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BERGEN, NORWAY 22.05.13 ! 05.06.13 2013 PROGRAMME BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL WWW.FIB.NO 002 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL PREF ACE BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 003 FESTIVAL 2013 FESTIVAL 2013 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. DNB a sponsor of cultural activities. dnb.no 002 WWW.FIB.NO WWW.FIB.NO 003 004 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL INDEX DIALOGUES BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 005 FESTIVAL 2013 FESTIVAL 2013 Index 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 Orchestra 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 "&( Trondheim Soloists and Hemsing "() Outdoors: Mobile Homes / The Festival Quarter "&) L’Arpeggiata "(# Outdoors: Our Wonderful World / Street Entertainment "&# Hagen Quartet 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 "'" Vilde Frang & Michail Lifits "'& Mørk & Ihle Hadland / Mørk, Frang & Hadland GUES "'' Duos at Dusk (concert series) Disturbances "'+ Bergen Cathedral 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 ")' Efterklang 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 / Grieg Academy Selection / Reksten- "#" The Bearded Lady / Desiring Machines samlingene: Master Classes / Piano 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 004 WWW.FIB.NO WWW.FIB.NO 005 006 BERGENERGEN ININTTERNERNATATIIOONAL DIALOGUES DIALOGUES BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 007 FEFESSTTIVALVAL 2013 FESTIVAL 2013 Premiere GRIEGHALLEN Marco Polo GRIEGSALEN DATE-TIME Wednesday 22 May at 18:45 The whole world Thursday 23 May at 19:00 in one opera 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. 006 WWWWWW..FIFIB.N.NO WWWWWW..FIFIB.N.NO 007 008 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUES DIALOGUES BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 009 FESTIVAL 2013 FESTIVAL 2013 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 Ole Bull. Orchestra With Leif Ove Andsnes 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