Sjølie Sveen percussion and video- Tuesday 4 June Mythical and historical women present- technical assistance at 18:00 and 20:00 ed through a kaleidoscope of voices, Heloísa Capelossi Amaral piano Gunnar Hauge cello DURATION instruments, electronics and video. 0:45 Morten Pettersen/Thorolf Thuestad sound Marilyn Monroe, Ophelia, Leni Riefenstahl, TICKETS Valerie Solanas, Mata Hari, Alceste, Zara Standard: 190 Supported by Fritt Ord Under 30, child: 150 Leander. These are only some of the women we encounter in this brand new musical drama. Festival card: In a pitch-black stage room, these characters 30% discount Festival pass: become visible as musical and visual flashes, free if capacity single images, shadows and contorted shapes. At the front stands Swedish soprano Elisabeth The Holmertz. Fragments of a life lived meet our own ideas about these icons and the world of Bearded SKATEHALLEN symbols they may be part of. Together they phase7 DATE-TIME Neither form a surrealist whole, body or machine. Lady Friday 24 May Eir Inderhaug soprano at 20:00 Sven Sören Beyer director and concept

SKATEHALLEN Saturday 25 May Christiane Neudecker concept at 20:00 Christian Steinhäuser musical director DATE-TIME She wanted to find out what it meant to Björn Hermann lighting design Tuesday 28 May DURATION A high-tech anti-opera. at 19:00 be a woman and put on a beard. 0:50 Frieder Weiss visual design Wednesday 29 May The orchestra has been replaced with 80 sur- and programming at 19:00 In the masculine world of contemporary circus, TICKETS round speakers and the soprano is locked in an Pedro Richter costume design Jeanne Mordoj’s facial hair has attracted a great Standard: 250 DURATION Under 30, child: 150 LED cube. Acclaimed multimedia group Phase7 1:30 deal of attention, and she has danced throughout pulls out all the stops in this staging of Neither. Europe with her performance Éloge du Poil (‘In Festival card: This is the first time that modern music theatre ORIGINAL TITLE Praise of Hairiness’). Even though Mordoj is inspired 30% discount Eloge du Poil Festival pass: uses advanced 3D sound technology, and the by the freak shows of the past, the performance free if capacity result has been called a ‘mind-movie for the LANGUAGE may be seen as a tribute to nature while it also 21st century’. Performed in questions femininity and sensuality. After touring French, subtitles in Norwegian. with circus troupes, theatres and cabarets in France Neither composer Morten Feldman nor writer for ten years, Jeanne Mordoj created her first solo Samuel Beckett enjoyed opera, but Feldman TICKETS Jeanne Mordoj concept and actress performance in 2000. Since then she has seduced nevertheless challenged Beckett to write a Standard: 250 Pierre Meunier director Under 30, child: 150 audiences with her full beard. libretto. A few weeks later Feldman received a Bernard Revel stage and lighting design postcard. On the back Beckett had written an Festival card: Bertrand Boss music and sound design ‘I try to make things that we perceive as unat- 87-word long poem. This was the beginning of 30% discount Mathieu Delangle props tractive, attractive. No women want to have a Festival pass: one of the most progressive and unconventional free if capacity Eric Grenot stage manager and beard. But why can’t you be sexy with a beard?’ known to man. That is, if you can call sound technician – Jeanne Mordoj it an opera ... Claire Villard lighting technician Victor Fernandes assistant Supported by Fritt Ord and Institut français, Oslo Elisabeth Cerqueira costume designer

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Debates Nordic Conference:

The Orchestral Musician of Tomorrow LITTERATUR, HUSET, Meet Conversations and debates based on themes from the DATE-TIME AUDITORIET Thursday 30 May–Friday 31 May festival programme. Free admission! www.orchestraconference.no DATE-TIME Sofi Oksanen Tuesday 4 June

Purge screening, Norwegian God or Darwin? The Body as Politics premiere at 17:00 OLAV H. HAUGES SAL, OLAV H. HAUGES SAL, Festival LITTERATURHUSET LITTERATURHUSET DURATION 2:00 DATE-TIME DATE-TIME Exhibition Friday 24 May Thursday 30 May Sofi Oksanen in at 17:00–18:30 at 17: 00–18:00 conversation with 2013 Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen With Wenche Mühleisen, Hanna Helseth, Finn Skårderud With Katharina Pajchel, Erik Tunstad (1977) fuses women’s life stories with and Peder Tyvand, Hilde Danielsen, Geir Gulliksen and Char- at 19:30 lotte Myrbråthen. national history in many of her novels. In collaboration with Bergens Tidende DURATION She visits Bergen International Festival In collaboration with Forfattersentrum Gardar Eide 1:30 Vestlandet and Fett magazine. to talk about her female characters and Supported by Fritt Ord Einarsson LANGUAGE literary output. BERGEN English HOURS KUNSTHALL Monday–Friday Before the conversation we will show the film ‘In both Purge and her other novels, there are 11:00–18:00 TICKETS Conversation with Bruno Colourshow: 5 Years OPENING Standard: 90 Purge, based on Oksanen’s award-winning similarities between being a woman and being Thursday 23 May Thursday novel by the same name. The film received Latour, the Winner of the After the Year of Cultural at 13:00 11:00–20:00 Estonian. A woman may experience losing Saturday–Sunday Festival pass: very good reviews in Finland and Estonia and Holberg Prize Diversity free if capacity control over her own body through violence, 11:00–17:00 was chosen as the o!icial entry for Finland for TICKETS anxiety or eating disorders – and the Estonian OLAV H. HAUGES SAL, THE FOYER Standard: 50 / Student: 25 the Academy Award. International distribution body was controlled by Soviet Russia.’ LITTERATURHUSET IN GRIEGHALLEN is next, and this festival screening will be the Gardar Eide Einarsson (1976) is con- – Finn Skårderud DATE-TIME DATE-TIME film’s Norwegian premiere. Monday 3 June 27 May sidered one of the most influential at 17:30–18:30 at 20:20–21:30 artists of his generation, and has Purge represents Oksanen’s international In collaboration with Forfattersentrum made a name for himself interna- breakthrough. She received The Nordic Council Bruno Latour, anthropologist and sociolo- Including Shabana Rehman, Olemic Vestlandet and BIFF gist, is this year’s Holberg Prize laureate. Thommessen and Ole Hamre, among tionally with several exhibitions in Literature Prize, the French Femina award and Latour is professor at Sciences Po, Paris. others. the past few years. At this year’s the European Book Prize for the novel, which Festival he presents an exhibition is now published in over 40 languages. The In collaboration with the Holberg Interna- In collaboration with Fargespill Supported by Fritt Ord tional Memorial Prize (Colourplay) with new works and installations Norwegian translation of her fourth novel, When created especially for this occasion. the Doves Disappeared, is due for publication His more recent solo exhibitions this spring. Same Old Songs Classical Crisis? include Team Gallery, New York (2012), STANDARD (OSLO) (2011), The conversation with Oksanen will be led by – Are Performances of OLAV H. HAUGES SAL, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel psychiatrist Finn Skårderud. He has written Classical Works too Similar? LITTERATURHUSET (2011), Reykjavík Art Museum (2010), several articles about her novels and knows OLAV H. HAUGES SAL, DATE-TIME Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, her well from previous interviews. LITTERATURHUSET Friday 31 May Sweden (2010) Astrup Fearnley at 16:00–17:30 DATE-TIME Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Saturday 25 May With Greg Sandow, Rolf Gupta and (2010), Museum of Modern Art, Fort at 14: 00–15:30 Ragnhild Veire. Worth, Texas (2009), Kunstverein In collaboration with the Norwegian Critics’ In collaboration with Klassisk and Frankfurt (2008), and Centre d’Art Association Bergens Tidende and J.W. Eides stiftelse Contemporain, Geneva (2008).

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MAP LEGEND FESTIVAL RESTAURANTS 2013 10 Jacobs Bar & Kjøkken Kong Oscars gate 44 1 Boat to Lysøen Bergen International Festival collaborates 11 Kroathai 2 Boat to Rosendal with a number of restaurants, all of them Nygårdsgaten 29 3 Bus to composer’s homes located close to our festival venues. Here 12 Kroathai i Tourist Information you will find quality food in di!erent price Vetrlidsallmenning 7 P Car park ranges and a wide selection of menus. 13 Ole Bull Restaurant Ticket sales www.fib.no/en/restaurants Hotel Norge, Festival O2ice Nedre Ole Bulls Plass 4 1 BARE Restaurant 14 Pascal Mat & Vin ARENAER Hotel Norge, Nedre Ole Bulls Plass 4 Scandic Neptun, 2 Bocca Restaurant Valkendorfsgatet. 8 1 Bergen Kjøtt Øvre Ole Bulls plass 3 15 Restaurant Éntre 2 Maartmannshaven at Hotel Norge 3 Boha Restaurant Scandic Neptun, 3 Litteraturhuset Vaskerelven 6 Valkendorfsgatet. 8 4 Den Nationale Scene (DNS) 4 Bryggen Tracteursted 16 Restaurant Lucullus 5 Domkirken (Bergen Cathedral) Bryggestredet 2 Scandic Neptun, Dagens Næringsliv is one of Norway’s modern newspaper success 6 Grieghallen 5 Bølgen og Moi Valkendorfsgt. 8 7 Håkonshallen (Haakon’s Hall) Vågsalmenningen 16 17 Spisestedet på Troldhaugen stories. The paper publishes exposés, news, comment, analysis and 8 Johanneskirken (St. John’s Church) 6 Enhjørningen Fish Restaurant Troldhagsveien 65 9 Logen Teater Bryggen 29 18 To kokker debate about Norwegian business and society. Every Friday DN 10 Ole Bull Scene 7 Fløyen Folkerestaurant Enhjørningsgården 29 includes the magazine D2. D2 covers a wide range of cultural and 11 Skatehallen Fløyfjellet 2 19 Wesselstuen 12 Studio Bergen 8 Hanne på Høyden Øvre Ole Bulls pl. 6 lifestyle-related topics, including design, fashion, fitness, travel, 13 Østre Fosswinchelsgt. 18 14 Rekstensamlingene 9 Holbergstuen cars, technology and food. 15 Fageråsveien 19 D Torgallmenningen 6

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Accommodation Transport Tickets to Composers’ and Transport Homes Buy Accommodation Tickets Bus to Troldhaugen (Round Trip) Here CONCERT AT 13:00 Departure from Strandkaien, Mathallen at 12:15 Bergen has many hotels and Our partner Timeout Travel Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 15:30 di!erent types of accommodation can tailor your visit to Bergen Arrival in Bergen city centre ca. 16:00 for travellers. For more information, International Festival. Festival Ticket Booth at CONCERT AT 16:00 Grieghallen Torgallmenningen visit www.visitbergen.com/en/ Visit www.timeout-travel.no. Departure from Strandkaien, Mathallen at 15:15 Ticket sales and programme where-to-stay Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 18:00 HOURS MAY 200JUNE 5 Arrival in Bergen city centre ca. 18:30 information at Kafé Edvard. 09:00–19:30 The festival hotel Radisson Blu CONCERT AT 22:30 Gift Voucher HOURS Hotel Norge is located in the middle Transport to Departure from Strandkaien, Mathallen at 21:45 Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00 of Bergen city centre. It is within Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 00:00 Thu 10:00–19:30 Billettservice walking distance of most of our Bergen Arrival in Bergen city centre ca. 00:30 Sat 11:00–14:00 (Ticketmaster Norway) concert- and theatre venues. For Entrance to the museum and Grieg’s Villa is Opening hours during the festival: HOURS: booking, contact Hotel Norge at included in the concert ticket May 22–June 5 Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00 (+47) 02525 or visit Order by phone (+47) 55 21 06 Mon–Sun 10:00–19:30 Sat 10:00–14:00 30 or e-mail [email protected] and www.radissonblu.com/ There are many routes to Bergen. PHONE Boat to Lysøen (Round Trip) we will mail you the voucher at no PHONE .CALL CENTRE/ hotellnorge-bergen For a complete overview, go to Visit (+47) 55 21 61 50 815 33 133 (regular rate) extra charge. You may also pur- Bergen at www.visitbergen.com/en/ CONCERT AT 11:30 www.billettservice.no Radisson Blu Hotel Norge o!ers transport. Departure from Dreggekaien at 10:00 chase gift vouchers from our ticket HOTEL PACKAGE DEALS, PHONE 09901 package deals on accommodation Return from Lysøen, departure at 14:00 booth at Torgallmenningen during You may also purchase and pick up Arrival at Dreggekaien ca. 14:50 at Bergen International Festival. For information about flight times, the festival, or from the ticket o!ice E,MAIL tickets at post o!ices, Narvesen Visit www.bergenhelg.no (in routes and transport to and from in Grieghallen. [email protected] and 7-Eleven kiosks and other CONCERT AT 14:30 Norwegian) or call (+47)09901. Bergen Airport Flesland, visit Departure from Dreggekaien at 13:00 Billettservice outlets.

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The Bergen International Festival is dependent on many Carte Blanche – Norway’s national Groups di2erent supporters to continue spring’s big adventure. company for contemporary dance Regular tickets Festival Card 2013 Groups of more than 10 people All the help you have extended has enabled us to make the Collegium Musicum’s Choir Regular ticket prices (ticket fee NOK 390 get a 20 % discount on tickets. experience a greater one. Copenhagen Opera Festival included) are listed for each event Contact Bergen International Den Nationale Scene The festival card includes the in NOK. Festival (phone (+47) 55 21 06 30) Public Sector Partners (The National Stage, Bergen) following benefits: Festival Ambassadors for programme recommendations, Ministry of Culture The Norwegian Soloist Prize ƒ30 % discount on tickets Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber ticket o!ers or assistance with City of Bergen – Bernt Fossum ƒSatisfaction guarantee Grieg Foundation Children table reservations, VIP room rental Hordaland county Dukkenikkernes teaterverksted ƒOne free programme catalogue Children’s tickets are sold at at the venue and food and drinks at Ministry of Foreign A!airs Grieg Academy, UIB by showing your card at the children’s and family performances. the festival restaurants. Main Partners Grieghallen AS venue Maximum NOK 90 for children up DNB Hordaland Teater ƒ to and including 16 years of age. 20 % discount at Bergen Jiří Hlinka Piano Academy Statoil Project Supporters International Festival restaurants Juilliard School of Music BT Card Bergens Tidende Arts Council Norway ƒThe best seats at Grieghallen and Kirkemusikk i Bergen 20 % ticket discount for holders Radisson Blu Hotel Norge Nordic Culture Fund Under 30 years DNS (for early bookers). Kor Vest of the Bergens Tidende card on Dagens Næringsliv J.W. Eides Stiftelse Maximum NOK 150 per ticket. Institut français, Oslo Kritikerlaget performances marked with a ‘BT NCE Tourism Bergen Art Museum Card’ logo. Festival Pass: Project Partners The Danish Arts Council Langhaugen videregående skole Senior REGULAR PRICE: NOK 890 The Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Foundation Litteraturhuset i Bergen NOK 50 discount per ticket. UNDER 30 YEARS: NOK 390 The Kavli Trust Logen Teater

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Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber TOMORROW Festival Director Anders Beyer’s inter- The main focus of the Grieg Found- The Kristian Jebsen Foundation wants national ambition and collaborative ation is to support children and youth to contribute to the realisation of skills gives us great expectations on a global basis, largely through projects on a high international level. for Bergen International Festival in education. Art and culture is another Our involvement in culture includes Vilde Frang the years to come. The festival is main priority for the foundation, with Bergen International Festival, Leif Winner of Statoil’s classical something we look forward to with joy a focus on Western Norway. Bergen Ove Andsnes’ project The Beethoven music scholarship 2010 and excitement every year. We believe International Festival has been a Journey, The International Edvard it is an important cultural initiative recurrent part of our portfolio and Grieg Piano Competition and Bergen that expands the city’s horizons and we are proud to see that this Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. challenges its audience. institution also has made a name for We are delighted that our contribution itself internationally with its high We look forward to this year’s festi- to Bergen International Festival also quality. We are pleased to be part of val and several foreign guests have includes Leif Ove Andsnes’ concerts this great festival tradition in Bergen. already accepted our invitation to and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and experience the exciting festival events. that our focus on performing arts is an important contribution to cultural life in Bergen.

The success of Statoil is down to individuals with The Kavli Trust owns the Bergen- The purpose of Sparebankstiftelsen Sparebanken Vest invests in Western the ability and desire to think outside the box. based Kavli Group, and this ownership DNB NOR (DNB NOR Savings Bank Norway forms the basis for its financial support Foundation) is to maintain Norwegian Individuals who strive to make the impossible Through its focus on children and of good causes. Parts of the group’s savings banks’ tradition of supporting possible. Individuals with the skills and determination youth Sparebanken Vest has helped profits are reinvested in strengthen- charitable causes. We make dona- to achieve remarkable results. It is individuals like develop a number of projects that ing and developing its operations tions to initiatives that benefit many these who hold the key to a successful future contribute to the creation of a positive while the remainder is donated to people. Through our subsidiary Dextra environment for children and young – not just for our company but for society as a whole. research, culture and humanitarian Musica we purchase valuable string people in Western Norway. Working We like to call them heroes of tomorrow. work through The Kavli Trust. instruments that we lend to talented within this field means investing in the Norwegian musicians. In the past few years the trust has future, as our region depends on the Proud sponsor of Bergen International Festival. sponsored Bergen International This year we provide financial support future creativity and competence of Festival’s outdoor programme, which to the spectacular event Murmuration the generations to come. Grants from is free and open to everyone. Festival at Bergen International Festival. Sparebanken Vest support festival concerts are held at hospitals, nursing projects at new locations. homes and senior centres with support from The Kavli Trust. Through our collaboration with Bergen Red Cross we make the festival programme accessible to people who otherwise would not have the chance to experi- ence it at the regular venues.

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DIVERSIONS

ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. PLAYFUL SCENES IN THE STREETS AND EVENTS AT NEW AND FAMILIAR VENUES BROAD APPEAL. EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET.

Cirque Éloize, Igudesman & Joo, Colourshow, Marius Neset, Gjertrud’s Gipsy Orchestra, Piazzolla Orchestra, PROG ! Body Rhythm Factory, phase7 DIALOGUES

THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION. RAMME TRADITION AND RENEWAL, DEPTH AND REFLECTION. PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS WITH A HISTORY.

Leif Ove Andsnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Truls Mørk, Vilde Frang, L’Arpeggiata, Hagen Quartet, 2013 Andreas Scholl, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

DISTURBANCES

RECKLESS AND SHREWD, EXPERIMENTING AND EXPLORING. NEW TECHNOLOGY AND BOUNDLESS ARTISTIC LANDSCAPES.

Efterklang, William Basinski, Carte Blanche, Sofi Oksanen, Jo Strømgren, Alan Øyen, Stockhaus, Ugress, Deathprod, Casiokids, Lis Rhodes

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WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 23 MAY 24 MAY 25 MAY 26 MAY 27 MAY 28 MAY 29 MAY 30 MAY 31 MAY 1 JUNE 2 JUNE 3 JUNE 4 JUNE 5 JUNE

Grieghallen/Griegsalen "#$%& Marco Polo p! "'$(( Marco Polo p! "'$)( Andsnes/MCO: Beethoven p" *($(( Cirkopolis p#$ "%$(( & "'$)( Cirkopolis p#$ "'$(( Colourshow p%# "'$)( Journeys and Fairy Tales w/ KORK p& "'$)( Efterklang w/KORK p'( "'$)( Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra p& "'$)( Igudesmann & Joo p%' "'$)( Carte Blanche: Not here/ Not ever p'! "#$(( War Requiem p))

Grieghallen Foyer "%$(( Drop In p%$ "*$(( & "%$(( Drop In p%$ ")$(( Ustvolskaya’s unknown sonatas p%$ "#$(( A taste of the world p& "*$(( & "%$(( Drop in p%$ "*$(( & "%$(( Drop in p%$ "%$(( Drop in p%$ "%$(( Drop in p%$ ")$(( GA Young talents p%$ ")$(( The composers are coming! p%$ "*$(( & "%$(( Drop in p%$ "*$(( & "%$(( Drop in p%$

DNS Store Scene "+$(( Coelacanth p'* "+$(( Coelacanth p'* "&$(( Coelacanth p'* "'$)( Blam! p#) "'$)( Blam! p#) "'$)( Blam! p#) "'$)( Mad Blood p'& "#$(( Mad Blood p'& "'$)( Skram vs Kråkevik p%) "'$)( Skram vs Kråkevik p%)

DNS Teaterkjelleren "'$)( The Seagull p%) "#$(( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "#$(( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%) "'$)( The Seagull p%)

DNS Lille Scene "#$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "#$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%) "'$(( meet me p%)

Studio Bergen *"$(( Woman, Know Your Body p'& *"$(( Woman, Know Your Body p'& *"$(( Woman, Know Your Body p'& *($(( Miss Julie p'& *($(( Miss Julie p'& "#$(( & *($(( Desiring machines p!$ "#$(( & *($(( Desiring machines p!$

Skatehallen *($(( Neither p!) *($(( Neither p!) "'$(( The Bearded Lady p!$ "'$(( The Bearded Lady p!$ "%$(( Wolfgaaang!!! p#( "%$(( Wolfgaaang!!! p#( ",$)( Body Rhythm Factory p#( ",$)( Body Rhythm Factory p#(

Ole Bull Scene "'$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) "'$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) "#$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) *"$(( BIL (Theatresports) "#$(( The Three Superladies p#( "#$(( Mr. Ping p#( "#$(( Captain Credible p#( "'$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) "'$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) "#$(( Kunst (’Art’ – a comedy) *"$(( BIL (Theatresports)

Logen Teater "'$)( Origin of species p'" "'$)( Origin of species p'" "'$)( Origin of species p'" "&$(( Tango class p%! **$(( Voksne Herrers Orkester p%* **$(( Marius Neset Septet p%* ""$(( Youth day at the Festival p#( **$(( Bjørn Thoroddsen’s Guitar Fest p%" **$(( Gjertrud’s Gipsy Orchestra **$(( Music for a While p%& **$(( Piazzolla Variety p%! w/Susanne Lundeng p%"

Håkonshallen "'$)( Hemsing/Trondheimsolistene p)# "'$)( L’Arpeggiata p)' "'$)( Hagen Quartet p)! "'$(( Soloist Prize, final p)% "'$)( Andreas Scholl: Wanderer p)* "'$)( Freiburg Baroque Orchestra p)" "'$)( Kreutzer Quartet p)& "%$(( Guitarissimo ): Students "'$)( Mørk/Ihle Hadland p() "'$)( Vilde Frang p($ *($(( Mørk/Hadland/Frang p() "%$(( Holberg Prize ",$)( Guitarissimo (: Great new talents *($(( European Guitar Quartet p)&

Domkirken "*$(( Drop In p%$ **$(( Sun dogs and Stars p(% *)$(( Larsen & Utnem p(( *)$(( Spissky & Spissky p(( *)$(( Seim & Haltli p(( *)$(( Apeland & Økland p(( *)$(( Aagre & Ulvo p(( "*$(( Drop in p%$ *)$(( Maydre & Emilov p(( *)$(( Askeland & Bromander p(( *)$(( Drage & Kates p(( *)$(( Lien & Tallroth p(( *)$(( Olsen & Chassain p(( (Bergen Cathedral) *)$(( Hilmen & Hagen p((

Johanneskirken *"$(( Hvoslef’s chamber music I p(% *"$(( Hvoslef’s chamber music II p(% *"$(( Hvoslef’s chamber music III p(% (St. John’s Church)

Grieg’s villa **$)( Håvard Gimse p(' **$)( Håvard Gimse p(' **$)( Follesø/Plagge p(' **$)( Sheppard Skærved & Chadwick p('

Troldsalen ")$(( Miriam Helms Ålien p)( ")$(( Johann Nardeau p)( ")$(( Ellen Nisbeth p)% ")$(( Johannes Piirto p)% ")$(( Valdemar Villadsen p(" ")$(( Sasha Grynyuk p(& ")$(( Juilliard & NMH p(& ")$(( Toke Møldrup & Yaron Kohlberg p(& ",$(( Mathias Kjøller p)%

Lysøen ""$)( & "%$)( Tellefsen & Gimse p(! ""$)( & "%$)( Tellefsen & Gimse p(! ""$)( & "%$)( Süssmann/Tetzla+ p(! ""$)( & "%$)( Süssmann/Tetzla+ p(!

Valestrand ")$(( & "&$(( Stærnes/Kjekshus p(* ")$(( & "&$(( Lundeng/Økland p(*

Fageråsveien 19 D - "%$(( & "+$(( Valen trio/Vaage p'# "%$(( & "+$(( Valen trio/Vaage p'# Knut Vaage

Oseanasalen "'$(( Havfest p#" "'$(( Havfest p#" "'$(( Havfest p#"

Litteraturhuset "+$(( Debate: God or Darwin? p!% "%$(( Debate: Same old songs p!% "+$(( Debate: The body as politics p!% ",$(( Debate: Classical Crisis? p!% "+$)( Conversation with the Holberg Prize "+$(( Movie premiere: Purge p!( winner "'$)( )&,%$ Meet Sofi Oksanen p!(

Bergen Kjøtt "'$(( Grieg in outer space p#( "'$(( Grieg in outer space p#( "%$(( Grieg in outer space p#( "'$(( Grieg in outer space p#( "'$(( Grieg in outer space p#(

Østre "'$(( Olav’s Dreams p%) *($)( Between Sound p'% **$(( Between Sound p'% *"$(( Between Sound p'% **$)( Masterpiece Revisited p'' **$)( Masterpiece Revisited p''

Other arenas ""$(( & "#$(( Maartmannshaven: ""$(( & "#$(( Maartmannshaven: ",$(( & "#$(( Maartmannshaven: ")$(( Austevoll: Marstein Lighthouse p#* ""$((–",$(( Mobile Homes p#' ""$((–",$(( Mobile Homes p#' ""$((–",$(( Mobile Homes p#' ""$((–",$(( Mobile Homes p#' "($(( Rekstensamlingene: Master class p%$ (+$(( Selja p#& "%$(( Rekstensamlingene: Piano concert p%$ Peter and the Wolf p#( Peter and the Wolf p#( Peter and the Wolf p#( "#$(( Peer Gynt Hall: Youth gala performance "*$(( & "%$)( Austevoll: Follesø/Plagge p#* "($(( Rekstensamlingene: Master class p%$ "&$(( Rosendal: Juilliard & NMH p#" *($(( Austevoll: SFMK p#* ""$((–",$(( Mobile Homes p#' ",$(( Solstrand: Toke Møldrup p#" "'$)( Solstrand: Juilliard & NMH p#"

Outdoors "*$)( Festplassen: Opening Ceremony p%% ",$"& The Festival Quarter: L’Arpeggiata p#' ")$(( & "%$(( Torgallmenningen: Time p#! ('$((-"+$(( Torgallmenningen: Thirst p## "*$(( & "%$(( Sjøfartsmonumentet: The Mirror p#! ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Marius Neset ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Økland/Apeland p#' ",$"& The Festival Quarter: "&$(( & "+$(( Olav Kyrre monument: ",$(( & "+$(( Olav Kyrre monument: Time p#! "*$(( & "%$(( Sjøfartsmonumentet: "*$(( & "%$(( Torgallmenningen: ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Lundeng/Økland **$)( Festplassen: Murmuration p%% **$)( Festplassen: Murmuration p%% ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Peter and the "#$"& The Festival Quarter: The Piazzolla "*$(( Siljustøl: Family day & Heine Bugge p#' Frøy Ågre/Andreas Ulvo p#' The Transformation p#! ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Body Rhythm Factory The Mirror p#! The Transformation p#! p#' Wolf p#' Orchestra p#' ",$"& The Festival Quarter: The Three ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Wolfgaaang!!! p#' p#' ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Bjørn Thoroddsen ",$"& The Festival Quarter: Bergen improlaug Superladies p#' "*$(( & "%$(( Gunnar Sævigs sal: p#' p#' Drop in p%$ TICKETS BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Ph: +47 55 21 61 50 www.fib.no www.billettservice.no e-mail: [email protected] Ph: +47 55 21 06 30, fax: +47 55 31 24 47 Postal address: Pb. 183 sentrum, N-5804 Bergen O!ice address: Vaskerelvsmauet 6, N-5014 Bergen

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