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BERGEN 22 MAY—05 JUNE INTERNATIONAL 2019 FESTIVAL

2019 PROGRAMME BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

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Art as Collective Dreaming

For almost seven decades, the Bergen Welcome to the 2019 Bergen International International Festival has set human minds in Festival! motion with art's wild and sprawling dream- We are such stuff Together we scapes. Art is the way in which society dreams. As dreams are made on; and our little life Through music, theatre and dance, the Festival Is rounded with a sleep. create good has celebrated and rattled the city, and sought – From THE TEMPEST new answers to old questions. by William Shakespeare, customer When Bergen is dressed in the green delight of May, the best artists from and experiences abroad arrive, standing shoulder to shoulder to celebrate spring and the blossoming life of festive-minded locals and international guests. The Festival and Bergen are situated in the most Anders Beyer dynamic region of the country, with incredible Festival Director nature as a dramatic and beautiful backdrop for all activities. The Festival wishes to make a mark on the city and create lasting experi- ences by letting daily life take a break, instead offering adventurous dream rooms where one can breathe fresh air and think new thoughts. The Bergen International Festival is proud evidence of the social power and transforma- We hope you will have a great cultural experience tive potential of being able to dream together, at the Bergen International Festival. publicly and consciously. We expand horizons and inspire strong emotional unfolding. With this year's Festival theme of longing, we invite everyone, large and small, old and young, to dream with us, and I wish you will join us and share your hopes, ideas and your longing for a better future on this planet. Come along and go explore the great Festival programme, which is categorised into Foundations, Friction and Festivities.

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Index Foundations Festivities Other

THE BEST OF THE BEST IN ENTERTAINMENT AND 096 Dialogues o See also the programme calendar. THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION SURPRISES 098 Festspillkollektivet m m MUSIC 099 The Festival Exhibition: Mari Slaattelid u m MUSIC 034 Waiting by Calixto Bieito & Karl Ove Knausgård d 100 The Festival Thanks k Dramatised concert f Film 072 Angélique Kidjo – Remain in Light 036 Goosebumps 073 Philharmonix – The Music Club m Music ú Family o Dialogues 037 Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott 076 St. Matthews Passion w/Isango Ensemble PRACTICAL INFORMATION 038 Closing Concert t Theatre Outdoors u Exhibition 077 Karl Ove Knausgård w/Friends 006 Venue Map w/Bergen Philharmonic d – A Literary Concert o 007 Refreshments Dance 040 The Brandenburg 078 Anneli Drecker 008 Festival Restaurants w/ 079 Balkanfest w/Igor & the Union of Cousins 010 Expand your Festival experience 041 Kor – Four Psalms 079 Voksne Herrers Orkester 012 Tickets and prices 042 Charlie Albright 080 Georgette Dee 014 Getting to and around Bergen 043 Grieg Trio 081 Harr & Hartberg 044 Leif Ove Andsnes & Friends 082 Joan As Police Woman 045 & Mahan Esfahani 082 Lariba 046 Vertavo Quartet w/Paul Lewis 011 Opening Ceremony km 083 Sigurd Hole Trio & Trio 049 Troldsalen: Daniel Behle & Sveinung Bjelland 015 VR Lounge w/ fm 083 Celtic Roots Ensemble 050 Troldsalen: Trio con Brio Copenhagen 016 Platform Gátt 084 Moonlight Benjamin 051 Troldsalen: Steven Isserlis & Robert Levin I & II 016 Crescendo 052 Troldsalen: The Goldberg Variations 017 Bergen Now t THEATRE w/Mahan Esfahani 018 Unsuk Chin - Festival and 074 The Imaginary Invalid 053 Troldsalen: Hilary Hahn Artist in Residence 075 Eins Zwei Drei 054 Troldsalen: Astrid Nordstad & Christian Grøvlen

055 Troldsalen: f FILM 056 Grieg’s Villa: Paul Lewis 081 FiB x BIFF – Movie Night Friction 057 Grieg’s vVlla: Tor Espen Aspaas I & II 058 Lysøen: Noah Bendix-Balgley ú FAMILY w/Christoph Traxler 085 Family BIFF f RECKLESS AND SHREWD, 059 Lysøen: Marianne Thorsen & Håvard Gimse EXPERIMENTING AND EXPLORING 085 Igor & the Union of Cousins m 059 Lysøen: Ye-Eun Choi w/Dmitry Shiskhin 086 Kouame Sereba m t THEATRE 060 Lysøen: Annar Follesø & Wolfgang Plagge 086 Silja Sol – Mikke Pus’ Diary m 023 Manes 061 Siljustøl: Eirik Johan Grøtvedt & 087 Festival Youth Day m m 024 The Sandman Eirik Haug Stømner 087 Monster Colours 026 SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill dm 062 Drop-in Concerts 088 DJ Frietmachine 063 Bergen 089 Saurus m MUSIC 063 Sing with Bergen Cathedral Choir 090 Festival Youth Performance md Nils Frahm 022 064 Noah Bendix-Balgley w/Friends 091 Yana & the Yeti t

027 065 Sonatas w/Crescendo 092 Pepe & Speedy m 028 Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta 066 Masterclasses and Masterclass Concert 093 My Baby Is a Queen tdm d 029 Mimodramas 067 Solstrand & Knarvik: Geir Draugsvoll & 094 t 031 Into the Beast u Mette Rasmussen 095 Family Day at Siljustøl 068 Ullensvang: Edvard Grieg Kor 095 Abraham Arzate – The Record Breaker d 069 Baroniet Rosendal: Leif Ove Andsnes DANCE 095 Vetterusk 030 Carte Blanche: Echo Flux & Friends 030 Carte Blanche: Primal – for Families ú 069 Bekkjarvik: Astrid Nordstad & Christian Grøvlen w/Ingvild Schultze-Florey

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BRYGGEN Several of our venues serve food and drinks during intervals and before and after performances. If you pre-order, you will avoid queuing. KONG OSCARS GATE 1 Bergen Domkirke

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STRANDGATEN 8 17 STRANDKAIEN i 8 9 4 Grieg Hall Haakon's Hall 3 (Grieghallen) (Håkonshallen) In the café at Troldhaugen, you can STRANDGATEN In the foyer, there is a bar serving PastyWorld offers food and drinks in enjoy a simple meal or a cup of coffee P food and drinks for everyone. Service the Captain's caretaker's residence before and after the concert, with a 14 P can be pre-ordered via Grieghallen's (Kaptein-vaktmesterboligen) in the view of Lake Nordås (Nordåsvannet). online store before 12 noon on the fortress area before, during intervals OPEN MARKEVEIEN 12 day of the performance, or before 12 and after this year's festival concerts 10:00 to 17:30. Open until 20:00 on days of KAIGATEN festival concerts noon on Friday for performances at the in Håkonshallen. The menu features P 7 2 10 Groups may pre-order lunch and dinner 11 Studio Bergen Den Nationale 5 7 weekend. Groups can pre-order food pies of various varieties and flavours, from NOK 350,– per person. Scene Lille 3 13 and drinks to separate rooms. handmade Italian gelato, coffee, tea CONTACT NØSTEGATEN Lungegårdsvann Bergen Offentlige

OLAV KYRRES GATE CHRISTIES GATE Bibliotek (Bergen OPEN and non-alcoholic beverages. Pre- Tel: 55 92 29 92 Festival FESTPLASSEN Public Library) [email protected] Office From 1 hour before the performance orders can be made.

TEATERGATEN 16 PRE-ORDER OPEN Bergen Kunsthall 2 11 Lysverket www.grieghallen.no/mat-og-drikke From 10:00 to 20 minutes after the Lysøen LARS HILLES GATE 15 concert ends. 8 Grieghallen TO BOOK A VENUE Lysøen has a cosy café that serves HÅKONSGATEN 6 [email protected] NYGÅRDSGATEN P CONTACT freshly made waffles, ice cream, soft See also www.fib.no/en/Venues. Tel: 467 44 993 drinks, coffee, tea and more. The café Universitetsaulaen 13 4 Cornerteatret 5 STRØMGATEN The National Stage [email protected] (The University Aula) 9 10 welcomes pre-booked groups for lunch

12 (Den Nationale Scene) and coffee. In the café in the theatre basement 7 The Festival Square VENUES VENUES OUTSIDE THE CITY CENTRE FESTIVAL RESTAURANTS OPEN (Teaterkjelleren) and the bar on the (Festspillplassen) During concerts, and during the museum's 1 Bergen Cathedral (Bergen Domkirke) Baroniet Rosendal 1 26 North opening hours from 11:00 to 16:00. 2 Bergen Kunsthall Bekkjarvik 2 Ácido 1st floor (Teaterbaren), pre-orders Good food and drinks will be sold at 3 Bergen Public Library Løo 3 BARE i Børsen for food and drinks during intervals the Festival Square during the period CONTACT (Bergen offentlige bibliotek) Fjordahallen, Kinsarvik 4 BARE may be placed 30 minutes before 23 May–04 June. Tel: 56 30 90 77 4 Cornerteateret Fløyen 5 Enhjørningen Fiskerestaurant [email protected] 5 Den Nationale Scene Amfiet 6 Escalón Fløien the performance. Troldhaugen 7 Store Scene Escalón Veiten OPEN 11 Studio Bergen Troldhaugen Museum 8 Lille Scene Hallaisen From 30 minutes before the performance 6 Edvard Grieg’s Square Troldsalen 9 Hoggorm In addition to refreshments before (Edvard Griegs plass) Grieg’s villa 10 Lille Tempo CONTACT and after the performance, catering 7 Hotel Ullensvang 11 Lysverket The Festival Square (Festplassen) [email protected] for small and large parties can be Tent Knarvik Church 12 Nedre Nygaard (pre-orders for groups) Outdoors Lysøen Museum 13 NOVA pre-ordered. The bar in Studio Bergen 8 Grieghallen Oseana Art and Culture centre 14 Pascal Mat & Vin is run by Landmark Café. Griegsalen Oseanasalen 15 Roast Restaurant & Bar -salen The Reksten Collections 16 Royal Gourmetburger & Gin OPEN Grieghallens Foyer, 1st floor (Rekstensamlingene) 17 Tempo Tempo Before and after the performance. Grieghallens Foyer, 2nd floor Siljustøl Museum 18 To Kokker CONTACT 9 Håkonshallen Solstrand Hotel & Bad 19 Villani Pizzeria & Trattoria [email protected] 10 Lille Fjellhallen 11 Studio Bergen RESTAURANTS OUTSIDE THE CITY CENTRE 12 Torgallmenningen Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri 13 The University Aula (Universitetsaulaen) Cornelius Seafood Restaurant

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2 Ácido Cornelius Seafood Restaurant 8 Hallaisen ADDRESS/BOOKING 16 Royal Gourmetburger og Gin Rasmus Meyers allé 9. Entrance through €€ €€€ € €–€€ KODE 4, tel: +47 55 60 31 00 South American flavours meet local Cornelius serves the most exotic, Ice cream parlor in traditional www.lysverket.no In a cozy and informal atmosphere, produce. From ceviche and tacos to fresh seafood the western archipe- Skostredet serving home-made ice Royal Gourmet Burgers and Gin is tasty main courses. lago has to offer. cream and cocktails. Night food ser- 12 Nedre Nygaard served. OPENING HOURS OPENING HOURS ved every Friday and Saturday. €–€€ OPENING HOURS Festival Monday–Saturday Light and airy bar with lovely taco as Monday–Sunday at 15:00–24:00 Monday–Friday 11:00–22:00 OPENING HOURS Connecting boat departures from Saturday 12:00–22:00 Tuesday–Thursday at 12:00–19:00 bar snacks. ADDRESS/BOOKING Restaurants Dreggekaien (shed no. 8), opposite Bryggen’s The bar is open Monday–Saturday until 24:00 Friday–Saturday 12:00–24:00 Neumannsgate 2A, tel: +47 56 90 12 33 Museum. The boat trip takes 25 minutes. OPENING HOURS Sunday closed Sunday at 12:00–19:00 www.royalburger.no Lunch (Thursday–Saturday departure 11:30, Sunday–Thursday 15:00–01:00 Monday usually closed ADDRESS/BOOKING return approx. 14:30. Friday–SAturday 15:00–02:00 Øvre Ole Bulls plass 5, tel: 55 21 58 70 17 Combine cultural and Dinner departure 18:00, return 22:30. ADDRESS/BOOKING ADDRESS/BOOKING Tempo Tempo www.facebook.cow/Acidobergen culinary experiences at Please note: Require pre-booked reservation Skostredet 5, tel: +47 928 73 112 Nygårdsgaten 31. tel: 463 20 817 € at corneliusrestaurant.no/booking www.hallaisen.com www.nedrenygaard.no Cozy retro bar with Italian pizza and the Festival. 3 BARE i Børsen ADDRESS/BOOKING a large selection of drinks. €€–€€€ 9 Hoggorm 13 Our Festival Restaurants are con- Holmen, Vestrepollen/Katlavika på Bjorøy, NOVA OPENING HOURS The best Western Norway and our €–€€ veniently situated in relation to the tel: +47 56 33 48 80 €€€ Sunday–Thursday 15:00–01:00 extensive country have to offer of www.corneliusrestaurant.no Wine bar with pizza, oysters & small festival venues so that our audience Nova is a modern and informal restau- Friday 15:00–02:00 organic produce from small-scale dishes. rant, which serves the best produce Saturday 12.00–02:00 might comfortably enjoy a full eve- 5 Enhjørningen producers. OPENING HOURS Norway and Western Norway have ADDRESS/BOOKING ning of superb culinary and cultural Fiskerestaurant OPENING HOURS Monday–Thursday 15:00–01:00 to offer. Domkirkegaten 6A, tel: 463 20 817 experiences. Monday–Saturday at 17:00–22:00 €€–€€€ Friday-Saturday: 12:00–02:00 www.tempotempo.no Sunday closed. Situated in Bergen’s traditional wharf Sunday: 12.00–01:00 OPENING HOURS The Festival Restaurants offer excel- Opens Mondays on request. in locations that are restored and *check our website for special hours Tuesday–Saturday 17:00–22:00 18 To kokker

1 hr extended opening hours on request for during the festival €€€ lent food in a wide range of prices and reset to Hanseatic times. ADDRESS/BOOKING groups of over 10 people. ADDRESS/BOOKING cuisines for you to explore. FiB Fordel OPENING HOURS Nedre Ole Bullsplass 4, tel: 55 55 40 00 To Kokker’s menu is a mix of the ADDRESS/BOOKING Nygårdsgaten 29 https://www.scandichotels.no/hotelnorge/ traditional and the special – genuine members receive a 20% discount on Monday–Sunday at 16:00–23:00 Hotel Bergen Børs, Torgallmenningen 2, Food orders before 22:30 www.hoggormpizza.no restaurantnova Norwegian traditional ingredients food – and you never know; perhaps tel: +47 40 00 24 55 ADDRESS/BOOKING prepared in new ways. there might just be a pop-up festival www.barerestaurant.no/en 10 Lille Tempo 14 Pascal Mat & Vin Bryggen 29, tel: +47 55 30 69 50 OPENING HOURS concert to complement your meal. € €€ 4 BARE Vestland www.enhjorningen.no Monday–Saturday 17:00–23:00 Intimate and cozy bar with its own Inviting and informal bistro-like €–€€ Food orders before 22:00 € Main course under NOK 200, 6 Escalón Fløien cocktails and bar snacks. restaurant where you will enjoy a Restaurant focusing on local, high- ADDRESS/BOOKING three-course menu under NOK 450 €€ OPENING HOURS pleasant atmosphere and friendly Bryggen 29, tel: +47 55 30 69 55 quality organic produce. Small dishes Bergen’s first tapas restaurant, Tuesday–Thursday 17:00–01:00 and efficient service. www.tokokker.no €€ Main course NOK 200–330, are put together into a sharing menu. located next to Fløibanen funicular’s Friday–Saturday 17:00–02.00 Sundayl 17:00–01:00 OPENING HOURS three-course menu NOK 450–550 OPENING HOURS lower station. An institution for gour- 19 Villani Pizzeria & Trattoria Monday closed Monday–Saturday at 11:30–23:00 Monday–Saturday at 12:00–22:00 mets in Bergen since 1998. Sunday at 14:00–23:00 €–€€ €€€ Main course over NOK 330, ADDRESS/BOOKING Sunday at 15:00–21:00 Food orders before 22:00 Authentic Italian restaurant in cozy three course menu over NOK 550 1 hr extended opening hours on request for OPENING HOURS Nygårdsgaten 29 ADDRESS/BOOKING groups of over 10 people. Sunday–Friday at 15:00–23:00 www.facebook.cow/Lille- Skostredet with Neapolitan pizzas, Saturday at 14:00–23:00 Tempo-208862913119871/ Scandic Neptun, Valkendorfsgate 8, tel: delicious pasta and other goodies. ADDRESS/BOOKING +47 55 30 68 00 ADDRESS/BOOKING Vågsallmenningen 1, tel: +47 40 00 24 55 www.scandichotels.no/Hotels/Norge/ OPENING HOURS Vetrlidsallmenningen 21, 11 1 26 North www.barevestland.no Lysverket Bergen/Neptun/ Sunday–Thuesday 12:00–22:00 tel: +47 55 32 90 99 €€–€€€ €–€€€ Wednesday–Saturday 12:00–23:00 www.escalon.no/restaurant-floien.php Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri Varied dishes with a focus on sea- 15 Roast Restaurant og Bar The bar is open Sunday–Thursday until 26 North Restaurant & Social Club 23:00 and Friday–Saturday until 01:00 €€–€€€ food from Western Norway. Offers €€ offers a Nordic menu with ingredients 7 Escalón Veiten Award-winning chefs Ørjan and Arnt At the top floor of Scandic Ørnen you from the Norwegian fjords, farms and €€ a tasting menu and a la carte in all ADDRESS/BOOKING Johannessen create a menu based on price ranges. will enjoy a spectacular view of the Skostredet 9A, tlf: 55 31 55 55 forests. Tapas restaurant and bar with spacious city and a menu of the season’s finest www.villani.no fresh ingredients and natural, good OPENING HOURS OPENING HOURS outdoor seating facing the theatre. ingredients. Monday–Saturday 18:00–22:30 flavors. Café Monday–Saturday at 12:00–15:30 OPENING HOURS The bar is open from 12:00 until late Dinner Tuesday–Saturday at 18:00–22:00 OPENING HOURS OPENING HOURS Sunday–Tuesday at 15:00–22:00 The bar is open Tuesday–Saturday Monday–Saturday at 17:00–22:00 ADDRESS/BOOKING Monday–Saturday at 12:00–22:00 Wednesday–Thursday at 15:00–23:00 Sunday at 12:00–20:00 until 24:00 Subject to changes. Bryggen 47, tel: +47 47 71 04 67 Friday–Saturday at 13:00–23:00 Opening hours may be extended in relation ADDRESS/BOOKING www.26north.no/bergen Scandic Ørnen, Lars Hilles gate 18, ADDRESS/BOOKING ADDRESS/BOOKING to performances during the festival, please See also fib.no. tel: +47 55 37 50 00 (50) Bekkjarvik, tel: +47 55 08 42 40 Veiten 3, tel: +47 55 32 90 99 see www.lysverket.no. www.roastfood.no/bergen www.bekkjarvikgjestgiveri.no www.escalon.no/restaurant-veiten.php

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Join us km Expand your Festival Artist and audience hosts? Produc- EDVARD GRIEGS Opening Ceremony tion or office assistant? These are PLASS experience some of the tasks our 200 volunteers undertake during the Festival. Their DATE/TIME help is crucial to the production of Wednesday 22 May Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway will at- one of Norway’s biggest cultural ​Welcome to the grand opening of the The Bergen International Festival is more than the at 12:30 tend the official opening of the Festival. His events. As a volunteer, you get an 67th Bergen International Festival! performances themselves. Majesty the King is the Festival's high protec- insider’s view of the Festival and DURATION 1:00 The official opening ceremony will take tor, as was both his father King Olav and his inspiring experiences together place at Edvard Griegs plass (Edvard Grieg's grandfather King Haakon. with the staff and other volunteers. LANGUAGE Square), right outside Grieghallen, where ar- Read See and listen More information and registration at The performance tistic performances, speeches and the Bergen The opening ceremony is free and open to will be interpreted ¡¡fib.no ¡¡Playlists on Spotify, YouTube and www.fib.no/en/volunteer. song Utsigter fra Ulriken will mark the begin- everyone. Welcome to the official start of 15 for the hearing days of festivities, foundations and friction, ¡¡Digital catalogue Facebook impaired. ning of this year's Festival. and experiences which will linger in soul and ¡¡Introductions to the performance, Hang with us OTHER The Bergen International Festival has com- body! in the arena and on fib.no Stay up-to-date Join us at the Festival Lounge in the Arrive early if you missioned a new work by composer and mu- ¡¡Sign up for our newsletter on ¡¡Follow the opening ceremony on tent at the Festival Square every want to secure sician Martin Horntvedt for the occasion. The a seat. fib.no fib.no evening from Thursday 23 May to work will be performed by some of Norway’s Supported by Grieg Foundation and the Kavli ¡¡Receive SMS from us by Tuesday 04 June. Open for the public Free most outstanding instrumentalists, together Trust sending password FIB to 2240 and everyone involved in the festival. admission with musicians from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bergen Boys Choir. (Norwegian phone numbers only). See you there! Sponsored by DNB and Equinor

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GRIEGHALLEN Getting to FOYER 1ST FLOOR and around Bergen DATE/TIME Wednesday 22 May at 13:30–17:00 Thursday 23 May at 13:00–15:00 & 16:00–18:00 Friday 24 May at 13:00–15:00 You can travel to Bergen by air, train, Boat to Lysøen & 16:00–19:00 boat, bus or car. As a European City The boat journey is approx. 1 hour. Saturday 25 May of Culture and a World Heritage City, CONCERTS AT 11:30 at 13:00–15:00 Free transport & 16:00–20:00 Bergen offers world-class experien- Departure from Dreggekaien at 10:00 to the Return from Lysøen, departure at 14:00 Sunday 26 May ces and culture. At VisitBergen.com at 13:00–15:00 you will find extensive visitor infor- CONCERTS AT 14:30 & 16:00–18:00 Composer Departure from Dreggekaien at 12:45 mation about transport, accommoda- Return from Lysøen, departure at 16:15 Monday 27 May tion, activities and sights. If you are Homes at 16:00–18:00 Tuesday 28 May in town, you can drop by the Bergen Bus to Siljustøl at 13:00–15:00 The bus journey is approx. 30 min. Tourist Information Centre located at Return transport is included in the & 16:00–18:00 Strandkaien 3, near the Fish Market. ticket for each concert. CONCERT AT 15:00 Wednesday 29 May Departure from Strandkaien, at 13:00–15:00 Bus to Troldsalen Tourist information/Mathallen at 14:00 & 16:00–20:00 Return from Troldhaugen, Thursday 30 May /Troldhaugen departure at 16:30 at 13:00–15:00 Festival taxi The bus journey is approx. 30 min. & 16:00–20:00 CONCERTS AT 18:00 Friday 31 May Are you in need of a taxi to and from Departure from Strandkaien, at 13:00–15:00 Tourist information/Mathallen at 17:00 & 16:00–20:00 loudspeakers produce a feeling of being at the performances? Return from Troldhaugen, Saturday 01 June VR Lounge centre of the music, the audience will experience departure at 19:30 at 13:00–15:00 Call our Partner Bergen Taxi on the pieces in momentous detail. CONCERTS AT 19:30 & 16:00–18:00 (+47) 55 99 70 00. Departure from Strandkaien, Sunday 02 June Equipped with VR headsets, the audience tra- Tourist information/Mathallen at 18:30 at 13:00–15:00 with Philharmonia vels from the conductor's podium and into outer Return from Troldhaugen, 25 May and Monday 03 June Orchestra 02 June, departure at 21:00 at 13:00–15:00 space. In Mahler 3: Live from London, the last Return from Troldhaugen, 27.05., & 16:00–18:00 ten minutes of Mahler's epic third symphony 31 May and 03.06., departure at 21:30 Tuesday 04 June ​Experience the music from the real is performed. Beethoven's Fifth was created to CONCERTS AT 20:00 at 13:00–15:00 Departure from Strandkaien, & 16:00–20:00 ringside seats – where the musicians celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Voyager Tourist information/Mathallen at 19:00 Wednesday 05 June themselves sit. 1 and 2 spacecraft, and combines the first Return from Troldhaugen, at 13:00–16:00 movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony, play- departure at 21:30 After contributing some of last year's VR expe- ed by the orchestra, with images from space. Free riences, the Philharmonia Orchestra this year Bus to Grieg’s villa admission presents its two latest virtual performances. Beethoven's Fifth has won a Raindance Film /Troldhaugen The bus journey is approx. 30 min. Award and was selected for the VR cinema For more than ten years, the British orchestra, programme for the SXSW in 2018. CONCERTS AT 22:30 led by chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, Departure from Strandkaien, Tourist information/Mathallen at 21:30 has focused on reaching an audience beyond Return from Troldhaugen, the traditional concert hall. Having developed departure at 24:00 groundbreaking sound technology in which 18

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Platform GÁTT Bergen Now

​A major new initiative for young Nordic artists. Sharing experiences, connecting Iceland has the presidency of the Nordic Council people. in 2019 and is launching a new multi-year project for young, Nordic artists. During the gathering Bergen Now, the City Crescendo of Bergen in collaboration with the Bergen The Reykjavik Arts Festival is leading the initi- International Festival wishes to reach as many ative and has invited the Bergen International people as possible via the use of digital soluti- Festival and other festivals and institutions from – a mentoring programme Greenland, the Faroe Islands and to take ons. This means, among other things, that part in the creation of an international meeting for young classical Festival experiences will be live streamed to place for young Nordic artists within every arts musicians different arenas, thereby reaching audiences discipline. beyond the traditional cultural scenes. Crescendo connects tomorrow’s The initiative is called Platform GÁTT, from the young classical musicians with highly During the Festival period, the City of Bergen old Norse name for ‘doorway’. The institutions profiled mentors. will also demonstrate new to impor- select a handful of young artists for the project, tant tasks in society. The active and attractive whose contributions also include nominating ad- The mentoring programme is a joint venture city is in constant motion, and different varieties ditional participants. The goal is to create a large between Barratt Due Institute of Music, the of mobility are on the programme during this network of young artists based in the Nordic re- Bergen International Festival and the Oslo year's Bergen Now gathering. gion. Together they will carry out different artis- Philharmonic Orchestra, aiming to strengthen tic projects and participate in workshops hosted the young musicians’ awareness of their own See the entire programme at www.bergenna.no by the artistic institutions. artistic development and identity. ‘The young artists pursue wide-open chains of Crescendo has two programmes: The mentoring Produced by the City of Bergen thought reaching out in every direction. The programme for young soloists and chamber impact from such encounters at an early stage groups and Young Philharmonic Orchestra – a of your artistic career has a lifelong effect. We collaboration with the Oslo Philharmonic. wish to facilitate for young artists to meet a wi- Through coaching, performances and personal der range of potential partners across different contact in the mentoring programme, outstanding disciplines and provide a platform for them on young musicians with extraordinary soloist poten- which to present themselves’, says Festival Dire- tial get the chance to prepare for a professional ctor Anders Beyer. career with the guidance from top international Bergen International Festival is the first to re- musicians. Participation in the mentoring pro- Editor: Bergen International Festival / Design and concept: ANTI Bergen / Publisher: Bodoni / Front page og profile pictures: Thomas Morel/ANTI Bergen / Photogra- ceive visiting artists from Platform GÁTT. Next gramme also helps the Crescendo musicians in pher: Hans Jørgen Brun (p. 3), Gary Kramer (p. 10), Thor Brødreskift (p. 11), Magnus Skrede (p. 13), Priska Ketterer (p. 19), Thor Brødreskift (p. 17), Nina Blågestad/City in line is Nuuk on Greenland in October, then building a solid national and international network. of Bergen (p. 19), Thor Brødreskift (p. 13), Manuel Wagner (p. 22), Lucie Jansch (p. 25), The Other Richard (p. 26), Tor Høvik, BT (p. 27), Yngve Olsen (p. 28), Thomas Reykjavik Arts Festival and the Helsinki Festival Jahn (p. 28, portrett), NASA/JPL-Caltech (p. 29), Helge Hansen (p. 30), Tone Hauge (p. 31), Stephen Gill / fra serien og boken: The Pillar / 2015–2019 (p. 35), Thor This year’s festival offers three Crescendo con- Brødreskift (p. 36), Todd Rosenberg (p. 37), A. Karnaushenko, Mitch Jenkins, Marco Borggreve (p. 38), Thor Brødreskift (p. 39), Thomas Nielsen (p. 40), Ingrid Aasen in 2020, followed by The Nordic House on the certs: Leif Ove Andsnes & Friends (p. 44), Noah Wærness (p. 41), Thor Brødreskift (p. 42), Lars Myhren Holand (p. 43), fra venstre: Özgür Albayrak, Liv Øvland, Nikolaj Lund, Jiyang Chin, Kaupo Kikkas, Nikolaj Lund Faroe Islands in 2021. All artists in the network Bendix-Balgley & Friends (p. 64) and Sonatas (p. 44), Sven Withfelt (p. 45), Rune Kongsro (p. 47), Helge Hansen (p. 48), Marco Borggreve, Annamaria Kowalsky (p. 49), Søren Svendsen (p. 50), Satoshi Aoyagi, are invited to a final gathering in Reykjavik in Clive Barda (p. 51), Kaja Smith (p. 52), Dana van Leeuwen, Decca (p. 53), fra venstre: Lasse Berre, ikke oppgitt (p. 54), Andrej Grilc (p. 55), fra venstre: Anti, Kaupo with Crescendo (p. 65). spring 2021. Kikkas (p. 56), Tevje Akerø (p. 57), Anti (Lysøen), Nicolaj Lund, Julia Stix (p. 58), ikke oppgitt, Ilja Hendel (p. 59), Felix Broede (Ye-Eun Choi, p. 59 ), Dag Fosse/KODE (t.v.), Lluis Calm Vidal, Calm Vidal Photography (p. 61), Magne Sandnes (p. 62), Tuva Åserud (p. 63), fra venstre: Nikolaj Lund, Nadia Norskott, Jiyang Chen, Nikolaj Read more at crescendo-music.no/en Follow Platform GÁTT at fib.no/gatt. Lund, Nikolaj Lund, Steinar Dahl (p. 64), fra venstre: Liv Øvland, ikke oppgitt, Jiyang Chen, Birgit Solhaug, Nikolaj Lund (p. 65), Thor Brødreskift, Marco Borggreve The project is supported by Trond Mohn, (p. 66), Britt Lindemann (t.v.) (p. 67), Ingrid Aasen Wærness (p. 68), fra venstre: Özgür Albayrak, Nikolaj Lund, Jiyang Chin, Kaupo Kikkas, Nikolaj Lund (p. 69 t.v.), Platform GÁTT is a collaboration between the Marc Arthur Kidjo (p. 72), Max Parovsky (p. 73), Mattias Edwall (p. 74), Nelly Rodriguez (p. 75), Magnus Skrede (p. 76), Thomas Wågström/Forlaget Oktober (p. 77), Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Jebsen, The Bergen International Festival, Reykjavik Arts Stian Andersen (p. 78), Srdjan Dundjerovic (p. 79 t.v.), Julie Pike (p. 81 t.v.), Barbara Braun, MuTphoto (p. 80), Ingvild Skeie Ljones, Hans Fredrik Asbjørnsen (p. 83), Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Dextra Musica pixbynot (p. 84), Zoran Kubura (t.v.), Bædi & Børdi (t.h.) (p. 85), Ellen Stokland (t.v.), Gunnbjörg Gunnarsdottir (t.h.) (p. 86), Tom Arran (p. 88), Tonny Presser (p. 89), Festival, Helsinki Festival, Nordic House in the and Talent Norway. Thor Brødreskift (p. 90), Adam DJ Laity (p. 91), Julia Wesely (p. 92), Jan Holden (t.h.) (p. 93), foto av verk av Mari Slaattelid: Vegard Kleven (t.v., midten) og Øysten Faroe Islands and Nordic Institue in Greenland/ Thorvaldsen (t.h.), Morten Andenæs (portrett) (p. 99). Nuuk Nordic.

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DATE/TIME Chin Friday 31 May at 20:00 See page 35. Oslo String Festival Composer and Quartet TROLDHAUGEN Artist in Residence TROLDSALEN

DATE/TIME Monday 03 June at 19:30 See p. 29. The Korean composer Unsuk Chin (1961–) stu- full orchestra. In all categories her music is Arctic died and composition with Sukhi Kang virtuoso and full of drama, with conflict and Philharmonic Sinfonietta in and from 1985 with György Ligeti in reconciliation and elegant shadows in delicate BERGEN Hamburg. Chin made her breakthrough in 1994 soundscapes. Chin is a consummate artist of DOMKIRKE with Akrostichon-Wortspiel (acrostic wordplay) timbre, and her scores demand performers for Soprano and Ensemble. The work, which who are true virtuosi on their instruments. Not DATE/TIME Tuesday 04 June experiments with language and music, is per- infrequently theatrical requirements are made at 19:00 formed in the 2019 Bergen International Festival of the performer to emphasise the dramatic See p. 28. by the Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta (p. 28). element. The musician is expected to imitate, to create illusions, to be playful, to parody and Closing Since 1988 Unsuk Chin has been a freelan- Concert to surprise. with Bergen ce composer based in Berlin. Her music is Philharmonic performed by leading worldwide, Unsuk Chin will be present at the festival, par- Orchestra including the , the London ticipating in panel dialogues and at concerts GRIEGHALLEN Philharmonic and the . where her music is performed. She has the GRIEGSALEN She has received prestigious awards and has last word: DATE/TIME been presented at major international classical Wednesday 05 June music festivals. ‘The Bergen International Festival has an at 18:00 extraordinary history and enormous aspirations See p. 38. The composer explains: 'My music is a reflection for its artistic projects. I look forward to this o of my dreams. I try to render into music the collaboration with enthusiasm!’ visions of immense light and of an incredible Festival magnificence of colours that I see in all my ‘Unsuk Chin has a formidable ear for sonority Composer and for mining the expressive potential of the Unsuk Chin dreams, a play of light and colours floating slightest nuances of pitch and pulse’ BERGEN OFF. through the room and at the same time for- BIBLIOTEK ming a fluid sound sculpture. Its beauty is very – THE GUARDIAN (BERGEN PUBLIC abstract and remote, but it is for these very LIBRARY) NOTEROMMET, qualities that it addresses the emotions and 2ND FLOOR can communicate joy and warmth.'

DATE/TIME The Bergen International Festival presents Saturday 01 June at 14:00 Unsuk Chin in four concerts, ranging from works See p. 97. for solo instrument through chamber music to

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DATE/TIME Sunday 26 May ​Theatre that spindries your mind and at 19:00 & 22:00 examines the human basics: birth,

DURATION death, sex and food. 1:00 In Manes the Spanish ensemble La Fura ADDITIONAL dels Baus looks at basic human nature and INFORMATION attitudes. This is a standing audience event, This performance, physical and extreme, was where the performers can get first staged in 1996. In a motorised and techn- up-close. Wearing ological society without dignity La Fura dels washable clothing Baus sought to draw the viewer to perceive is recommended the animalistic and instinctive, the very essen- for the audience. ce of human existence. They are now staging RECOMENDED the piece again because they believe that in AGE today's society this shift of focus is once again From 16 years necessary.

TICKET Without a linear story line several scenes are Standard: 350 Senior: 315 presented simultaneously: different worlds share time and space – and you, the audience, Almost all descriptions of Nils Frahm remark Under 30: 190 Ifigeneia Androutsopoulou, Maria Caballero, wander in their midst. It is impossible to re- m that his inspiration comes from different wor- FiB Fordel: 280 main passive in relation to what is happening Adriana de Montserrat, Juanjo Herrero, lds. He has played the piano since childhood GRIEGHALLEN Nils BT Fordel: 262 in the room, both physically and mentally. Joan Llobera, David Marsol, Alfons Nieto, GRIEGSALEN and immersed himself in the style of classical Sanna Toivanen, Monica Barrio cast and of the past before for- Manes is gothic in essence, free from super- Miguel Angel Molino, Pau Tantiñà technicians DATE/TIME ging his own path as a composer in our time. Friday 24 May Frahm ficial aesthetics, while the pillars of humanity Ifigeneia Androutsopoulou tour manager Today, he is considered one of the leading and at 21:00 – birth, death, sex and food – are in focus in a Sara Reig lightning design most popular neo- or post-classical artists, conglomeration of emotions and experiences. Sara Reig, Pau Vila light technicians TICKET with music containing elements from both the Intimacy and privacy are invaded and presen- Standard: Big Toxic music classical and from electronica. ted for all to see – everything that is usually 250/400/490 Pep Pujol video kept concealed from public view for cultural Senior: Hypnotic neoclassical from Berlin. The soundscape is continuously beautiful, 225/360/441 reasons. Carlus Padrissa, Miki Espuma, Pau Domingo melodious and hypnotising. Frahm adds new music collaborators Under 30: 190 Berlin-based composer, studio artist and pia- ideas, emotions and dreamlike qualities to the The unique, eccentric and innovative langua- Nico Nubiola, Eduald Ferré set-design FiB Fordel: nist Nils Frahm last played in Bergen during which has resulted in millions ge, style and aesthetics of La Fura dels Baus Kike Blanco, Enric Masgrau, Ramon Tarés, 200/320/392 the Ekko Festival in 2014, and is said to create of streams and dedicated fans of many diffe- have become eponymous in theatrical circles, Eduald Ferré scenography minimalism for the great emotions. rent musical tastes. bringing substantial international success and Adrià Cortadellas, Gerard Lòpez influence. Last year's album All Melody had reviewers ‘Some albums are rooms that you can walk press, communications around the world using big words to describe into, and live in. All you have to do is plug in Rafael Vives, Nau Bostik, Natascha Wiese, it. This spring, Frahm embarks on a European your earphones and shut your eyes, and you Pera Tantiñà (La Fura dels Baus) Joaquim Tatin Revenga consultant and US tour that has already sold out a num- are there.' direction, concept ber of venues. At Store Scene in Oslo last year, – DAG OG TID REVIEW ON ALL MELODY the audience jostled for the best spots, and Ágata Tantiñà, Raúl Vargas the concert ended with tremendous applause management assistants from clapping hands and stomping feet. Nils​ Frahm instruments Rubèn Pujol, Pau Domingo production

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m t ​Hoffmann’s horror story in a By E.T.A. Hoffmann, Robert Wilson Scandinavian production by theatrical legend premiere Robert Wilson. and Anna Calvi Robert Wilson direction, design, lighting GRIEGHALLEN What happens to children who won't go to bed? music GRIEGSALEN Anna Calvi The wicked Sandman comes and throws sand Jacques Reynaud costume design DATE/TIME into their eyes, so that they start bleeding from Saturday 01 June Jherek Bischoff musical arrangements at 19:30 their heads. And what if you never quite could Ann-Christin Rommen co-direction Sunday 02 June shake off that nightmare? Annick Lavallée-Benny co-set design at 18:00 Alexander Djurkov-Hotter assistant Robert Wilson directs The Sandman, a terri- DURATION costume design ble tale from German Romanticism by E.T.A. 2:30 Scott Bolman co-lighting design including interval Hoffman, often considered one of the very first Manu Halligan make up-design horror story writers. The music is by British dra- LANGUAGE Tomasz Jeziorski video matic rock singer-songwriter Anna Calvi and Performed in Janine Ortiz dramaturgy German and English, performed by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Christian Friedel, Lou Strenger, titled in English. ensemble with the German star singer and actor Jonas Friedrich Leonhardi, Rainer Philippi, Christian Friedel in the lead. TICKET Rosa Enskat, Andreas Grothgar, Konstantin Standard: 250/600/800 Friedel plays the role of Nathanael, who loses Lindhorst, Yi-An Chen, Alexej Lochmann, Senior: his father in a mystical explosion. The little André Kaczmarczyk cast 225/540/720 Zuzana Leharová violin, keyboard Under 30: 190 boy is convinced that the tragic event must be related to the wicked Sandman. Even as an Radek Stawarz viola FiB Fordel : adult, Nathanael can never let the gruesome Nathan Bontrager cello 200/480/640 bedtime story go. Bernd Keul bass clarinet, bass clarinet ADDITIONAL Annette Maye INFORMATION The Sandman is filled with enchanted eye glas- Achim Fink tuba, trombone Two movie versions ses, living dolls and magic fire, and said to be Roger Schaffrath guitar, mandolin of the Sandman story will be shown at one of Robert Wilson's greatest productions. His Tim Dudek drums, electronic FiB x BIFF, subtle light compositions, precise movements Frank Schulte sound design see p. 81.. and bold stage settings blur the line between reality and delusion in one of the 2019 Festival's Produced by Unlimited Performing signature productions. o Arts, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Meet Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen the Artist Robert Wilson See p. 97. Supported by H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond

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Mari Grue soprano dm t Anne Daugstad Wik alto Einar Røttingen piano Scandinavian premiere Ricardo Odriozola violin Mara Smiukse violin DEN NATIONALE viola SCENE Ilze Klava STORE SCENE Ragnhild Sannes cello Tobias Olai Eide cello DATE/TIME Saturday 01 June jazz class at 18:00 Students from The Grieg Academy Sunday 02– Tuesday 04 June KETIL HVOSLEF (1939–) at 19:30 String Quartet no. 1 Trio for Soprano, Alto and Piano DURATION Octopus Rex for 8 Celli 1:30 String Quartet no. 4, rev. 2017 ADDITIONAL – World premiere INFORMATION Concerto for Violin and Pop Band Isango​ Ensemble will also perform St. Matthews Passion at Oseana In collaboration with The Grieg Academy, Thursday 30 May. ​ See p. 76

TICKET Standard: 450/500/550 Dubbed the ‘Black Titanic’, the sinking of SS m Senior: SS Mendi was one of the worst maritime disasters Ketil 405/450/495 UNIVERSITETS- Under 30: 190 in the 20th Century. 646 perished. AULAEN (THE UNIVERSITY Hvoslef FiB Fordel: Mendi SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill is a pow- AULA) 360/400/440 erful and moving celebration of life at the DATE/TIME 80 DN Fordel: moment of death, based on Fred Khumalo’s Saturday 25 May 382/425/467 Dancing historical novel and staged and performed by at 19:00 ‘Since then we have collaborated a lot and FJORDAHALLEN, the Death Drill commissioned several works from him. This has ’s award-winning Isango Ensemble. DURATION KINSARVIK The play’s world premiere in re- 1:25 ​Hvoslef with volume. been an essential part of our artistic activity, including interval and has influenced us both as performers and DATE/TIME ​Most had never seen the sea, many ceived wide critical acclaim. Thursday 06 June ​When he made his debut as a composer in as individuals,’ says Einar Røttingen. couldn’t swim, few returned from the TICKET at 18:00 “The final death drill — a stamping, ferocious Standard: 290 1964 Ketil Hvoslef followed in the footsteps disaster that has been dubbed ‘The ‘Chamber music is undoubtedly the format TICKET Black Titanic’. dance, the performers armed with spades Senior: 261 of his father Harald Sæverud, and he now has Ticket sales and pickaxes, eyes blazing — has a poten- Under 30: 190 an extensive oeuvre. Einar Røttingen (piano) in which Hvoslef’s personal style is best via Hardanger cy that knocks the breath from your body.” expressed. The ensembles vary from classical Musikkfest. The In January 1917, 823 South African men board FiB Fordel: 232 and Ricardo Odriozola (violin) are thoroughly groupings such as quartets to less common Bergen International the SS Mendi in Cape Town, volunteers for the – THE TIMES familiar with this. The artists behind this tribute Festival’s prices and bound for the Western Front. BT Fordel: 217 concert for the composer, who celebrates his combinations such as guitar, recorder, song and discounts are not 80th birthday in July 2019, are joined on the piano. The timbral picture is highly diverse, and applicable.​ Isango Ensemble Heavy pre-dawn fog shrouds the impending stage by established musicians and students even in the traditional ensembles he uses the Mark Dornford-May director disaster in The . The collision from the Grieg Academy, and Ketil Hvoslef instruments in surprising ways,’ explains the Mandisi Dyantyis musical director o comes with such that the SS Mendi sinks himself is involved in shaping the artistic result. . Lungelo Ngamlana choreography Writing in minutes. The colliding vessel sustains only Mannie Manim lighting designer a Tragedy minor damages. The captain does nothing for When Hvoslef was Festival Composer in 1990, In December 2018, Hvoslef became a Knight in Meet writer the men in the water. By the time rescue finally Røttingen and Odriozola both performed in one the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, for his Fred Khumalo. contribution to Norwegian contemporary music. See p. 97. arrives, it is too late for most. of his concerts in Håkonshallen.

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The Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra was nomi- md nated for the Spellemann award (the Norwegi- an Grammy) in 2018 for its recording of Eivind GRIEGHALLEN Mimodramas Buene’s Violin Concerto. In Bergen the work PEER GYNT- SALEN will be performed in a new version for violin solo and full sinfonietta, with Peter Herresthal DATE/TIME Modern legends at Bergen fair dose of humour. In her pantomime inspi- Friday 31 May as the soloist. at 20:00 International Festival. red piece cosmigimmicks Chin salutes Ligeti, accompanied by Carte Blanche. In their by Car- Conducting the Arctic Philharmonic is its DURATION BIT20 is on solid ground in this mind-blowing, te Blanche concept, the whole company joins American artistic director, Tim Weiss. 1:35 multi-disciplinary cooperation with Carte including interval to create a piece without a choreograp- Blanche – The Norwegian National Company her. Dancers and musicians meet up only hours Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta TICKET of Contemporary Dance and Bergen Interna- before showtime to create an outstanding Standard: 340 tional Festival. The festival composer selected Tim Weiss conductor Senior: 306 scenic moment, unique for this concert. Sara Hershkowitz soprano Under 30: 190 for 2019, Unsuk Chin, is an old acquaintance Ligeti’s music might lead some listeners into Peter Herresthal violin of the ensemble. FiB Fordel: 272 outer space, as his music is to many known In Peer Gynt-salen this evening, Chin’s work en- BT Fordel: 255 as the soundtrack to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space UNSUK CHIN (1961–) circles that of her old mentor, modern compo- Double Bind? for Solo Violin + Electronics Odyssey. Adding Stravinsky to the mix binds Akrostichon-Wortspiel (Acrostic Wordplay) : seven ser legend György Ligeti (1923–2006). Ligeti together the different time frames at play, per- scenes from fairy tales for Soprano and Ensemble was according to Chin very clear on one thing: haps with a characteristically restless energy EIVIND BUENE (1973–) She had to leave behind the avant-garde tra- Violin Concerto for Solo Violin and full Sinfonietta as the most obvious common nerve. This will dition she came from. Doing what you already be an evening that takes the audience through knew was completely forbidden! Besides their portraits of different eras – only to create the remarkable energy and undisputable strength In collaboration with Arctic Philharmonic ​ feeling that no era of style truly exists, only of character, the two composers also share a music and dance.

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

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DATE/TIME Wednesday 22 May at 18:45 By Calixto Bieito

Thursday 23 May & Karl Ove Knausgård at 19:30

DURATION 1:30 ​Peer Gynt from Solveig’s ‘Above me some crows came flying inland. point of view. More followed, and soon the air was black with TICKET birds. It was like a carpet of flesh, I thought, Standard: What is Norway’s national epic like, seen 250/650/850 with beautiful shifting patterns in blue and Senior: through Solveig’s eyes? What is the story of black, which dissolved the next instant …’ 225/585/765 the one who waits? – KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD Under 30: 190 The 2019 Bergen International Festival opens FiB Fordel: 200/520/680 with the world premiere of a symphonic Pas- Calixto Bieito director, idea, concept sion to the music of Edvard Grieg. Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård libretto BT Fordel 23 May: novelist Karl Ove Knausgård has created a Sarah Derendinger video design 187/487/637 modern Solveig in a poetic novella, and this forms a backdrop for the performance. Spa- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra nish director Calixto Bieito returns to the fes- Edvard Grieg Kor tival a decade after overturning Ibsen’s Peer Eivind Gullberg Jensen conductor Gynt and Brand. Mari Eriksmoen soprano ‘The theme of Waiting is the inescapable of Alexander Nohr baritone the loneliness of the human being, and the little details and stories that make up our exis- Stephen Gill Photo / from series and book: tence,’ says the director. The Pillar / 2015 - 2019 The role of Solveig is played by Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen, accompanied by the ​Produced by Bergen International Festival Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and sixteen in collaboration with Tivoli Copenhagen, singers from Edvard Grieg Kor under the baton Teatro Arriago de Bilbao, Vilnius Festival, of Eivind Gullberg Jensen. Video design is by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Sarah Derendinger, whose merits include the Symphony Orchestra. opening of the London Olympics. And Peer? He may turn up, but in an uncredited role. Supported by H. Westfal-Larsen og Waiting is an international co-production. Af- Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens ter the world premiere it will tour the Nordic Almennyttige Fond countries and Europe. Sponsored by DNB and Equinor

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m Closing Concert GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN

DATE/TIME Wednesday 05 June with Bergen Philharmonic at 18:00 Orchestra DURATION 2:15 including interval

ADDITIONAL The 2019 Festival closes with INFORMATION Introduction Mahler’s song-symphony and Chin’s (in Norwegian) playful piano concerto. by Gunnar Danbolt at 17:15 in the Under the baton of principal conductor Ed- Grieghallen foyer. ward Gardner the Bergen Philharmonic Or- TICKET chestra closes the 2019 Bergen International Standard: Festival with Festival Composer Unsuk Chin's 250/500/650 Senior: Piano Concerto. The soloist is the Korean pia- 225/450/585 nist , who has made a recording Under 30: 190 of the complex work with the Seoul Symphony

FiB Fordel: Orchestra. 200/400/520 ‘I particularly wanted to emphasise the vitality and the kinetic and virtuoso aspects – the play- ful side – of the piano,’ the composer explains.

The Piano Concerto is known for giving every single instrument in the orchestra an impor- tant role, and echoes the influence of Chin's teacher, György Ligeti. ​Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra After the interval comes Mahler's Das Lied von Edward Gardner conductor der Erde (the Song of the Earth), a symphony Sara Hershkowitz soprano for orchestra and two singers. It has been des- Sunwook Kim piano cribed as the composer's best and most-loved Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo-soprano work. The song-symphony treats the subjects Toby Spence tenor of longing, love and the inexorable certainty of human transience. Along with the Bergen UNSUK CHIN (1961–) Piano Concerto Philharmonic Orchestra two world-class solo- GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911) ists – mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova and Das lied von der Erde tenor Toby Spence – sing this year's festival into eternity.

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m The Brandenburg Concertos m Edvard Grieg Kor HÅKONSHALLEN HÅKONSHALLEN

DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Thursday 23 May Friday 24 May at 19:30 with Concerto Copenhagen at 19:30 Four Psalms

DURATION DURATION 1:50 1:10 New life for Grieg’s last work. including interval ‘Concerto Copenhagen’s Brandenburg ​The most famous job application of Edvard Grieg Kor the Baroque era. Concertos contain all the heart can desire: TICKET Edvard Grieg Kor, nominated for a Grammy ADDITIONAL Silje Solberg Hardanger fiddle grounding and striving for heaven, simplicity Standard: 430/460 award, is a familiar participant in the Bergen INFORMATION Senior: 387/414 Aleksander Nohr baritone Introduction The Brandenburg Concertos are six concerti and subtlety, tranquillity and unpredictability International Festival. The ensemble's repertoi- Under 30: 190 Paul Robinson, Håkon Matti Skrede (in Norwegian) grossi composed by Johann Sebastian Bach … what riches!’ re covers a wide range of genres. Among the by Gunnar Danbolt over a period of four years. During a visit to FiB Fordel: 344/368 musical direction at 18:55 in – KLASSISK composers who have dedicated works to the BT Fordel: 322/345 Håkonshallen Berlin, Bach performed for Christian Ludwig, vocal group are Jonathan Rathbone and David EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, who asked Lang. In Håkonshallen they sing a version of TICKET ​Concerto Copenhagen Four Hymns op. 74 to receive some of his compositions. Three with Hardanger fiddle interpolations Standard: 500/530 conductor, harpsichord Grieg's Four Psalms revised by Tyrone Landau. Senior: 450/477 years later Bach sent the six concertos along Arr. Tyrone Landau Under 30: 190 with a letter requesting employment. It is not In connection with the nineteenth century OLE BULL (1810–1880) The Herd-girl’s Sunday known whether Bach received a reply, but his JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) publication of the Norwegian Hymn Book, FiB Fordel: 400/424 Brandenburg Concertos Arr. Paul Robinson AGATHE BACKER-GRØNDAHL (1847–1907) BT Fordel: 375/397 job application has gone down in history as No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 composer Ludvig Mathias Lindeman travelled some of the most greatly loved music of the No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 around the country collecting religious folk tu- Calm is the evening Arr. Paul Robinson period. No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 nes. Grieg fell for the the 'moving depth and No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 EDVARD GRIEG No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 sincerity' of the songs, and based his opus 74 from Suite From Holberg’s Time, op. 40 The members of Concerto Copenhagen are No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 on them. This work – his last composition – re- Arr. Jonathan Rathbone all elite musicians who are thoroughly familiar 1. Gavotte mains a gem among late romantic sacred mu- 2. Sarbande with early music and have a burning desire sic. Tyrone Landau has revisited Lindeman's 3. Prelude to express this music as vital, relevant and notation and adapted the tunes for the fiddle. contemporary. Artistic director Lars Ulrik In Håkonshallen Hardanger fiddler Silje Sol- Mortensen, formerly professor in harpsichord Sponsored by DNV GL berg joins Edvard Grieg Kor to perform Lan- in Munich, has received the Léonie Sonning dau's arrangement. The concert also marks Music Prize, recognized as Denmark's highest the release of the choir's first solo album. musical honour.

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m the keys’, and has noted m ‘Ernest Bloch’s Three Nocturnes from 1924 Charlie a ’technique and virtuosity that makes your Grieg may be regarded as short musical fairy tales, HÅKONSHALLEN jaw drop.’ HÅKONSHALLEN with melodic material inspired by Jewish folk music. ’s Piano Trio is a DATE/TIME Albright Young Charlie learned to play the piano enti- DATE/TIME Trio Saturday 25 May Wednesday 29 May strikingly mature and personal work to have at 19:30 rely on his own and as a three-year-old went at 19:30 been composed by a 17-year-old student. from unstructured clunking to performing Amongst its dreams, hopes and faith in the DURATION A pianist who breaks the classical whole melodies that he had picked up. He still DURATION 2:00​ 1:45 future, there are already hints of the mature including interval rules of music by connecting with has the ability to listen and make music from including interval ​Effervescent, dramatic and composer’s musical signature,’ Anvik asserts. audiences like no other. what he hears: In concert, Charlie Albright grandiose. Romantic, mystical and ADDITIONAL often asks the audience to propose tones as TICKET restlessly energetic. INFORMATION American Charlie Albright was a breath of fresh Standard: 430/460 Grieg Trio Charlie Albright is starting-point for his improvisations. Senior: 387/414 also performing air when at short notice he came to perform Under 30: 190 These are some of the adjectives Grieg Trio Sølve Sigerland violin Grieg’s Piano his first concert in Norway at the 2017 Bergen uses to describe its concert programme. The Ellen Flesjø cello FiB Fordel: 344/368 Concerto in A minor International Festival. Enthusiastic members Charlie Albright piano trio has a remarkable ability to project moods, Vebjørn Anvik piano at Goosebumps. BT Fordel: 322/345 See p. 36. of the audience recounted an extraordinary and the nerve, playfulness and precision in musicality from a charming artist with a great (1770–1827) their playing has brought them glowing inter- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Piano Sonata no. 14 in C sharp Minor TICKET talent for conveying music.. national renown. The works they perform in Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, op. 1 Standard: 430/460 Quasi Una Fantasia, op. 27:2 ERNEST BLOCH (1880–1959) Senior: 387/414 GIAN CARLO MENOTTI (1911–2007) Håkonshallen mean a lot to the ensemble. 3 Nocturnes Under 30: 190 During this year’s Festival, he will play Ricercare and Toccata on a Theme from DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) Beethoven and Chopin and improvise around The Old Maid and the Thief ‘Beethoven and Mendelssohn were the first Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, op. 8 FiB Fordel: 344/368 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849) FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) his own compositions in the venerable Haakon’s Variations on Là Ci Darem La Mano, op. 2 composers we performed together at the start BT Fordel: 322/345 Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, op. 66 Hall. Albright has performed with artists like CHARLIE ALBRIGHT in 1987. The music of these two composers violinist Joshua Bell, singer and conductor Live Piano Sonata Improvisation from notes from has followed us ever since, and has been an the audience Bobby McFerrin, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma who will inexhaustable source of inspiration,’ says pia- also be performing at this year’s Festival (p. 37). nist Vebjørn Anvik.

The Post has described Albright as Supported by Yvonne and As a contrast they have included early twenti- one of the ’most gifted musicians of his gene- Bjarne Rieber/AS Rika eth century music. ration with a dazzling natural understanding of

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)/ ALSO ATTRIBUTED TO CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714–1788) Sonata for Recorder and Harpsichord obbligato in G minor, BWV 1020 JACOB VAN EYCK (1590–1657) Two Variations for Descant Recorder solo: Prins Robberts Masco Wat zal men op den avond doen DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685–1757) Harpsichord Sonata in B flat minor, K. 87 Harpsichord Sonata in D minor, K. 516 Harpsichord Sonata in D minor, K. 517 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sonata in E minor for Recorder and Basso Continuo, BWV 1034 Sonata in B minor for Recorder and Harpsichord, BWV 1030 OLAV ANTON THOMMESSEN (1946–) The Blockbird for Treble Recorder solo, composed 1981 for Michala Petri HENNING CHRISTIANSEN (1932–2008) It is Spring, op. 57, composed 1970 for Michala Petri Ernő Dohnányi's gorgeous Piano Quintet no. 2 is JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH m Sonata in C Major for Recorder and Basso Continuo, Leif Ove Andsnes a piece I got to know a couple of years ago, and Michala Petri & BWV 1033 I have come to appreciate it greatly. It is beauti- HÅKONSHALLEN & Friends fully theatrical, childlike, nostalgic and romantic Mahan Esfahani DATE/TIME music. The five instruments together create a Saturday 01 June wonderful sound,’ says Leif Ove Andsnes. at 19:30 m ​Playful chamber music across the generation gap. DURATION Leif Ove Andsnes piano 2:00 possible level’ was the jury’s verdict. The HÅKONSHALLEN including interval ​From Baroque to the present day For several years Leif Ove Andsnes has been Sonoko Miriam Welde violin with a remarkable duo. Håkonshallen concert showcases the breadth DATE/TIME a permanent mentor in the Crescendo pro- Johan Dalene violin ADDITIONAL of their repertoire, which ranges from Baroque Thursday 30 May gramme, in which selected young musicians Ludvig Gudim violin INFORMATION ​Michala Petri, who has been referred to as ‘a at 19:30 music to the 1980s. work intensively with experienced artists. Mu- Mahan Esfahani phenomenon in Danish music’, has in the course Timothy Ridout viola is also performing DURATION sicians of different generations appear on the Torleif Thedéen cello the Goldberg of her over 50 year long career demonstrated a Michala Petri recorder 1:45 stage on equal terms, and create scintillating Amalie Stalheim cello Variations constant curiosity and interest in extending the including interval in Troldsalen, harpsichord and moving moments of pure musicality. expressive range of the recorder. This has inspi- Mahan Esfahani Kristoffer Almås percussion Friday 31 May TICKET at 19:30. red many composers, and the Håkonshallen Standard: 500/530 The concert starts with Shostakovich's String DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) See p. 52. audience will be able to enjoy several works Senior: 450/477 Quartet no. 7 and Mozart's G minor Piano String Quartet no. 7 in F sharp minor, op. 108 Under 30: 190 composed especially for her. Quartet. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) TICKET Standard: 430/460 FiB Fordel: 400/424 Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor, K478 Iranian-American Mahan Esfahani has since 'The common feature of these works is their ALEXANDER WUSTIN (1943–) Senior: 387/414 BT Fordel: 375/397 compactness, and they alternate between Dedication for Cello, Marimba and Piano Under 30: 190 his debut untiringly championed the harp- playfulness and intensity,' explains the pianist. ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI (1877–1960) sichord as a concert instrument. He has won Piano Quintet no. 2 in E flat minor, op. 26 FiB Fordel: 344/368 He is looking forward to a new concert under several prestigious prizes, including the BBC the auspices of Crescendo, as he is to working BT Fordel: 322/345​ Music Magazine Award for his recording of the with the young British violist Timothy Ridout Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young Goldberg Variations, a work he also performs and the acclaimed cellist Torleif Thedéen. classical musicians under the direction of the Bergen in Troldsalen at the 2019 Bergen International International Festival, Barratt Due Music Institute and Festival (p. 52). The programme also includes works by com- The Oslo Philharmonic. More info, see p. 16. posers less frequently heard in concert. Esfahani and Petri won the 2016 International Classical Music Award for their first recording 'Alexander Wustin is highly respected in Russia, Supported by The Savings Bank together: ‘Chamber music at the highest but rarely performed outside his home country. Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica

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Vertavo Quartet

with Paul Lewis

m ​World class celebration. Vertavo Quartet HÅKONSHALLEN ​In 1984 four teenagers had the brilliant idea of Øyvor Volle violin combining forces in a string quartet. Thirty-five DATE/TIME Annabella Meare violin Sunday 02 June years and countless concerts, prizes and record- Berit Cardas viola at 18:30 ings later the now renowned Vertavo Quartet Bjørg Lewis cello gives an anniversary concert in Håkonshallen, DURATION Paul Lewis piano 1:40 joined by guest soloist Paul Lewis (piano). including interval The Norwegian string players, who consistently JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) String quartet no. 2 in F major, op. 74 ADDITIONAL receive praise and recognition worldwide for WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) INFORMATION Piano Concerto, K414 ​Paul Lewis is also their captivating musical expression, have been BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824–1884) performing in referred to as ‘the queens of chamber music’. As String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, JB 1:105 Grieg’s villa the oldest active quartet in Norway – and the Aus meinem Leben Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May oldest female quartet in the world – they hold at 22:30, a special place in the history of music. see p. 56. ‘Assiduous work, solid cohesion and the urge TICKET Standard: 430/460 to tell a story in music – this is our holy trinity,’ Senior: 387/414 says violist Berit Cardas. Under 30: 190 They have collaborated with pianist Leif Ove FiB Fordel: 344/368 Andsnes and violinist Lawrence Power in addi- BT Fordel: 322/345​ tion to touring as a quintet with pianist Paul Lewis.

During their anniversary concert the Vertavo Quartet performs works they have lived with for several decades, in what the queens themselves refer to as ‘a lovely programme that shows a lot of what we are.’ Time to celebrate!

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Daniel Behle & Sveinung Bjelland

m ​Schubertian streams.

TROLDHAUGEN Tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Sveinung TROLDSALEN Bjelland have collaborated closely for many years, and their recordings have reaped brilliant DATE/TIME Saturday 25 May reviews in the international press. Together they Welcome to at 19:30 will perform Die schöne Müllerin, ‘The Miller’s Daughter’, a song cycle by Franz Schubert with DURATION the Composer Homes 1:00 lyrics by Wilhelm Müller. TICKET The story follows a young journeyman miller in Standard: 430 his quest for happiness, and in unrequited love, ornamentals both exteriorly and inside the high Senior: 387 Great acoustics for small formats. Under 30: 190 heartbreak and death. His relationship with the ceiling of the music hall – all carved out of river trickles uninterruptedly throughout the The Festival is fortunate to be able to stage a FiB Fordel: 344 Norwegian pine – the villa emerges like a dream work – he follows the river’s beckoning song, number of concerts in the homes of Norwegian BT Fordel: 322 of a blue fairytale castle. Eight concerts will take talks to it, and eventually ends his own life by composers Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull and Harald place here during the festival. in it. The cycle ends with the river’s Sæverud. TRANSPORT Transport Siljustøl – the home of Harald Sæverud (1897- lullaby, which tells of the short and emotionally The concerts on the historic properties of included in ticket, 1992), played an important role in the composer’s see p. 14. compelled life of the human, and of the eternal these three composers traditionally celebrate musical production. The piano in Sæverud’s beauty of nature. Norwegian music, old and new. FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) study and his personal belongings are placed ‘To me, the singing of song cycles is the most Die Schöne Müllerin, op. 25, D 795 Troldhaugen was the home of Nina and Edvard as he left it when he passed away. The property 1. Das Wandern (B major) intimate and purest form of classical singing. 2. Wohin? (G major) Grieg, and the couple lived there for 22 years was officially opened as a museum in 1997 and It is my most important catharsis,’ says Behle, 3. Halt! (C major) from 1885. The four concerts in Grieg’s Villa take offers a large and beautiful outdoor area, perfect who together with Bjelland has performed and 4. Danksagung an den Bach (G major) place in their living room, giving the Festival audi- for family activities. The concerts are curated 5. Am Feierabend (A minor) recorded several famous song cycles such as 6. Der Neugierige (H major) ence the chance see world-class performances by professor and violinist Peter Herresthal and Schubert’s Winterreise, Johannes Brahm’s Die 7. Ungeduld (A major) festival director Anders Beyer. up-close. The magnificent concert hall Troldsalen, schöne Magelone and Robert Schumann’s 8. Morgengruss (C major) situated right next to the Villa, is well known for its 9. Des Müllers Blumen (A major) Read more about the Composer Homes at Dichterliebe. 10. Tränenregen (A major) excellent acoustics, especially suited for chamber kodebergen.no/en 11. Mein! (D major) music. Nine concerts will take place here. 12. Pause (B major) Transport is included in the ticket. For more Daniel Behle tenor 13. Mit dem grünen I Lautenbande (B major) Ole Bull’s summer house on Lysøen was con- information see page 14. Sveinung Bjelland piano 14. Der Jäger (C minor) structed in 1872–73 and is quite unique in 15. Eifersucht und Stolz (G minor) Norwegian architectural history. Lysøen Museum 16. Die liebe Farbe (H minor) Supported by The Savings Bank 17. Die böse Farbe (H major) consists of Ole Bull’s villa, a 17th century farm Supported by The Savings Bank 18. Trockne Blumen (E minor) settlement and the seven square kilometer Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and 19. Der Müller und der Bach (G minor l) island itself. With its onion domes and exotic Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation 20. Des Baches Wiegenlied (E major)

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m Isserlis and Levin give two concerts of diffe- Trio con Brio though it is actually an extremely tragic piece,’ Steven Isserlis & rent Beethoven programmes in the intimacy of says Jens Elvekjær. TROLDHAUGEN Troldsalen, where audiences gain close contact TROLDSALEN Copenhagen Beethoven had to be included, as the trio is Robert Levin with the artists and their music. releasing a recording of his complete Piano Steven Isserlis & Trios in connection with their anniversary. Robert Levin I Steven Isserlis & Robert Levin I Elvekjær explains why: DATE/TIME m ​In 2019 Trio con Brio Copenhagen Wednesday 29 May ​Double concert with an electric LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) ‘After living intensely with this unique music for at 18:00 star duo. Cello Sonata no. 1 in F major, op 5:1 leaves their teenage years behind, 12 Variations for Cello & Piano in F major TROLDHAUGEN celebrating their twentieth almost twenty years, it makes sense to make a Steven Isserlis & on Mozart’s Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, op. 66 TROLDSALEN ‘Dynamic, intimate, often electric. There’s musical statement!’ Cello Sonata no. 4 in C major, op. 102:1 anniversary in Troldsalen. Robert Levin II a sense of two powerful minds intensely DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Monday 27 May ​The Trio brings together two ‘musical pairs’, engaged in Beethoven’s dialogue. At best it’s at 19:30 Wednesday 29 May with sisters Soo-Jin Hong (violin) and Soo- Trio con Brio Copenhagen at 20:00 unbeatable.’ Steven Isserlis & Robert Levin II DURATION Kyung Hong (cello) making one pair and the Soo-Kyung Hong cello LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) 1:30 This is BBC Music Magazine’s review of the 12 Variations for Cello and Piano on See, Soo-Jin Hong violin DURATION including interval cellist sister and her Danish husband, Jens combination of cellist Steven Isserlis and pia- the conqu’ring hero comes from G F Handel’s Jens Elvekjær piano 1:00 Elvekjær (piano) making the other. nist Robert Levin. Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45 TICKET TICKET Cello Sonata no. 2 in G minor, op. 5:2 Standard: 430 The ensuing closeness is reflected in the EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) PER CONCERT The Herald (Scotland) writes: ‘Levin is an asto- Cello Sonata no. 5 in D major, op. 102:2 Senior: 387 dynamics of the ensemble, which alongside the Andante con moto in C minor, EG 116 Standard: 530 unding communicator. Sometimes he says a lot; Under 30: 190 Senior: 477 freshness and curiosity of their approach has LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Piano Trio no. 5 in D major, op. 70:1 Under 30: 190 sometimes very little. But what he does and says FiB Fordel: 344 resulted in performances at and Steven Isserlis cello DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) FiB Fordel: 424 is gold dust.’ He has completed some of Mozart’s Wigmore Hall, collaboration with Per Nørgård Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67 unfinished works, including his Requiem. Robert Levin piano BT Fordel: 322 and Bent Sørensen, awards from home and BT Fordel: 397 Grammy-nominated Isserlis is internationally TRANSPORT abroad and critically acclaimed recordings. TRANSPORT acclaimed as a soloist, chamber musician, edu- Supported by The Savings Bank Transport Supported by The Savings Bank Transport included in ticket, At the Bergen International Festival they per- included in ticket, cator and author. He has a broad repertoire and Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and see p. 14. form Beethoven, Grieg and Shostakovich. see p. 14. a characteristic playing style, and champions Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation ‘The Shostakovich Trio has followed us since authentic performances of both older works the start, and has always brought us joy, even and contemporary music.

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TROLDHAUGEN TROLDSALEN Hilary Hahn DATE/TIME Saturday 01 June at 18:00 & 20:00 Just Bach. Twenty years, a great fanbase, three Grammy DURATION awards and eighteen recordings later, the violi- 1:00 The American violinist Hilary Hahn has always nist returns to Bach. On the album Hilary Hahn TICKET gone her own way. She astonished critics when released in autumn 2018 she has recorded the Standard: 530 she released her first album at the age of 17. remaining three of Bach’s works for violin solo, Senior: 477 Not only are Bach’s works for solo violin consi- Under 30: 190 and this season she gives Bach recitals from dered to be amongst the most demanding for Tokyo to San Francisco – and in Bergen. FiB Fordel: 424 the instrument – and thus a daring choice for BT Fordel: 397 a debut album – but her performance was so Hilary Hahn is known for her clear, vibrant compelling that a reviewer wrote: ‘I would go so musicality, her thorough interpretation of a wide TRANSPORT Transport far as to say that I’ve never heard this legendary, variety of works, and an uncommon ability to included in ticket, impossible piece of music played on a higher make contact with her audience. As an experi- see p. 14. level, technically and musically, than it is on enced blogger, she has recently instigated an Hahn’s debut CD.’ Instagram programme – #100daysofpractice – to demystify the creative process, and is equally at home bringing her violin along to m a knitting club or maternity course as to the The Goldberg Variations world’s greatest concert halls. TROLDHAUGEN TROLDSALEN DATE/TIME Friday 31 May with Mahan Esfahani Hilary Hahn violin at 19:30 DURATION From youthful rebellion to a ‘Lots of things are old. Lots of traditions are old. Supported by The Savings Bank 1:20 life’s work. I like it because it’s beautiful. The harpsichord Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and enables you to hear much more subtlety, and ADDITIONAL Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation INFORMATION On the cover of the Goldberg Variations Johann it has a sensual quality,’ he claims. Mahan Esfahani Sebastian Bach wrote ‘Composed for Music is also performing Lovers, to Refresh their Spirits’. The work ‘… [every 10 years or so] a recording of JS Bach’s with Michala Petri Goldberg Variations arrives that significantly in Håkonshallen opens with an aria, after which the composer Saturday 01 June conjures up over thirty variations of the tune in changes the way you hear the piece. So it is at 19:30, a work that, almost three hundred years later, with Mahan Esfahani …’ see p. 45. still fascinates the music lovers to whom he – PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER TICKET dedicated it. Standard: 490 Senior: 441 Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Under 30: 190 Iranian-American Mahan Esfahani took piano lessons from his father before developing an FiB Fordel: 392 interest in the harpsichord as a teenager. In an JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) BT Fordel: 367 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 interview with American NPR (National Public TRANSPORT Radio), Esfahani relates how the sound of the Transport harpsichord annoyed his father, so his youthful Supported by The Savings Bank included in ticket, see p. 14. rebellion was to continue playing! Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Two decades later he is the recipient of numer- ous awards, including the BBC Music Magazine Award for his recording of the Goldberg Variations.

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m Astrid Nordstad Oslo TROLDHAUGEN TROLDSALEN & Christian Grøvlen String Quartet DATE/TIME Sunday 02 June at 19:30

DURATION 1:00 ​Grieg’s poignant Haugtussa songs in nature and her love for young Jon. Grieg paints ​A versatile audience favourite with youthful, but at the same time surprisingly TICKET with a broad brush, and the work is arguably m mature. His quartet is clearly influenced by Standard: 430 eastern European company. familiar – and new – enthusiasm. one of his most beautiful,’ the pianist claims. TROLDHAUGEN Grieg’s great G minor Quartet in form, the- Senior: 387 Astrid Nordstad, mezzo-soprano, comes to Under 30: 190 TROLDSALEN With a reputation as one of the most versatile mes and content. The result however is pure the Bergen International Festival from the DATE/TIME ensembles in the world, a high artistic standard Debussy at his best.’ FiB Fordel: 344 Astrid Nordstad mezzo-soprano Norwegian Opera, where she is an intern this Monday 03 June and integrity, Oslo String Quartet constantly season, along with Christian Grøvlen, piano. Christian Hundsnes Grøvlen piano at 19:30 BT Fordel: 322​ enriches the string quartet repertoire in a multi- In Troldsalen they perform works by Dvořák, DURATION tude of genres through their critically acclaimed Oslo String Quartet TRANSPORT Bartók and Grieg. ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) 1:30 recordings and successful concerts and tours. Geir Inge Lotsberg violin Transport Gypsy Melodies, op. 55 including interval Liv Hilde Klokk violin included in ticket, BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) ‘Like Grieg’s music, Dvořák’s is imbued with TICKET see p. 14. Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71, BB 79 In Bergen they perform a work by Festival Magnus Boye Hansen viola national romantic elements. The Czech mas- Standard: 430 EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Øystein Sonstad cello Senior: 387 Composer Unsuk Chin, whose music they were ADDITIONAL ter combines Slavic passion, virtuosity and Haugtussa, op. 67 Under 30: 190 not familiar with at the outset. ’It was an exciting INFORMATION warmth. Bartók continues in the aesthetic of challenge, so we took it,’ says cellist Øystein ​JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) Astrid Nordstad and both Dvořák and Grieg, but with sharper edges, FiB Fordel: 344 Christian Grøvlen are Sonstad. String Quartet in G major. 77:1 also performing in more intense rhythms and raw expressivity,’ BT Fordel: 322 UNSUK CHIN (1961–) Supported by The Savings Bank ParaMetaString (1996) Løo in Bekkjarvik says Christian Grøvlen. The father of the String Quartet, Joseph Haydn, Friday 31 May Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and TRANSPORT (1862–1918) Transport at 19:00, Nordstad and Grøvlen received third prize in Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation figures with one of his later quartets, which String Quartet no. 1 in G minor, op. 10 see p. 69. included in ticket, Sonstad describes as ’very sweeping, crisp and the 2017 Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition see p. 14. for their programme, which included Grieg’s fresh.’ The programme also includes Debussy’s Supported by The Savings Bank Haugtussa. only String Quartet, one of his earlier works. Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and ‘Haugtussa is a highlight in the art of lied – a ‘It’s an absolute favourite in the very extensive Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation moving story of Veslemøy’s mystical bonds with repertoire for the string quartet – of course

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Grieg’s Villa

Experience the atmosphere in Paul Lewis Tor Espen Aspaas Edvard Grieg’s

living room. DATE/TIME DURATION piano. It encompasses everything Tor Espen Aspaas I Norwegian Order of Saint Olav for his June the award-winning musician Friday 24 May 1:00 from the blustering to the introspecti- efforts for music and cultural disse- will perform works by Schumann and Saturday 25 May DATE/TIME at 22:30 ve, the farcical to the deeply serious, Friday 31 May mination. This year he returns to the Strømholm, as well as by Beethoven the tender-hearted to the downright at 22:30 Bergen International Festival to per- and Grieg. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION bloody-minded – and a final variation form two solo concerts in Grieg's villa. Paul Lewis also performes as guest Tor Espen Aspaas II which, miraculously, manages to rise soloist at the Vertavo Quartet concert in Choosing the music he will play was Tor Espen Aspaas piano Håkonshallen Sunday 02 June (p. 46). above it all while looking in all possi- DATE/TIME Saturday 01 June with all of Troldhaugen in mind. ble directions at once,’ explains Paul at 22:30 ​Beethoven’s monumental Tor Espen Aspaas I Lewis, who will perform the variations 'The nature, the rain, the Nordås lake, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) DURATION work for piano in the hands in Grieg’s Villa. the view; the volumes of Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, op. 109 1:00 of a master interpreter. sonatas that Grieg sat on down in his EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas and the Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 7 composers' cabin and the sheltered In his Diabelli Variations Beethoven Diabelli Variations are among Paul Double concert in the spirit of EGIL HOVLAND (1971–) but lonely atmosphere there; the Raindrop Etude took a simple waltz by Anton Lewis’s numerous prize-winning Troldhaugen. composer portraits, the paintings LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Diabelli and expanded it into a work recordings. Piano Sonata no. 31 in A flat major, op. 110 of impressive depth and breadth. Genius​ loci is a term used by the anci- and the objects in the living room; the ‘All in all, Mr. Lewis again proves him- ent Romans which in Latin means 'the books in the shelves; the distinctive Among the devices he prescribed Tor Espen Aspaas II self a major Beethoven interpreter.’ spirit of the place', its distinctive, uni- sound of the grand piano and the inti- were unbridled tempi and dynamic ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) fluctuations, and he included several – NEW YORK TIMES que atmosphere. The inspiration for macy, the closeness ... Troldhaugen Arabesque in C major, op. 18 the programme for these two concerts is a very special place that forever EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) musical references to other compo- Lyric Pieces, op. 43 sers. comes from my own memories, perfor- 'moves in' to the consciousness of a Supported by The Savings Bank Paul Lewis piano FOLKE STRØMHOLM (1973–) mances and moods at Troldhaugen', musician,' says Aspaas. Water: a phenomenological study Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and ‘I can think of no piano work more LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) says Tor Espen Aspaas. On the programme Friday 31 May we Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation wide-ranging in character than LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Piano Sonata no. 32 i C minor, op. 111 Beethoven’s final major work for Diabelli Variations, op. 120 In 2016, the profiled pianist from Røros find Beethoven, Grieg and Hovland's was made Knight 1st Class of the Royal Raindrop étude, and on Saturday 01

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m The duo has not forgotten where 10-year-old. When she was 16, she they are appearing: they round off the was discovered by the German star LYSØEN MUSEUM concert with works by Ole Bull. violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who TICKET TRANSPORT has described her as ’a musician who Standard: 650 Transport strives to express herself in her own Senior: 585 included in ticket, Under 30: 190 see p. 14. Marianne Thorsen violin unique way and has a recognisable Håvard Gimse piano sound expression. She is one of the FiB Fordel: 520​ Noah Marianne most talented violinists of today.’ ALF HURUM (1882–1972) In Bergen, Choi plays with the young Bendix-Balgley Thorsen & Sonata no. 1 i d-minor op. 2 PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Russian pianist Dmitry Shishkin. Håvard Gimse Souvenir d'un lieu cher, op. 42 After hearing him play at the Palermo JOHAN HALVORSEN (1864–1935) Classica Festival in 2017, she was with Christoph Air Norvégien, op. 7 Traxler OLE BULL (1810–1880) quick to request a collaboration. Barcarolle Shishkin is studying at the Moscow Sigrids sang DATE/TIME DURATION DATE/TIME DURATION Cantabile (Reminiscencer fra Concerten Conservatory, in addition to his Saturday 25 May 1:00 Sunday 26 May 1:00 extensive concert activities world- at 11:30 & 14:30 i Fredriksværn) Ole Bull’s at 11:30 & 14:30 Polacca Guerriera wide. ​A passionate and experienced has chosen a varied list of works ​Treasures from two of Together they will explore the musi- Lysøen multi-artist. by Bach, Brahms and Ravel for the Norway's foremost musicians. cal links between Johann Sebastian concert, as well as Baal Shem Suite by 1st concertmaster of the Berlin Violinist Marianne Thorsen visits the Bach, Maurice Ravel and César Swiss-American Ernest Bloch, which Philharmonics, member of the multi- Bergen International Festival at Ole Franck. Bendix-Balgley performed as early as genre septet Philharmonix (p. 73) Bull’s home Lysøen with the acclaimed in his own bar mitzvah. ’Although their music styles are diffe- A fairytale – which is also on this year's Bergen pianist Håvard Gimse. rent, there is a lot of musical influence International Festival programme 'A strong, pure tone and complete home on a ’I have first and foremost chosen between them’, Choi says. – and furthermore, revered in klez- assurance' repertoire that I enjoy playing, and I magnificent mer music: Noah Bendix-Balgley - THE NEW YORK TIMES wanted to include Norwegian works is highly sought after, and his solo island. that aren’t heard so often these days,’ performance on Lysøen will be an ​Ye-Eun Choi violin explains Marianne Thorsen, who is in experience out of the ordinary. He Ye-Eun Choi Dmitry Shiskhin piano Noah Bendix-Balgley violin demand both as a soloist and a cham- brings with him Christoph Traxler, Christoph Traxler piano ber musician. a young and versatile pianist from JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1865–1750) with Dmitry Shishkin Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014 ’Alf Hurum’s D minor Sonata appea- Austria who is also a member of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) Philharmonix. Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 led to me immediately the first time Violin Sonata no. 2 in G major DATE/TIME DURATION JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) I heard it, with its extrovert tempera- Saturday 01 June 1:00 CÉSAR FRANCK (1822–1890) His violin career began as a four-year- Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major, op. 100 Violin Sonata in A major ment and fresh vitality. We also play at 11:30 & 14:30 old in North Carolina, and five years ERNEST BLOCH (1885–1977) Baal Shem Suite: Three Pictures of Hasidic Life Air Norvégien by Johan Halvorsen, later Bendix-Balgley played for Lord MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) one of my favourite works. It is exciting ​Musical links between Bach, in Switzerland. The Tzigane how it combines fantasy, drama and Ravel and Franck. merit list of the American violinist energy,’ she continues. spans far and wide as concertmaster South Korean Ye-Eun Choi is coming with orchestra, soloist and chamber The violinist also has great regard for to Bergen for the very first time and musician. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher is looking forward to experiencing (Memory of a dear place): ’The piece 'All the different things keep me the nature that inspired one of her makes use of the entire register of the motivated and artistically stimulated', favourite composers, Edvard Grieg. instrument, and the infinitely beautiful Supported by The Savings Bank says the violinist. Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and tunes give the performer the oppor- Choi debuted with the Seoul Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Bendix-Balgley convinces and tunity to really make the violin sing.’ Philharmonic Orchestra as a communicates through music and

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rising as a musical duo with great Eirik Johan charm and indisputable stage talent. Grøtvedt ’Eirik Stømner has a striking tech- & Eirik Haug nique at a young age – and appears Siljustøl Stømner like a firework of a pianist. Eirik Grøtvedt was both powerful and velvety in his malleable voice. All in Annar Follesø & all, they formed an almost perfect Sæverud’s DATE/TIME DURATION classical duo.’ Saturday 25 May 1:00 Wolfgang Plagge beautiful at 15:00 – HALDEN ARBEIDERBLAD home Eirik Johan Grøtvedt tenor ​A Festival debut with the Eirik Haug Stømner piano sweetness of the first DATE/TIME DURATION the audience will be able to hear two encounter. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Sunday 02 June 1:00 pieces from the new album, as well as The First Meeting, op. 21:1 at 11:30 & 14:30 Annar Follesø violin other works. Tenor​ Eirik J. Grøtvedt (born 1993) and HARALD SÆVERUD (1897–1992) Wolfgang Plagge piano Rendezvous – but she didn’t come!, op. 18:1 pianist Eirik Haug Stømner (born 1993) ’On the programme are two works EDVARD GRIEG make their debut Bergen International The Poet’s Heart, op. 5:2 ​Unknown treasures in typical of Bull’s eclectic style – OLE BULL (1810–1880) Vilspel i lio Festival performance with a pro- A Bird Cried Out, op. 60:4 historical surroundings. Italian bel canto meets Scottish and HARALD SÆVERUD NICCOLÒ PAGANINI (1782–1840) gramme fragranced with flowers and Violinist Annar Follesø has released Norwegian folk music and a sort of Cantabile e Valse Valzer d’Ucelli, op. 18:2 with true romance in spring. EDVARD GRIEG precursor to the ragtime style made SCOTT JOPLIN (1868–1917) three critically acclaimed albums 6 Rags A Swan, op. 25:2 where his interpretations of Ole Bull famous by Scott Joplin decades lat- Arr.: Itzhak Perlman (1945–) The music of Edvard Grieg, Robert ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), op. 48 are central. In 2019 he will release a er. Also, we will perform a great but OLE BULL (1810–1880) Schumann and Richard Strauss tells RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) rarely played piece by Bull’s great role Largo posato e Rondo Capriccioso new album with previously unknown from A Distant Greeting of dreams of love and hearts torn in Ruhe Meine Seele, op. 27:1 works by Bull, together with pianist model, Niccolò Paganini,’ says Follesø. two, the eternal motion of waves and Heimliche Aufforderung, op. 27:3 Morgen! op. 27:4 Wolfgang Plagge and the Norwegian beautiful birdsong. A concert in the Playing Bull’s music on Lysøen is Die Nacht, op. 10:3 Radio Orchestra conducted by a very special experience for the Supported by The Savings Bank composer’s distinctive home, Siljustøl, Zueignung, op. 10:1 Eun-Sun Kim. Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and is not complete without works by violinist. Supported by The Savings Bank Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Sæverud, and from the piano pieces, Follesø and Plagge have collaborat- Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and ’Not only does the beautiful nature two ’light pieces’ have been selected. In collaboration with the Norwegian ed since 1999, and during this year’s Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation create a frame around the concert Academy of Music Bergen International Festival they will venue, but the house and its interior Both Grøtvedt and Stømner have perform a double concert in Ole Bull’s also complement the music in an recently graduated from the Nor- summer residence on Lysøen. Here outstanding way,’ he says. wegian Academy of Music, and are

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m The mentor himself, first concert master with m Noah the Berlin Philharmonic, makes his own mark Sonatas Bergen International Festival.’ The critic con- UNIVERSITETS- in the 2019 Bergen International Festival: he is UNIVERSITETS- tinued: ’When classical music works like this, AULAEN AULAEN a member of the brilliant septet Philharmonix, audience experiences can be quite strong.’ (THE UNIVERSITY Bendix-Balgley (THE UNIVERSITY AULA) (p. 73) which appears in Håkonshallen and AULA) he gives two concerts with pianist Christoph with Crescendo DATE/TIME & friends DATE/TIME Sonoko Miriam Welde violin Thursday 23 May Traxler at Lysøen (p. 58). Monday 27 May Johan Dalene violin at 19:00 at 19:00 ​Classical gems by Beethoven, Ludvig Gudim violin DURATION Noah Bendix-Balgley violin DURATION Mozart and Brahms. Amalie Stalheim cello 1:00 ​Dancing strings from young masters. Sonoko Miriam Welde violin 2:00 Christian Grøvlen piano including interval violin Pianist Robert Levin is one of the new men- Ole Christian Haagenrud piano TICKET Noah Bendix-Balgley is a new mentor in the Ludvig Gudim Standard: 350 Johan Dalene violin ADDITIONAL tors in the Crescendo programme in 2019. His Senior: 315 Crescendo programme, which brings together Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola INFORMATION musical encounters with violinists Sonoko Mi- WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) Under 30: 190 younger and more experienced musicians in Levin give two Violin Sonata no. 32 in B flat major, K 454 Michael Grolid viola riam Welde, Johan Dalene and Ludvig Gudim, FiB Fordel: 280 concert and in personal musical encounters concerts with cellist JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) cello Steven Isserlis cellist Amalie Stalheim and pianists Christian throughout the year. The young talented artists Amalie Stalheim Cello Sonata no. 1 in E minor, op 38 BT Fordel: 262 in Troldsalen Grøvlen and Ole Christian Haagenrud culmi- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) that Bendix-Balgley has taken under his wing Wednesday 29 May nate in this concert in the University Aula. Violin Sonata no. 7 in C minor, op 30:2 have already accumulated plenty of routine and JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) at 18:00 & 20:00. Violin Sonata no. 8 in G major, op 30:3 String Quintet no. 2. op. 111 See p. 51. recognition in the course of their careers, and FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) The young musicians perform gems by three all have performed at the Bergen International Quartet Movement in C minor, D 703 TICKET of the greatest classical composers: sonatas ERWIN SCHULHOFF (1894–1942) Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation Festival before. Standard: 350 by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. Early mu- String Quartet no. 1 Senior: 315 DNB – Dextra Musica sic expert Robert Levin introduces the artists In this concert the strings take centre stage. Under 30: 190 Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation and the programme. Bendix-Balgley is joined by violinists Sonoko Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation FiB Fordel: 280 BT Fordel: 262 Miriam Welde, Ludvig Gudim and Johan Dalene, DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ The Crescendo concerts in which young talen- Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young classical violists Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad and Michael Charitable Foundation ted Norwegians meet internationally acclai- musicians under the direction of the Bergen International Grolid, and cellist Amalie Stalheim. They med musicians have for several years now Festival, Barratt Due Music Institute and The Oslo Philharmonic. More info, see p. 16. perform Johannes Brahms’s powerful String delighted and impressed audiences. A Norwe- is a mentoring programme for young classical Quintet no. 2, Franz Schubert’s intense Quartet Crescendo gian newspaper has described the programme musicians under the direction of the Bergen International Movement in C minor, and Erwin Schulhoff’s Festival, Barratt Due Music Institute and The Oslo as ’one of the most sensible activities of the playful and mystical String Quartet no. 1. Philharmonic. More info, see p. 16.

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m venues worldwide. In demand as an orchestral Masterclasses at Masterclass Geir soloist, he has collaborated with numerous FJELLHALLEN composers. Mette Rasmussen has performed Rekstensamlingene Concert SOLSTRAND Draugsvoll extensively in concert and on television and DATE/TIME radio in China and throughout Europe, and her Friday 24 May ​Experience pianists Leif Ove During six days of intense practice, at 19:00 recordings include Sentiments – French piano m m & Mette music. Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou the piano students will have honed DURATION REKSTEN- at work with nine selected national UNIVERSITETS- their technique, working with and 1:00 SAMLINGENE AULAEN Rasmussen TICKET (THE REKSTEN and international piano students at (THE UNIVERSITY receiving guidance from Leif Ove Geir Draugsvoll accordeon Standard: 400 COLLECTIONS) Rekstensamlingene. AULA) Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou. Senior: 360 Mette Rasmussen piano Experience the result as the students Under 30: 190 Masterclasses Chamayou knows Norway well, and DATE/TIME perform the programme they have ​Nordic moods and Argentinian with Leif Ove was artistic director at Lofoten Piano Friday 31 May FiB Fordel: 320 BRITT PERNILLE FRØHOLM (1978–) Andsnes at 19:00 rehearsed, at a dedicated masterclass passion. Dinas waltz Festival in 2018. He is also one of BT Fordel: 300 Arr.: Geir Draugsvoll DATE/TIME concert in the lovely University Aula Andsnes’ preferred chamber music DURATION Accordionist Geir Draugsvoll last visited TRAD. Sunday 26 May– 2:00 in the Bergen city centre. 2 Swedish folk tunes Tuesday 28 May collaborators, and has performed at KNARVIK the Bergen International Festival in 2018 in including interval CHURCH Arr.: Geir Draugsvoll at 10:00 & 13:00 Rosendal Chamber Music Festival connection with his performance of Sofia STAFFAN MOSSENMARK (1961–) several times. The piano academy’s TICKET DATE/TIME Gubaidulina’s Fachwerk, which she wrote for Waterspirit Saturday 25 May Masterclasses founder, professor Jiří Hlinka who is Standard: 290 Produced by Prof. Jiří Hlinka him. This year he is joined by Danish pianist (1865–1931)/ with Bertrand Senior: 261 at 19:00 TAGE MORTENSEN (1932–2001) 75 this year, was one of Andsnes’ own Klaverakademi In collaboration with Mette Rasmussen in two recitals: one in the 2 Danish folk tunes Chamayou Under 30: 190 DURATION teachers. Andsnes holds masterclasses Rekstensamlingene and mountain cavern at Solstrand and the other in Arr.: Geir Draugsvoll DATE/TIME FiB Fordel: 232 1:00 regularly at Rekstensamlingene. This Bergen International Festival Knarvik Church, performing Nordic contempo- MARTIN LOHSE (1971–) Wednesday 29 May– TICKET Late Spring Friday 31 May year is the academy’s 11th anniversary. Standard: 320 rary and folk music alongside the duo’s trade- ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921–1992) at 10:00 & 13:00 Senior: 288 mark – works by the father of Tango Nuevo, the Oblivion Under 30: 190 Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. Michelangelo 70 DURATION Milonga del Angel FiB Fordel: 256 2:15 Libertango BT Fordel: 240 Geir Draugsvoll will guide audiences through Free the history of his instrument and share stories admission about the music and its background. Supported by County Council A virtuoso with a broad repertoire, Geir Draugs- voll has appeared at festivals and concert

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Edvard Grieg Kor Hilde Hagen soprano Ingvill Holter soprano Turid Moberg alto Daniela Iancu Johannessen alto Leif Ove Andsnes Astrid Nordstad Tyler Ray tenor Paul Robinson musical leader, tenor & Friends & Christian Grøvlen Ørjan Hartveit bass David Hansford bass m with Ingvild Schultze-Florey Supported by Hordaland County Council BARONIET ​Recital in Rosendal Barony. m ​Romantic songs in the idyllic ROSENDAL harbour at Bekkjarvik. (THE ROSENDAL Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings LØO BARONY) young musicians from the Crescendo Christian Grøvlen, piano, and Astrid BEKKJARVIK programme to beautiful Rosendal. Nordstad, mezzo-soprano, enjoy DATE/TIME DATE/TIME each other’s musical company, and Friday 31 May A recital in the Barony’s Red Room Friday 31 May at 20:00 at 19:00 the young artists have performed coincides with the opening of this Edvard Grieg EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) together on several occasions. DURATION year’s art exhibition. The program- DURATION Arr.: Paul Robinson (1970–) During the 2019 Bergen International Good Morning, op. 21:2 0:45 me consists of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1:00 Festival they also appear together in Kor Words: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson emotive String Quartet no. 7 and Ernő Two Brown Eyes, op. 5:1 ADDITIONAL TICKET Troldsalen (p. 54). m Words: INFORMATION Dohnányi’s Piano Quintet no. 2 from Standard: 400 A Swan, op. 25:2 The programme 1914, which to the astonishment of Senior: 360 Joining them in Løo (the Barn) at HOTEL will also be Under 30: 190 ​Pearls by Grieg in beautiful natural Words: music critics is rarely performed. Bekkjarvik is another mezzo-soprano, ULLENSVANG The Time of Roses, op. 48:5 performed in surroundings. Håkonshallen, FiB Fordel: 320 Ingvild Schultze-Florey, who has been DATE/TIME Words: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thursday 30 May The pianist explains: ’Shostakovich’s Sunday 26 May Edvard Grieg Kor, choir in residence at EDVARD GRIEG BT Fordel: 300 involved with Bergen National Opera’s at 19:30, compact String Quartet alternates at 19:00 Troldhaugen, is naturally closely associated with Arr.: David Hansford (1985–) Young Voices programme since 2013 Last Spring, op. 33:2 see p. 44. between playfulness and intensity, and has won several prizes. She sings DURATION the composer, and has his entire choral producti- Words: Aasmund Olavsson Vinje TICKET while Dohnányi’s Piano Quintet, 1:00 on in its repertoire. At the concert in Ullensvang ‘In the Hall of the Dancing King’ works by the late romantic compo- Standard: 590 which I got to know a couple of years Supported by the choir performs works by Norway’s foremost EDVARD GRIEG ser Richard Strauss. The rest of the TICKET Arr.: Jonathan Rathbone (1957–) Senior: 531 ago and have come to love, is theatri- Hordaland national romantic composer in quintessential Under 30: 190 concert is in national romantic mood, Standard: 400 I Love but Thee!, op. 5:3 cal, childlike, nostalgic and romantic. County Council Senior: 360 Norwegian surroundings. Words: Hans Christian Andersen featuring music by Dvořák and Bartók FiB Fordel: 472 The five instruments together create Under 30: 190 Moonlit Forest, op. 18:1 and Grieg’s Haugtussa. Words: Hans Christian Andersen a wonderful sound.’ FiB Fordel: 320 The concert includes excerpts from Suite from the time of Holberg, one of Grieg’s best-known Solveig’s Song, op. 55:4 BT Fordel: 300 Words: Henrik Ibsen works, in an arrangement written specially for the Astrid Nordstad mezzo-soprano Arr.: Paul Robinson I collaboration Leif Ove Andsnes piano choir by Jonathan Rathbone, musical director of I Went to Sleep so Late Ingvild Schultze-Florey mezzo-soprano Norwegian Folk Song with Baroniet Johan Dalene violin the Swingle Singers for over a decade. They also Christian Grøvlen piano AGATHE BACKER-GRØNDAHL (1847–1907) Rosendal Ludvig Gudim violin perform Jeg elsker dig! (I love but Thee!), Grieg’s Arr.: Paul Robinson Timothy Ridout viola musical setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s Calm Is the Evening Torleif Thedéen cello ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) poem from 1864. Composed when Grieg was 21, Words: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Gypsy Melodies, op. 55 EDVARD GRIEG BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) the work triggered an international craving for from Suite fra Holbergs tid, op. 40 DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71, BB 79 Arr.: Jonathan Rathbone love at the time. Since then over 300 recordings String Quartet no. 7 in F sharp minor, op. 108 RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) 1. Gavotte of the piece have been made by great artists ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI (1877–1960) Das Rosenband, op. 36:1 2. Sarabande ranging from Frank Sinatra to Kirsten Flagstad. Piano Quintet no. 2 in E flat minor, op. 26 Cäcilie, op. 27:2 3. Prelude EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Haugtussa, op. 67

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ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. PLAYFUL SCENES INSIDE AND OUTDOORS. EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET.

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m m HÅKONSHALLEN Philharmonix GRIEGHALLEN Angélique GRIEGSALEN DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Sunday 26 May Tuesday 28 May Kidjo at 19:30 at 19:30 The Vienna Berlin DURATION the heart. Joining her on stage are a driving and DURATION 1:30​ Music Club 1:20 Remain in explosive band. including interval TICKET Angélique Kidjo has a powerful voice that she ADDITIONAL ​Not everything in the Philharmonix’ see on the playbill of their legendary orche- Standard: Light INFORMATION 250/400/550 also uses in the conveyed sense, in her political Noah Bendix- programme is classical. But stras. With their signature blend of the “hig- Senior: commitment to Africa’s present and future. She Balgley with everything has class. hest philharmonic quality and unrestrained joy 225/360/495 uses her music as a platform for intercultural friends performes a Under 30: 190 of music-making” (Kurier) Philharmonix are ​Africa's most famous diva takes Crescendo-concert Classical music is not supposed to be fun, communication, and in 2011 she was named one in the University synonymous with ‘entertainment’. The Golden FiB Fordel: classic album by Talking Heads Aula, right? And yet, every concert of the Philhar- 200/320/440 of the world’s 100 most inspiring women by The Rule of the Philharmonix’ programmes: Anyt- home. Guardian. Thursday 23 May monix is a living, grooving, finger-snapping hing goes, as long as it’s fun. BT Fordel: at 19:00, testament to the contrary. 187/300/412 In 2016, Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo had SEE P. 64. the entire audience in Grieghallen up and dan- Angélique Kidjo vocals Noah Bendix-Balgley Surprise! Classical music at its most refined Philharmonix cing during the Bergen International Festival. Dominic James guitar and Christoph can be a jolly good time. Noah Bendix-Balgley violin Now she returns to raise the roof again. She Edgardo Yayo Serka drums Traxler also Sebastian Gürtler violin performes This unique ensemble brings together three has made her own recording of Talking Heads’ Marcos Lopez percussion at Lysøen Thilo Fechner viola iconic album Remain in Light from 1980, thus Michael Olatuja bass Saturday 25 May members of the Vienna Philharmonic, two Stephan Koncz cello taking the original album, which is deeply influ- Thierry Vaton keyboard at 11:30 & 14:30, Berlin Philharmonic soloists, one of the most Ödön Rácz double bass see p. 58. enced by West African music, home. Classic versatile Austrian pianists and an improvising Daniel Ottensamer clarinet songs such as Crosseyed and Painless, Once TICKET and singing violinist for a deliciously heady Christoph Traxler piano in a Lifetime and Born Under Punches (The Standard: 500/530 cocktail of classical, klezmer, Latin, even pop Senior: 450/477 Heat Goes On) have been given an even more music and yes, good old fun. Sting, Queen, Under 30: 190 Supported by Herman Friele distinctive sound of the West African music Grieg and Tchaikovsky are all just as likely to that Kidjo has always promoted, combined with FiB Fordel: 400/424 be performed at a Philharmonix concert. elements of R&B and funk, and are performed BT Fordel: 375/397 Together the seven world-class musicians get with a force and musicality that directly touches to play the kind of repertoire one would never

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The The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Eins

Imaginary Stefan Larsson direcor Zwei Drei Jens Sethzman set, light Invalid Nina Sandström costumes Nathalie Pujol make-up, hair Mikael Berg assistant director David Nyström music, film Sven-Åke Heed translation Unbridled satire about pills, enemas ​A tragicomedy about power struggle t t and diagnosis hysteria. and human relations. Norwegian Mikael Persbrandt, Petra Mede, Norwegian premiere Three clowns come together in a sterile premiere Argan is not feeling well. Those around him Jessica Liedberg, Johan Wahlström, Alexandra Zetterberg Ehn, Pelle Grytt cast museum. The white-faced one dominant and are not feeling too good either, surrounded as DEN NATIONALE DEN educated, the others comical bunglers – one NATIONALE they are by his numerous pill bottles, stomach SCENE STORE SCENE kind-hearted and naive, one cheeky and insens- SCENE remedies and stories of disease. Fortunately, he STORE SCENE itive. How do they cope with living together has a daughter of marrying age, and with the DATE/TIME in the strictly controlled environment? In their DATE/TIME prospect of getting a doctor as a son-in-law, Tuesday 28– Thursday 30 May attempts to find their place in the system, they Thursday 23– Argan could not care less about who she really at 19:00 practically wage war on one another. The piece Saturday 25 May wants to marry. It is just so convenient to have at 19:00 DURATION is about surviving in a small community in the Martin Zimmermann concept, direction, someone with a prescription pad in the family. 1:30 DURATION throes of breaking down, and in an acrobatic, choreography, costumes 2:30 Behind the scenes, his personal assistant is TICKET tragic and laughable way it is demonstrated how Tarek Halaby, Dimitri Jourde, including interval working hard to contain the damages caused Standard: fragile the world actually is. The absurd story Romeu Runa, Colin Vallon cast 290/370/420 is musically underpinned by the fourth person LANGUAGE by this colossal baby of a man. The despotic Senior: Colin Vallon music Performed​ in and hypochondriacal person who dominates his 261/333/378 on stage, celebrated jazz pianist Colin Vallon. Sabine Geistlich dramaturgy Swedish. Under 30: 190 set design surroundings with bowel cleansings and multi- Eins Zwei Drei is an infernal, fast-moving and Martin Zimmermann, Simeon Meier FiB Fordel: stage development, TICKET ple diseases is portrayed by Mikael Persbrandt. visually captivating performance, directed by Ingo Groher Standard: 232/296/336 technical coordination The director is Stefan Larsson, who next year the Swiss choreographer/scenographer/clown 450/550/630 takes the position of theatre director at Den DN Fordel: Andy Neresheimer sound design Senior: Martin Zimmermann. He takes a closer look at 246/314/357 lighting design 405/495/567 Nationale Scene (The National Stage, Bergen). authority, submission and freedom, and the Jérôme Bueche Under 30: 190 artistic collaboration The two have collaborated on several occasi- tensions that arise when encountering good Eugénie Rebetez ons and made great success with Strindberg's Sarah Büchel assistant director FiB Fordel: taste, order and etiquette. 360/440/504 Dødsdansen (The Dance of Death) during the Roger Studer creation stage manager Bergen International Festival three years ago. Zimmermann brought Hallo to the Bergen Ingo Groher Ateliers du Théâtre International Festival in 2016. His trademark Vidy-Lausanne decor construction In Bergen, Molière's wild comedy from 1673 is to bring circus archetypes into contempo- Michèle Rebetez-Martin painting becomes an obnoxiously funny confrontation rary stage art, creating a surrealistic, visually Katharina Baldauf, Doris Mazzella costumes with diagnosis hysteria and alternative medici- impressive universe. For him the clown figure in Roger Studer stage manager ne, and with what happens when you read the modern theatre is always about existence. Eins Sarah Büchel lighting direction Encyclopedia of Common Diseases as if it were Zwei Drei explores poetry, power struggle and Franck Bourgoin sound direction erotic literature. the complexity and intricacy of interpersonal Sarah Büchel technical administrator relationships. Alain Vuignier production manager 'Persbrandt proves he is one of our greats' Claire Béjanin international producer – EXPRESSEN Supported by AS Bergen Theater and 'Zimmermann's genius lies in the interface bet- the Dramatic Society ween comedy and choreography, acrobatics and intellect.' Sponsored by KPMG Sponsored by Argentum – SONNTAGZEITUNG

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During the length of the Festival, the heart of Bergen’s inner city, Festplassen, Welcome is transformed into Festival Square. The tent will feature a number of daytime to Festival family events and evening concerts and talks, as well as film screenings. The outdoor area surrounding the tent will Square be turned into a playground for young and old, with a variety of exciting free admission events. Please enjoy and hold on to your ice creams!

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FESTIVAL SQUARE with friends TENT m DATE/TIME A literary concert St. Matthews Passion Thursday 23 May World at 21:00 premiere DURATION A time for text and tunes. 1:30 OSEANA KUNST- In addition to being a renowned author, Karl Ove & KULTURSENTER with Isango Ensemble TICKET Knausgård is a driven musician, and so are seve- OSEANASALEN Standard: 250 ral of his friends. For this event, Knausgård puts Bach's grand work in South The picture is from Isango Ensemble's perfor- Senior: 225 Under 30: 190 together a top-notch team of his music-playing DATE/TIME African dress. mance of The Magic Flute at Oseana in 2018. Thursday 30 May FiB Fordel: 200 and text-writing acquaintances for a literary been translated into 30 languages, and have at 19:00 In 2018, the South African ensemble touched BT Fordel: 187 and musical evening in Festval Square. The reaped many awards. Knausgård is a highly Isango Ensemble will and inspired the Festival audience with A Man Isango Ensemble musical performances are accompanied by a anticipated participant at this year's festival, also perform of Good Hope and The Magic Flute. In 2019, they Mark Dornford-May director house band assembled for the evening. not least because he has written the libretto for SS Mendi - Dancing Mandisi Dyantyis musical director the Death Drill guest Oseana with a partially staged version Among the guests are writer and musician the opening performance Waiting in Grieghallen Saturday 01 June to of Bach's St. Matthews Passion, performed St. Matthew’s Passion (p. 34). Tueday 04 June, Tore Renberg – former vocalist in the band see p. 26. with great vocal splendour and full marimba – Ivangeli ngokubhalwe nguMateyu Lemen in which Knausgård was a drummer. orchestra. It will be the first time the ensemble's Singer, guitarist and songwriter Tønes (Frank Eirik Vassenden vocal TICKET edition of Bach's ethereally beautiful passion Arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach, Standard: 430 Tønnesen) will also be joining on stage. In 2018, Knut Olav Homlong guitar is performed. Mandisi Dyantyis and Mark Dornford-May Senior: 387 Tønes won Spellemann Awards (Norwegian Yngve Knausgård guitar Under 30: 190 Grammy Awards) in the categories ‘Folk’ and Isango Ensemble has performed for full houses JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) Hans Kristian Mjelva bass FiB Fordel: 344 ‘Best Lyricist’. The same year he debuted as all over the world, and has won several inter- St. Matthews Passion, BWV 244 Karl Ove Knausgård drums a novelist. BT Fordel: 322​ national awards, especially for their innovative interpretations of Western plays and music. Produced by Isango Ensemble Karl Ove Knausgård is among the most read Supported by Grieg Foundation Norwegian authors today. His books have

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Balkan Voksne Fest Herrers Orkester

with Igor & the Union of Cousins with guests m ​Lopsided rhythms and m ​A musical institution in Anneli Drecker vocal, keys playful lyrics. extended festival edition. Eivind Aarset guitar FESTIVAL Igor Dunderovic is a Norwegian- FESTIVAL Concert evenings with this mature Sindre Hotvedt keys SQUARE SQUARE Kjetil Dalland bass TENT Bosnian producer who along with his TENT gentlemen's orchestra have long vocal seven ‘cousins’ is known for flipping since become an institution in Jane Kelly DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Rune Arnesen drums Saturday 25 May Norwegian national treasures on their Sunday 26 May Bergen. Throughout hundreds of Sven Persson sound engineer at 21:00 head and calling attention to immi- at 21:00 Monday nights, the gentlemen have DURATION gration issues in a humorous way. The shared their extensive repertoire DURATION 2:00 Union of Cousins is a combination of 1:15 and infectious joy for playing music Supported by Grieg Foundation good friends and professional musi- at venues such as Logen and Chagall, ADDITIONAL TICKET INFORMATION cians who love Norway and irregular Standard: 250 and this spring they will be perform- Igor & the Union Balkan rhythms. Their albums feature Senior: 225 ing at Underlig. of Cousins are satirical interpretations of traditional Under 30: 190 also playing a The seasoned instrumentalists are Norwegian songs such as Kråkevisa, FiB Fordel: 200 family concert known for combining a cheerful and at the Bergen International Festival together the same day, Håvard Hedde and Gikk meg over m BT Fordel: 187 relaxed atmosphere with high musi- with Carte Blanche, and on her two latest solo see p. 85. sjø og land. Anneli cal quality, and often invite guests FESTIVAL releases, she moves towards a more melodi- TICKET If they are in a good mood, there will to play with them. Voksne Herrers SQUARE ous soundscape where atmospheric strings Standard: 250 TENT Drecker be fast dancing and Balkan partying Orkester love to surprise and rarely take over from danceable electronica. Senior: 225 Under 30: 190 that lasts for hours. If they are in a reveal in advance who they have DATE/TIME Friday 24 May In late January this year, Anneli Drecker de- FiB Fordel: 200 bad mood, there may be slow and Supported by invited to join them. at 21:00 fended her artistic ph.d. at the University of beautiful music and nostalgic melan- ​With new colours on her palette. BT Fordel: 187 Grieg Foundation In May, the mature men can be heard Tromsø (UiT) with the project The Modern choly that lasts for weeks. DURATION in the Festival Square tent, perform- 1:30 Ancient Voice. The goal was to learn new sing- The vocal splendour of artist and composer ing a concert packed full of good TICKET ing techniques, and Drecker has, among other Anneli Drecker has tickled ear canals world- Supported by vibes and great musicality. Standard: 250 things, explored throat singing, overtone sing- Senior: 225 wide since the late 80s when she put Norwe- Grieg Foundation Igor Dunderovic storyteller ing, joik and Persian and Norwegian traditional Under 30: 190 gian electronic pop on the map together with Adisa Diamusk Zvekic guest vocals song. FiB Fordel: 200 the group Bel Canto. She is also known for her Elvis Medic kapellmeister Voksne Herrers Orkester collaboration with Röyksopp and has often BT Fordel: 187 ‘Now I can't put it aside. It has become part Mili Orucevic guitar Harald Dahlstrøm keys written songs with the electronic duo. of me, my voice and my expression. I have ac- Almir Meskovic accordion Steinar Krokstad drums Daniel Orucevic violin Thomas Dahl guitar The Tromsø based artist does not shy away quired new colours for my palette’, says the Sanjin Orucevic bass guitar Ole Marius Sandberg bass from new challenges. In 2016, she performed vocalist to UiT. Milos Josifovic percussion

078 #FESTSPILLENE19 WWW.FIB.NO/EN 079 080 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVITIES FESTIVITIES BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 081 FESTIVAL 2019 FESTIVAL 2019 m gettable songs. She is one of Germany's most Georgette important custodians of the legacy of Brecht FESTIVAL and Weill, but gems from popular music have SQUARE TENT Dee also crept into the repertoire. Georgette Dee is happy to interpret Tom Waits’ Strange We- DATE/TIME ather or Eurythmic’s Sweet Dreams, and even Tuesday 28 May at 21:00 ​Cabaret songs from golden and not songs that are seemingly sung to death ap- quite so golden times. pear shiny and new in her versions. DURATION 1:30 ‘Germany's greatest living singer’, the renow- On stage, she – or he, for Georgette Dee is a true stage persona – kicks in every direction TICKET ned German magazine Die Zeit declared in the Standard: 250 early 90s. Both before and since, the extraor- with pin sharp observational skill and witty Senior: 225 dinary cabaret artist Georgette Dee has esta- remarks that can turn the mood from one of Under 30: 190 blished herself as one of the greatest stage poignant beauty to harsh realism in an instant. FiB Fordel: 200 personas in Europe. In Shakespeare's Sonnets, which visited the Harr & Hartberg f FiB x BIFF BT Fordel: 187 Bergen International Festival in 2017, she tied FESTIVAL For decades, she has, together with pianist the performance together in the role of untra- SQUARE Movie night and composer Terry Truck, rediscovered be- ditional master of ceremonies. Conversations on the TENT autiful songs from the Weimar Republic and m edge, somewhere on the DATE/TIME ​Adaptations of Hoffmann’s other periods of the past, and made them their FESTIVAL jazz-pop-folk-axis. Thursday 30 May Georgette Dee vocal The Sandman and inter- own. At the same time, the duo also created a SQUARE at 18:00 Terry Truck piano TENT Actor Thorbjørn Harr + Norwegian pretations of the Festival separate catalogue of mood-inducing, unfor- DURATION theme longing. DATE/TIME hip-hop artist Aslak Hartberg = Harr 4:00 Monday 27 May and Hartberg. In 2015 they debuted including interval With four great movies lined up, presen- at 21:00 Supported by with the album Døden er dårlig gjort TICKET ted in a relaxed atmosphere and refres- 150 Grieg Foundation DURATION (Death is a mean thing to do). Since hments being served, Festival Square is 1:30 then, they have played at jazz festivals The​ ticket includes all set for a small movie marathon. TICKET and clubs all around the country. screenings. Standard: 250 The Sandman, a title in this year's Senior: 225 Joining them on their new album, programme, has been subject to Under 30: 190 Samtaler på kanten (Conversations on various film adaptations. Paul Berry's FiB Fordel: 200 the edge), is Lars Saabye Christensen. Oscar-nominated The Sandman (1991, In collaboration BT Fordel: 187 Having already collaborated with the 10 mins.) in its touched up version with Bergen duo on their previous album, the (2017) is a sombre stop motion movie International Norwegian-Danish poet, playwright, where an evil intruder gives a little boy Film Festival a horrible nightmare in his bedroom in Supported by screenwriter and novelist has written (BIFF) ​ the middle of the night. Grieg Foundation beautiful and achingly sore texts to Hartberg's melodies. The Quay Brothers have also made a Supported by version in collaboration with dancer Joining them in solid support, Harr and Grieg Foundation and choreographer William Tuckett. In Hartberg have a stellar team of musici- The Sandman (2000, 40 mins.), music ans: Trygve Seim, Per Odvar Johansen, by György Kurtág and Leoš Janáček, and Jørn Øien. a demonic character from one of Hoffman's own stories appears by the Thorbjørn Harr vocals author's deathbed to end the story. Aslak Hartberg double bass FiB x BIFF also presents a brand- Trygve Seim saxophone new documentary and a highly Jørn Øien piano relevant feature film related to the Sjur Miljeteig trumpet festival theme longing. The titles Per Oddvar Johansen drums are announced a month ahead at www.fib.no/biff.

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Joan As Police Lariba Sigurd Hole Trio & Celtic Roots Woman Tord Gustavsen Trio Ensemble m Performing Solo m ​Rhythms that command you m ​Two of Norway’s most m ​Celtic music traditions by a onto the dance floor. distinct jazz trios share the star-studded international FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL stage for the first time. FESTIVAL ensemble. SQUARE With their mixture of salsa, rumba, SQUARE Elegantly manoeuvering TENT SQUARE SQUARE TENT between genres. reggaeton, jazz, cumbia, hip hop, reg- TENT The first part of the evening's perfor- TENT Celtic Roots Ensemble is a mix of DATE/TIME gae and everything else that can be mance is by Sigurd Hole Trio (Sigurd broadly experienced musicians: Knut DATE/TIME Joan Wasser started her musical Saturday 01 June found in the category ‘Latin rhythms’, DATE/TIME Hole, double bass; Håkon Aase, violin; DATE/TIME Reiersrud, Aly Bain, Ale Möller, Tuva Friday 31 May at 21:00 Sunday 02 June Monday 03 June at 21:00 career almost 20 years ago as a vio- Lariba takes the stage for the sec- at 21:00 Jarle Vespestad, drums). They relea- at 21:00 Syvertsen, Frasier Fifjeld, and Olle linist for artists like Rufus Wainwright DURATION ond time at the Bergen International sed their debut album Encounters in Linder. These musicians from Nor- TICKET 1:30 DURATION DURATION Standard: 250 and Sheryl Crow. She started creating Festival. Singing and rapping in five 2:00 2018, to outstanding national and in- 1:30 way, Sweden, Scotland, and Shet- different languages, their songs virtu- Senior: 225 music under the name Joan As Police TICKET including interval ternational reviews. Their music may land play various guitars, harmonica, Under 30: 190 TICKET Woman in 2002 and released her Standard: 250 ally overflow with attitude, creativity TICKET be described as an open, innovative Standard: 250 mandola, trumpet, flutes, harmonium, FiB Fordel: 200 debut album Real Life in 2006. She Senior: 225 and energy. What may seem like an Standard: 250 meeting between elements from Nor- Senior: 225 bagpipe, harding fiddle, percussion, Under 30: 190 Senior: 225 Under 30: 190 BT Fordel: 187 has since collaborated with artists arbitrary mix of styles, sounds any- wegian, Indian, Japanese, and Arabic and double bass – to name but a few. Under 30: 190 FiB Fordel: 200 thing but random. traditional music – solidly rooted in a FiB Fordel: 200 like Lou Reed, Beck and Norah Jones. The ensemble was put together to FiB Fordel: 200 modern, Scandinavian jazz sound. BT Fordel: 187 ‘Lariba is not about copying other BT Fordel: 187 make a recording for the Jazz at It’s been ten years since Joan last BT Fordel: 187 visited Bergen. Those who attended traditions, but about defining our Hole and Vespestad are also mem- Berlin Philharmonic series. own fusion’, says band leader David bers of the Tord Gustavsen Trio, the the smoky venue Garage back then The result was the live album Jazz Stauffacher. evening's second act. Gustavsen, Supported by will recall a mesmerizing performance at Berlin Philharmonic VI: Celtic Supported by Supported by the pianist, is one of Norway's most Supported by Grieg Foundation alternating between punky rage and The routined musicians play with a Roots, that emphasized the Celtic Grieg Foundation Grieg Foundation renowned jazz musicians. The trio's Grieg Foundation melancholy, performed in Wasser’s refined, agile and courageous style, music's imprint on European music musical expression is sensitive, me- smooth vocals. gathering all the musical threads and American folk music and blues, lodious, and intense and their tunes into a unison call to party, dance and and was highly acclaimed within the The concert in Festival Square is one influenced by traditions like Scandi- have fun. The music has a drive and music field. navian folk music, French impressio- of the first on Wasser’s Joanthology a pulse that almost commands the nism and hymns. tour, highlighting her first fifteen audience onto the dance floor, and years of writing and recording music. that is exactly what their goal is. Knut Reiersrud guitars, lapsteel, She strips her sound down to its true harmonica essence, performing her songbook Sigurd Hole Trio Ale Möller mandola, trumpet, flutes, solo with piano and guitar. The scope ​Lariba Sigurd Hole double bass dulcimer, harmonium of the material reveals her dedication Roberto Haçaturyan drums, vocals Håkon Aase violin Tuva Syvertsen vocal, Hardanger to experimentation and love of all Alcides Toirac bass, vocals Jarle Vespestad drums fiddle, harmonium kinds of music. Simone Santos vocals, percussion Carlos Irarragorri keys, tres, coros Tord Gustavsen Trio Fraser Fifield saxophone, flutes, Cesar Correa keys Tord Gustavsen piano Scottish bagpipe Joan Wasser vocal, guitar, piano Amik Guerra trumpet Jarle Vespestad drums Alistair Bain fiddle David Stauffacher percussion Sigurd Hole double bass Olle Linder percussion, double bass

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Igor & fú Family BIFF the Union of Cousins FESTIVAL SQUARE TENT Four fine, honest and adven- DATE/TIME turous short films. ​A mischievous play on Thursday 30 May mú at 13:00 Festplassen, our Festival Square, is Norwegian children’s songs. transformed into a cinema for the DURATION FESTIVAL Have you heard of Itsy Bitsy Cousin whole family. In Himmelen under SQUARE 0:50 havet (“The Sky Underwater”, 11 TENT Spider? Or how about the VISA-Crow ADDITIONAL – the crow who maxed out the VISA INFORMATION minutes), six-year-old Mia lives in a DATE/TIME card? These and many more tunes pop Please see fib.no/en glass dome far, far below the water's Saturday 25 May for directors and surface. Together with the sea lion at 14:00 & 15:30 up when Igor & the Union of Cousins producers. turn Norwegian children's songs upside Fred and other friends, she begins DURATION TICKET a journey to find out where the big down to playful Balkan rhythms and 0:40 50 yellow light that shines through the strange lyrics. They also share funny Includes all ADDITIONAL screenings glass dome every night comes from. INFORMATION stories about experiences from their Igor & his cousins travels around the Kingdom of Norway. In Moulton og meg (“Moulton and are also playing an In collaboration Me”, 13 minutes), a seven-year-old evening concert on Igor Dunderovic and his seven cous- Moonlight Benjamin with Bergen girl asks her parents for a bike. But the same day. ins who are not cousins are all pro- See p. 79.. International what kind of bike can she expect from fessional musicians from the Balkans Film Festival a dad who has the only moustache in TICKET who play theatrical and cheerful folk (BIFF) ​ town, and a mom who sews dresses ​A priestess’ empowering voice, eerie, while guitarist Matthis Pascaud's powerful Standard: 150 music. Igor himself has released m Children: 100​ out of Finnish curtain fabrics? Caribbean rhythms, and massive riffs embrace the rhythms and lyrics, creating several children's records, including FESTIVAL guitar riffs. an atmosphere that is somewhat dark as well Feil side av låven (The wrong side Supported by Bædi & Børdi (10 minutes) fart them- SQUARE selves into space to save two reindeer TENT as uplifting at the same time. of the barn), which was nominated Grieg Foundation Stories of the voodoo spirit world, Haitian that have stranded on the moon. Supported by for Spellemannsprisen (a Norwegian DATE/TIME history, and life in Port-au-Prince create the ‘A controlled power and sense of danger Tuesday 04 June Grieg Foundation Grammy) in 2014. In Verdens mellomste fisk (“The lyrical backdrop to Moonlight Benjamin's and theatricality makes her sound like a at 21:00 World's Middlest Fish”, 11 minutes), music. Having grown up in an orphanage in Caribbean Patti Smith’ Prepare your entire family for a party mú we follow Ingeborg who becomes an DURATION the Caribbean capital, Benjamin moved from – THE GUARDIAN concert that will make you smile for 1:30 FESTIVAL instant national celebrity with her ages! Haiti to to study jazz in 2002 – and has SQUARE middle-sized catch. But what hap- TICKET been living there since. In 2009 she went back TENT Standard: 250 Moonlight Benjamin vocal pens when the fish puts on ? to her home country for her voodoo priestess DATE/TIME Senior: 225 Matthis Pascaud guitar, arrangements Igor Dunderovic storyteller Under 30: 190 initiation. Sunday 26 May Bertrand Noel drums Elvis Medic kapellmeister at 12:00 & at 13:00 FiB Fordel: 200 Quentin Rochas bass Benjamin has been involved in a number of Mili Orucevic guitar More info Pepe & Speedy BT Fordel: 187 musical projects within jazz, rock, blues, and Matthieu Vial-Collet guitar Almir Meskovic accordion see page 92. world music and has collaborated with musici- Daniel Orucevic violin ans like saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart and Supported by Grieg Foundation Sanjin Orucevic bass guitar Supported by A musical journey with guitar, pianist Omar Sosa. Her voice is beautiful and Milos Josifovic percussion Grieg Foundation saxophone and pepephon.

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mú Kouame Sereba Silja Sol mdú Festival Youth Monster Colours FESTIVAL FESTIVAL Day SQUARE SQUARE ​A universe of music filled with Mikke Pus’ Diary TENT ​Whimsical games for TENT ú rhythm play and musical joy. everyone. DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Talented future artists on the mú ​Mikke Pus falls in love Tuesday 28 May Outdoors Saturday 01 June Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist at 10:00 stage all day. The festival square will be bustling at 12:00 & 14:00 – with a wild cat! Kouame Sereba enchants the audi- FESTIVAL FESTIVAL with life in exuberant colours when DURATION The Festival Youth Day is a free DURATION ence with song, percussion, dodo SQUARE During the Bergen International SQUARE Tombs Creatius transforms the space 5:00 all-day event where Cultural School OUTDOORS 0:40 (African mouth bow), djembe drums, TENT Festival, pop musician Silja Sol is pupils from all over Hordaland get the into a playground out of the ordina- DATE/TIME all set for the world premiere of the RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED kalimba (thumb piano) and stories. DATO/TID ry. Last year the Catalan company Sunday 02 June AGES chance to demonstrate their talents. AGES Often his musical journeys go to Côte continued story about Mikke Pus. Thursday 23 May– at 12:00 & 14:00 All took part in the Bergen International From 3 years Her first performance for children, Tuesday 04 June d'Ivoire and the rich music tradition Experience young, creative forces in a Festival with The Trip, and this year DURATION Mikke Pus’ dagbok, premiered in ADDITIONAL at 12:00 TICKET and narrative culture he grew up with. 0:35 joyful artistic display of great variety. it is back with a collection of games Standard: 150 2017 and has since been performed INFORMATION His concerts are always unique, as Festival Youth We are in for rock'n'roll bands, classical HOURS Children: 100 for children at festivals and schools. and toys that awaken curiosity and both young and old members of the RECOMMENDED Performance with Open pearls, solo and ensemble instrumen- 12:00–15:00 stretch the limits of imagination. AGES Silja Sol alternates between music selected young audience get to participate on stage tal variations, ballet, jazz dance, hip 16:00–19:00 Here you can test your knack for Supported by From 3 years talents in the and take part in creating their own and stories and brings the audience Peer Gynt Hall in hop, theatre, and much, much more. TICKET solving puzzles and use your coor- Grieg Foundation on a journey into Mikke’s diary. Now, Grieghallen 04 June RECOMMENDED concert. The show promises music, Standard: 150 he has fallen in love, and not just at 18:00. There will be concerts and acts every AGES dination skills as you test yourself on song, dance, rhythm and joy – which Children: 100 All with anyone: The wild cat Marie is a See p. 90. hour, on the hour at the Festival Square.​ hand-made games for all ages and in his home dialect can be summed clever cat, and together they go on experience levels. up in a single word: "SAH"! Free Free exciting adventures. admission Supported by admission Monster Colours is illustrated by Since moving to Norway in 1984, In collaboration with Norwegian Cultural Grieg Foundation Blending genres with her sincere Carles Porta, plastic artist, graphic Sereba has played an active role in School Council – Hordaland pop music, Silja Sol has won many designer and animator. The project Norwegian cultural life, with both solo Bergen Cultural School and hearts. After the success of her debut Supported by was commissioned by Costa Rica's projects and musical collaborations in Bergen Dansesenter album På Hjertet in 2014, she has Grieg Foundation International Festival of the Arts and jazz, folk music, contemporary music Supported by followed up with critically acclaimed and Kavli Trust is as much a collection of works of art and modern African music. He has Grieg Foundation performances at festivals such as Øya, Sponsored by Equinor as it is a playground with room for performed hundreds of concerts for and Kavli Trust Slottsfjell and Bergenfest. In 2017 she Heroes of Tomorrow creative unfolding. Since its incep- children, youth and adults – on stages won a Spellemann award (a Norwegian tion, Monster Colours has delighted in South Africa, China and Norway, as Grammy) for her third full-length album children of all ages in countries such well as in Greenland. And at the heart Ni Liv (Nine lives). as Spain, France and Belgium. of it all, is always the joy of music.

Silja Sol vocal, guitar Toni Tomàs creator, direction Kouame Sereba vocal, percussion, dodo, Marie Moe bass Carles Porta illustration djembe drum, kalimba Anders Bjelland synth Tombs Creatius production, craftsmen ​

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ú Saurus Outdoors

FESTIVAL SQUARE ​Did you think dinosaurs were enacted above and among the audience. The OUTDOORS extinct? Then you’ll have to artists in the state-of-the-art costumes wish DATE/TIME think again. to erase the boundary between reality and the Friday 31 May– impossible and for spectators of all ages to be Sunday 02 June The street theatre performance Saurus lets carried away as the music-loving giants enter at 13:00 & 15:30 the public come into close contact with the crowd with their booming roars. Hold on to RECOMMENDED prehistoric giants of actual dinosaur size, AGES your ice-cream and watch out for their curious From 3 years completely without risk of being eaten. Or snouts and sweeping tails! so we hope! They are quite hungry, after all. DURATION 0:45 The Dutch theatre company Close-Act Supported by Grieg Foundation Free specializes in street theatre interacting clo- and Kavli Trust admission sely with the audience. The performance is

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tú Yana & DEN NATIONALE SCENE LILLE SCENE the Yeti

DATE/TIME Monday 27– Wednesday 29 May at 18:00 Lifelike puppets play the lead in this charming DURATION Fight to be understood. 1:00 family performance that constantly involves the Imagine being far, far away from home and all audience and features beautiful winter lands- RECOMMENDED AGES alone. You arrive in a remote and snow-bound capes and new exclusive music. The midnight From 5 years village surrounded by dense forest and strange sun and northern lights create a world that LANGUAGE noises. This is how the story about Yana begins. will easily fascinate you while the use of mime, Performed in She does not understand a word of what the vil- puppeteering, and a mixed European language gibberish, hence lagers are saying, and the other children taunts suitable for all evoke associations to Lewis Carroll's nonsen- her with stories of mythical mountain monsters. sical poem Jabberwocky. The performance is TICKET suitable for everybody regardless of language. Standard: 250 Yana & the Yeti is a dark, funny, and gripping Senior: 225 Under 30: 190 story about a child's determination and fight to ‘Magical, beguiling, emotional and eye-wi- Children: 100 be understood, and the discovery that friends deningly beautiful.’ FiB Fordel: 200 come in all shapes and sizes – and sometimes – BRISTOL 24/7 BT Fordel: 187 with a lot more hair than you had imagined.

Pickled Image & Figurteatret i Nordland mtdú producers GRIEGHALLEN Festival Youth Hattie Naylor, Pickled Image writers PEER GYNT- Emma Lloyd director SALEN Performance Dik Downey, Lizzie Johnson, Katie Hood, DATE/TIME Harry Richardson, James Horne and Tuesday 04 June Maria Strand Renberg set design, props at 18:00 Pickled Image, Emma Powell puppet maker DURATION Small stages, big dreams costume design 1:30 Linda Anneveld, Alice Rose Simon Preston composer RECOMMENDED The Festival Youth Performance is an annual ​Festival performance with selected Adam DJ Laity video design, photo AGES young talents. event at the Bergen International Festival, and All Gwen Scott technician the audience tend to leave the concert hall both Vicky Andrews, Adam Fuller, Jonnie Dixon, ADDITIONAL At the Festival Youth Performance, you can see impressed and touched. INFORMATION Nikki Warwick performers See also The Festival and listen to artists who just might influence Youth Day, a free the cultural life of the region and country in all-day event where years to come. On stage are singers, dancers In collaboration with Norwegian Cultural School Cultural School pupils and instrumentalists who are selected among Council – Hordaland, Bergen Cultural School from all over Hordaland and Bergen Dansesenter get the chance to the pupils at Cultural Schools in Hordaland. demonstrate their This year, some participants from other parts of talents at the Festival Square. See p. 87. Norway have been invited to join in. The young Sponsored by Equinor Heroes of Tomorrow artists invest their time and hard work into their TICKET Standard: 150 passion, and at the Festival Youth Performance Children: 100 they present their work for a larger audience.

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Eva Vilamitjana, Albert Vilà author Albert Vilà, Eva Vilamitjana artistic direction Paula Bosch scenography La Petita Malumaluga costume design Jordi Bello musical direction Eva Vilamitjana choreography Carles Rigual lighting design Jordi Bello & Albert Vilà sound design Ivan Rubio interactiv technology Pere Seda, Maria Hernando, Guido Lucas, Raquel Gualtero dance Asier Suberbiola violin Nil Villà saxophone Nico Sánchez guitar Cristina Roca production

mú Pepe mtdú My Baby Is OSEANA KUNST- Scandinavian & KULTURSENTER premiere OSEANASALEN & Speedy a Queen DATE/TIME CORNERTEATERET Saturday 25 May at 12:00 DATE/TIME Saturday 25 & FESTIVAL ​A musical journey with guitar, excerpts from pop, jazz and classical music. Sunday 26 May ​Peek-a-boo! A thought-provoking invites big and small on a journey of reflection SQUARE saxophone and pepephon. With playfulness and creativity, the audience at 11:00, 13:00 performance for toddlers. on those we see and how we see them. The TENT is invited to an interactive musical experience. & 15:00 imagery and movements are as ideal for chil- DATE/TIME Who said that a clarinet can only be used to What do we look like? Where do we look? What RECOMMENDED dren age 0-3 as for adults. Sunday 26 May blow into? And that instrument bags do not do we see? These are some of the questions at 12:00 & 13:00 AGES belong on stage? They are both superb per- Christoph Pepe Auer pepephon, 0–3 years La Petita Malumaluga poses in My Baby Is a The dancers and musicians in La Petita Malu- RECOMMENDED cussion instruments! clarinets, saxophone Queen. The Spanish ensemble has created a maluga have specialized in performances for DURATION AGES Manfred Temmel guitar performance for babies and young children young children. They last visited Bergen Inter- From 6 years Austrian jazz musicians Christoph Pepe Auer 0:35 Sigrid Reisenberger stage directions that explores differences and similarities bet- national Festival in 2017 with Beatles for Ba- DURATION and Manfred Temmel use guitars, clarinets, Lilian Genn concept, dramaturgy ​ TICKET ween people and how we perceive those who bies, where the little ones got to move freely 0:40 saxophones and other items when they explo- Standard: 150 Children: 100 are different from ourselves. about on the stage to the soundtrack of clas- TICKET re sounds, rhythms and melodies. They have Standard: 150 even created a brand-new instrument: The The performance 26 May is supported by sic Beatles songs. The audience plays an important part in this Children: 100​ pepephon! Grieg Foundation performance, where babies and toddlers The music varies from fast-paced gypsy jazz might participate in the going-ons at the sta- Supported by Acción Cultural Española to celestial melodic songs, groovy rhythms and ge. By use of dancing figures, reflections in (AC/E) swinging waltzes – self-composed as well as mirrors, and invisible musicians, the ensemble

092 #FESTSPILLENE19 WWW.FIB.NO/EN 093 094 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVITIES FESTIVITIES BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 095 FESTIVAL 2019 FESTIVAL 2019 tú ú Family Day at ú Abraham Scandinavian Frogman Outdoors Siljustøl Outdoors Arzate premiere World BERGEN CORNERTEATERET premiere OFF. BIBLIOTEK Look out, the underworld BIBLIOTEKS- The Record Breaker SILJUSTØL is rising! PLASSEN DATE/TIME ​Underwater thriller about growing up, ​World record in showing off. Tuesday 28 May & (BERGEN PUBLIC told in VR. DATE/TIME At Sæverud's enchanting paradise, Thursday 30 May– Sunday 26 May LIBRARY) Poor Abraham Arzate. Can he juggle? Saturday 01 June the underworld will unveil itself with Coral scientist Meera Clarke is unexpec- at 12:00 DATE/TIME No. Can he dance? Not really. Is he at 18:00 & 20:30 peculiar creatures which are usually tedly visited by a police investigator who says Opening ceremony Saturday 01 June actually particularly good at anyt- impossible to catch a glimpse of. A at 13:00 RECOMMENDED her father has been charged with the murder at 13:00 hing? Well, he would really, really mischievous wood nymph, elves, trolls, AGES of a 13-year-old girl, Ashleigh Richardson, who RECOMMENDED DURATION like to be. Abraham Arzate fantasises From 14 years gnomes and even a shapeshifting water 0:45 disappeared back in 1995. AGES about world fame and is willing to do All spirit can be found at Siljustøl, where LANGUAGE TORG- anything to make his dream come In this unique theatre experience, the public is composer Harald Sæverud built his Performed in English, DURATION ALLMENNINGEN true. Never mind that he isn’t par- titled in Norwegian.​ transported back in time to the disappearance 4:00 mansion amidst the nature he loved DATE/TIME ticularily strong, smart or beautiful. via Virtual Reality equipment. Here, we meet German Munoz software development so much. ADDITIONAL Saturday 01 June– He has one huge advantage – tons DURATION INFORMATION 1:00 Meera and two of her friends in her bedroom Ed Greig digital development With Jan Holden in the lead, several Sunday 02 June of confidence. Please note that the at 16:00 in a small town in Australia. Pete Malkin sound design festival does not actors and youngsters create mee- TICKET Dan Balfour associate sound designer DURATION In this clownish performance which has The story is told during three overnight visits, provide transport to ting places for the audience and Standard: 250 this event. 0:45 been performed in circus and street Senior: 225 Ben Smith sound assistant mystical creatures. With an adven- where the three 11-year-olds are singing Green festivals in both Europe and Latin Under 30: 190 Jamie Craggs scientist Free ture trail, a story tent, underground AMFIET Day songs at the top of their lungs, talking America, Abraham tries to convince FiB Fordel: 200 Jordan Albon 3D-modelling, animation admission workshop and much more, everything AT FLØYEN about the movie Dumb and Dumber and playing the world that he has what it takes. Francesca Moody executive producer is set for supernatural experiences DATE/TIME BT Fordel: 187 Sega Mega Drive. His helpless attempts at stunts and Natalie Songer production assistant and an exceptional Sunday outing for Sunday 02 June tricks to which he has no skills become The friends discuss what happened to Ashleigh In collaboration children of all ages. at 12:30 & 13:30 absurdly tragicomic. But you have to and try not to think that she might be dead. She Cast: with KODE and DURATION admire him for trying. was last seen on a stolen boat on its way out to Georgina Strawson Meera Clarke Dukketeater- 0:20 sea. But who are the suspects? And who was verkstedet Supported by Grieg Foundation RECOMMENDED Supported by Grieg Foundation the last person to see Ashleigh? VR-cast: /Jan Holden and Kavli Trust AGES and Kavli Trust Ava Ryan young Meera Clarke All Meera's father is a police diver and leads the Indiah Morris Lily McCullen team looking for Ashleigh. With the annual coral Free Sol Costanho Shaun Jacobs spawning just around the corner, it is a race Vetterusk admission Milla Webb Ashleigh Richardson against time. ú The performance alternates between live and Voice work: A family performance with Outdoors VR, and in the last live scenes, it is revealed Sarah Woodward DCI Fiona Webb trolls beneath your feet. what really happened that summer in 1995. Johnny Flynn Douglas Clarke World premiere Two researchers in search of mine- 'Brilliant ... a performance with brain and heart.' Anna Procter Cathy Selbourne rals make big discoveries on Mount Jen Philips - THE GUARDIAN Kate Shenton AMFIET, FLØIEN Fløyen, and quickly make plans to dig Russell Woodhead Ryan Willis out the entire mountain. However, DATE/TIME Sunday 02 June their plan does not go unnoticed Dukketeaterverkstedet/Jan Holden Jack Lowe, Russell Woodhead story curious directive production at 12:00 & 13:00 by the otherworldly creatures living Ramona Sulen song, actor Jack Lowe direction, cinematography, under- Hull UK City of Culture 2017, The Deep, RECOMMENDED underground and a number of myste- Elisabeth Vannebo tuba water filming, 360°-film edit & script edit The Old Market, Brisbane Powerhouse AGES rious beings pop up and take action Children from All Camilla Clarke VR world, stage design co-producers to save the future of their home. Magic Productions and others Pete Malkin sound DURATION 0:25 Enchanting folk music mixed with Theo Whitworth composition song and voice accompanies this Supported by Grieg Foundation Roisin Symes stage manager Free admission new and exciting outdoor show for and Kavli Trust Ed Elbourne technical stage manager the whole family.

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Contributors are Judith Dybendal and Annabelle Bonnéry, moderator is Anette Therese Pettersen.

After the talk, The Norwegian Critics' Association will announce the winner of the award Critic of the year.

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The talks listed below will be conducted in Norwegian. You Just Don’t Say That – On Literature and Reality See fib.no for full descriptions and list of all contributors. BERGEN OFF. BIBLIOTEK (BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY) MUSIKKAVDELINGEN

DATE/TIME Taste and Capital Monday 27 May at 18:00 Festspillkollektivet creates BERGEN OFF. BIBLIOTEK Where should the ethical limits for activities for people of (BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY) what to write about be drawn? different ages, life situations AMALIES HAGE and with different needs, to DATE/TIME make art and culture availa- Thursday 23 May at 16:00 Thomas Seltzer’s Popular ble to more people. Does your financial situation influ- Meeting Festspillkollektivet builds on the ence your preferences in art? Or THE FESTIVAL SQUARE, TENT Festival’s mission to include, inspire is Norway a classless society like DATE/TIME and challenge. Through the project, some say? Wednesday 29 May at 21:00 festival artists have visited hospitals, u TICKET nursing homes, prisons, schools and BERGEN KUNSTHALL Standard: 150 asylum centres with tailormade con- BERGEN Knausgård in a BT Fordel: 112 KUNSTHALL certs, workshops and other offers, The Festival Exhibition Feminist Perspective What do we really need all this elite DATE/TIME also outside the festival period. In Opening: BERGEN OFF. BIBLIOTEK culture for? Seltzer asks ‘for a friend’, 2018, Festspillkollektivet arranged, Thursday 23 May (BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY) and lets his highly qualified panel at 13:00 AMALIES HAGE among other things, Bergen Prison answer. International Festival, a photo project Thursday 23 May– Mari Slaattelid DATE/TIME Sunday 11 August for and by youth and a dialogue and Friday 24 May at 18:00 Monday–Sunday musical improvisation project for at 11:00–17:00 The panel discusses Waiting (p. 34) Is your Thought Free? Thursday minority women. For close to three decades and Karl Ove Knausgård as a possible – On Freedom of Speech at 11:00–20:00 Mari Slaattelid has insisted on the feminist writer. and Art All the projects are carried out Guided tours: in close collaboration with those Every Sunday at 13:00 relevancy of the painting, regardless ​BERGEN OFF. BIBLIOTEK involved. (for families) of shifting trends and perceptions of (BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY) Every Sunday at 14:00 its status in the arts scene. The Art of Living AMALIES HAGE ​ We are developing new ways of Platform: GRIEGHALLEN DATE/TIME engaging those who have minimal Artist talk with To Slaattelid, the painting possesses the neces- THE FOYER, 2ND FLOOR Thursday 30 May at 18:00 Mari Slaattelid at access to culture, in spaces where Bergen Kunsthall sary arsenal of means to explore foundational DATE/TIME Constant fear of offending, trigger the arts may not traditionally be Saturday 25 May questions about art itself, convey a personal voice Monday 27 May at 14:00 warnings and over-sensitivity. encountered. Festspillkollektivet is at 14:00 on the medium's own terms and at the same time Meet Samuel Massie and his grand- a collaboration between the festival, TICKET maintain an open dialogue between artwork and artists, professional environment and Standard: 50 society. Without restricting the painting to a cer- father Arne Ulvolden in this talk with Senior: 25 researcher on elderly care, Bettina Reality Theatre – Creating other collaborators who have the Student: 25 tain form of expression, she alternates effortlessly the two exhibitions constitute the most exten- Husebø. Art from Lived Life expertise and contact network to Children, Bergen between figurativism and abstraction, between sive presentation of Slattelid's oeuvre yet. ​BERGEN OFF. BIBLIOTEK engage people who otherwise have Kunsthalls members, expressive and conceptual painting, all the while (BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY) challenges with seeking out cultural with KODE-ticket: exploring the painting in relation to other forms of The Festival Exhibition, produced by Bergen Free admission Made possible by GC Rieber AMALIES HAGE events. art such as photography and literature. Kunsthall since 1953, is established as one of Free admission Foundations. DATE/TIME Norway's most important solo exhibitions. Thursday evenings Tuesday 04 June at 16:30 Read more on fib.no/ 17:00–20:00 The Festival Exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall will en/articles/festspillkollektivet consist of many new works, produced especially In collaboration with A meeting with director and script Tickets can be MARI SLAATTELID (1960–) Verdighetsenteret writer Vibeke Flesland Havre and two purchased via for the exhibition. The exhibition is presented Bergen Kunsthall. in collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, of the actors in the Norwegian play Supported by the Kavli Trust Festival ticket dis- Produced by Bergen Kunsthall NAV betaler. counts do not apply. where a version will be shown in 2020. Together,

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The Festival The Festival The Festival The Festival thanks thanks thanks thanks Grieg Per Gunnar Ekaterina Terje Foundation Strømberg Rasmussen Mohn Lønne /Strømberg Gruppen

The Grieg Foundation supports numerous cha- Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/Strømberg Ekaterina Mohn has always appreciated art and Terje Lønne has been a Festival Ambassador ritable projects worldwide, with an emphasis on Gruppen joined us as Festival Ambassador in culture and became a Festival Ambassador in since 2017. The Festival's high artistic qua- projects that involve children and youth, medi- 2017. Strømberg Gruppen, like the Festival, 2017. Her personal preferences lie within the lity and dissemination of Norwegian cultural cal research and the environment. The Grieg considers quality to be one of their core values. classic art tradition, but she also treasures heritage is the reason why Lønne wishes to Foundation makes an active commitment to Furthermore the company is concerned with modern art. Ekaterina Mohn wants to help be a Festival Ambassador. He is committed to ensuring necessary support and progress, and taking social responsibility, also through art maintain the balance between tradition and maintain and expand the Festival as one of the to contributing in ways that make a difference. and culture. roots and the nerve and energy of today by leading festivals in Europe. Terje Lønne also supporting the Festivals and its diversity. She wishes to contribute to Bergen International The Bergen International Festival has been a His reason for becoming Festival Ambassador, sees the importance of linking art and future Festival’s plans of utilize new digital services recurrent name when the foundation bestows states Rasmussen, is that he believes the generations, and making the beauty and mea- that enable the Festival to broadcast producti- their gifts, and we are very pleased that they Festival is currently experiencing an exciting ning of the art accessible to all. ons to a potentially large international audience. wish to take part in this festival tradition in development. He wishes to contribute to the Bergen. Their contribution supports a compre- Festival fulfilling their vision of lifting the pro- The Bergen International Festival thanks The Bergen International Festival thanks Terje hensive outdoor programme that enables gramme locally, nationally, and across borders. Ekaterina Mohn for her support. Lønne for his contribution. people of all ages to take part in and watch quality performances – and enjoy the festival Bergen International Festival is grateful for atmosphere. the support from Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/Strømberg Gruppen. The Bergen International Festival would like to thank the Grieg Foundation for their support.

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The Festival The Festival The Festival thanks thanks thanks Espen Galtung Døsvig Yvonne and Kristin and Johan /EGD Bjarne Rieber Odvar Odfjell /AS Rika /JO Odfjell

Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD became Festival For many years, Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/ Kristin and Johan Odvar Odfjell/JO Odfjell Ambassador in 2017. Like the Festival, EGD Rika AS have invested significant amounts in are new Festival Ambassadors in 2019. They is a company with longstanding traditions the Bergen International Festival, which is and represent a Bergen family that has more than in Bergen. Since its foundation in 1907, the should continue to be an important cultural 100 years of history within shipping, real estate company has ensured its growth by adjusting event and a boost for the cultural scene in and capital markets. its strategy in accordance with the changes in Bergen, Norway and abroad. Their support is the markets and society in general. crucial to the festival’s ambitious projects that After two years in Silicon Valley, Kristin and connect tradition and renewal, that challenge Johan Odvar Odfjell returned to Bergen in 2018 As Festival Ambassador Espen Galtung Døsvig and entertain the audience and make culture to invest in Nordic start-up companies. They are wants to contribute to carrying the Festival into accessible to a broader public. interested in both technology and diversity, and the future. He is also engaged in developing by supporting the Bergen International Festival Bergen as a city of art and culture – through In 2019 Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/AS Rika wish to contribute to the advancement of these contemporary art of the highest quality, among support the concert with Charlie Albright (p. 42) through art. other things – and the Festival’s position in this and Goosebumps with Bergen Philharmonic project. Orchestra, Berit Cardas & Charlie Albright The Bergen International Festival wishes to (p. 36). thank Kristin and Johan Odvar Odfjell/JO The Festival is grateful for the support from Odfjell for their contribution. Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD. Bergen International Festival would like to thank Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/AS Rika for their contribution.

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Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond

The Kavli Trust has for many years Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna The DNB Savings Bank Foundation is GC Rieber Foundations provide sup- The Fritt Ord Foundation is a non- The supported the Bergen International Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond an independent foundation that has port for non-profit social and cultural profit private foundation whose par- Festival. In particular, the Trust has has the purpose of providing support as one of its main goals to increase purposes, preferably in Bergen. In amount objective, is to protect and Festival wanted to support measures to make for the promotion of matters that the interest and understanding of art addition, contributions are made to promote freedom of expression and the the Festival available to people who, are in the best interest of Bergen's and culture, especially among chil- medical and other research. Among environment for freedom of expression for various reasons, do not them- general well-being and cultural life. dren and young people. They do this many good cultural initiatives, the in Norway, particularly by encouraging thanks selves have the opportunity to attend The fund supports horror musical by supporting projects that ensure Funds have given priority to support- lively debate and the dauntless use of the regular festival programme. The Sandman (p. 24) and this year's good dissemination and invite partic- ing local young talent, especially in the free word. opening performance Waiting (p. 34). ipation. Dextra Musica is a subsidiary The Kavli Trust supports several music. This is to ensure the further With support from the Fritt Ord Foun- of Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, which events in the Festival’s outdoor pro- The Sandman is considered one of development of a broad cultural life dation, Dialogues is continued, a debate Birgitte Friele/Santos since 2006 has bought valuable gramme that are available and free director Robert Wilson's very best in the city for the future. programme that will help to mirror and string instruments with the purpose Birgitte Friele became a new Festival to everyone. The support from the pieces. The story is based on E.T.A. The fund is particularly engaged, highlight important tendencies and of loaning them to Norwegian musi- Consul in 2018. Friele says she wants Kavli Trust contributes, among other Hoffmann's Gothic horror story and through support and follow-up, of ini- issues in the present time, based on the cians. to support the Bergen International things, to the Festival being able to set up in Grieghallen. tiatives that are aimed at the vulner- festival's widely branched programme. Festival because it is a significant offer a free opening ceremony for the With support from The DNB Savings Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna able in the population. Contributing The Bergen International Festival part of Bergen's history, and because benefit of the entire city's population. Bank Foundation – Dextra Musica, Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond to good and dignified care for the thanks the Fritt Ord Foundation for she believes it will be equally as the festival offers performances Through a collaboration with the Red also supports the international elderly, including , is the support. important for the city's future. Her from young world-class musicians Cross, Robin Hood House and other co-production Waiting, which is a such a purpose. contribution helps us in our goal to and outstanding international artists organizations, the festival is able to symphonic Passion for music by The Bergen International Festival preserve the Festival's traditions in the Troldsalden and composer provide offers for free tickets. Edvard Grieg, with new texts by Karl thank GC Rieber Foundations for the while simultaneously ensuring, via homes of Grieg, Bull and Sæverud at ASAF Ove Knausgård who sees the story of support. ANDERS SVEAAS’ ALMENNYTTIGE FOND innovative means, that a varied and The support from the Kavli Trust also Troldhaugen, Lysøen and Siljustøl. Peer Gynt from Solveig's perspective. high-level artistic content reaches makes it possible to carry out tai- Funds and collaboration from the The purpose of Anders Sveaas' out to new audiences. lor-made arrangements at the city's The Bergen International Festival Sparebankstiftelsen DNB – Dextra Almennyttige Fond (ASAF) is to nursing home, hospitals, schools, day thanks Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Musica is also involved in making contribute to charitable purposes, The Bergen International Festival centres, prison and asylum reception Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige the mentoring programme Crescendo Herman Friele including scholarships for young wishes to thank Birgitte Friele/Santos centres, to the benefit of students, Fond for the contributions that possible. Norwegian musicians and lending of for her continued support. Herman Friele is a renowned busi- patients, residents, users, employees bring new perspectives and stories string instruments. ASAF owns a col- The Bergen International Festival nessman and politician with his heart and relatives in the concept of the to Bergen, to the benefit of the lection of string instruments that are thanks The DNB Savings Bank in both Bergen and the festival, who festival collective (p. 98). whole city. preferably lent to prominent young Foundation – Dextra Musica for the wishes to contribute to the further Norwegian talent. Several of the We thank the Kavli Trust for their support. development of the festival. musicians can often be experienced contributions and dedication to mak- This year, Friele supports the concert as part of the festival programme. ing the Bergen International Festival Philharmonix – The Vienna Berlin experience available to more people. Music Club (p. 73). This unique During our concert series in the composer homes, the festival both www.kavlifondet.no ensemble will serve its audience a deliciously heady cocktail of classical, continues and renews the European klezmer, Latin, even pop music and salon concert tradition, where we, yes, good old fun. with the support of ASAF, continue to promote young musicians. Bergen International Festival is grate- ful to Herman Friele for his support. The festival is grateful for the support we have received from ASAF to con- duct concerts with young performers in the home of composers.

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Norwegian Business School BI BIT20 Ensemble BIR Bedrift Cornerteateret The Festival TargetEveryone Den Nationale Scene Caroline Wettergreen Fløyen A/S Winner of Equinor’s classical The Grieg Academy music award 2018 thanks Project supporters – Department of Music, UiB Music Norway Møhlenpris school Bergens Riksmålsforening Norwegian Academy of Music AS Bergen Teater og Det Dramatiske Norges Musikkorps Forbund Our public sector partners: Selskab Norwegian Society of Composers Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) Arts Council Norway The Norwegian Council for Schools – Hordaland City of Bergen Venues The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency Hordaland County Council Baroniet Rosendal NRK Ministry of Culture Bergen Cathedral Oslo Philharmonic (Crescendo) Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri Prof. Jiří Hlinka Piano Academy Bergen Public Library The Puppet theatre workshop Bergen Municipality by Jan Holden Festival Ambassadors Bergen Kunsthall Seljledalen skole Grieg Foundation Cornerteateret Siljustøls Venner Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen Den Nationale Scene Solstrand Hotel & Bad /Strømberg Gruppen Edvard Griegs plass Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Ekaterina Mohn Festplassen (Festival Square) Stiftelsen Siljustøl Terje Lønne Fjellhallen, Solstrand Student radio in Bergen Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD Fjordahallen, Kinsarvik University of Bergen Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/AS Rika Fløyen – Faculty of Fine Art, Kristin and Johan Odvar Odfjell Grieghallen Music and Design /JO Odfjell Hotel Ullensvang The King Håkon’s hall Crescendo is supported by Knarvik church Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Main Partners KODE Art Museums and Hans Peter Jebsen, DNB Composer Homes The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Equinor Lille Ole Bull Dextra Musica og Talent Norge. Bergens Tidende Løo Bekkjarvik Oseana Art and Culture centre Rekstensamlingene Project Partners Studio Bergen Thanks to those who attend Kavli Trust The University Aula in Bergen H. Westfal-Larsen og Bergen International Festival! Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens No audience, no festival!! Almennyttige Fond Co-producers The Savings Bank Foundation DNB Arktis Filharmonis sinfonietta – Dextra Musica Carte Blanche GC Rieber Foundations - The Norwegian National Company Herman Friele of Contemporary Dance Fritt Ord Gothenburg Symphony Anders Sveaas’ Allmennyttige Fond Iceland Symphony Orchestra Tivoli Summer Classical Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao Festival Consul Vilnius Festival Birgitte Friele/Santos Our success is down to individuals with www.facebook.com/HeroesofTomorrow Cultural partners the ability and desire to think outside Festival Partners Apeltun Skole Equinor is a proud sponsor of Argentum the box. Individuals who strive to make The Academy Barratt Due (Crescendo) Bergen International Festival. DNV GL Bekkjarvik Eiendom AS impossible possible. Individuals with KPMG Bergen Boys Choir Bergen Cathedral the skills and determination to achieve Bergen Cathedral Choir Partners Bergen Cathedral Pensioners Choir remarkable results. It is individuals like A7 Print Bergen Culture School Hill & Co Advokatfirma these who hold the key to a successful Bergen International Film Festival 07000 Bergen Taxi Bergen Municipality future – not just for our company, but Galleriet – Bergen Nå Dagens Næringsliv Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for society as a whole. We like to call Avinor Bergen Public Library them Heroes of Tomorrow.

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The Festival receives public funding from:

Grieg Foundation | Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/Strømberg Gruppen | Ekaterina Mohn | Terje Lønne | Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD | Yvonne & Bjarne Rieber/AS Rika | Kristin & Johan Odvar Odfjell/JO Odfjell