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In a time of immense global changes and chal- itself as well as its near and distant surround- lenges, the question of who we are or who we ings. My concern is to ensure there is artistic want to be is of the highest relevance. When room and openness allowing the audience to encountering the unfamiliar and those unfami- encounter something new and different we liar to us, we are confronted with other world- might not yet have words for. views and identities, which may sometimes strike us as provoking, sometimes as gratifying. Identity is the overall theme for the 2017 Bergen International Festival. We invite the audience The arts field presents us with powerful to a voyage of discovery across the various attempts at depicting differences and diversity art forms in our comprehensive programme. as an enriching force. They all contribute to the You will find a multitude of complex identities recognition that what is different and unknown among the performing and creative artists, who may be quite normal – as well as essential, inno- are always on the move towards new places. vative, and inspiring. Meet them on their journey – and perhaps you might also meet yourself. One of arts’ traits is just that; it creates a feeling of community across differences. Through art Welcome! we may come together in a way that bridges the gap between people from different cultures and social classes, with our different languages, religions, and cultures. Song and music, litera- ture and theatre have the ability to encourage freedom and create a sense of identity not as protection, but as an opening towards The Others. DNB values its partnership with Norwegian cultural institutions, sports associations and other non-profit organisations, both locally and on a The 2017 Festival and Artist in national level. Residence is Finnish Kaija Saariaho, whose artistic and personal identity has been moulded

in her encounter with all the characteristic qua- For more than 60 years, we have sponsored the Bergen International lities of and the French culture. She has Festival, one of ’s most dynamic cultural events. Through our been living in France for large parts of her life sponsorship, we aim to make the arts accessible to as many people as and moves naturally between cultures. Saariaho possible. speaks through her music and she wishes to contribute to a more open, including, and richer human fellowship through her art. DNB - Sponsor of cultural activities. The question of identity also applies to the Bergen International Festival. Does the Festival maintain an identity that is invariably unchan- Anders Beyer geable and valid? Of course not. The Festival Festival Director is always in motion and in critical dialogue with Twitter: @AndersBey dnb.no

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ú FAMILY (INDOORS) 061 Troldsalen: Lydia Hoen Tjore t THEATRE Index 029 AlgoRitmo t & Ingrid Andsnes 086 887 029 Festival Youth Day md 062 Troldsalen: 1B1 Ensemble 088 The Tiger Lillies: 029 Festival Youth Performance md with Sonoko Miriam Welde Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace km See also the programme calendar. 030 Beatles for Babies kmd 062 Troldsalen: 1B1 Ensemble 093 Albert & Anna 030 Solitude km 063 Troldsalen: Tomter, Kam & Ihle Hadland 093 Familien som kunne snakke om alt k Dramatised concert ú Family 031 Infinita t 064 Griegs villa: Sergio Tiempo 093 Vinter m Music Outdoors 064 Griegs villa: Slåttepiano OUTDOORS t Theatre f Film with Ingfrid Breie Nyhus d DANCE 030 Family Day at Siljustøl ú d Dance o Dialogues 065 Griegs villa: Kathryn Stott 090 Carte Blanche: While they are floating 032 Bicyclophony – A bicycle symphony m u Exhibition 065 Griegs villa: Crescendo: Alisa Weilerstein 032 Festival Quarter m k DRAMATISED CONCERT s Contemporary circus 066 Lysøen: Camilla Kjøll & Gunilla Süssmann 032 Festival on the Seven Mountains m 091 Sustain tm 066 Lysøen: Sonoko Miriam Welde 033 Papagøyene mú 092 m & Sergio Tiempo 033 Morgonfrosken mú 067 Lysøen: Winner of the Norwegian 034 Nothing is Less Certain tsú Soloist Prize: Ludvig Gudim 006 Kaija Saariaho – Festival Composer 067 Lysøen: Isabelle van Keulen & Kathryn Stott Other and Artist in Residence 068 Siljustøl: TrioBauge & Vebjørn Anvik Foundations 068 Siljustøl: Amalie Stalheim with Ole Haagenrud & Eva Stalheim 069 High Mass with Bach Cantata 172 094 Festival Exhibition 2017: Jan Groth u u Festivities THE BEST OF THE BEST IN 069 Mini Concert with Guro Kleven Hagen & 095 H.M. Queen Sonja at KODE1 THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION Marianna Shirinyan 095 Musical Writings u 071 Masterclasses and Masterclass Concert: 096 Dialogues o ENTERTAINMENT AND OPERA Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 098 The Festival thanks SURPRISES 036 Peter Grimes k 071 Masterclass with Kaija Saariaho m MUSIC 072 Drop In Concerts PRACTICAL INFORMATION 008 Opening Ceremony mdk 038 Lang Lang 009 Venue map 040 Mozart. Life, Love & Lust t THEATRE 010 Festival Restaurants m MUSIC 042 Closing Concert d 072 Ibsen at Engen 012 Tickets 016 Rufus Wainwright with guests 044 Bergen Philharmonic Youth 073 Messiah ko 097 Accommodation and Transport & Brooklyn Rider 045 Richard Goode 074 Høyrer vi den same lyden k 018 Sondre Bratland 046 Crescendo: Alisa Weilerstein & Jonathan Biss 074 Ibsens små djevler k 018 RIFF 047 Janine Jansen with Denis Kozhukhin 019 OperaPub with Bergen National Opera & Alisa Weilerstein 019 Christine Sandtorv – I mellom skyer 048 Kjøller, Brantelid, Shirinyan & Hanslip 020 Ida Nielsen & band 049 Jakob Kullberg with Aliisa Neige Barrière Friction 021 Sinne Eeg 050 Crescendo: Weilerstein, Biss & Young Soloists 022 Classical at the club: 1B1 051 Andreas Scholl & Tamar Halperin 022 Festival Afterparty at Lysverket RECKLESS AND SHREWD, 052 The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra EXPERIMENTING AND EXPLORING through 40 years d DANCE 055 Troldsalen: Crescendo: Octets with m MUSIC 021 Festival Milonga Jansen, Weilerstein, Biss & Young Soloists 076 Shakespeare’s Sonnets k 023 Patina – to age with flying colours 056 Troldsalen: So Many Things 078 Hugsjá 024 Acosta Danza: Debut 058 Troldsalen: Vertavo Quartet 080 Nordvegen 059 Troldsalen: Crescendo: Opus13 084 Crescendo: London Sinfonietta with Vertavo Quartet s CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS 094 Peter Sheppard Skærved: Signs. 026 Reversible 060 Troldsalen: 100 Runes for Jan Groth

004 #FESTSPILLENE17 WWW.FIB.NO/EN 005 006 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL COMPOSER FESTIVAL COMPOSER BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 007 FESTIVAL 2017 FESTIVAL 2017 m Kaija Saariaho Vertavo Quartet TROLDSALEN Monday 29 May at 16:00 Festival Composer and Finland 100 Artist in Residence TROLDHAUGEN TROLDSALEN Tuesday 30 May at 16:00 When she was a little girl, Kaija changing. The audience tend to experience Jakob Kullberg with Aliisa Saariaho had so much music flowing the music as visual, as colours or atmospheric Neige Barrière from her pillow she had to ask her paintings, whether they are listening to works HÅKONSHALLEN mother to turn it off so she could sleep. for smaller ensembles, symphony , Tuesday 30 May at 19:30 or the opera stage. Today the world is certainly grateful that music La Passion kept flowing from that little girl’s head. Kaija The oratorio La Passion de Simone, perfor- de Simone Saariaho has since long been considered one med at Cornerteateret (p. 92), is ‘a magical CORNER- TEATERET of our most outstanding , her list of union of words, music and theatre; a creation Wednesday 31 May achievements including a number of awards and of great beauty and drama …’ according to The at 20:00 distinctions and her compositions being per- Independent on Sunday. Saariaho’s compo- 1B1 Ensemble formed on the world’s most prestigious arenas. sitions are also a central part of the Closing TROLDHAUGEN Concert (p. 42) and the extensive concert TROLDSALEN The Finnish composer was born in programme for the composers’ homes. (p. Thursday 01 June in 1952, where she became a student at the at 18:00 54–68). She also participates in the Dialogues . Her studies later brought programme (p. 96), gives the opening introduc- Masterclass her to Paris and IRCAM, where she focused on tion to the world premiere of the commissioned with computer-based composition. During this year’s Kaija Saariaho work Concordia (p. 49), and gives a masterclass LOGEN festival we give prominence to the totality of for students (p. 71). Friday 02 June her artistry. at 10:00 – Bergen International Festival is a cornerstone – Bergen International Festival’s ambition is to London in Nordic music life, celebrating the past, pre- Sinfonietta present world class art. Kaija Saariaho is a leading sent, and future of the arts. To me it is inspiring HÅKONSHALLEN figure within modern music, and I am proud to to be given prominence as Festival Composer Friday 02 June present her as our 2017 Festival Composer and at 19:30 and Artist in Residence, says Kaija Saariaho. Artist in Residence. The audience will experience Kathryn Stott Saariaho’s art both in the symphonic form and TROLDHAUGEN format, and her musical drama GRIEGS VILLA Friday 02 June is also represented. Besides, it is a great pleasure at 22:30 for the Festival to take part in Finland’s 100 years Supported by FINNO, The Norwegian- celebration by highlighting Finnish music in a Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Sibelius Closing Consert Society of Norway and The Finnish- GRIEGHALLEN series of concerts, dialogues, and introductions, Wednesday 07 June says Festival director Anders Beyer. Norwegian Cultural Foundation. at 18:00 Kaija Saariaho is renowned for creating stir- ring, almost physical works with luminous, dense acoustic patterns that are continually

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OLAV KYRRES GATE CHRISTIES GATE Bibliotek (Bergen Opening Ceremony 2 Festival FESTPLASSEN Public Library) office km TEATERGATEN 14 Lysverket P 14 Sentralbadet Bergen Kunsthall 3 9 13 & Tårnsalen LARS HILLES GATE TORG- Their Majesties the King and Queen will be A full programme for the Opening Ceremony 13 8 Grieghallen ALLMENNINGEN present during the official opening of the will be published at www.fib.no in May. HÅKONSGATEN 1 Apollon Platebar P Bergen International Festival 2017, which takes Welcome! NYGÅRDSGATEN DATE/TIME Johanneskirken 10 Universitetsaulaen 18 5 Cornerteatret Wednesday 24 May place Wednesday 24 May at 12:30 in the city (St John Church) STRØMGATEN at 12:30 square, Torgallmenningen. Supported by the Kavli Trust DURATION The Opening Ceremony offers teasers from VENUES VENUES OUTSIDE THE CITY CENTRE FESTIVAL RESTAURANTS 1:00 Festival artists, speeches and, of course, the Sponsored by DNB and DNV GL 1 Apollon Platebar Byfjellene (The Bergen Mountains) 1 BARE Free admission traditional singing of Nystemten. 2 Domkirken (Bergen Cathedral) kulturhus 2 Boha Restaurant 3 Bergen Kunsthall Fløien Folkerestaurant 3 Colonialen Litteraturhuset This year’s Festival speaker is Her Majesty 4 Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek Fløysletten 4 Colonialen Restaurant Queen Sonja. (Bergen Public Library) Grieg’s museum 5 Enhjørningen Fiskerestaurant 5 Cornerteateret Troldsalen, Grieg’s villa 6 Escalón Fløien 6 Den Nationale Scene Hengjo i Bekkjarvik 7 Escalón Veiten Edited by: Bergen International Festival / Design and concept: ANTI Bergen / Printed by: Bodoni / Concept Images: Fred Jonny / Photos: Brødreskift (p 3), Andrew Store Scene, Lille Scene, Hotel Ullensvang 8 Holbergstuen Campell (p 6), Magne Turøy (p 8), Gary Kramer (p 14), Matthew Welch (p 17), Morten Krogvold (p 18, left), Thor Brodreskift (p 18 right, p 19 left), Dyveke S. Nilssen (p 19, right), Teaterkjelleren Laksevågparken 9 Lysverket NPG-records (p 20), Stephen Freiheit (p 21, left), Jean-Pierre Bataille (p 21, right), Peter Adamik (p 22), Thor Brodreskift (p 23), Andrew W. Lang (p 25), Alexandre Galliez (p 7 The Festival Quarter Moster Amfi 10 Pascal Mat & Vin 26), Thor Brødreskift (p 29), La Strada Graz (p 31), Thor Brodreskift (p 32, right), Ingerid Jordal (p 33), Massao Mascaro (p 34), Magnus Skrede (p 37), Robert Ascroft (p 38), 8 Grieghallen Museet Lysøen 11 Potetkjelleren Yann Bougaran (p 40, right), Mirjam Devrient (p 41), Kim Wendt (p 42), Helge Skodvin (p 44), Sasha Gusov (p 45), Jamie Jung (p 46, left), Benjamin Ealovega (p 46, right), Griegsalen, Peer Gynt-salen Oseana Kunst- og Kultursenter 12 Restaurant 1877 Decca/Marco Borggreve (p 47), Benjamin Ealovega (p 48, top right.), Nikolaj Lund (p 48, bottom left.), Marios Taramides (p 48, bottom right), Niclas Jessen (p 49, left), Maarit 9 Håkonshallen Rekstensamlingene 13 Roast Restaurant og Bar Kytöharju (p 49 right), Sverre C. Jarlid (p 50, middle), Juventino Mate (p 50, right), Decca/James McMillan (p 51 left), ACT/Grosse Geldermann (p 51 right), Mona Odegaard (p 10 Johanneskirken (St John Church) (The Reksten Collections) 14 Royal Gourmetburger og Gin 52), Liv Ovland (p 53, left and right), Morten Krogvold (p 54), Harald Hoffmann (p 55, left), Jamie Jung (p 55, middle), Benjamin Ealovega (p 55, right), Mats Bäcker (p 57, top), 11 Litteraturhuset i Bergen Siljustøl museum 15 To kokker Erin Baiano (p 57, bottom), Rune Kongsro (p 58), Bjorn Wad (p 59), Lluis Calm Vidal (p 60), Anne Kolstad Morken (p 61, left), Tomas Moss (p 61, right), Peter Adamik (p 62), 12 Logen Solstrand Hotel & Bad 16 Wesselstuen 13 Nicki Twang (p 63, left), Maike Helbig (p 63, middle), Anders Bergersen (p 63, right), Sussie Ahlburg (p 64, middle), Geir Dokken (p 64, right), Nikolaj Lund (p 65, left), Jamie Lysverket RESTAURANTS OUTSIDE THE CITY CENTRE Jung (p 65, right), Sverre Christian Jarild (p 66, left), Felix Broede (p 66, no 2 from the left), Nadia Norskott (p 66, no 2 from the right), Sussie Ahlburg (p 66, right), Maike Helbig 14 Sentralbadet (p 67, middle), Nikolaj Lund (p 64, right), Eyvind Ness (p 68, middle), Annamaria Kowalsky (p 68. right), Steve Riskind (p 71, left), Özgür Albayrak (p 71, right), David Baker (p 15 Scandic Neptun Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri 73), Anne Elisabeth Næss (p 74), Lesley Leslie-Spinks (p 76), Ester Segarra (p 79), Espen Winther/WinPics (p 80), Kevin Leighton (p 85), Érick Labbé (p 86), Photo Graphic Art 16 Studio Bergen See also www.fib.no/arenakart Cornelius Sjømatrestaurant (p 88), Thor Brodreskift (p 90), Jorn Lavoll (p 91), Jean-Baptiste Beranger (p 94), Jan Haug, The Royal Court (p 95), Laimonas Puisys (p 97) 17 Torgallmenningen 13 Tårnsalen 18 Universitetsaulaen 008 #FESTSPILLENE17 WWW.FIB.NO/EN 009 010 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANTS RESTAURANTS BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 011 FESTIVAL 2017 FESTIVAL 2017

family. Chefs and twin brothers Ørjan X Colonialen Restaurant Escalón Fløien We offer a selection of smaller dishes 10 Roast Restaurant og Bar between lunch and dinner. and Arnt Johannessen can list a Colonialen Restaurant is located in At the top floor of Scandic Ørnen Bergen’s first tapas restaurant, located Address: Rasmus Meyers allé 9. Bocuse d´Or Lyon gold medal and large and tasteful, newly refurbished next to Fløianen funicular’s lower Entrance through KODE 4. you will enjoy a spectacular view of Chef of the Year title among their premises in Kong Oscars gate. From station. This restaurant has been an Booking: +47 55 60 31 00 the city and a menu of the season’s www.lysverket.no achievements. Their menu is com- the outset, the restaurant’s chefs have institution for gourmets in Bergen finest ingredients, with grilled meat, Festival prised of the delicacies the sea, the won praise for their combination of since 1998. fresh fish, and seafood. 8 heather, and the woods have to offer. tradition and innovation based on Pascal Mat & Vin OPENING HOURS OPENING HOURS Restaurants the season’s best produce. Inviting and informal bistro-like Monday–Saturday at 17:00–22:00 OPENING HOURS Sunday–Friday 16:00–23:00 restaurant where you will enjoy a Monday–Saturday at 12:00–22:00 OPENING HOURS Saturday 14:00–23:00 Address: Scandic Ørnen, Lars Hilles gate 18 Sunday at 12:00–20:00 Monday–Saturday from 18:00 Address: Vetrlidsallmenningen 21 pleasant atmosphere and friendly Booking: +47 55 37 50 00 (50) www.roastfood.no/bergen Address: Bekkjarvik Food orders before 21:30 Booking: +47 55 32 90 99 and efficient service. Booking: +47 55 08 42 40 Lunch Saturday at 13:00–16:00 www.escalon.no/restaurant-floien.php Combine cultural and culinary OPENING HOURS www.bekkjarvikgjestgiveri.no 11 experiences at the festival. Address: Kong Oscars gate 44 Monday–Saturday 11:30–23:00 Royal Gourmetburger og Gin Booking: +47 55 90 16 00 5 Escalón Veiten Sunday 14:00–23:00 Enjoy a gourmet burger in a hospi- 2 www.colonialen.no/restaurant Food orders before 22:00 Our Festival Restaurants are con- Boha Restaurant Tapas restaurant and bar with spacious table and informal atmosphere and veniently situated in relation to the At Boha you will get a hint of Italy, of Address: Scandic Neptun, Valkendorfsgate 8 take your pick from Norway’s largest 3 outdoor seating facing the theatre. Booking: +47 55 30 68 00 festival venues so as our audience France, of the good Mediterranean Cornelius selection of gin. OPENING HOURS www.scandichotels.no/Hotels/Norge might comfortably enjoy a full eve- life, and a kitchen based on first- Sjømatrestaurant /Bergen/Neptun/ Sunday–Tuesday 15:00–22:00 OPENING HOURS ning of superb culinary and cultural rate local ingredients. Opening hours Cornelius serves the most exotic Wednesday–Friday 15:00–23:00 Monday–Sunday at 15:00–24:00 experiences. are extended to accommodate pre- seafood the western archipelago has Saturday 14:00–23:00 9 Potetkjelleren Neumannsgate 2A booked parties. to offer. Their famed fresh from the Address: Veiten 3 A down-to-earth gourmet restaurant Booking: +47 56 90 12 33 Our Festival Restaurants offer excel- sea Meteorological Menu is created Booking: +47 55 32 90 99 www.royalburger.no OPENING HOURS www.escalon.no/restaurant-veiten.php with a history stretching back to lent food in a wide range of prices Monday–Thursday at 16:00–22:00 in line with the day’s weather and the 15th century. In its atmospheric 12 To kokker and cuisines for you to explore. As Friday at 16:00–23:00 the kitchen team’s inclinations and basement rooms with whitewashed Saturday at 17:00–23:00 6 Holbergstuen To Kokker’s menu is a mix of the a Festival Card holder you receive a inspirations. This is innovative cuisine stonewalls, the staff will treat to you Food orders before 21:30 Ever since 1927, Holberstuen has had traditional and the special – genuine 20% discount on food at our Festival Friday and Saturaday before 22:30 from chefs with a genuine passion an excellent evening with their pas- the pleasure of fulfilling the locals’ Norwegian traditional ingredients Restaurants – and you never know; Sunday: Open for groups of minimum 15 for seafood. sion for food and drink. perhaps there might just be a pop- persons and pre-ordered menu only. and visitors’ desires: tasty food and prepared in new ways. OPENING HOURS OPENING HOURS up festival concert to complement Address: Vaskerelven 6 Monday–Saturday with connecting boat drinks in nostalgic surroundings with OPENING HOURS Booking: +47 55 31 31 60 Monday–Sunday at 12:00–22:00 your meal. departures from Dreggekaien (shed no. 8), a homely atmosphere. Monday–Saturday at 17:00–23:00 www.boha.no opposite Bryggens Museum. Address: Kong Oscars gate 1A Food orders before 22:00 OPENING HOURS The boat trip takes 25 minutes. Required Booking: +47 55 32 00 70 Monday–Tuesday at 11:00–21:00 Address: 29 1 pre-booked reservations by e-mail: www.potetkjelleren.no BARE Vestland Wednesday–Thursday at 11:00–23:00 Booking: +47 55 30 69 55 Colonialen Litteraturhuset [email protected] Friday–Saturday at 11:00–24:00 www.tokokker.no Tapas bar and restaurant where you Lunch departure 11:30, return approx. 14:30. This brasserie and café has a dis- Sunday at 14:00–21:00 Restaurant 1877 are treated to ’s tinguished friendly, rustic, and per- Dinner departure 18:00, return 22:30. Address: Torgallmenningen 6 Food prepared with knowing and 13 Address: Holmen, Vestrepollen/ Wesselstuen exquisite tastes of the season, with sonal character and offers a variety Booking: +47 55 55 20 55 Katlavika på Bjorøy devotion. The meals result from the a focus on local high quality ecological www.holbergstuen.no With more than 50 years of serving of meals – from breakfast to dinner. Booking: +47 56 33 48 80 season’s finest ingredients and the ingredients. the locals and visitors, traditional The kitchen presents classic dishes www.corneliusrestaurant.no chef’s close relationship to the local 7 Wesselstuen presents a menu of high OPENING HOURS inspired by Nordic as well as conti- Lysverket suppliers. The season based 3 or 5 Monday–Wednesday at 16:00–22:00 quality ingredients rooted in local nental traditions, and their competent 3 A restaurant and bar with lunch and Thursday at 12:00–22:00 Enhjørningen course menus are complemented by as well as national food traditions. wine waiters will help you select from dinner service, presenting a modern Friday–Saturday at 12:00–23:00 Fiskerestaurant the historic feel of the locations in Genuinely Bergensian Sunday at 15:00–21:00 their comprehensive wine list. One of Norway’s most distinguished Norwegian cuisine. Lysverket’s set 4 distinguished Kjøttbasaren. OPENING HOURS Address: Vågsallmenningen 1 and 7 course menus focus on local OPENING HOURS restaurants, situated in Bergen’s tra- OPENING HOURS Monday–Wednesday 11:00–23:00 Booking: +47 400 02 455 Monday–Thursday at 09:00–23:00 ditional wharf in locations that are seafood, but include local meat & vege- Monday–Saturday 18:00–01:00 Thursday–Saturday 11:00–24:00 www.barevestland.no Friday at 09:00–24:00 table dishes as well. The kitchen also Food orders before 21:00 Sunday 14:00–21:30 Saturday at 10:00–24:00 restored and reset to Hanseatic times. offers an á la carte dinner menu in the Address: Kjøttbasaren, Vetrlidsallmenningen 2 Address: Øvre Ole Bulls plass 6 Address: Litteraturhuset, OPENING HOURS generous bar area. Booking: Please book in advance at Booking: +47 55 55 49 49 Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri Østre Skostredet 5–7 Monday–Sunday at 16:00–23:00 [email protected] www.wesselstuen.no The 17th century guest house has Booking: +47 55 90 16 00 Food orders before 22:30 OPENING HOURS Phone: +47 92 87 18 77 www.colonialen.no/litteraturhuset entered a new golden area in the Address: Bryggen 29 Lunch Monday–Saturday 11:00–15:00 www.restaurant1877.no/restaurant-1877-english Booking: +47 55 30 69 50 Dinner Tuesday–Saturday 17:00–22:00 capable hands of the Johannessen www.enhjorningen.no The bar is open until 01:00

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Regular ticket prices (ticket fee inclu- venues/events may be challenging/ OPENING HOURS ded) are listed for each event in NOK. unmanageable for wheelchair users: Mon–Fri 09:00–20:00 ¡¡Håkonshallen Sat 11:00–18:00 Other Offers and one hour before performances. ¡¡Lysøen Under 30 years ¡¡Siljustøl PHONE (+47) 55 60 70 80 Maximum NOK 150 per ticket. ¡¡Fløien Folkerestaurant Gift vouchers ¡¡Ibsen at Engen Order at www.fib.no/giftvoucher, by

Grieghallen phone (+47) 55 21 06 30, or e-mail Children Griegsalen in Grieghallen has an OPENING HOURS [email protected] and we will mail you Maximum NOK 100. Children’s assistive listening system and Den Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00 the voucher at no extra charge. You Discounted tickets are sold at children’s and Thu 10:00–19:30 Nationale Scene has induction loops may also purchase gift vouchers from family performances. It is required Sat 11:00–14:00 Tickets on all stages. Ticket office staff will be our ticket booth at Torgallmenningen. children have a separate ticket OPENING HOURS DURING happy to advise on the best seats in Gift vouchers are valid for one year ¡¡A valid ID must be presented when even when sitting on an adult’s lap. THE FESTIVAL relation to listening systems. 24 May: 10:00–19:00 from the date of purchase. purchasing discounted tickets and Den Nationale Scene has specific 25 May: 11:00–19:30 at the venue. guidelines for babies in the theatre. For more information on accessibility, 26 May: 10:00–17.00 Festival Card ¡¡There are no discounts on ticket For more information, please see transport, parking, toilets etc., see 27 May: 11:00–18:00 Groups 28 May: 12:00–13:00 & 17:00–18:00 prices of less than NOK 100. www.dns.no/billettinfo/ www.fib.no/venues. 2017 Groups of more than 10 people get a 29 May: 10:00–20:00 ¡¡Discounts do not apply to the tic- #babyer-i-teatret 30 May: 10:00–20:00 20 % discount on tickets. 31 May: 10:00–20:00 ORTET ket fee, which must always be paid 01 June: 10:00–19:30 in full. The fee is calculated based 02 June: 10:00–17:00 NOK 430 BT Fordel on the discount ticket price. Senior 03 June: 11:00–15:00 & 18:00–19:30 10 % discount per ticket. 04 June: 11:00–15:00 & 18:00–19:30 subscribers receive ¡¡On certain performances only a Buy your 05 June: 11:00–15:00 The Festival Card includes the 25 % discount on selected perfor- limited number of discount tickets tickets here: 06 June: 10:00–17:00 following benefits: mances. A maximum of 2 discounted are available. 07 June: 10:00–18:00 ¡¡ Companion Ticket 30 % discount on tickets tickets per subscriber per event. ¡¡The Festival Card discount does If you require an assistant, a free PHONE ¡¡One free programme when Discounted tickets are limited in not apply to the event Etterfest: (+47) 55 21 61 50 ticket for your companion can be www.fib.no presenting your card at the venue numbers and subject to availability. Hugsjá collected at our sales offices in Buy your tickets online from your PHONE, HOTEL PACKAGE DEALS ¡¡20 % discount at Festival computer, tablet, or smart phone. 09901 (regular rate) Restaurants for the holder of Grieghallen, Den Nationale Scene, www.revyogteater.no Fordel and at the Festival ticket booth at the card the Torgallmenningen. Companion Festival Ticket Booth at Torgallmenningen At the door tickets are also available at other DN Fordel Uncollected tickets are available at Ticketmaster outlets for the price OPENING HOURS 19 MAY–07 JUNE Dagens Næringsliv subscribers 19 May: 12:00–19:30 the venue one hour before the event. of NOK 16 (due to booking charges). receive 15 % discounts on selected 20 May – 06. June: 09:00–19:30 At sold-out performances, uncol- 07 June: closed performances. A maximum of 2 dis- lected tickets will be sold 15 minutes counted tickets per subscriber per before the performance starts. Ticketmaster event. Discounted tickets are limited www.fib.no/buytickets in numbers and subject to availability.

Accessibility PHONE (CALL CENTRE) (+47) 815 33 133 (regular rate) Subject to change The Bergen International Festival OPENING HOURS: takes place at around 40 venues. Mon–Fri 08:30–16:00 Some of these are very old and former Sat 10:00–14:00

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Please contact us if you have any Logen is a hive of Festival activity! In Get ready for the Bergen International questions. We welcome your feed- the main hall there are concerts and Festival with our playlists at TIDAL and back. What would you like us to do performances, and the bar upstairs Spotify. We understand choosing might FESTIVI- differently and what do we do well? is a Festival lounge for all those be difficult, and we are here to help! You can get in touch with us via: involved – members of the audience, We have created a playlist with some volunteers, artists and staff. See you of the 2017 highlights, and the Festival www.fib.no there! Director presents his favourites. Get We answer your questions via our to know the music before the Festival, TIES and relive the experience afterwards! chat service every weekday from ENTERTAINMENT AND SURPRISES. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. 10:00 to 15:00, and extend our ope- Visit us online You’ll find our playlists by searching PLAYFUL SCENES INSIDE AND OUTDOORS. ning hours at times. Just check our for ‘Festspillene i Bergen 2017’ at both EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR HEAD, HEART AND FEET. TIDAL and Spotify. website to see if we’re online! At www.fib.no/en you’ll find a digital PAGES 016–034 SMS: Send a text message to us with edition of this programme catalogue. code word FIB MENING followed by Take a look at videos of the Festival Volunteer your comment to 2077. programme, and book your tickets directly from the catalogue. At E-mail: [email protected] www.fib.no you will find more videos, Would you like to join us? Tickets: +47 55 21 61 50 background information and the Artist and audience hosts? Production Other questions/group bookings: latest news. Keep up-to-date by sig- or office assistant? These are some of +47 55 31 06 30 ning up for our newsletter and receive the tasks our 200 volunteers undertake personal offers. @Festspillene during the Festival. Their help is crucial to the production of one of Norway’s Facebook.com/ biggest cultural events. As a volunteer, bergeninternationalfestival you get an insider’s view of the Festival #Festspillene / #festspillene17 and inspiring experiences together with the staff and other volunteers.

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Rufus Wainwright

with guests Anne Sofie von Otter and Brooklyn Rider

m A magnificent voice from an artist Wainwright’s warm and rich voice and playful who refuses to be labelled. musicality have brought along collaborations GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN with a great number of artists, among them Burt Vocalist, songwriter, and composer Rufus Bacharach, David Byrne, and Robbie Williams. DATE/TIME Wainwright studied opera – for about ten minu- Anne Sofie von Otter and the Monday 29 May tes. The story has it he was wearing clogs to at 20:00 Brooklyn Rider will also appear on stage in his very first lesson. Grieghallen and perform, among other numbers, DURATION a version of Go Leave, written by Wainwright’s 1:20 – The clogs need to go, his music teacher told mother Kate McGarrigle. him, so Rufus took his clogs, left and never TICKET Standard: 190–550 returned. Under 30: 150 Rufus Wainwright vocal, piano, guitar The Canadian-American artist’s insistence on Festival Card: being allowed to always be himself is evident in 30% discount Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano his musical CV. has named him the best songwriter on the planet, and the extent of Brooklyn Rider o his production – from pure pop songs to Johnny Gandelsman – is somewhat absurd. Among his many studio Colin Jacobsen violin DIALOGUES and live recordings we find the legendary tribute Nicholas Cords viola Meet Rufus and recreation of Judy Garland’s 1961 Carnegie Michael Nicolas Wainwright Hall concert and a special Shakespeare album that was released last year. His music is often LITTERATUR- labelled popera or chamber pop, and the utterly Sponsored by DNB HUSET diverse artist is also the musical creator of the

DATE/TIME opening performance, Shakespeare’s sonnets Sunday 28 May (see p. 76). at 16:00–17:00 Read more on page 96

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DATE/TIME LOGEN TICKET Thursday 25 May Standard: 230 at 22:00 DATE/TIME Under 30: 150 Friday 26 May at 20:00 DURATION BT Fordel: 180 1:30 DURATION Festival Card: 3:00 30% discount TICKET Standard: 290 Sondre Bratland OperaPub Christine Sandtorv Under 30: 150 A vibrant celebration of music, dance, BT Fordel: 220 and rhythms from all corners of the world. with Bergen I mellom Festival Card: 30% discount As a folk singer Sondre Bratland has Get ready for some reggae, hip-hop, samba, house, National Opera skyer been renowned for decades, not least, and afrobeat, performed by fabulous artists from perhaps, for his interpretations of Bergen’s vital music scene. Do you love to sing? m With new songs, a religious folk tunes. The evening starts off with African party music Here’s your chance to go handpicked band, and solo! The stage is open candlelit surroundings, the This evening in Logen you will experience another by Chakacha-Sana, a band originating from Café Late Night Late Night to all. stage is set for a pleasant side of the singer. Sanaa – the intimate and colourful local concert Logen Logen scene. Inspired by Swahili traditions from the and atmospheric evening. – I will play a collection of songs that reflects my Contribute to a joyful evening of arias World East African coast they are swinging rhythms like LOGEN development, from old tunes from via in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere premiere Christine Sandtorv’s previous merits chakacha, taarab, mdundiko, and mawindi. country and Irish inspired songs to songs for which DATE/TIME of like-minded opera fans. We provide include writing pop songs in English Thursday 01 June LOGEN I have either written the lyrics or composed the Next in line is Ivar Thormodsæter with a house at 22:00 a , you simply sign up and sing. with the band Ephemera and rele- melody. The lyrics I pick are what I will call words band gathered for the occasion, who will play DATE/TIME asing four children’s albums. This of wisdom from well-known writers such as Olav throughout the evening together with a group DURATION Welcome to a special Festival edition Friday 02 June evening she turns up with brand 1:30 at 22:00 H. Hauge, Jacob Sande, and Hank Williams. of excellent musicians and dancers: F13X, of Bergen National Opera’s popular new songs, this time in Norwegian, Wangladesh, Irem Müftüoglu, Flawa Few, Will opera pub. DURATION accompanied by some of Bergen’s He brings with him, in his own words, ‘the good Free ‘Black Diamond’ Freeman, Action The Man and 1:30 finest musicians. helpers from the fairy tales’ – among them guitarist admission To pre-register, send an email to Gabriela Garrubo will appear on stage in a concert and fiddle player Annbjørg Lien, [email protected] and tell us what you TICKET where everybody plays together with everybody. Standard: 290 She still puts emphasis on a well-made his musical partners of many years with whom would like to perform. Under 30: 150 tune, but at times it gets even sorer, he has collaborated in various constellations on BT Fordel: 220 more intimate, and more tranquil than a number of recordings and concerts. Chakacha Sana Festival Card: before. Through poetic observations Ivathos Fliff Flaff Biggiband 30 % discount of the simple, yet so complicated life, In collaboration with Sondre Bratland vocal Christine Sandtorv & Band welcome Please visit www.fib.no for the full line-up. Bergen National Opera. guitar us to a concert where we might calm Knut Reiersrud guitar down a notch or two and take time Annbjørg Lien keyed fiddle, Hardanger fiddle In collaboration with the Joint Immigrant to spot the blue in between clouds. Hans Fredrik Jacobsen flutes Council of , Bergen International Ole Marius Sandberg bass Culture Center and Café Sanaa.

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Late Night Logen

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DATE/TIME Tuesday 06 June at 22:00

DURATION 1:30

TICKET Standard: 290 Under 30: 150 Sinne Eeg Festival Milonga BT Fordel: 220

Festival Card: Melancholy and playfulness from 30% discount d Denmark’s great singer. LOGEN TICKET Spontaneity, improvisation, and the pure joy of Standard: 150 DATE/TIME BT Fordel: 120 making music are key words for Sinne Eeg. Her Wednesday 31 May distinctive voice and emotional expression have at 20:00 Festival Card: 30% discount won her many awards, among others the Danish DURATION Music Awards for 2014, and she has sung her 5:00 way into the hearts of audiences both at home and throughout the world. ‘Eeg’s balanced sound, Tango party in three acts, open to intuitive timing, and skilful phrasing are of a rare all dance enthusiasts. calibre,’ the jury observed when she received New to tango, or an experienced dancer? Either Queen Ingrid’s Honorary Award last year. Ida Nielsen way, you are invited alone or as a couple to join Artists like Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter, and Sarah us in creating a mini-Buenos Aires in Bergen – a & band Vaughan are of profound inspiration to her as Buenos Bergen! m a singer while she simultaneously possesses a The evening starts out with a display of distinctive character and soft and melancholic Argentinian tango as inspiration for the fol- Late Night darkness in her expression. Sinne Eeg also has lowing introductory course: Learn about Logen Funky festival night with some be described as a mix of good old-fashioned funk, a close relationship to Ella Fitzgerald, who would Argentinian tango and seize the opportunity serious bass. with a dash of hip hop, reggae, and world music have turned 100 years this year, and she has LOGEN to try it out yourself – no previous experience – garnished with catchy tunes. And of course performed a great number of songs from the Danish Ida Nielsen got her life turned upside is required. At 21:30 the milonga begins. Get on DATE/TIME a lot of bass. repertoire of the American queen of jazz. Saturday 03 June down when discovered her on the Internet the dance floor, or just sit back and enjoy the at 22:00 in 2010. Shortly after she joined his band and Ida Nielsen will also appear as a soloist at the – When I’m in front of the audience I often forget music, dance and atmosphere. toured with him with The first performance of Norwegian composer Rolf myself and let go of all shyness and vanity. To DURATION A DJ from Tango Abrazo provides the music 1:30 and later until the iconic artist passed Wallin’s new work on the concert with London me, that’s when the magic of the music appears, and ensures that the tango atmosphere seizes away last year. Sinfonietta in Håkonshallen 02 June (p. 84). she says. TICKET you from the first beat. Standard: 290 For Ida Nielsen the time she got to work with At Logen it is all about Ida, her bass, and her Under 30: 150 Prince was ‘the most magic and instructive jour- band, and she promises us a funk show filled Sinne Eeg vocal BT Fordel: 220 In collaboration with Tango Abrazo ney ever’ and something she has brought with with energy, good vibes, and groove. Jacob Christoffersen piano Festival Card: her in her solo career. The bass player, composer, Lennart Ginman bass 30% discount and singer has released three albums this far. The Zoltan Czörsz jr. drums last one, TURNITUP, was released this autumn Supported by the Oticon Foundation and is dedicated to Prince. The music may best Supported by the Oticon Foundation

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GRIEGHALLEN Acosta Danza: GRIEGSALEN

DATE/TIME Saturday 03 June Debut at 19:30

DURATION 2:30 including interval

TICKET Standard: 190–600 Under 30: 150 with a Cuban heart, choreographed by iconic ballet Festival Card: dancer Carlos Acosta. 30% discount In the wake of his outstanding international career, Carlos Acosta gathered Cuba’s leading dancers and established the dance company Acosta Danza. In Grieghallen they will perform Acosta’s own version of Bizet’s classical bal- Acosta Danza let suite Carmen. The performance is a fusion Carlos Acosta artistic director of classical and modern dance, reflecting the rich and distinctive Cuban culture. The story’s Marianela Boán choreography, El Cruce universal and timeless themes are laid bare in Sobre El Niágara (The Crossing Over Niagara) a sparse and powerful setting with spectacular Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui choreography, Faun designs and lighting, accompanied by Royal Russell Maliphant choreography, Two Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Paul Murphy. Goyo Montero choreography, Alrededor No Hay Nada (There is Nothing Around) On this evening in Grieghallen, Acosta will also Carlos Acosta choreography, Carmen present us to other aspects of their unique com- bination of classical and contemporary dance. Royal Ballet Sinfonia The company has associated with a stellar Paul Murphy conductor team of choreographers: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marianela Boán, Goyo Montero, and Russell Maliphant. Carlos Acosta himself performs Produced by Sadler’s Wells London and Maliphant’s mesmerizing and intense solo Valid Productions. piece Two. Made possible by Aud Jebsen

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Nordic Reversible premiere

GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN

DATE/TIME Saturday 27 May at 18:00, Pure elegance and flows of adrena- Sunday 28 May line in a stirring contemporary circus at 13:00 and Les 7 doigts de la main 18:00 performance.

RECOMMENDED Imagine your grandparents at your age. What Gypsy Snider director AGES were their lives like? The performers from Isabelle Chassé assistant to the director All Canadian Les 7 doigts de la main have sear- Ana Cappelluto scenography DURATION ched their own roots and unveiled past stories Yan Lee Chan lighting design 1:35 as well as skeletons in the closets that affects Geneviève Bouchard costumes

ADDITIONAL their own identities and lives today one way or Colin Gagné, Sébastien Soldevila INFORMATION another. The result is Reversible, a captivating music directors Excerpt from mix of circus, dance, theatre, and acrobatics, Thomas Lightburn (Vancouver), Reversible Friday 26 May dedicated to a generation who forged the world TOHU (Montréal) and Théâtre du Gymnase at 17:00 we live in today. Can their stories be a guide in et Bernardines (Marseille) coproduction at Torgallmenningen. our search for a better future? This is explored

TICKET in a melancholy performance guaranteed to Maria del Mar Reyes Saez, Vincent Jutras, Standard: 190–520 give you goose bumps, where everyday lives Jérémi Lévesque, Natasha Patterson, Hugo Under 30: 150 blossom into spectacular universes filled with Ragetly, Émilie Silliau, Julien Silliau, Emi BT Fordel: 150–395 beauty, emotions, and hope. Vauthey cast Festival Card: 30% discount Les 7 doigts de la main are back in Bergen with a brand new performance after last having visited Supported by Grieg Foundation the Bergen International Festival in 2014 with the great success Traces. The company does 500 performances a year all over the world, one of them a performance at the Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi in 2014.

�Truly magnificent� – RADIO ÉNERGIE

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AlgoRitmo In collaboration with Norsk kulturskoleråd – tú TICKET Hordaland, Bergen Standard: 150 kulturskole og World Children: 100 premiere BT Fordel: 120 Bergen Dansesenter

LOGEN Festival Card: 30% discount Supported by DATE/TIME Monday 29 and o Grieg Foundation Tuesday 30 May at 18:00 DIALOGUES Sponsored by RECOMMENDED Kritikk Statoil Heroes of AGES av kunst From 8 years Tomorrow for barn DURATION 0:45 LOGEN

ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME INFORMATION Monday 29 May Sonoko Miriam Welde Excerpt from at 19:30–20:30 AlgoRitmo at Winner of Statoil’s classical Galleriet Monday music scholarship 2016 29 May at 15:30 Festival Festival Youth

Thomas Sandberg invites us Youth Day Performance into his pulsating mathemati- cal and musical universe. mdú RECOMMENDED mdú RECOMMENDED AlgoRitmo is a playful musical per- AGES AGES LOGEN All GRIEGHALLEN All formance that constantly finds new PEER GYNTSALEN shapes in its interaction with the DATE/TIME ADDITIONAL TICKET Impossible Wednesday 31 May INFORMATION DATE/TIME Standard: 120 audience. The award winning and at 10:00 Kulturskolemøn- Wednesday 31 May BT Fordel: 90 multitalented artist Thomas Sandberg string in Oseana at 18:00 DURATION 13–28 May Festival Card: is known for creating amusing, informal, 4:30 DURATION 30% discount and exhilarating universes where he including interval Free 1:30 is just a fancy presents rhythmical music for children admission in a most elegant manner. Talented future artists on Festival performance with Sandberg digs into people’s algorith- stage all day. selected young talents. grown-up word mic perception of music, throws in a good measure of humour, and lets the The Festival Youth Day at Logen is At this evening performance in the The Heroes of Tomorrow. Statoil is a proud supporter of talent development a free all-day event where Cultural Peer Gynt Hall in Grieghallen you will in science, education, culture and sports. We believe that no matter what audience pick the ingredients. School pupils from all over Hordaland see and listen to artists who perhaps challenges the future may hold, the answers are already out there. Which is why we’re backing talented youth who show they can go the extra mile. get the chance to demonstrate their will come to influence the cultural life Thomas Sandberg idea, script, cast talents. of Norway in years ahead. On stage are singers, dancers, and instrumen- Statoil. The Power of Possible We are in for rock ‘n’ roll bands, Supported by Grieg Foundation and talists who are handpicked among classical pearls, solo and ensemble the pupils at the Cultural Schools www.facebook.com/MorgendagensHelter the Oticon Foundation instrumental variations, ballet, jazz in Hordaland. The Festival Youth dance, hip hop, theatre, and much, Performance is an annual event, and Sponsored by Statoil Heroes much more. There will be concerts the audience tend to leave the con- of Tomorrow and acts every hour, on the hour. cert hall both impressed and touched.

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Family Day at Siljustøl Beatles for Babies Solitude t ú Norwegian premiere km RECOMMENDED km RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED AGES AGES km ú AGES FANA ú All d ú 0–3 years From 4 years KULTURHUS World Outdoors DURATION Norwegian DURATION premiere DURATION DATE/TIME 4:00 premiere 0:40 0:20 Thursday 25 and CORNERTEATERET Friday 26 May SILJUSTØL ADDITIONAL TICKET TICKET at 18:00 INFORMATION LOGEN Standard: 150 Standard: 150 DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Please note that the Children: 100 Thursday 01 and Children: 100 DURATION Sunday 28 May festival does not DATE/TIME BT Fordel: 120 BT Fordel: 120 1:30 at 12:00 Sunday 04 June Friday 02 June provide transport to at 18:00 Opening ceremony this event. at 14:30 and 16:00 Festival Card: Festival Card: RECOMMENDED at 13:00 Monday 05 June Saturday 03 June 30% discount at 10:30 and 12:00 30% discount AGES Free admission at 11:00, 12:30 From 8 years and 14:00 TICKET Enchanting Sunday close It is never too early to intro- An enchanting sphere of Standard: 370 to nature in Sæverud’s own duce the youngest members music, impressions, and Under 30: 150 Children: 100 paradise. of the family to the Fab Four. perception. BT Fordel: 285 ‘At the end of a performance one could swear Infini​ ta that the actors had spoken, laughed and cried. The great family day at Harald This is a warm and exciting tribute In an abstract universe of sound, Festival Card: Sæverud’s property is a valued and to the Beatles, adapted for the little light, and movement violinist Ingerine 30% discount A fascinating experiment in theatre that is popular tradition. The composer’s ones by four musicians and a dancer. Dahl, accompanied by members from executed with incredible body control.’ property in Fana is wonderfully The children are invited to dance, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, A wordless, yet eloquent masque. – SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG beautiful and Sæverud was fond of clap their hands, drum, look at the presents a concert performance that The German ensemble Familie Flöz have spe- wandering in the bewitching sur- instruments, and move about – to incites fantasy and wonder in children cialised in entertaining performances for the Familie Flöz roundings at Siljustøl. the sound of immortal songs like and adults alike. Solitude is a brand whole family, and their productions are a mix Yesterday, Let it Be, and Hey Jude new work for solo violin, string instru- This Sunday at Siljustøl there will of physical comedy, masque and mime. Without in new arrangements. ments, and percussion, written by Jan Hajo Schüler, Michael Vogel director be displays of dancing, fun figures spoken words, but with breathtaking body lan- Erik Mikalsen and staged for children Hajo Schüler masks and unexpected encounters on the The Beatles songs are performed guage and expressive masques, the audience for the Bergen International Festival. Michael Ottopal set design trails. Singer Bodil Lunde Rørtveit on violin, cello, clarinet, and percus- is drawn into their dark and humorous tales. In Eliseu R. Weide costume design and percussionist Terje Isungset sion, in a tent in the middle of Logen. 2015, the ensemble performed Hotel Paradiso Dirk Schröder sound design will perform excerpts of the musical Young and old are encouraged Ingerine Dahl idea, production, violin at the Bergen International Festival. Dirk Schröder, Benjamin Reber music piece Munch Remastered, inspired by to participate in the performance Infinita deals with the puzzle of life and death, Reinhard Hubert lighting design Edvard Munch’s paitings. There will through interactive video, song, and of its first and last moments, presenting us Silke Meyer video art be guided tours of the house and mini rhythm instruments. The sound level Please visit www.fib.no for the with four magnificently masked figures, a Andreas Dihm video animation concerts of Sæverud’s famous piano is adjusted to suit young ears, and complete credit list. very crafty game of shadows and some truly Stefan Lochau artistic assitant works by Rune Alver. the music appeals to all. enchanting music. Pierre-Yves Bazin, Gianni Bettucci JAN ERIK MIKALSEN (1979–) production managers Solitude We witness a vigorous succession of scenes A collaboration between the Bergen I La petita malumaluga World premiere Dorén Gräfendorf, Dana Schmidt, Evy picturing the inevitable fate of the human being, nternational Festival, KODE composer’s Schubert production assistants in this game of transience, of being born and homes, Dukkenikkernes teaterverksted Please visit www.fib.no for the of growing old. Life itself – that creative force by Jan Holden, Siljustøls Venner and A coproduction between Bergen Björn Leese, Benjamin Reber, Hajo Schüler, complete credit list. that lets us triumph and fail – plays the star role. Bergen kommune – Fana og International Festival, Ingerine Dahl Michael Vogel cast kulturkontor and 1. Øvsttun Speidergruppe and Stavanger Concert Hall. Infinita is a tangible mosaic of life, simply and Supported by Grieg Foundation virtuously composed; a brief insight into the Supported by Grieg Foundation eternity of death and everything else that Supported by Grieg Foundation and Supported by Grieg Foundation is odd. the Kavli Trust

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Papagøyene This free concert at Fløyen takes your head and Bicyclophony your hips on a round trip of the world. Whistling, – A bicycle symphony singing, and dancing are obligatory for both m ú young and old. Children’s songs to samba rhythms. ‘This was not a concert for those who enjoy AMFIET How does Troll Mother sing in South America? AT FLØYEN peace and quiet. One had to dance, jump, m Papagøyene’s repertoire consists of well-known laugh, and simply have fun.’ DATE/TIME children’s songs rearranged in the Brazilian and World premiere – AVISA HORDALAND Monday 29 May Caribbean spirit. The music is bursting with TORGALLMENNINGEN at 12:00 energy, with lots of rhythms, simple tunes, DATE/TIME DURATION Festival Quarter Friday 02 June 0:40 DURATION whistling, and funny instruments. Papagøyene at 12:00 0:45 Asbjørn Sundal percussion, vocal Free admission Percussionist and cultural mediator Asbjørn Erik Håkon Halvorsen keys RECOMMENDED Sundal started the band in 2006 at the request m AGES Torbjørn Hillersøy bass, vocal A symphony of and with of Bajazz and Bergen Jazzforum. The back- All Tor Bjarne Bjelland drums TORGALLMENNINGEN two-wheelers. ground was his love for world music, especially DATE/TIME DURATION Inspired by Frank Zappa, last year’s Free admission the music from , and a desire to take chil- Thursday 25 May– 0:15 festival bikes, and the 2017 Road dren seriously. According to the experienced Supported by Grieg Foundation and Tuesday 06 June Free admission at 16:15 World Championships in Bergen, the musician you will not find a more critical audi- the Kavli Trust BIT20 Ensemble decided to com- ence than those who are less then three feet tall. The Bergen International Festival is pose their own bicycle symphony Festival a meeting place for artists of many in collaboration with 50 pupils from genres. Each day you will meet Ådnamarka school. Throughout Morgonfrosken on the Seven some of them on the small stage at spring they have explored all the Mountains Torgallmenningen. strange and delightful sounds a bike might possibly produce in various 25 May Musicians from the ways. With their own bicycle concert m ú An atmospheric free concert at Bergen Philharmonic band, instruments of their own inven- Fløyen by and with Morgonfrosken. m Youth Orchestra tion made from bicycle parts, and AMFIET RECOMMENDED AT FLØYEN Morgonfrosken (The Morning Frog) sings songs Outdoors AGES 26 May Artists from RIFF several cyclists especially trained for about the big questions and topics like the All 27 May Talents from Festival the occasion, the completed work will DATE/TIME BYFJELLENE universe, our thoughts, loneliness, and love, in Youth Performance be presented at Torgallmenningen. Monday 05 June DURATION at 12:00 the company of more immediate and concrete DATE/TIME 13:00 28 May Ingela Øien fra phenomena such as the elements, birds, and Sunday 28 May BIT20 Ensemble DURATION frogs. The music is inspired by Norwegian folk at 07:00 Free admission 0:40 29 May Nordlydkvartetten Ole André Farstad, Sindre Sortland, music, neatly mixed with American Old-time 30 May Opus13 This traditional seven-mountain hike Arne Sandvoll concept, development Free admission and British folk and pop music. 31 May 1B1 Ensemble is an attraction and a great day out. 01 June TBA The lyrics, published in the book Når morgon- Bergen Impro big band will provide In collaboration with BIT20 Ensemble frosken syng (When the morning frog sings), 02 June Christine Sandtorv big and small at the Førde festival and Bajazz, musical vitamin injections along and Den Grønne Sykkel are by Per Olav Kaldestad, and folk musician, 03 June Bergen Domkor among others. This autumn they released their the route. singer, and composer Annlaug Børsheim has 04 June Amalie Stalheim, sequel album Og fjøla blei en seglbåt og tanken composed the music. She brings along banjo Eva Stalheim and Supported by Grieg Foundation and blei en vind. Ole Christian Haagenrud playing clarinettist Ingemund Askeland from In collaboration with Bergen and the Kavli Trust 05 June TBA Etne and fiddle player Mari Skeie Ljones from Hordaland Trekking Association 06 June Joachim Carr Supported by Lillehammer on Hardanger fiddle. Annlaug Morgonfrosken Sponsored by DNV GL Grieg Foundation herself plays the guitar and the fiddle and Annlaug Børsheim guitar, fiddle, vocal Supported by Grieg Foundation and and the Kavli Trust sings. The group have toured for the ‘Cultural Mari Skeie Ljones fiddle, Hardanger fiddle the Kavli Trust Supported by the Kavli Trust Rucksack’ and held a number of concerts for Ingemund Askeland banjo, clarinet, harmonica

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Nothing is Less Certain FOUNDA- ts French acrobatics – high and low. ‘A rough and energetic acrobatic tilt stunt ú … We cannot tear our eyes away from the The contemporary circus collective Collectif acrobat in red slippers who is flying, twirling, TIONS de la Bascule is renowned for their world-class Norwegian and spinning like a ball. Utter artistry.’ acrobatics. The performance Nothing is Less – TÉLÉRAMA PERFORMANCES AND CONCERTS WITH A HISTORY. premiere Certain is no exception as such. The high- THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE CLASSICAL ART TRADITION. DEPTH AND REFLECTION. TORG- flying and fearless acrobats launch into bold ALLMENNINGEN and breakneck stunts demanding an impres- Collectif de la Bascule PAGES 036–074 BY SJØFARTS- sive level of balance, flexibility, and precision. Samira Boukhnous, Dadou Ede technical team MONUMENTET Fanny Alvarez, Antoine Guillaume, Karim

DATE/TIME One simple movement sets the whole mac- Messaoudi, Marius Ollagnier, Maxime Saturday 03 June hinery working and the chain reaction is Reydel cast at 12:00 and 14:00 unstoppable. The acrobats start up a vertical invasion and horizontal occupation: elegant FLØYEN Supported by Grieg Foundation and BY THE KIOSK and explosive, so simple and yet so complex. the Kavli Trust Expect to find yourself watching with eyes DATE/TIME Sunday 04 June wide open, quivering with anticipation! at 12:00 and 14:00 Collectif de la Bascule drops the circus tent; DURATION they find their circus rings outdoors in the 0:35 city of Bergen. Their first performance takes RECOMMENDED place at Torgallmenningen on Saturday 03 AGES June, before moving on to Fløyen on Sunday All 04 June – and it is free and open to all. Free admission

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Peter Grimes

k ’s masterpiece. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

GRIEGHALLEN Edward Gardner conductor GRIEGSALEN The opera Peter Grimes, set in a claustrophobic seaside town on ’s windswept coast, Bergen Philharmonic Choir DATE/TIME presents some of the most powerful and thea- Tuesday 30 May Choir at 19:30 trical music written for the operatic stage. Collegium Musicum’s Choir Royal Northern College of Music Choir, DURATION Peter Grimes is a true psychological thriller, Manchester 3:05 painting a vivid portrait of a small community’s including intervals Håkon Matti Skrede choir master descent into suspicion, gossip and bullying in

LANGUAGE the face of a tragedy. What has happened to Vera Rostin Wexelsen stage concept Performed in fisherman Peter Grimes’s missing apprentice? English with Maria af Klinteberg Herresthal Norwegian What part has Grimes, always the town’s out- Norwegian translation surtitles sider, played in the boy’s disappearance? As

mistrust grows, Grimes’s life spirals into down- ADDITIONAL Stuart Skelton Peter Grimes, a fisherman fall with dramatic consequences. INFORMATION Giselle Allen Ellen Orford, a widow, Introduction (in Norwegian) This concert version of Benjamin Britten’s Borough schoolmistress at 18:45 in great opera, presented in collaboration Roderick Williams Balstrode, Grieghallen Foyer with the Bergen National Opera and Bergen retired merchant skipper Peter Grimes will Philharmonic Orchestra, is conducted by the Annika Schlicht Auntie, landlady of The Boar also be performed orchestra's Chief Conductor Edward Gardner. Hanna Husáhr 1st niece at the Edinburgh Vibeke Kristensen 2nd niece International The title role is sung by tenor Stuart Skelton, Festival 13 August whose interpretation of the role is recognised Catheryn Wyn-Rogers Mrs. Sedley, 2017. as peerless: ‘Surely now the Grimes of our a rentier widow Andrew Greenan Swallow, a lawyer TICKET day. Not to be missed on stage’, wrote the Standard: 190–640 Sunday Times. Marcus Farnsworth Ned Keene, Under 30: 150 apothecary and quack Colin Judson Bob Boles, Festival Card: 30% discount fisherman and Methodist James Gilchrist Rev. Horace Adams, Presented by the Bergen International the rector Festival, Bergen National Opera and Bergen Barnaby Rea Hobson, the carrier Philharmonic Orchestra

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) music MONTAGU SLATER (1902–1956) libretto Sponsored by Morgenbladet Peter Grimes, op. 33

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Lang Lang

m Lang Lang has performed for presi- the most difficult works ever written for piano. dents on three continents and four bil- GRIEGHALLEN lion viewers at the Olympic Opening ‘The hottest artist on the classical music planet GRIEGSALEN Ceremony in Beijing. may well be the Chinese pianist Lang Lang.’ – THE NEW YORK TIMES DATE/TIME Thursday 01 June Lang Lang was born in 1982, and has long been at 19:30 considered one of today’s greatest stars of Lang Lang piano classical music. He is well-known for his open- DURATION 2:10 hearted, emotive playing, and has played to sold including interval out concerts across the globe. (1862–1918) Ballade, L.70 TICKET His list of merits is as long as it is varied: Lang Standard: 250–800 Under 30: 150 Lang has performed at the 2014 World Cup con- FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886) cert in Rio, at the 56th and 57th Grammy Awards Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178

Festival Card: with and Pharell Williams and the Last 30% discount ISAAC ALBENIZ (1860–1909) Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert From Suite Española, op. 47 ADDITIONAL Hall. He has played with conductor Sir Simon 1. Granada (Serenada) 3. Sevilla (Sevillanas) INFORMATION Rattle and on Sesame Street, been included in Introduction 2. Cataluña (Courante) (in Norwegian) the “TIME 100”, the magazine’s annual list of 4. Cádiz (Saeta) by Annabel Guaita the 100 Most Influential People in the World, 5. Asturias (Leyenda) 8. Cuba (Notturno) at 18:45 in and Steinway Pianos has named a piano model Grieghallen Foyer after him. Lang Lang is also passionate about ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867–1916) bringing music into the lives of children around From Goyescas, op. 11 3. El fandango de candil the world, whether it is through his work with 4. Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor new media or through his work with various organisations, including his own. MANUEL DE FALLA (1876–1946) Danza ritual del fuego His own first meeting with the world of clas- sical music was a Tom & Jerry cartoon, which introduced him to the music of Liszt. At the Made possible by Bergen International Festival, one of the works Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/Rika AS Lang Lang will be performing is Liszt’s Piano and Trond Mohn Sonata in B minor, often considered to be one of

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Mozart. Life, Love & Lust

m Amorous arias and duets sung by Mari Eriksmoen and Johannes GRIEGHALLEN Weisser, accompanied by the GRIEGSALEN Baroque ensemble B’Rock under its

DATE/TIME renowned conductor René Jacobs. Sunday 04 June at 19:30 Norwegian opera singers Mari Eriksmoen and Johannes Weisser take love’s challenge DURATION 2:00 in two of Mozart’s best-loved operas: The including interval Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. Indulge yourself in duets of desire and pas- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION sion served by famous operatic couples: Introduction Papageno and Papagena, Count Almaviva and (in Norwegian) Susanna. at 18:45 in Grieghallen Foyer In Grieghallen the soloists are accompanied by TICKET the elite Belgian ensemble B’Rock Orchestra Standard: 190–550 conducted by Mozart expert René Jacobs, who B’Rock Orchestra Under 30: 150 DN Fordel: 165–465 has more than 250 recordings under his belt. René Jacobs conductor B’Rock, who believe that Baroque music should Festival Card: be played in the same way as rock music, are 30% discount Mari Eriksmoen soprano known for presenting their impulses and ideas Johannes Weisser baritone with feeling and humour.

The programme also includes excerpts from (1756–1791) Mozart’s last symphonies, which examine and Excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute and from Symphonies 40 and 41. embellish the same musical themes as the operas. Experience Mozart – lyrical, dramatic, Final programme to be announced later. genius – all in the mood for love.

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Closing​ Concert

md A Finnish overture, Grieg’s Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in A minor and John Storgårds conductor

GRIEGHALLEN Stravinsky’s Firebird on new wings. GRIEGSALEN Joachim Carr piano

Works by Sibelius and Saariaho mark the begin- DATE/TIME Danish Dance Theatre ning of the end of this year’s festival, performed Wednesday Tim Rushton choreography 07 June by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and led Johan Kølkjær set design at 18:00 by Finnish conductor John Storgårds. Joachim Martin Tulinius & Michael Bing video design Carr from Bergen is this year’s soloist in Grieg’s DURATION Åsa Gjersted costume design 2:00 Piano Concerto in A minor. including interval Csongor Szabo dramaturgy After the interval awaits a grand performance, Jacob Bjerregaard lighting design ADDITIONAL Maxim-Jo Bech McGosh, Luca Marazia, INFORMATION in which the award-winning Danish Dance Introduction Theatre presents choreographer Tim Rushton’s Alessandro Sousa Pereira, Stefanos Bizas, (in English) Firebird. The music is Stravinsky as we know it, Emily Nicolaou, Lucia Pasquini, Joe George, by Annabel and Merete Hersvik, Jessica Lyall, Tim Rushton but the staging is contemporary, with pulsating at 17:15 in video projections and cutting-edge scenery. Lukas Hartvig-Møller dancers Grieghallen Foyer Through music, movement and striking visuals,

TICKET it explores a doomed and enchanted world of (1865–1957) Standard: 190–590 chaos and order, exploitation and domination, Andante Festivo Under 30: 150 KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) victory and loss. A stage filled with turmoil, Ciel d’Hiver Festival Card: crafted physicality and fierce beauty rounds EDVARD GRIEG (1847–1907) 30% discount off the 2017 Festival. Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 (1882–1971) The Firebird ‘Magical dance imagery’, according to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Supported by the Oticon Foundation, FINNO, The Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Foundation and The Sibelius Society of Norway

Sponsored by DNV GL

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Richard Goode piano

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) Partita no. 6 in E minor (1770–1827) Bagatelles op. 126 Sonata no. 28 in A major, op. 101 Sonata no. 31 in A flat major, op. 110 FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810–1849) Nocturne no. 17 in B flat major, op. 62 no. 1 3 Mazurkas 1. op. 41 no. 3 in B flat major 2. op. 41 no. 4 in A flat major 3. op. 50 no. 3 in C sharp minor Polonaise in F sharp minor op. 44 m Bergen Philharmonic TORG- Richard ALLMENNINGEN Youth Orchestra DATE/TIME Thursday 25 May Goode at 14:00 The 90 members of Bergen Philharmonic DURATION Youth Orchestra (BFUng) make their Bergen m 1:00 Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra International Festival debut on the open-air Kjell Seim conductor HÅKONSHALLEN The pianist of . Free stage in the city square Torgallmenningen. Ludvig Gudim violin admission DATE/TIME When the American pianist Richard Goode The free concert opens with brilliant orchestral Thursday 25 May fireworks by Shostakovich, and continues with at 19:30 recorded all 32 of Beethoven’s sonatas in the other popular works: Ravel’s hypnotic Bolero, early 90s, the reviews were unanimous: The (1906–1975) DURATION disc set was declared a ‘landmark recording’ Grieg’s Norwegian Dance, excerpts from Bizet’s Festival Overture, op. 96 2:00 Carmen; the familiar tunes are lined up. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) including interval and Goode’s name has been associated with Norwegian Dance no. 1, op. 35 Beethoven since then. For his recital in Håkonshallen Richard Goode BFUng made its official debut in 2015, the GEIRR TVEITT (1908–1981) ADDITIONAL has selected Beethoven’s Sonatas no. 28 and Excerpts from Hundrad Hardingtonar INFORMATION Richard Goode is acclaimed for music-making 31 and his last piano work, the Bagatelles of 250th anniversary of the Bergen Philharmonic (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes), op. 151 Introduction (in Orchestra, and now gives several concerts a year. CHARLES-CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921) Norwegian) by of tremendous emotional power, depth and opus 126, whose playful and lyrical nature The new youth symphony orchestra, which ori- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28 Annabel Guaita expressiveness, and has been referred to complement the severity of Bach’s Partita no (1838–1875) at 18:55 both as the pianist’s pianist and as America’s 6. He had also recently ‘felt an urgent need to ginates from Ung Symfoni (‘Young Symphony’), Carmen, excerpts from Suites nos. 1 and 2 is run by Musikkselskapet Harmonien in collabo- (1875–1937) TICKET best kept secret. When he visited the Bergen play Chopin – especially mazurkas,’ and added ration with the Grieg Academy at the University Boléro Standard: 420 International Festival over ten years ago, critics the F sharp minor Polonaise, which ‘combines Under 30: 150 of Bergen, the University of Stavanger and the used words such as ‘pure delight’, ‘shivers down a Beethovenian power and a beautiful inner Barratt Due talent programme in Bergen. Festival Card: the spine’ and ’shining eyes’. mazurka.’ 30% discount The young musicians, all aged from 15 to 25, come from throughout western Norway; the Supported by The GC Rieber Funds Sponsored by DNV GL chief conductor is Kjell Seim.

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CRESCENDO: m Alisa Weilerstein & HÅKONSHALLEN Janine Jansen DATE/TIME Sunday 28 May Jonathan Biss at 19.30 with Denis Kozhukhin & Alisa Weilerstein cello DURATION Alisa Weilerstein Jonathan Biss piano 1:40 Old friends in musical reunion. Guro Kleven Hagen violin including interval Deep emotions on a Strad. On this occasion she is accompanied by pianist m Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Jonathan ADDITIONAL Opus13 Denis Kozhukin. They are joined by cellist Alisa Biss have been friends since their early twenties, INFORMATION Janine Jansen from the , one of the HÅKONSHALLEN Sonoko Miriam Welde violin Introduction Weilerstein for Shostakovich’s Piano Trio no. 2 yet have rarely had the opportunity to perform world’s most famous violinists, is recognised for Edvard Erdal violin (in Norwegian) In E minor to round off the concert. DATE/TIME together. by Magnus the vast range of her repertoire. She has said Friday 26 May Michael Grolid viola Andersson that for her, making music consists of listening at 19:30 As new mentors in the Crescendo programme at Frida Tharaldsen Skaftun cello at 18:55 to and communicating with other people, and Janine Jansen violin the 2017 Bergen International Festival they will DURATION TICKET that chamber music is closest to her heart: ‘This Denis Kozhukhin piano 1:40 have the chance to renew their friendship, and ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) Standard: 420 is where the deepest emotions are awakened.’ Alisa Weilerstein cello including interval will perform with the young soloists and chamber Five Pieces in Folk Style, op. 102 Under 30: 150 musicians at several concerts. LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743–1805) BT Fordel: 320 The audience in Håkonshallen will have the ADDITIONAL Quintet in E major, op. 11, no. 5, pleasure of hearing the Stradivarius on loan CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918) INFORMATION In this evening‘s concert in Håkonshallen they ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) Festival Card: Violin Sonata in G minor Introduction Fantasy Pieces, op. 73 30% discount from Norwegian Dextra Musica with which FRANZ SCHUBERT (1897–1928) (in Norwegian) perform two works by Schumann. Between these LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Janine Jansen was presented in 2016. Fantasie in C major, D.934 by Magnus Andersson Alisa Weilerstein and Opus13 perform one of Piano Trio in B flat major, ‘Archduke’, op. 97 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) at 18:55 Boccherini’s most famous works, his Quintet in ‘The violin deserves to be played by one of the Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 76 E major. world’s foremost musicians. Janine Jansen is a TICKET Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young Standard: 400 great star who plays with the best orchestras Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation The concert closes with Norwegian violinist Guro classical musicians and a joint venture between the Under 30: 150 Bergen International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of and conductors worldwide, a musician that DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ BT Fordel: 305 Kleven Hagen joining Weilerstein and Biss for Music and Philharmonic. The project is supported everyone – musicians, media and not least Charitable Foundation. Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ piano Trio, dedicated to by Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Festival Card: audiences – loves,’ says Anders Bjørnsen, the Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest child Jebsen, The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, Dextra 30% discount Musica and Talent Norway. director of Dextra Musica. of Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor. Sponsored by DNV GL

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Mathias Kjøller clarinet Chloe Hanslip violin Andreas Brantelid cello Marianna Shirinyan piano

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918) Première Rhapsodie MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) Piano Trio in A minor (1908–1992) Quartet for the End of Time

m Jakob Kullberg World premiere

HÅKONSHALLEN with Aliisa Neige Barrière

DATE/TIME Cello suites from Bach to Nørgård, Tuesday 30 May Jakob Kullberg cello at 19:30 and the world premiere of Concordia, a new commission by Kajia Saariaho. Aliisa Neige Barrière violin Kjøller, Brantelid, DURATION 1:50 Dane Jakob Kullberg is praised internationally for including interval PER NØRGÅRD (1932–) & JAKOB KULLBERG (1979–) his performances of the modern cello concerto, New hybrid work Shirinyan & Hanslip and has recently recorded the first of two albums (1685–1750) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION as a soloist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Suite for Solo Cello in G major, BWV 1007 Introduction KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) m (in English) He is a cello professor at the Royal College of Concordia for violin and cello 1. Tuning by Kaija Saariaho Music in London, and has studied in Amsterdam, HÅKONSHALLEN A multinational quartet performs combination of piano, clarinet, violin and cello at 18:30 2. Traveling Zagreb, London and Copenhagen, with teachers 3. Mist DATE/TIME French music written in wartime. reflects the players available to him. TICKET including the renowned Bach interpreter Anner 4. Dual Monday 29 May 5. Sursum corda at 20:30 On 15 January 1941 Messiaen premiered the Standard: 400 Bylsma. ‘Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen bring the won- Under 30: 150 World premiere piece with three fellow prisoners for an audi- commissioned by the Bergen International Festival DURATION derful colours of their music to life in completely Kullberg is also known for his close collaboration 1:55 ence of guards, other prisoners and camp Festival Card: KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) different ways, but they all found inspiration in with the Danish composer Per Nørgård, who has Prés for solo cello and electronics including interval hospital patients. He later said of its reception: 30% discount nature and have common impressionistic tex- written a number of works for him. BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) ADDITIONAL tures in their music,’ Danish clarinettist Mathias ‘Never before have I been listened to with such Unnumbered Suite for Solo Cello, op. 72 INFORMATION attention and understanding.’ seating In 2011, Kullberg moved to Paris to focus on his col- Introduction Kjøller explains, on the choice of repertoire. (in Norwegian) laboration with Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, at 18:55 Ravel and Messiaen wrote against a backdrop of the Festival’s Artist in Residence for 2017. Supported by FINNO, The Norwegian- war. Ravel, on completing his Piano Trio, enlisted Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Sibelius TICKET Supported by the Oticon Foundation This evening Kullberg and Finnish-French violinist to fight in World War I. The subsequent outbreak Society of Norway and Norwegian Artistic Standard: 400 Aliisa Neige Barrière will premiere the full version Under 30: 150 of World War II saw Messiaen enlisting for the Research Programme of Saariaho’s Concordia, written for the two of BT Fordel: 305 same French Army. Quartet for the End of Time Sponsored by DNV GL them. This new commissioned work sits between was written while Messiaen was a prisoner of Festival Card: well-loved cello suites by Britten and Bach, and a Sponsored by DNV GL 30% discount war in a Nazi concentration camp. The unusual new hybrid work created in collaboration between Jakob Kullberg and Per Nørgård.

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CRESCENDO:

Weilerstein, Biss & Alisa Weilerstein cello Andreas Scholl & Jonathan Biss piano Young Soloists Tamar Halperin Guro Kleven Hagen violin Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Kian Soltani cello m Crescendo musicians in a grand Opus13 m Music from the twentieth century always been a devotee of new music and com- combination of master and Sonoko Miriam Welde violin with countertenor Andreas Scholl posed himself. In this concert he presents a HÅKONSHALLEN apprentice. Edvard Erdal violin HÅKONSHALLEN and pianist Talmar Halperin. programme of twentieth century music, accom- panied by his wife and musical partner Tamar DATE/TIME Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Jonathan Michael Grolid viola DATE/TIME ‘His voice quality is unquestionably masculine, Halperin. The Israeli pianist and harpsichordist Wednesday 31 May Biss are Crescendo mentors in 2017. At this Frida Tharaldsen Skaftun cello Tuesday 06 June at 19:30 at 20:30 astonishingly high, incredibly powerful, flexible is a soloist and chamber musician with a reper- concert the two Americans perform with and commanding’, was the verdict of a reviewer toire from the renaissance to the current day. DURATION young soloists Guro Kleven Hagen, Eivind ANTON ARENSKY (1861–1906) DURATION on Amazon after hearing Andreas Scholl. 1:10 Holtsmark Ringstad and Kian Soltani, who have String Quartet no. 2, op. 35 1:40 including interval ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951) including interval all already become audience favourites at the Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Audiences and reviewers alike have given this Andreas Scholl countertenor ADDITIONAL Bergen International Festival. The mentors also ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) ADDITIONAL German singer the credit for creating massive Tamar Halperin piano INFORMATION perform with the string quartet Opus13 under Piano Quintet no. 2, op. 81 INFORMATION renewed interest in countertenor repertoire Introduction Introduction (in Norwegian) the leadership of Sonoko Miriam Welde. All of (in Norwegian) practically single-handed. There can be no Works by by Magnus these young musicians are participants in the by Annabel Guaita ​ doubt that Andreas Scholl has a particular AARON COPLAND (1900–1990), ALBAN BERG Andersson ambitious mentoring programme, and as such Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young at 18:55 ability to enthral and captivate concert-goers (1885–1935), ARI FRANKEL (1960–), ARVO at 18:55 classical musicians and a joint venture between the PÄRT (1935–), BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976), make their mark on this year’s festival. Bergen International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of TICKET worldwide. His two most recent visits to the JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750), TICKET Music and Oslo Philharmonic. The project is supported Standard: 420 Bergen International Festival were no excep- JOSEPH TAWADROS (1983–) AND RALPH The repertoire on this occasion is a collection of Standard: 400 by Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Under 30: 150 tion, when he sang to capacity audiences in VAUGHAN- WILLIAMS (1872–1958) Under 30: 150 late 19th century works; Schoenberg’s dramatic Jebsen, The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, Dextra BT Fordel: 320 Håkonshallen and received rave reviews. BT Fordel: 305 Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), alongside Musica and Talent Norway. Festival Card: Festival Card: the unusual scoring of Arensky’s String Quartet 30% discount Andreas Scholl has released numerous award- ​Sponsored by DNV GL 30% discount for two and closing with Dvořák’s Quintet, winning and best-selling solo albums, and is which has characteristics borrowed from Czech best known for his interpretations of baroque folk music. music from Purcell onwards. He has however

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k A world premiere with inspiration m from the madhouse. 40, Loud and World DATE/TIME DURATION premiere Total musical madness is the theme of the Saturday 27 May 1:50 Proud at 22:30 including interval DATE/TIME second concert of the evening. Music and Saturday 27 May words paint a historical picture of a time we can A marriage of classical and jazz. at 20:30 be glad is past. Mad Songs are songs written m DURATION around a seventeenth century fascination for The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra rounds 1:30 the abnormal, when composers exploited the off their evening of celebration with a two- DATE/TIME DURATION Saturday 27 May at 18:00 1:30 popularity of visits to the madhouse as enter- part concert. It starts with a staged version of tainment. To portray the madness they used new Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured musical devices, and thus arose completely new Night), performed from memory and with Classical gems revitalised. means of expression. Alongside Peter Maxwell lighting, which opens up for a completely new The evening begins with this concert in clas- Davies’s work Eight Songs for a Mad King the experience of the romantic narrative music. The sical mood, with new life injected into what description of madness covers a perspective magic is in the mood created by the stage effects we thought we knew so well: the orchestra’s of over 300 years! and the musical dramaturgy. version of the Holberg Suite, performed from This fascination for madness lives on today With at the piano, the orchestra memory. Then cellist Kian Soltani from the and composer Olav Anton Thommessen and completes the evening with a fusion of classical Crescendo programme takes centre stage in The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra celebra- the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra explore and jazz. Within the span emerges their interpre- m Haydn’s Cello Concerto no. 1 – the orchestra tes its fortieth anniversary during the Bergen the subject in this world premiere. tation of the Goldberg Variations – Bach swings is known for incorporating young new talents. LOGEN International Festival with an entire evening well, even without bass and drums, and the of no fewer than three concerts. Throughout In contrast to the light, the classical format orchestra plays around in a musical borderland. Christian Eggen conductor TICKETS the last four decades the Norwegian Chamber closes with Shostakovich’s string symphony (PER CONCERT) Eight Songs for a Mad King Orchestra has nurtured the classical string – a tsunami of string sounds heading for the Standard: 350 Eir Inderhaug soprano Bugge Wesseltoft piano Under 30: 150 sound to the core, all the time experimenting abyss, but eventually lifted up by the hope Nils Harald Sødal tenor BT Fordel: 265 with forms of expression and ideals of tone. beneath. On this occasion in Logen they take it yet ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951) Festival Card: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night, 30% discount one step further. The evening compasses GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681–1767) Don Quichotte Suite, TWV 55:G10 string orchestra version), op. 4 everything from the hardcore baroque to the JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) Kian Soltani cello OLAV ANTON THOMMESSEN (1946–) contemporary, the sentimentally romantic to Mad Songs Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Arr: Tønnesen/Wesseltoft the intellectually systematic and the deadly World Premiere HENRY PURCELL (1659–1695) In collaboration serious to the sheerest madness. Happy EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Holberg Suite, op. 40 Bess of Bedlam, Z 370 with the Anniversary! JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) UNKNOWN (17TH CENTURY) Norwegian Cello concert no. 1 in C major, H VIIb:1 Tom o’Bedlam JOHN ECCLES (1668–1735) Chamber DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Chamber symphony in C minor, op. 110a (arr. for string Restless in thought Orchestra PETER MAXWELL DAVIES (1934–2016) Terje Tønnesen artistic director orchestra by Rudolf Barshai) Eight Songs for a Mad King

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Free transport to Composers’ Homes

Return transport is included in the ticket for each concert

Bus to Troldsalen/ Troldhaugen The bus journey is approx. 30 min.

CONCERTS AT 13:00 Departure from Strandkaien, Tourist information/Mathallen at 12:00 Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 14:30

CONCERTS AT 16:00 Departure from Strandkaien, m CRESCENDO: The Composers’ Homes Tourist information/Mathallen at 15:00 Return from Troldhaugen, departure TROLDHAUGEN at 17:30 Octets TROLDSALEN CONCERTS AT 18:00 Great acoustics for Departure from Strandkaien, DATE/TIME Tourist information/Mathallen at 17:00 Sunday 28 May small formats Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 13:00 with Jansen, Weilerstein, Biss at 19:30 DURATION & Young Soloists 1:00 In 2017 the Bergen Norwegian composers, but this year’s Bus to Grieg’s villa/ International Festival is programme showcases a plethora of Troldhaugen TICKET A star-studded octet celebration in Janine Jansen violin expanding the concert series Norwegian music, old and new, in The bus journey is approx. 30 min. Standard: 400 Troldsalen. in the composers’ homes. In celebration of the Norwegian Society Under 30: 150 Guro Kleven Hagen violin CONCERTS AT 22:30 BT Fordel: 305 total, 26 concerts will be per- of Composers’ 100 year anniversary. Departure from Strandkaien, Janine Jansen, violin, Jonathan Biss, piano Edvard Erdal violin formed in the living rooms of Festival Composer and Artist in Tourist information/Mathallen at 21:45 Festival Card: and Alisa Weilerstein, cello are joined by young Ludvig Gudim violin Return from Troldhaugen, departure 30% discount Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola Norwgian composers , Residence Kaija Saariaho (see p. 7) at 24:00 Norwegian musicians on the cusp of their care- Michael Grolid viola Harald Sæverud and Edvard also puts her mark on the series, and TRANSPORT ers to perform some of the finest works in the Grieg and in the Troldsalen will be present at the concerts of the Boat to Lysøen Transport classical repertoire – a rare occurrence in an Alisa Weilerstein cello concert hall. Vertavo Quartet (p. 58), Finland 100 (p. The boat journey is approx. 50 min. included in ticket, intimate concert venue such as Troldsalen! Kian Soltani cello see page 54. 60) and 1B1 Ensemble (p. 62), where CONCERTS AT 11:30 Jonathan Biss piano In Troldsalen, situated right next to her music is performed alongside that Departure from Dreggekaien at 10:00 Mendelssohn was only sixteen years old when Return from Lysøen, departure at 14:00 the villa at Troldhaugen and with a of Grieg and Sibelius. he composed his string octet. ‘Its youthful ROBERT SCHUMANN (1910–1856) view of Edvard Grieg’s composer’s CONCERTS AT 14:30 verve, brilliance and perfection make it one Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47 hut, 11 concerts take place during this Peter Herresthal (pictured with Kaija Departure from Dreggekaien at 13:00 of the miracles of nineteenth-century music. FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) Return from Lysæen, departure at 16:15 String Octet in E flat major, op. 20 year’s Festival. The intimate concert Saariaho) has been curating concerts […] Not even Mozart at the age of 16 produced DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) hall, opened in 1985 and completely in the composers’ homes since 2011. CONCERT AT 19:00 anything to rival its chutzpah’, wrote music critic Two Pieces for Strings Octet, op. 11 Departure from Dreggekaien at 17:30 Supported by renovated in 2012, is well-known for Return from Lysøen, departure at 20:45 Conrad Wilson. The Savings Bank its acoustics, especially suited to Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young Foundation DNB The octet finds musical company in Schumann’s chamber music. Supported by The Savings Bank Bus to Siljustøl classical musicians and a joint venture by the Bergen The bus journey is approx. 30 min. – Dextra Musica Piano Quartet, which contains one of his International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of Music Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica World class young, Norwegian musi- and Anders most heart-rendingly romantic melodies, and and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. The project is and Anders Sveaas’ Charitable CONCERT AT 15:00 supported by Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans cians play alongside international Departure from Strandkaien, Sveaas’ Charitable Shostakovich’s two pieces for string octet, of Foundation. Peter Jebsen, The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, stars. The Festival concerts in the Tourist information/Mathallen at 14:00 Foundation. which the composer claimed the Scherzo ‘… is Dextra Musica and Talent Norway. Return from Troldhaugen, departure at 16:30 composers’ homes often celebrate the very best thing I have written.’

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Anne Sofie von Otter & Brooklyn Rider m Pop and Classical with no dividing wall. Brooklyn Rider Johnny Gandelsman violin In her latest project the Swedish mezzo soprano TROLDHAUGEN Colin Jacobsen violin TROLDSALEN Anne Sofie von Otter joins forces with the ground- Nicholas Cords viola breaking string quartet Brooklyn Rider – an album So Many Michael Nicolas cello with music by iconic artists from both classical Things 1 and pop music. In this first of two concerts in Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo soprano DATE/TIME Troldsalen you can listen to music by Philip Glass, Sunday 28 May at 16:00 and other composers, and the title track of So Many Things by Nico Muhly. So Many Things 1 So Many Things 2 ‘So Many Things … so much fascinating and Urfremføring wonderful music out there to discover, to perform DATE/TIME and to record. This disc is about music from our PHILIP GLASS Sunday 28 May Three excerpts from Bent at 18:00 days: 1990s to 2015. I am bringing two worlds CAROLINE SHAW together on So Many Things. In fact I don’t see Cant voi l’aube (new commission) DURATION them as two worlds at all, but just plain old good, COLIN JACOBSEN 1:00 For Sixty Cents (new commission) interesting, attractive music that moves and TICKETS JOHN ADAMS (PER CONCERT) inspires me’, says Anne Sofie von Otter. Am I in Your Light (from Doctor Atomic, arr. Evan Standard: 400 Ziporyn) Under 30: 150 The Grammy-winning mezzo has previously GLEN KOTCHE BT Fordel: 305 demonstrated her great talent for juggling genres, Ping Pong Fumble Thaw NICO MUHLY as she did in collaborating with Elvis Costello and Festival Card: So Many Things 30% discount again two years ago in her Bergen International COLIN JACOBSEN Festival performance of French chansons. Exit TRANSPORT Transport American Brooklyn Rider play with the energy included in ticket, level of young rock stars and have been dubbed So Many Things 2 see page 54. ‘the future of chamber music’. The quartet COLIN JACOBSEN celebrated its tenth anniversary last season with Beloved, do not let me be discouraged fifteen commissioned works, and consistently BJÖRK receives equally enthusiastic reviews from all Cover me (arr. Erik Arvinder) Hunter (arr. Vince Mendoza) quarters – classical, world music and rock. COLIN JACOBSEN Heimlaus (Homeless) and Rekveen (Rekve's Tune), arranged Norwegian trad.) Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation ANDERS HILLBORG Kväll (Evening) DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ ELVIS COSTELLO Charitable Foundation Speak darkly my angel (written for Anne Sofie von Otter, arr. Rob Mathes) KATE BUSH Sponsored by BI Norwegian Business School Pi (arr. Kyle Sanna)

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Opus13 Sonoko Miriam Welde violin Edvard Erdal violin Michael Grolid viola Frida Tharaldsen Skaftun cello

Vertavo String Quartet Øyvor Volle violin Annabelle Meare violin Berit Cardas viola Bjørg Lewis cello

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) String Quartet no. 2 in A minor, op. 13 JOHAN SVENDSENS (1840–1911) String Octet, op. 3 m Ver​ tavo Quartet m CRESCENDO: TROLDHAUGEN TROLDHAUGEN Opus13 TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN DATE/TIME Four award-winning string players DATE/TIME Monday 29 May Monday 29 May at 16:00 dazzle – as always. Vertavo Quartet at 18:00 with Vertavo Quartet DURATION Vertavo Quartet, which celebrated its thirtieth Øyvor Volle violin DURATION 1:00 anniversary in 2014, is considered one of Europe’s Annabelle Meare violin 1:00 Berit Cardas viola TICKET foremost quartets. The four Norwegian musicians TICKET Standard: 400 have released over fifty recordings, toured Bjørg Lewis cello Standard: 350 Two quartets meet in late Romantic This evening in Troldsalen the two quartets meet Under 30: 150 worldwide and in 2016 arranged the first Vertavo Under 30: 150 chamber music. again on stage. Svendsen’s String Octet draws BT Fordel: 305 BT Fordel: 265 Festival in their home county, inviting musician KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) on traditional folk tunes, while Mendelssohn’s Nymphéa The string quartet Opus13 takes its name from Festival Card: friends from far and wide. Festival Card: work is influenced by Beethoven’s late quartets. 30% discount EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Mendelssohn’s popular String Quartet no. 2, String Quartet No 2 in F major, EG 117 30% discount ‘Four musicians. One quartet. We couldn’t opus 13, as it was the first piece they played TRANSPORT LEOŠ JANÁČEK (1854–1928) wish for a better life,’ is the verdict in their String Quartet No 1, ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ JW 7/8 TRANSPORT together after forming in 2014. In 2017 they Transport Transport Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation included in ticket, autobiography. included in ticket, make their international debut, with concerts DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ see page 54. see page 54. in France and Denmark. The young ensemble In the first of two concerts in Troldsalen they Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation Charitable Foundation. met through studies at the Barratt Due Institute open with Kaija Saariaho’s Nymphéa, which DNB – Dextra Musica, Anders Sveaas’ of Music, one of the three partners behind the according to the composer is inspired by the Charitable Foundation, FINNO, Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young mentoring programme Crescendo. water-lily, with its beautiful symmetrical form, The Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Foundation classical musicians and a joint venture between the Bergen International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of dark underneath, taking nourishment from the and The Sibelius Society of Norway Not long after their debut, Opus13 were invited Music and Oslo Philharmonic. The project is supported mud on the bottom of the pool. to play alongside the Vertavo String Quartet by Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter in Oslo, on the occasion of the Vertavo’s 30th Jebsen, The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, Dextra Of course the Vertavo Quartet also plays a Musica and Talent Norway. anniversary. piece by Grieg before ending the concert with Janáček’s 'Kreutzer Sonata', inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name.

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Finland 100

with Nordlyd Quartet, Lydia Hoen Tjore & Ingrid Andsnes m A Finnish celebration from a Lydia Hoen Tjore & Nordic quartet. TROLDHAUGEN m Ingrid Andsnes TROLDSALEN In 2017 it is 100 years since Finland gained its TROLDHAUGEN DATE/TIME independence. This is celebrated by the newly TROLDSALEN Tuesday 30 May formed Nordlyd Quartet with a tour of all the DATE/TIME Women on the verge: soprano Lydia Hoen at 16:00 . Tuesday 30 May Tjore and pianist Ingrid Andsnes. Lydia Hoen Tjore soprano DURATION at 18:00 1:00 In Troldsalen they perform chamber music Both artists have made their Bergen International Ingrid Andsnes piano Nordlyd Quartet by the Finnish composers Jean Sibelius and DURATION Festival solo debut, and both were well received. TICKET Hugo Hilde violin 1:00 this year’s Festival Composer and Artist in Now they return as a duo with a programme in JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) Standard: 350 Aliisa Neige Barrière violin Under 30: 150 Residence Kaija Saariaho. They are joined in TICKET Troldsalen depicting women from the history Berenice, che fai? (from Scena di Berenice), Hob XXIVa:10 Ester Forsberg viola 1. Allegro BT Fordel: 265 Sibelius’s romantic songs by Lydia Hoen Tjore, Standard: 350 of music. What binds these numerous women Andreas Øhrn cello Under 30: 150 2. Adagio soprano, and Ingrid Andsnes, piano. together is that they have broken boundaries, 3. Aria Festival Card: BT Fordel: 265 30% discount stood out from the crowd or challenged the 4. Largo The quartet consists of four students from the Lydia Hoen Tjore soprano 5. Allegro Festival Card: norms of society in some way. TRANSPORT Norwegian Academy of Music, and collabora- Ingrid Andsnes piano 30% discount EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Transport tes with Voksenåsen Summer Academy. The From Norwegian Peasant Dances, op. 72 Lydia Hoen Tjore, who comes from Radøy, a short 4. Halling from the Fairy Hill included in ticket, quartet’s name Nordlyd – Northern Sound TRANSPORT see page 54 JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Transport drive north of Bergen, is currently a second-year From Melodies of the Heart, op. 5 – plays on the phenomenon of Nordlys – the Spring is flying, op. 13, no. 4 included in ticket, student at the Royal Danish Opera Academy, 3. I love but Thee! Northern Lights, and reflects the origin of its The diamond on the March snow, op. 36 no. 6 see page 54 From Romances (earlier and later), op. 39 where she was one of the youngest students ever 2. Hidden Love members – Norway, Sweden and Finland. The girl returned from meeting her lover, op. 37 no. 5 Black roses, op. 36 no. 1 to gain a place. At the age of 21 she is already an 3. Upon a Grassy Hillside Voces Intimae for string quartet, op. 56 experienced soloist, with many stage performan- 4. Among Roses The quartet explains: ‘The Northern Lights Supported by FRANCIS POULENC (1899–1963) KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) ces and awards to her name. are a symbol for all the Nordic countries, and Terra Memoria for String Quartet The Savings Bank From Banalités, FP107 represent the quartet’s desire to combine tra- 2. Hôtel Foundation DNB Ingrid Andsnes, who comes from Karmøy between ROLF WALLIN (1957–) ditional and newly composed music from those – Dextra Musica Bergen and Stavanger, is also an award-winner. From Seven Imperatives countries.’ Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation and Anders Since making her debut in Carnegie Hall in 2015, 1. Spin (solo piano) From Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 1 Kaija Saariaho’s work Terra Memoria will also DNB – Dextra, the Anders Sveaas Charitable Sveaas' Charitable she has extended her role as a pianist beyond 1. Liebes-Lied be performed on Thursday 01 June by 1B1 Foundation, FINNO, the Norwegian-Finnish Foundation the limits of traditional classical music, including WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) Cultural Foundation, the Sibelius Society performing several works written specially for her. From Don Giovanni, K527 Ensemble in a version for string orchestra. 24. In quali eccessi, o Numi! Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata of Norway Sponsored During this year’s Bergen International Festival GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848) from Lucia di Lammermoor by Atea you can also experience Lydia and Ingrid with 1. Regnava nel silenzio ... Quando rapito in estasi Sponsored by Atea the young Nordlyd Quartet in a totally Finnish programme (p. 60).

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m m the Nordic viola’ by the music magazine The 1B1 Ensemble 1B1 Ensemble Tomter, TROLDHAUGEN TROLDHAUGEN Strad. Ever since his days as a student he has Jan Bjøranger conductor TROLDSALEN TROLDSALEN derived special pleasure from attending the Sonoko Miriam Welde violin 1B1 Tomter, Kam & Bergen International Festival, and does so just Ensemble For the string players in the Stavanger- Kam & Ihle as much this year: ‘Christian Ihle Hadland and 1B1 Ensemble Sharon Kam are phenomenal musicians who I with Sonoko based ensemble 1B1, the love of playing Hadland 1 Ihle Hadland Miriam Welde and passion for music always come first. with Sonoko Miriam Welde love listening to, and Troldhaugen is a totally DATE/TIME BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) magical place.’ DATE/TIME Since the ensemble’s inception in 2008 they have Tuesday 06 June Thursday 01 June Prelude and Fugue, op. 29 at 16:00 at 16:00 won a Spellemannpris (the Norwegian Grammy (1840–1893) Souvenir d’un lieu cher, op. 42 Twin concerts from an exceptional Lars Anders Tomter viola Award), entered the international music scene, Tomter, 1B1 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (1934–1998) orchestral family. Sharon Kam clarinet and performed with great artists and composers Concerto Grosso nr. 1 Kam & Ihle Ensemble including Arvo Pärt, Benjamin Schmid, DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) Christian Ihle Hadland piano Hadland 1 Viola player Lars Anders Tomter, clarinettist DATE/TIME and Lars Anders Tomter. Chamber Symphony, op. 110 Thursday 01 June DATE/TIME Sharon Kam and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland Tuesday 06 June Tomter, Kam & Ihle Hadland 1 at 18:00 Artistic director and founder Jan Bjøranger claims give two concerts together in the concert hall Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation at 18:00 DURATION that the ensemble works and thinks more like a at Troldhaugen. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) 1:00 rock band. The members play from memory, and DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ DURATION Cello Sonata in A minor, op. 36 Charitable Foundation. 1:00 ‘We combine three instruments that are at one Transcription for viola and piano by Lars Anders Tomter TICKETS communication and artistic expression trump and the same time similar and dissimilar. They ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856) (PER CONCERT) perfectionism every time. This approach is audible: TICKETS Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), op. 132 Standard: 350 belong to different families of instruments, but the ensemble has developed a tight, vibrant sound Sponsored by Statoil Heroes of Tomorrow (PER CONCERT) JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) Under 30: 150 Standard: 400 have a very similar register,’ says Lars Anders Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat major, op. 120:2 BT Fordel: 265 with a strong rhythmic drive. Under 30: 150 Tomter, who is in charge of programming. Festival Card: The 1B1 Ensemble will play two concerts in BT Fordel: 305 30% discount 1B1 Ensemble Tomter, Kam & Ihle Hadland 2 Troldsalen. The first concert includes works by Festival Card: There is little music written for the combination Britten, Tchaikovsky, Schnittke and Shostakovich, EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) 30% discount of viola, clarinet and piano. Mozart was the first ALAN BERG (1885–1935) TRANSPORT Two melodies, op. 53 Four Pieces, op. 5 Transport performed together with the young Bergen violinist to do so, with his ‘Kegelstatt’ (‘Bowling Alley’) 1. Norwegian TRANSPORT JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) included in ticket, Sonoko Miriam Welde, who has been admitted as a 2. The first meeting Trio. Add Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen Sonata for Viola and Piano in F minor, op. 120:1 see page 54 Transport soloist into the prestigious mentoring programme KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) included in ticket, (Fairy Tales) and the original repertoire is WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) Terra Memoria (string orchestra version) see page 54 Trio in E flat major, KV 498, ‘Bowling Alley’ Crescendo for 2018. EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) complete. Another starting-point for the twin From Holberg’s Time, ‘The Holberg Suite’, op. 40 concerts in this year’s festival was Brahms’s Later in the evening, they perform their rendering sonatas, which exist in versions for both of Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria and Edvard Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation clarinet and viola. Grieg’s Holberg Suite, the theme of their recording DNB – Dextra Musica and Anders Sveaas’ Supported by The Savings Bank Foundation Holberg Variations, for which they received the Charitable Foundation. DNB – Dextra Musica, Anders Sveaas’ ‘The Mozart trio and in particular the Brahms 2014 Spellemannpris. Charitable Foundation, FINNO, The sonatas are all music I could not live without. ‘This is how music should be performed and Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Foundation These composers have really understood experienced today.’ and The Sibelius Society of Norway. the soul of the viola and what it can express,’ – CELLIST CLEMENS HAGEN says Tomter, who was dubbed ‘the giant of

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TICKET Standard: 520 Under 30: 150 Festival Card: 30% discount

TRANSPORT Transport CRESCENDO: included in ticket, Sergio Tiempo Slåttepiano Kathryn Stott see page 54 with Ingfrid Breie Nyhus Alisa Weilerstein

DATE/TIME DURATION DATE/TIME DURATION DATE/TIME DURATION DATE/TIME DURATION Friday 02 June 1:00 Saturday 03 June 1:00 Friday 26 May 1:00 Saturday 27 May 1:00 at 22:30 at 22:30 Grieg’s at 22:30 at 22:30 A Franco-Finnish piano numerous world premieres of works A cello recital of Bach and A fine selection of late Hardanger fiddle tunes on soirée in Grieg’s sitting room. written specially for her. Kodály. villa Romantic piano works and Grieg’s grand piano. music from the Americas. French repertoire holds a special You can also hear her perform with ‘Alisa Weilerstein is a consummate Pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus has long place for pianist Kathryn Stott. She violinist Isabelle van Keulen at Lysøen performer, combining technical preci- Argentinian Sergio Tiempo has had a passionate interest in piano has recorded all of the piano works of on 03 and 04 June (p. 67). sion with impassioned musicianship,’ been a professional pianist since his music inspired by Norwegian folk the father of French chamber music, ‘She plays wonderfully, allowing her according to the MacArthur Foundation Experience the early teens. Now a highly acclaimed music. On the piano in Grieg’s villa she Gabriel Fauré, and French music is music fluidity and space; her vir- on awarding the American cellist the musician, Tiempo recently toured performs contemporary piano inter- atmosphere in the theme of her latest solo album tuoso outpourings are formidable.’ MacArthur Fellowship in 2011. with the pretations of traditional Hardanger and several festivals of which she has – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Edvard Grieg’s Orchestra and Venezuelan conductor fiddle tunes, (Norwegian slått, plural been the artistic director. For this the As a new mentor in the mentoring pro- living room. Gustavo Dudamel with Music from slåtter). These tunes inspired many government in Paris awarded her a gramme Crescendo she will perform in the Americas. of Grieg’s compositions. knighthood. a variety of contexts during the Festival. Kathryn Stott piano Alisa Weilerstein has appeared with At this concert Tiempo will per- Ingfrid Breie Nyhus recently released At this evening recital at Troldhaugen major orchestras throughout the United form three of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, a solo trilogy of which the third record the music of the French composers States and Europe. Prokofiev’s piano arrangements of his is named Slåttepiano. Rather than wri- Fauré, Ravel and Dutilleux is comple- Supported by FINNO, classic ballet Romeo and Juliet and ting a thesis, she made the recordings mented by Festival Composer Kaija The Norwegian-Finnish Cultural In this solo recital in Grieg’s villa she six of Chopin’s short poetic preludes. for her doctorate at the Norwegian Saariaho’s Ballade. Foundation and The Sibelius performs two great works for the cello: Academy of Music. Slåttepiano has Society of Norway. the darkest of Bach’s six cello suites fol- This is balanced with a selection of Kathryn Stott, recognised as one been very well received by Norwegian lowed by one of her signature works, twentieth century works from some of the United Kingdom’s most ver- and international critics alike. Kodály’s Cello Sonata, which appears on of South America’s most prominent satile and imaginative musicians, her recent album Solo, acclaimed as an composers: Heitor Villa-Lobos’s play- ‘You have to hear this! Ms. Nyhus was recently appointed professor at ‘uncompromising and pertinent portrait ful melodies, Astor Piazolla’s Nuevo is a phenomenon!’ the Gapplegate the Norwegian Academy of Music. of the cello repertoire of our time’ by the Tango, and Albero Ginastera’s fast Review raves. She has toured internationally as a French online publication ResMusica. and furious finale, Malambo, which soloist and chamber musician for As a pianist, Ingfrid Breie Nyhus has takes its title from a competitive step thirty years along with the American been described as a virtuoso of timbre dance amongst Argentine ‘gaucho’ cellist Yo-Yo Ma, one of her closest Alisa Weilerstein cello with luscious touch and rich nuances. cowboys. collaborators. Her keen interest in Supported by The Savings Bank Among the awards she has received contemporary music has resulted in Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and for her performances and recordings Crescendo is a mentoring programme for young classical musicians and a joint venture between the Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation is the coveted Norwegian Soloist Prize. Sergio Tiempo piano Bergen International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of Music and Oslo Philharmonic. The project is supported by Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Sponsored by DNV GL Ingfrid Breie Nyhus piano Hans Peter Jebsen, The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, Dextra Musica and Talent Norway.

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The Ole Bull’s at 11:30 and 14:30 at 11:30 and 14:30 programme includes works by Mozart, DATE/TIME The concert will Brahms and – of course – Ole Bull. The concert master of the Grieg and Brahms in Ole Monday 29 May be recorded for TV Both are also recognised as artistic Norwegian Opera & Ballet Bull’s home. at 19:00 by the Norwegian directors and have instigated festi- Lysøen Broadcasting and a passionate pianist. vals and concert series with great Young Bergen violinist Sonoko DURATION Corporation. Ludvig Gudim violin 1:00 success. Isabelle van Keulen has been Camilla Kjøll, violin, has a busy sche- Miriam Welde has already made Håvard Gimse piano artistic director of the Norwegian dule: she is into her first season as a solid name for herself, both as a The beautiful villa on Lysøen – In 2016 violinist Ludvig Chamber Orchestra, which celebra- concert master of Lucerne Symphony soloist and as the first violinist in the Island of Light – was built in Gudim gained not only the In collaboration with NRK tes its 40th Anniversary during the Orchestra in and is well the string quartet Opus13. Since her 1873 as a summer residence for title Virtuos (virtuoso) but 2017 Bergen International Festival. established as a chamber musician first performance with the Bergen Ole Bull. It is something of a fairy- also the Norwegian Soloist Both have recently been appointed and orchestral leader. Since 2012, the Philharmonic Orchestra at the tale castle with its onion domes Prize. This concert is part of to professorships at the Norwegian year after her most recent Bergen age of nine, she has appeared as a and intricate ornamentation. For the prize. Academy of Music. International Festival performance, soloist with a number of outstan- many, the boat journey to the she has been first concert master at ding European orchestras. She has island culminating in a concert Ludvig, who has his eighteenth bir- Another feature they share is a the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. She also been admitted as a soloist into the in Ole Bull’s unorthodox sitting thday in 2017, started playing the vio- deep love of chamber music. This is plays in the Norwegian Chamber which prestigious mentoring programme room is a valued tradition. lin at the age of five. He has already evident in their long-standing col- celebrates its fortieth anniversary in Crescendo for 2018. had solo performances with the laboration with Ronald Brautigam, 2017 (p. 52). In Ole Bull’s magnificent home at Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo soloist in Grieg’s A minor Concerto Camilla Kjøll’s partner is pianist Gunilla Lysøen she plays alongside cele- Philharmonic Orchestra, Vietnam in 2015 and Yo-Yo Ma, cello. In Süssmann from Bergen, who has per- brated Argentinian pianist Sergio National Symphony Orchestra, the Isabelle van Keulen the magical surroundings of Ole formed at the Bergen International Tiempo, opening with Brahms’s Soloists, & Kathryn Stott Bull’s home they present works Festival on several occasions. She Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata, and Forsvarets musikkorps. As a by Messiaen, Poulenc and Franck, plays with great virtuosity, sensitivity which was written collaboratively keen chamber musician Ludvig has alongside works by Ole Bull himself. and imagination, and her extremely by three composers. It is Brahms’s also performed with Itzhak Perlman, DATE/TIME DURATION The Guardian wrote of Isabelle van , Lars Anders Saturday 03 and 1:00 Keulen: ‘Her taut musical intelligence personal and passionate interpreta- earliest surviving piece for violin and Sunday 04 June tions create a unique contact with her piano and one of his most instantly Tomter, Dora Schwarzberg and at 11:30 and 14:30 and vivid sound combined with a fine audiences. Her great love of chamber recognisable compositions. Ivry Gitlis. instinct for the tender, searching music is evident. A​ versatile star duo performs quality of this music … absolutely The duo also performs four pieces ‘Ludvig Gudim plays with technical French repertoire at Lysøen. magical.’ Kathryn Stott also has a solo At Lysøen their programme includes from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet finesse and maturity rarely found in recital in Grieg’s villa (p. 65). chamber works by Bull, Szymanowski, and works by Bull and Grieg. such young musicians. He is a true Isabelle van Keulen, violin, from the Chausson and Ravel. Netherlands and Kathryn Stott, piano, from Britain are internationally Isabelle van Keulen violin Supported by The Savings Bank Sonoko Miriam Welde violin acclaimed concert soloists, each with Kathryn Stott piano Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica and Camilla Kjøll violin Sergio Tiempo piano decades of professional experience. Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Gunilla Süssmann piano

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TICKET Standard: 350 with Guro Kleven Hagen & Under 30: 150 Marianna Shirinyan Festival Card: 30% discount m TRANSPORT TrioBauge & Amalie Stalheim APOLLON Transport with Ole Haagenrud & included in ticket, Vebjørn Anvik Eva Stalheim DATE/TIME see page 54 Tuesday 30 May at 20:00 Free admission DATE/TIME DURATION DATE/TIME DURATION Saturday 27 May 1:00 Saturday 03 June 1:00 Siljustøl at 15:00 at 15:00 High Mass with Bach’s A trio of siblings at Siljustøl Amalie Stalheim, cello, has with a highly personal pro- already made a name for her- Cantata no. 172 gramme. self in Sweden, and now makes her first solo appearance at the TrioBauge consists of the Kyvik In Harald Bergen International Festival. Bergen Domkor (Bergen Cathedral Choir), Bauge brothers Sverre and Einar and m soloists and a baroque orchestra perform the Sæverud's their sister Ragnhild, and was formally In 2015 Amalie Stalheim won the BERGEN cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget ihr Saiten! beautiful home instigated in 2014. Since then they have Ljunggren Competition, Sweden’s DOMKIRKE by Johann Sebastian Bach during the service in given their own concerts at the Risør most prestigious competition for (BERGEN Bergen Cathedral on Pentecost Sunday. Chamber Music Festival, the Oslo Grieg young classical performers, alongside CATHEDRAL) Festival and the Smöga Chamber Music Ole Christian Haagenrud. ‘Intimate and Bach composed over 200 cantatas for use in Festival. In 2016 TrioBauge was invited extremely delicate chamber music- DATE/TIME Sunday services. Ring out, you songs; sound, you Sunday 04 June strings!, composed for Whit Sunday (Pentecost), to New York to perform in the concert making with a superb sense of colour at 11:00 series Chamber Music Live in LeFrak and timing’, according to the jury. was performed for the first time in the Weimar Crescendo violinist Guro Kleven Hagen and Concert Hall, and in 2017 they make She is currently a cello student DURATION palace church on 20 May 1714. Pentecost, when 1:30 pianist Marianna Shirinyan celebrate the their Bergen International Festival at the Royal College of Music in the Holy Spirit descended to the apostles, is launch of their new album with a free concert debut with their teacher and pianist Stockholm, and was named Young ADDITIONAL referred to as the birthday of the Christian church, at Apollon. The disc, featuring chamber music Vebjørn Anvik. Swedish Soloist of 2016. Stalheim has INFORMATION and the cantata is a grandiose celebration of this The Bach Cantata by Ravel, Poulenc and Prokofiev, was recorded already performed as a soloist with day. Bach himself is said to have been particularly For the concert the trio has chosen is performed as part in Sofienberg Church in Oslo last year. the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra of High Mass. pleased with the work. works by Mozart, Kodály and Sæverud. and Gävle Symphony Orchestra. The concert opens with Knut Nystedt’s Free admission Bergen Domkor led by cantor Kjetil Almenning Apollon, which opened in 1976, is one of the She is joined by Ole Christian , which has special signifi- is considered one of Norway’s foremost cham- oldest record shops in Norway. Some years ago Haagenrud on the piano and her sister cance for them: the composer was a ber choirs. they went live with a bar and some seventy Eva Stalheim on the violin. Haagenrud, family friend, and his son personally seats in the shop. For the third year running a popular chamber musician and the Bergen International Festival invites you encouraged Sverre, Einar and Ragnhild Bergen Domkor accompanist, is a frequent participant to a classic concert in the record bar, where to perform the work. Bergen Barokk at festivals in Norway and abroad. Eva the mood is casual. Kjetil Almenning conductor Stalheim is currently second concert TrioBauge master at the Norwegian Opera & Aksel Rykkvin soprano Ragnhild Kyvik Bauge violin Sponsored by Statoil Heroes of Tomorrow Ballet, and is a member of the chamber Daniel René Sagstuen Sæther alto Einar Kyvik Bauge viola orchestra Ensemble Allegria. Erlend Tvinnereim tenor Sverre Kyvik Bauge cello Supported by The Savings Bank Ørjan Hartveit bass Vebjørn Anvik piano Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica, Amalie Stalheim cello

Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Ole Christian Haagenrud piano JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) and Norwegian Hull Club In collaboration with Crescendo Eva Stalheim violin Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172

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Master Class Concert: Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

m DURATION UNIVERSITETS- 2:00 including interval AULAEN (THE UNIVERSITY AULA) TICKET Standard: 230 DATE/TIME Under 30: 150 Friday 26 May at 16:00 Festival Card: 30% discount In the course of five days of master classes, inter- national students of the highest calibre will have m honed their technique, working with and receiving Master Classes: guidance from Richard Goode, Jan Jiracek von REKSTEN- Arnim and . You can hear the SAMLINGENE Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas result at the Master Class Concert in the Bergen (THE REKSTEN COLLECTIONS) University auditorium.

DATE/TIME led by Richard Goode, Monday 22 May Jan Jiracek von Arnim and In collaboration with the , at 10:00–13:00 Leif Ove Andsnes Prof. Jiři Hlinka Piano Academy and Master Classes the Reksten Collections. Pictures from Bergen International Festival, Oslo Philharmonic and Crescendo 2016 with Leif Ove Andsnes In collaboration with the Professor Jiri Hlinka at 14:00–17:00 Master Classes Piano Academy, the Bergen International Festival with Richard Goode presents open master classes with Richard Goode, Master Class: Kaija Saariaho Tuesday 23 May USA, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, , and Leif at 10:00–13:00 Ove Andsnes, Norway. The master classes will DURATION Master Classes take place at the Reksten Collections. m - A mentoring programme for young classical musicians in with Jan Jiracek 2:00 including interval von Arnim LOGEN collaboration with the Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen International Piano students at the highest international LANGUAGE at 14:00–17:00 English level receive guidance from three masters, DATE/TIME Festival and Barratt Due Institute of Music. Master Classes Friday 02 June at 10:00 Free admission with Richard Goode all of whom are great Beethoven aficionados. www.crescendo-music.no Thursday 25 May Richard Goode, the ‘pianist’s pianist’, practically Open master class with Festival at 12:00–18:00 has Beethoven as a trademark. He will also be Composer Kaija Saariaho. Crescendo is a ground-breaking collaboration project between Barratt Due Institute of Master Classes playing Beethoven in Håkonshallen on 25 May. with Jan Jiracek Music, Bergen International Festival and the Oslo Philharmonic, aiming to provide links Leif Ove Andsnes devoted four years of his Postgraduate composition students at the Grieg between young classical talents and professional performers at the highest international von Arnim level. Through coaching, interaction and by performing alongside their mentors, these at 16:00–18:00 life to the successful project The Beethoven Academy have a rare opportunity to meet and young musicians develop a strong sense of self-awareness and artistic identity. Crescendo Master Classes Journey, a worldwide concert series which was learn from one of the most influential composers in has three programmes: for young soloists, chamber groups and young philharmonics. with Leif Ove Andsnes featured at the Bergen International Festivals in the world today. Kaija Saariaho from Finland is this

Friday 26 May 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the Mahler Chamber year’s Festival Composer and Artist in Residence. Crescendomentors for the soloist and chambermusic programme in 2017: at 10:00–14:00 Orchestra. Jan Jiracek von Arnim, professor of Among her compositions on the programme is Alisa Weilerstein and Jonathan Biss Master Classes with Leif Ove Andsnes piano at the University of Music and Performing the world premiere of Concordia, a work commis- Participating young soloists and chamber groups 2017: Arts, and artistic director of the qua- sioned for the 2017 Bergen International Festival. Guro Kleven Hagen, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, Sonoko Miriam Welde, Free admission drennial International Beethoven Competition Kian Soltani and Opus13 ADDITIONAL Vienna, is also a concert pianist in his own right. Supported by FINNO, the Norwegian-Finnish The project is funded by contributions from Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Jebsen, INFORMATION Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, Dextra Musica and Talent Norway. Richard Goode Cultural Foundation, the Sibelius Society in concert at In collaboration with Prof. Jiři Hlinka Piano of Norway and the Finnish-Norwegian Håkonshallen Oslo Thursday 25 May Academy and the Reksten Collections. Cultural Foundation. Philharmonic at 19:30, see p. 45.  WWW.FIB.NO/EN 071 072 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOUNDATIONS BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 073 FESTIVAL 2017 FESTIVAL 2017

Drop In Ibsen GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1743) Messiah, HWV 56 Concerts at Engen Scenic oratorio in 3 parts Edited by Malcolm Bruno and Caroline Ritchie Excerpts from King James Bible and The Common m t TICKET Book of Prayer, edited by Charles Jennen Concerts with high musical standards Standard: 300 GRIEGHALLEN in a low key setting. DEN NATIONALE Festival Card: FOYER SCENE The students at the Grieg Academy invite you 30% discount DURATION to enjoy great musical experiences during DATE/TIME 1:00 ADDITIONAL daytime. The drop in concerts have for many Saturday 27 May at 13:00 INFORMATION and 15:00 TICKET years been a popular tradition on the Bergen Audience capacity: 15 people. 75 International Festival programme, and every DURATION Sold at the door 1:00 only in the year the sales department is asked for the LANGUAGE Grieghall Foyer. programme booklet long before it is finalised. English without Messiah translation. In the Grieghallen foyer and in Johanneskirken Free admission at ensembles Edvard Grieg Choir and Cathedra Johanneskirken. (St. John's Church) everyone has the opportu- are led by Bjarte Eike. Choir master Michael Would you like to join Henrik Ibsen Handel’s great masterpiece brought nity to listen to talented young students, often McCarthy is director of music at Washington DATE/TIME behind the scenes at the DNS to life by video artist Netia Jones, performing with their teachers. National Cathedral and known for his associa- Thursday 25 May theatre? Barokksolistene and conductor tion with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. at 12:00 and 15:00 ‘The Festival seeks to give young musicians who km Bjarte Eike. Friday 26 May During the Bergen International Festival the have chosen music as a profession a vital and ‘… the greatest composer that ever lived …’ at 12:00 and 15:00 world-renowned playwright returns to his former Premiere Messiah by George Frideric Handel was first visible platform where they can perform early in – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ON Saturday 27 May workplace. Ibsen at Engen is an exclusive wande- performed in Dublin in the spring of 1742. After at 12:00 and 15:00 their careers. We want to inspire and nurture the DNS GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL ring performance that provides a unique insight a rather modest reception in London, the work Monday 29 May foremost talent,’ says Bergen International Festival STORE SCENE at 12:00 and 15:00 director Anders Beyer. into the theatre’s history, and takes you to parts of was eventually regarded as a triumph and has the theatre that audiences otherwise never get to DATE/TIME become one of the Western world’s most per- Netia Jones direction, design and video Tuesday 30 May Wednesday 31 May at 12:00 This year the theme of each concert will be more see. There is only room for 15 persons on the tour formed and loved choral works. at 19:00 Barokksolistene Wednesday 31 May pronounced than in recent years. In sum the series of the nooks and crannies of the listed building. Thursday 01 June Bjarte Eike conductor at 12:00 will present works from a broad musical spectrum The lucky tour participants will experience the at 19:00 Messiah was one of Handel’s own favourites. Friday 02 June Thursday 01 June in the relaxed atmosphere to which audiences buckride from Peer Gynt and other stunts, and be He conducted the oratorio himself a number Edvard Grieg Choir at 12:00 and 15:00 at 19:00 have become accustomed. served finger food and two (non-alcoholic) drinks. Saturday 03 June of times, often adapting it to the occasion. Cathedra Saturday 03 June at 18:00 Handel experts Malcolm Bruno and Caroline at 12:00 and 15:00 Michael McCarthy choir master Programme details for all concerts will be available Den National Scene, the oldest permanent stage Ritchie are now completing the first published Sunday 04 June DURATION Malin Christensson soprano at 12:00 and 15:00 at fib.no/stikkinnom in May, alongside times for in Norway, has roots back to Det Norske Teater, 3:00 edition of the authentic original Messiah, which Renata Pokupic mezzo-soprano Monday 05 June other concerts in Gunnar Sævigs sal. founded by Ole Bull in 1850. In 1909 the theatre including interval will premiere at the 2017 Bergen International at 12:00 and 15:00 moved into its current building, which with its rich Festival in collaboration with Bergen National Pierre Derhet tenor LANGUAGE Tuesday 06 June ornamentation is considered a prime example of Opera. Here Messiah will be presented as first Callum Thorpe bass In collaboration with the Grieg Academy Performed in at 12:00 and 15:00 Art Nouveau. In 1850 Henrik Ibsen at the age of 21 English. Surtitled conceived, as an operatic entertainment, with – Department of Music, University of Bergen. in Norwegian. JOHANNES- was engaged by the theatre as a dramatic author, all the extended, virtuosic arias that reveal the Presented by the Bergen International KIRKEN and he did some directing until 1857. TICKET operatic feel of the 1740s London stage. Festival and Bergen National Opera Standard: 490–590 DATE/TIME Under 30: 150 The Bergen International Festival and Bergen Friday 02 June Pål Rønning cast National Opera present the premiere perfor- Produced by Bergen National Opera at 12:00 Tomine Mikkeline singing Festival Card: 30% discount mance, created by director, designer and video artist Netia Jones, known for her originals sta- Supported by Herman Friele Produced by Den Nationale Scene gings of classical works.

Four outstanding sololists, the early music Sponsored by Dagens Næringsliv ensemble Barokksolistene and the vocal

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Lise Fjeldstad & Håvard Gimse

First lady of the theatre and piano wizard in lyrical interaction.

Lise Fjeldstad and Håvard Gimse share a passion for poetry. During two Festival concert performances they explore and draw new and perhaps surprising parallels be- tween some of Norway’s greatest artists through the ages.

Lise Fjeldstad recitation Håvard Gimse piano

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DURATION A search for the playwrights k A counterpoint of western 1:30 and poets inner self. TION giants. TICKET Henrik Ibsen was known to be a UNIVERSITETS- RECKLESS AND SHREWD, EXPERIMENTING AND EXPLORING. Jon Fosse and Geir Tveitt are two Standard: 290 rather reserved person. Most people BOUNDLESS ARTISTIC LANDSCAPES. AULAEN Under 30: 150 (THE UNIVERSITY artists of apparently dissimilar tem- are familiar with his great dramas, but BT Fordel: 220 PAGES 076–093 AULA) perament, but actor Lise Fjeldstad that does not necessarily mean one and pianist Håvard Gimse have found Festival Card: gets any more familiar with Henrik DATE/TIME 30% discount Saturday 27 May what they call ‘surprisingly many Ibsen as a person. But in his lyric at 18:00 common features’ in the manner in poetry one can find traces of him. which the poet and the composer GRIEGHALLEN Ibsen himself called his poems ‘the DURATION PEER GYNT- 1:15 create atmosphere in their works. SALEN little devils’, and maybe he would Particularly in Tveitt's more evocative rather have wanted to forget these TICKET works they detect undertones remi- DATE/TIME early writings as he thought they Standard: 290 Tuesday 30 May Under 30: 150 niscent of Fosse. Furthermore they at 20:00 might reveal his innermost self. have discovered great similarities Festival Card: Fortunately his poems live on. In a cap- between the construction of form and DURATION 30% discount 1:30 tivating concert performance actor Lise timing in Fosse's poems and Tveitt's Fjeldstad embarks on these little devils Hardingtonar. TICKET Standard: 290 with empathy, an inquisitive eye, and Under 30: 150 imagination, while pianist Håvard Gimse BT Fordel: 220 illuminates our great playwright’s mind Festival Card: through piano pieces by Edvard Grieg 30% discount and Harald Sæverud.

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m Opening Performance: Scandinavian premiere Shakespeare’s GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN DATE/TIME Sonnets Wednesday 24 May at 18:45 Thursday 25 May at 19:30 by Robert Wilson and DURATION 2:45 Rufus Wainwright including interval

LANGUAGE Performed in English and German, Shakespeare’s poetic universe staged Robert Wilson direction, stage and surtitled in English in a musical theatre dream. lighting concept and Norwegian. Rufus Wainwright music World-renowned director and multiartist ADDITIONAL Jacques Reynaud costume design Robert Wilson has taken twenty-five sonnets INFORMATION Ann-Christin Rommen co-direction Introduction and created an epic piece of musical theatre Jutta Ferbers dramatic advisor, text (in Norwegian) in together with the German theatre company Grieghallen Foyer: composition, Sonnet selection Berliner Ensemble and Canadian composer Wednesday 24 May Serge von Arx co-set designer at 18:00 Rufus Wainwright. Thursday 25 May Erik Bystad Norwegian translation at 18:45 The performance presents Shakespeare more Stefan Rager, Hans-Jörn Brandenburg Rufus Wainwright modern and alive than ever, by cleverly mixing performs in genres and contrasting darkness and light to a musical direction

Grieghallen captivating effect. Monday 29 May Krista Birkner, Christina Drechsler, (p. 16). On stage is a number of Shakespearean charac- Georgette Dee, Anke Engelsmann, Traute The Festival Director ters, from the leprechaun to the fool, from Cupid Hoess, Nadine Kiesewalter, Angela Schmid, in conversation with to the mysterious dark lady, and from the Queen Ursula Höpfner-Tabori, Angela Winkler, Rufus Wainwright of England to Shakespeare himself. The extraor- Dejan Bućin, Winfried Peter Goos, Jürgen at Litteraturhuset Sunday 28 May dinary German cabaret artist Georgette Dee ties Holtz, Christopher Nell, Sabin Tambrea, (p. 96). the different parts of the performance together. Georgios Tsivanoglou actors

TICKET Robert Wilson has fundamentally renewed theatre Stefan Rager conductor, percussion Standard: 190–900 and performance art since the mid-1960s. His Under 30: 150 Hans-Jörn Brandenburg keyboards works are aesthetically striking and emotionally Dominic Bouffard guitar Festival Card: charged, and his productions have earned the 30% discount Andreas Henze double bass acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. Please note: Isang Quartett Rufus Wainwright’s original compositions turn the Limited stage view Sang Ha Hwang violin from ticket categories performance into a dreamlike journey beyond time: Ilzoo Park violin 4 and 5. ‘It sounds a little bit like cabaret, a little bit like The seating plan Uhjin Choi viola opera, like Strauss and Schubert, classically for Shakespeare’s Hoon Sun Chae cello Sonnets differs from German, taking a deep bow in front of ,’ that of other Festival says Rufus Wainwright. performances. See www.fib.no/ Sponsored by DNB and DNV GL salkartshakespeare

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GRIEGHALLEN GRIEGSALEN

DATE/TIME Wednesday 31 May A historical world premiere. The prize-winning composers and musicians at 20:00 perform on guitar, keyboards and Hardanger DURATION Indigenous and contemporary music are fiddle alongside historical instruments such as 1:15 woven together in an imposing new work by the Kravik lyre and goat’s horn in this develop- ADDITIONAL and Ivar Bjørnson, familiar from ment of Skuggsjå, which was created for the INFORMATION Wardruna and Enslaved respectively. Norse and bicentenary of the Norwegian constitution in See also Nordvegen Norwegian poetry, accompanied by instruments in Ullensvang, 2014. The project was a great success both Bekkjarvik, Os from the Stone Age up to the present day, reso- nationally and internationally, with the album and at Moster nate in us just as they would have done with Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik’s Skuggsjá (2016) TICKET our forebears. reaching ninth place in the Billboard World Standard: 190–490 Music charts. Under 30: 150 The Norse word hugsjá means to remember – BT Fordel: 150–370 literally ‘to see in the mind’. Focused on ideas, Festival Card: traditions and instruments from our Norse past, Einar Selvik song, Kravik lyre, various 30% discount the work recounts Norwegian history while dra- historical instruments wing lines to the present. Devoid of religious Ivar Bjørnson guitars, effects, song o and political agendas and without romanticising Iver Sandøy drums, percussion, song the past, Hugsjá gives us space to reflect on DIALOGUES Silje Solberg Hardanger fiddle, song ourselves and Norway as a nation. Håkon keyboard, song Norske røtter (Norwegian Roots) The commissioned work is a result of a series of concerts under the name Nordvegen (‘the Nico Benz, Showlab lighting BERGEN Stein David Baastad sound OFFENTLIGE northern road’, see p. 80), performed in four BIBLIOTEK venues in the west of Norway. Bjørnson and (BERGEN PUBLIC Selvik have designed concerts inspired by local IVAR BJØRNSON (1977–) / EINAR SELVIK (1979–) LIBRARY) history for each of these places, and now com- Hugsjá World premiere DATE/TIME bine the results into a major work in Grieghallen. Tuesday 30 May at 17:00–18:00 Supported by H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens Allmennyttige Fond Afterparty: Hugsjá

LYSVERKET Welcome to more Hugsjá in Tårnsalen after Tickets include finger food and a welcome TÅRNSALEN the concert in Grieghallen. You can look drink inspired by the historical theme of the DATE/TIME forward to musical contributions by Ivar evening, served by the Festival Restaurant Wednesday 31 May at 21:30 Bjørnson and Einar Selvik and to DJs Arne Lysverket (p. 11). Sandvoll and Lindy Fay Helle from Waldruna. TICKET The bar is open, the mood is mellow and the 290 Produced by Lysverket Age limit: 20 opportunity to meet the artists is up for grabs.

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m Nordvegen TICKETS (PER CONCERT) Standard: 390 Under 30: 150 BT Fordel: 300

Festival Card: 30% discount The crash of waves from the Norse LANGUAGE era in an innovative major work. English/ Norwegian/Norse The shipping route Nordvegen – the origin of without surtitles. the name Norway – was for three thousand

ADDITIONAL years what connected Norway to the world and INFORMATION the world to Norway. Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) The Nordvegen concerts create an acoustic and Most Nordvegen and Einar Selvik (Wardruna) take us on a spec- concert are intimate basis for the grandiose commissioned tacular journey along this route in a musical outdoors, please work Hugsjá, which will receive its world premi- dress according to declaration of love to Norwegian coastal culture ere in Grieghallen on Wednesday 31 May (p. 78). the weather. and Norse history. Bjørnson and Selvik have both won national and TRANSPORT, In the concert series Nordvegen Bjørnson and international awards for their music, including PARKING AND ACCOMMODATION Selvik further develop their successful perfor- several Spellemann prizes, the Norwegian www.fib.no/venues mance Skuggsjá, which they composed for the Grammy. Selvik is also a co-composer of the bicentenary of the Norwegian constitution in music for the television series . 2014. In each of the four ports of call the unique history of the place, from the Stone Age to the Einar Selvik song, Kravik lyre, various present day, is related in words and music. What historical instruments can the local identity of these four communities Ivar Bjørnson guitars, effects, song along the west coast tell of greater national iden- Iver Sandøy drums, percussion, song tity? Instruments from our own era are combined Silje Solberg Hardanger fiddle, song with goat’s horn, lyre, tagel (bowed) harp and Håkon Vinje keyboard, song other apparatuses from Norway’s earliest musical history, and Norse traditions are forcefully, gently and wisely woven into the music of today. Each In collaboration with Agderforskning, performance is distinctive, with local forces, local Bekkjarvik Eiendom AS, Bekkjarvik identities and different music. Gjestgiveri, Hotel Ullensvang, Lysverket, Moster Amfi, Oseana Kunst- og Kultursenter and Solstrand Hotel & Bad, supported by Regional Research Fund for Western Norway.

Supported by Hordaland County Council

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2 Nordvegen: The performance is divided into two BEKKJARVIK Bekkjarvik separate parts. At 17:00 at Solstrand 13 HENGJO Hotel & Bad the history of Os is presen- E16 DATE/TIME ted in a lecture and a walk to Oseana, HOLSNØY Saturday 27 May Mighty whispers from the where the concert itself starts at 19:00. OSTERØY at 18:00 majestic King’s Mountain. The walk is free of charge and open to DURATION all. In the event of large numbers, those ASKØY Bekkjarvik is a central harbour in 1:15 with tickets to the Oseana concert will the coastal route to the north and Bergen City Center TICKET be given preference. FV7 south. The four great burial mounds  13 Tickets are also sold at Amalies Hus atop the King’s Mountain have long It is possible to park at Oseana and in Bekkjarvik Torg. been prominent landmarks and signs take a boat from Os Quay to Solstrand 1 Hotel Ullensvang Book accommodation of heritage for boats sailing in and FV137 and concert at 16:30. tickets together past, and are key elements of the E39 48 at Bekkjarvik concert in Hengjo. Equally important SKOGSVÅG 552 Gjestgiveri. is Bergsveinn Birgisson, author and 4 doctor of Norse philology, who will Nordvegen: 546 3 13 provide informative and entertaining Moster Solstrand Hotel & Bad BØMLO and Oseana Kunst- og descriptions of Nordvegen and life MOSTER AMFI Kultursenter 551 along the route of Ivar Bjørnson and 48 Einar Selvik’s music. DATE/TIME Ancient sagas and magnificent ODDA OS Monday 05 June scenery in historical harmony. Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri E39 FOLGEFONNA SOLSTRAND at 18:00 2 TYSNESØY ROSENDAL NASJONALPARK HOTEL & BAD In daytime the whole family is invited to join a historical walk back to the DURATION Moster and Bømlo constitute an ideal DATE/TIME 1:15 starting point for a Nordvegen work: 13 Sunday 28 May viking era. The walk starts in the at 17:00 toolmakers were rife in the Stone Age STORD centre at 12 midday and finishes at TICKET and Vikings held court here. In this the mountain about 2½ hours later. Tickets are also sold at Moster Amfi. concert nature, prehistoric artefacts OS Festival Restaurant Bekkjarvik Gjest- and sagas are all involved in shedding LANGEFOSSEN OSEANA giveri (p. 10) will serve a special light on the cause of Moster being BØMLO KUNST- OG E134 KULTURSENTER Norse-inspired menu. such an important place for king, 542 DATE/TIME priest and merchant. Moster Amfi 4 SKÅNEVIK Sunday 28 May E39 at 19:00 3 Nordvegen: As was the case in Bekkjarvik, Einar Selvik and Ivar Bjørnson are joined by DURATION Os 1:15 author and doctor in Norse philology 1 Nordvegen: TICKET Bergsveinn Birgisson. With massive Ullensvang Tickets are also tones and lively descriptions they HARDANGER A dive deep into the art of sold at Oseana draw memories of long ago into the HOTEL Kunst- og boat building and the Bronze ULLENSVANG Kultursenter Age. present age. History in the area of the DATE/TIME god of hunting. Book concert tickets Evidence suggests that Os has been Every summer since 1984 Moster Thursday 25 May and accommodation at 18:00 an important and strategic Nordvegen Amfi has presented Mostraspelet, Ullensvang takes its name from the together at amphitheatre the composers conjure Solstrand Hotel port, with a wealth of artefacts dating a pageant of the kings of the Saga DURATION god of hunting, Ullin. Places with up stories and traditions from both & Bad from the early Stone Age and burial era. The Nordvegen concert conclu- 1:15 names derived from Ullin were often UIlensvang and the magnificent sce- places visible from the sea. Bjørnson des the weekend of Mostraspelet in religious centres and holy sites where Shuttle boat Os TICKET nery around. kai by Oseana– and Selvik make a point of this in Moster Amfi. Tickets are also people from the environs gathered Solstrand: 50. their performance, along with the rich sold at Hotel for worship and ritual. In the beau- Buy the ticket on Ullensvang one boatbuilding traditions of the area and tiful surroundings of the outdoor the boat. hour before the Bronze Age rock art. concert.

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CRESCENDO: London Sinfonietta m

World Two world premieres with the contem- ‘If I were the British Government I would declare premiere porary ensemble London Sinfonietta. the London Sinfonietta a National Treasure ... Long may they continue to make new music!’ HÅKONSHALLEN Nobody does contemporary repertoire quite – COMPOSER STEVE REICH DATE/TIME like the London Sinfonietta. The ensemble has Friday 02 June taken on the task of bringing the best contem- at 19:30 porary music to the heart of today’s culture, London Sinfonietta Pierre-André Valade conductor DURATION and the impressive list of composers who have 1:20 written works for them includes György Ligeti, Peter Herresthal violin , Toru Takemitsu and Steve ADDITIONAL Guro Kleven Hagen violin INFORMATION Reich. Together with Reich they also had a very Introduction successful performance at the 2015 Bergen Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola (in English) by International Festival. Kian Soltani cello Annabel Guaita at 18:55 Ida Nielsen bass The concert celebrates the Norwegian Society of This concert will Composers’ centenary, and the programme inclu- also be performed in des world premieres by the Norwegian compo- EIVIND BUENE (1973–) London on Tuesday Sea Change 06 June during sers Eivind Buene and Rolf Wallin. Buene’s work Commissioned work supported by Southbank Centre's opens the concert, with Crescendo musicians the Norwegian Cultural Fund Nordic Matters Guro Kleven Hagen, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad World premiere Festival. KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) and Kian Soltani as soloists, all of whom have Graal Théâtre The exhibition become favourites among the Festival audience. (1939–) Musikalsk skrift Wallin’s work is written for the Danish bass player Workers Union (Musical Writings) ROLF WALLIN (1957–) follows Eivind Ida Nielsen, known from Prince’s band. The work Commissioned work supported by Buene’s and Rolf mixes the composer’s classical side with his The Norwegian Composers’ fund Wallin’s new works experience as a rock and jazz musician. World premiere from ideas to complete score, London Sinfonietta will also perform Workers see p. 95 Supported by the Oticon Foundation, FINNO, Union, written by Louis Andriessen for ‘any the Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Foundation Ida Nielsen in loud sounding group of instruments’, and Graal concert at Logen and the Sibelius Society of Norway. Saturday 03 June, Théâtre by Festival Composer and Artist in see p. 20. Residence Kaija Saariaho. A new version of the violin concerto will be brought to life in collabo- Crescendo is a mentor programme for young classical TICKET ration with director Aleksi Barriére. The soloist musicians and is a joint venture between the Bergen Standard: 400 International Festival, Barratt Due Institute of Music Under 30: 150 is Peter Herresthal, known for his intepretations and Oslo Filharmonien. The project is supported by of contemporary concertos with orchestras and Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Hans Peter Jebsen, Festival Card: ensembles worldwide. The DNB Savings Bank Foundation, Dextra Musica 30% discount and Talent Norge.

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Norwegian 887 premiere

DNS STORE SCENE

DATE/TIME Wednesday 24 May 887 is a journey into the realm of 887 by Ex Machina/Robert Lepage​ at 19:30 memory by and with theatre legend Robert Lepage script, design, direction, Thursday 25 May Robert Lepage. performance at 19:30 Friday 26 May Louisa Blair English translation at 19:30 887 Murray Avenue is the address of an apar- Steve Blanchet creative direction and design tment building in Quebec City, where a taxi Peder Bjurman dramaturg DURATION driver lived with his wife and three children. 2:00 Adèle Saint-Amand assistant director The youngest was called Robert, and he is the Jean-Sébastien Côté composer and LANGUAGE artist, director, designer and writer behind this sound designer ​Performed in solo performance originating from his childhood English. Laurent Routhier lighting designer memories. Félix Fradet-Faguy image designer TICKET Sylvain Décarie associate set designer Standard: 490–590 The performance explores our personal and Ariane Sauvé associate prop designer Under 30: 150 collective memory: Why do we remember the Jeanne Lapierre associate costumes designer phone number from our youth yet forget our Festival Card: Michel Bernatchez producer for Ex Machina 30% discount current one? How does a childhood song wit- Richard Castelli – Epidemic co-production hstand the test of time, permanently ingrained Europe and Japan o in our minds, while the name of a loved one escapes us? Why does meaningless information DIALOGUES stick with us, but other, more useful information Commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Who are we? falls away? co-production with le lieu unique, Nantes / La Comète DNS STORE - Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne / SCENE These and other questions about our memory Edinburgh International Festival / Århus Festuge are distilled into a story which connects our / Théâtre de la Ville-Paris / Festival d’Automne à Paris / Romaeuropa Festival 2015 / Bonlieu Scène nationale DATE/TIME personal, unreliable recollections with the his- Thursday 25 May Annecy / Ysarca Art Promotions - Pilar de Yzaguirre at 16:00–17:00 torical and social reality. / Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon / Le Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts d’Ottawa / SFU Woodward's Conversation Robert Lepage has pushed against all bounda- Cultural Programs, on the occasion of Simon Fraser University's 50th Anniversary, Vancouver / Le Théâtre between director ries of drama, opera, film, multimedia installa- Rober Lepage and français du Centre national des Arts d’Ottawa / Danish theatre cri- tions, musical theatre and contemporary circus Le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montréal / Tokyo tic Monna Dithmer for almost four decades. ‘Touching, intimate, Metropolitan Theatre / Théâtre du Trident, Québec / La Coursive - Scène nationale La Rochelle / Canadian (in English), powerful’, wrote The Guardian newspaper. see p. 96 Stage, Toronto / Le Volcan-scène nationale du Havre / The Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York / The ‘The only way you talk about history with a Bergen International Festival / the Barbican, London. capital H is to look at history with a lowercase Ex Machina is funded by the Council for the Arts, Quebec’s Arts and Literature Council and the h. I went looking for my family and I discovered City of Quebec. the story of Quebec.’ – ROBERT LEPAGE Sponsored by PwC

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The Tiger Lillies

Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace

t A starving poet. A raven. An awful lot of dying maidens. Paul Golub director World Martyn Jacques musical direction The British three-man band The Tiger Lillies premiere Mark Holthusen visual direction embrace Edgar Allan Poe, ruffle his hair and Peder Bjurman dramaturgy DNS laugh at his macabre jokes in this world premiere. STORE SCENE Loosely based on Poe’s tales and poems, and David Bernard video DATE/TIME Tuesday 06 and inspired by his stormy and tragic life, the mul- Claus Buehler sound Wednesday timedia performance piece retains the author’s Sylvie Martin-Hyszka costumes 07 June own black sense of humour while navigating the at 19:30 inner paths of his soul. Martyn Jacques vocal, harmonica, piano DURATION Adrian Stout bass, saw, theremin, vocal In a haunted palace a young poet meets the 1:30 Jonas Golland percussion, vocal devilish Raven, who supplies him with an espe- TICKET cially black ink, which guarantees glory and Standard: 290–390 Under 30: 150 honour. The poet writes frantically and soon Produced by Théâtre du Volcan Bleu (France) DN Fordel: 245–335 runs out. Desperate for more ink, he rushes in collaboration with the Bergen International through the many corridors and halls of the Festival, Le Théâtre de l’Union – Centre Festival Card: 30% discount palace. In each room he finds a story, a poem, Dramatique National du Limousin (France), a page of Poe’s imagination, and everywhere Maison de la musique de Nanterre (France), there are dying maidens. Quaternaire (France), with support from La Villette, Paris (France). The Tiger Lillies, infamous for their characte- ristic sound reminiscent of opera and gypsy music and their raw passion, make music at the Sarah Ford/Quarternaire international intersection of the offensive and the brilliant. co-production It is three years since they last visited Bergen and its festival, and the band promise a visual Sponsored by Morgenbladet nightmare and a bizarre musical extravaganza when they – joined by two actors for the occa- sion – delve into the unfathomable jolie laide world of Edgar Allan Poe.

‘… this trio is quite out of the ordinary …’ – REVIEW IN A BERGEN NEWSPAPER

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Carte Blanche: k While they are World premiere

CORNER- floating TEATERET

DATE/TIME Thursday 25 May at 20:00 Friday 26 May d Based on refugees’ own accounts, challenging, intense and powerful, examining at 18:00 and 20:00 and plastic waste. This also is the basis for a Carte Blanche examines problems the deeper emotions lurking behind power, unique soundscape. Through an auditive and World DURATION Sustain associated with asylum and human visual universe we turn our sights inward into premiere political systems and violence. 1:00 perceptions such as taste, sensuality ourselves, and see how we as individuals and STUDIO BERGEN and longing. RECOMMENDED A celebration of life – and a as a society together create a common future. Hooman Sharifi choreography, concept AGES disturbing yet beautiful concert DATE/TIME Refugees are often depicted as masses of Rikke Baewert choreography assistant From 12 years Friday 26 and performance about the basis of people arriving in large groups. However, each Helge Sten music SAGN Saturday 27 May, TICKET our existence. Monday 29 May– individual asylum seeker makes a journey full Standard: 290 Bodil Lunde Rørtveit composition, Friday 02 June, of personal perceptions, choices, experiences, Caroline Eckly, Judith Arupa, Noam Under 30: 150 The composer duo Sagn has created a musical conceptual development, vocals Monday 05 and BT Fordel: 220 Jørn Lavoll composition, conceptual Tuesday 06 June memories and privations. Even though the jour- Eidelman Shatil, Olga Stetsyuk, Anne Lise piece about the relationship between human at 20:00 ney takes place in the company of others, many Pettersen, Guro Rimeslåtten, Ole Martin Festival Card: and nature. Together with the artistic team development, keyboards, vocals

are also very much alone with the responsibility Meland, Daniel Garcia Mariblanca, Yousef 30% discount they have developed a concert performance DURATION Terje Isungset percussion, vocals for themselves and their secrets. These are the Sbeih, Adrian Bartczak, Dawid Lorenc, that touches on some of the most central pro- 1:30 Annlaug Børsheim strings, vocals individual transit stories that Carte Blanche Einar-Anton Nikkerud, Jack Lorentzen, blems the world faces today. The temperature is o Magnus Brandseth wind instruments, vocals TICKET dare to let themselves be captivated by in this Mathias Stoltenberg dancers rising, the weather is becoming more and more Standard: 320 DIALOGUES Vibeke Havre conceptual world premiere. extreme, and newspapers claim that by 2050 Under 30: 150 development, direction, dramaturgy DN Fordel: 275 Er festen the ocean will contain more plastic than fish. A coproduction by the Bergen International conceptual development, The choreographer is Hooman Sharifi, director over? Silje Sandodden Kise Festival Card: of Carte Blanche, Norway’s national company Festival and Carte Blanche. Bodil Lunde Rørtveit’s versatile voice is at the set design, instrument design, costume design 30% discount for contemporary dance, who himself came LITTERATUR- centre of the work alongside the percussion Thorolf Thuestad sound design, HUSET to Norway from Iran alone as a young asylum of Terje Isungset. Though the performance is instrument design seeker in 1988. He is particularly interested DATE/TIME without words, that does not mean it does not Silje Grimstad lighting design in the artistic expression that may arise when Thursday 25 May express an opinion; on the contrary, it does so Hans Kristian Senneseth instrument design, at 13:00–14:00 dance, theatre and visual art meet. Sharifi’s with force. The set is inspired by Chris Jordan’s instrument building vocabulary of movement is physically Panel discussion photographs of bird carcasses with plastic in Hjørdis production held in Norwegian. their stomachs, built up from feathers, bones

090 #FESTSPILLENE17 WWW.FIB.NO/EN 091 092 BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FRICTION FRICTION BERGEN INTERNATIONAL 093 FESTIVAL 2017 FESTIVAL 2017 Albert & Familien som kunne Vinter Kaija Saariaho music Anna snakke om alt by Jon Fosse text La Chambre aux échos concept and artistic direction t DURATION t Monday 05– t PAUSE Clément Mao–Takacs musical direction 2:00 Wednesday 07 June 0:20 World premiere World premiere at 19:00 SCANDIC Aleksi Barrière stage direction LANGUAGE NEPTUN LANGUAGE Pauline Squelbut scenographer/stage manager DNS TEATER- Performed in DNS LILLE SCENE DURATION Performed in KJELLEREN 1:30 DATE/TIME Étienne Exbrayat lighting design Norwegian without Norwegian without surtitles DATE/TIME LANGUAGE Thursday 25 May surtitles Liisa Nieminen costumes DATE/TIME Wednesday 24– at 16:30 Tuesday 23–Friday Performed in Norwe- Clémentine Marin production administrator TICKET Friday 26 May gian without surtitles Friday 26 May TICKET 26 May at 19:30 Standard: 380 at 19:00 at 16:30 Standard: 290 Saturday 27 May Student: 170 Saturday 27 May TICKET Saturday 27 May Student: 170 BIT20 Ensemble orchestra at 18:00 at 18:00 Standard: 290 at 14:00 Monday 29 May–Friday Festival Card: Festival Card: Sayuri Araida solo soprano Monday 29 May– Student: 170 02 June at 19:30 30% discount Friday 02 June DURATION 30% discount Monday 05–Wednesday at 19:00 Festival Card: 1:30 Vocal ensemble: 07 June at 19:30 30% discount Sandra Darcel soprano Love throughout the seasons Absurd family comedy by An impossible love story. Marianne Seleskovitch mezzo-soprano of life in a contemporary Christian Lollike. A businessman meets a drunk woman k Johan Viau tenor drama by Frode Grytten. bass-baritone A traditional family gathering: Let’s on a bench outside his hotel. He Norwegian Romain Dayez Frode Grytten is one of Norway’s have a good old time together, talk surprises himself by taking her to premiere La Passion de Isabelle Seleskovitch actress most beloved authors, and with about everything and nothing, and his room. CORNER- this play he has created a beautiful leave something unsaid. But what Minor coincidences can set off TEATERET homage to life-long love. happens when the masks come off Simone KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952–) avalanches. In Vinter (‘Winter’) DATE/TIME and everything comes crashing out La Passion de Simone Albert and Anna, two senior citizens, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse por- Wednesday 31 May and onto the table? at 20:00 have loved each other – and their gar- trays the longing after, and the fear DURATION den – most of their lives. But Anna is You’re invited to a Christmas dinner of, letting yourself be carried away. 1:10 disappearing, and when she is gone, directed by Christian Lollike, one of The performance is an exclusive and LANGUAGE Albert is afraid of losing himself too. Scandinavia’s most prominent con- Performed in French. intimate experience. 30 audience A chamber opera about a In the performance, they encounter temporary playwrights. Surtitles in English. members follow the couple from the philosopher and political activist. their younger selves. Humorous and This family can discuss anything – bench, to the hotel room and then to o warm flashbacks portray a life together Philosopher and teacher (1909– an inner landscape. The work does not describe parenting, body image, war trauma, CO the bar, catching glimpses of two very through the changing seasons. 2 DIALOGUES 1943) grew up in a middle-class Jewish family the philosopher’s life as a series of chronological quotas and religion – but doesn’t know different lives and the development Who was in Paris but nonetheless sympathized with the events; instead, it indicates a way of thinking. Albert & Anna is the story of an ordi- when to stop and prevent the situation of a unique love story. Simone Weil? radical workers’ movement. She joined the It is an agnostic prayer for human values and nary love, the kind that isn’t seen by from escalating into the absurd.

CORNER- Spanish civil war and was a member of the collective memory. anyone but those who share it. TEATERET French resistance during World War II. Peer Perez Øian direction Vinter by Jon Fosse DATE/TIME Erlend Loe, Peer Perez Øian Anne-Karen Hytten guide The main character in La Passion de Simone is Wednesday 31 May at Hildegun Riise direction adaption, translation Kristoffer Sagmo Aalberg, 19:15 A conversation a modern-day figure who reflects upon Simone’s Presented by Bergen International Festival, Åse Hegrenes set design Katja Ebbel Frederiksen set and Stine Robin Berg Hansen actors (in English) between ideals. What might we learn from someone who, BIT20 Ensemble and La Chambre aux Échos. director Aleksi Bar- Åsmund Bøe video design costume design in an attempt to understand and fight violence rière and Christine Sandra Kolstad music Amadou, Assoc. Prof. and oppression, tried uncompromisingly to put A collaboration between Supported by FINNO, The Norwegian-Finnish Kari Simonsen, Stine Robin Berg Ane Skumsvoll, Stig Amdam, Ragnhild at the University of herself in the place of its victims? Den Nationale Scene and Oslo, see p. 96. Cultural Foundation and The Sibelius Society Hansen, Sverre Bentzen, Kristoffer Gudbrandsen, Marianne Nielsen, Scandic Neptun TICKET In the course of the opera’s monologue, we of Norway. Sagmo Aalberg and Espen Leite actors Jonatan Filip, Kim Kalsås, Frode Bjorøy, Standard: 290 hear Weil’s own voice, at a distance, mediated Julia Bache-Wiig, Sandra Kolstad and Under 30: 150 Jehad Aldebes actors BT Fordel: 220 through an actor. A vocal quartet represents Produced by Riksteateret and Festival Card: victims of and witnesses to human oppression. Den Nationale Scene 30% discount The ensemble members portray each tableau as Produced by Den Nationale Scene

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Peter Sheppard Musical Skærved: Writings

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World TICKET DATE/TIME premiere Pop-up concerts are free, 08 May–07 June but require an entrance Monday–Thursday at 10:00–20:00 BERGEN ticket to Kunsthallen. Friday at 10:00–17:00 KUNSTHALL Adults: 50 Saturday at 10:00–16:00 Senior/student: 25 Sunday at 12:00–16:00 DATE Children, members of u Jan Groth Saturday 27 May at Bergen Kunsthall, art 12:00–12:30 & 15:00–15:30 students and members of BERGEN Sunday 28 May at NBK: free admission What does a composer’s notepad KUNSTHALL 12:00–12:30,15:00–15:30 & 16:30–17:00 look like? DATE/TIME Festival Exhibition Thursday 25 May Ahead of the Bergen International Festival 2017 at 13:00–16:00 Jan Groth has a unique position in Norwegian A musical dialogue with Festival an exhibition opens at the Bergen Public Library. 26 May–13. august visual art. Over several decades his famous Artist Jan Groth’s work. It follows two of the programme’s newly writ- Monday–Sunday ‘line’ has been articulated again and again — in ten works from outline and ideas to complete at 11:00–17:00 drawings, tapestries and sculptures — without Peter Sheppard Skærved, violinist, performer score. The music is written by composers Eivind Thursday and storyteller in equal proportions, likes to at 11:00–20:00 ever losing relevance in his own time. Buene and Rolf Wallin, and it will be performed mix contemporary music with less commonly for the first time on the concert with London Open Mondays The 2017 Bergen International Festival only during the performed repertoire – often treasures he has u Sinfonietta at Håkonshallen on 02 June. The Exhibition includes a number of new works H.M. Queen Sonja Festival dug up himself. exhibition is put together by Hild Borchgrevink made especially for the show and will primarily TICKET KODE 1 in KODE 1 and is part of the 100th year celebration for the focus on drawings and sculpture; two media This time he wants to surprise, enchant and Adults: 50 Norwegian Society of Composers, an occasion Senior/student: 25 which in different ways express Jan Groth’s disturb visitors to the festival exhibition of the DATE/TIME Children, members work of Jan Groth. Tuesday 23 May– Throughout her life, HM Queen Sonja has that will also be marked with a symposium and distinctive combination of the immediate and Sunday 27 August of Bergen Kunsthall, always had a passionate relationship to a book launch at the library. art students and the gradual. On his playlist for these pop-up concerts is a members of NBK: TICKET the arts and the cultural field. For large parts of his career Groth has worked new cycle of Signs – caprices for solo instru- Opening hours and free admission Curated by Hild Borchgrevink outside Norway. He made his international bre- ments and early music by various composers. ticket information, see The Queen has been an enthusiastic promoter www.kodebergen.no Plattform: akthrough in New York in the 70s, and is well The works reflect the dialogue between Peter of Norwegian art and design both nationally and Jan Groth Sheppard Skærved and Jan Groth, emanating internationally, and as a personal collector she in conversation, represented in the major museums worldwide. Produced by Norwegian Society of Bergen Kunsthall At the same time he has maintained a constant from some of the fundamental aspects of has supported both visual art and art handicraft. Composers and the Bergen Public Library Saturday 27 May presence on the Norwegian art scene. Groth’s work and attitudes towards such Nordic In later years the Queen has applied her lifelong at 13:00 traditions as the runic alphabet. devotion and knowledge to exploring various The Festival Exhibition, produced by Bergen artistic techniques. Kunsthall since 1953, is established as one of Works by On the occasion of HM Queen Sonja’s 80th Produced by Norway’s most important solo exhibitions. PETER SHEPPARD SKÆRVED, MARINI, BASSANO, birthday and the reopening of KODE 1, previously Bergen Kunsthall TORELLI, DE MACHY, MATTEIS AND MORE. Permanenten, KODE Art Museums of Bergen JAN GROTH (1930–) will hold an exhibition principally dedicated to the Queen's works within the fields of graphic Martin Clark and Steinar Sekkingstad Produced by and fictile art. curators KODE Read more at www.kodebergen.no

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Supported by Fritt Ord DATE/TIME DATE/TIME Sunday 28 May Tuesday 30 May at 16:00–17:00 at 16:00–17:00 Sponsored by Bergens Tidende Canadian artist Rufus Wainwright A number of festivals experience (p. 16) is known for both his pop music growing expectations to cross artis- and opera compositions, and has tic genres and conventions in their created the music for Shakespeare’s curating. Festival Director Anders Sonnets (p. 77). Festival Director Beyer has invited the leaders of the Anders Beyer invites him to share Luminato Festival in Toronto, as thoughts and anecdotes on creativity, well as the Edinburgh and Helsinki composition and the drive to cross Festivals, to share their experiences. Dialogues artistic boundaries. How does a festival leader maintain the core identity of the institution, all while being at the forefront in ste- We invite our audiences to Talking Balance ering the festival towards the future? take part in a range of talks with Kaija Saariaho and debates linked to the Festival programme. LITTERATURHUSET,OLAV H. HAUGE Who was Simone Weil? The ones listed beneath DATE/TIME are conducted in English. Monday 29 May CORNERTEATERET at 19:00–20:00 DATE/TIME Wednesday 31 May In the course of a 30 year-long career, at 19:15 Transport and Kaija Saariaho has established herself as one of the most highly respected The main character in Kaija Saariaho’s accommodation and performed composers of the chamber opera La Passion de Simone world. When one of operas was staged (p. 92) is a modern day figure reflec- Who are we? in New York last year, it was the first ting upon the ideals of philosopher time since 1903 that The Meteropolitan and teacher Simone Weil (1909–1943). DNS STORE SCENE Opera staged an opera composed by a In this conversation between Alexi Travel to Bergen Accommodation Festival taxi woman. ‘It just shows how slowly these Barrière, director of La Passion de DATE/TIME Thursday 25 May things evolve. But they are evolving Simone, and historian and Associate at 16:00–17:00 in all fields, also in music’, Saariaho Professor at the , There are many routes to Bergen. Stay in the city center, near the Are you in need of a taxi to and from (p. 7) says. She meets Norwegian Christine Amadou, the audience can For a complete overview, go to Visit airport, along the beautiful coast or performances? Call our festival part- Director Robert Lepage, known as composers Rebecka Ahvenniemi and get to know Weil’s life and work, touch- Bergen at www.visitbergen.com/ by the famous fjords. The selection ner Bergen Taxi on (+47) 55 99 70 00. the wizard of modern theatre direc- Rune Rebne to discuss the gender gap ing on topics such as human respon- transportation of accommodation in Bergen is many tion, enters the stage in his very and suits all budgets. For a complete in composition. In collaboration with sibility and modern martyrdom. The For information about flight times, personal play 887 (p. 87), delving into overview, visit www.visitbergen.com/ Balansekunst. conversation might enable a deeper routes and transport to and from Nordvegen the mysterious memory palace of the accommodation and more nuanced interpretation of Bergen Airport Flesland, visit mind. Meet him in conversation with the performance itself. www.avinor.no/bergen Scandic Hotels is the festival’s official Danish theatre critic Monna Dithmer, Supported by FINNO, Please visit www.fib.no/venues for an hotel partner. They have a variety of where they explore his work and its The Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Bergensbanen (The ) overview of transportation, parking hotels in Bergen within walking distance use of childhood memories and play Foundation, The Sibelius Society of Supported by FINNO, The Norwegian- between Oslo and Bergen has several and accommodation in connection to most of our venues. For reservations, with identities, which turns the stage Norway and The Finnish-Norwegian Finnish Cultural Foundation and daily departures. For more informa- with our Nordvegen concerts (p. 80). please call (+47) 23 15 50 00 or visit into a box of magic. Cultural Foundation. The Sibelius Society of Norway. tion, visit www.nsb.no www.scandichotels.com

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The Festival The Festival The Festival The Festival thanks thanks thanks thanks Aud Jebsen Per Gunnar Espen Yvonne & Strømberg Rasmussen Galtung Døsvig Bjarne Rieber /Strømberg Gruppen /EGD /Rika AS One of our new Festival ambassadors this year is Aud Jebsen, who has a longstanding commitment to the cultural life in Bergen. Through Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/Strømberg Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD has become For many years, Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/ the family support various cultural institutions Gruppen has joined us as Festival ambassador Festival ambassador in 2017. Like the Festival, Rika AS have invested significant amounts in and projects, among these Bergen International this year. Strømberg Gruppen, like the Festival, EGD is a company with longstanding traditions the Bergen International Festival, which is and Festival. considers quality to be one of their core values. in Bergen. Since its foundation in 1907, the com- should continue to be an important cultural Furthermore the company is concerned with pany has ensured its growth by adjusting its event and a boost for the cultural scene in At the 65th Festival, Aud Jebsen is contributing taking social responsibility, also through art strategy in accordance with the changes in the Bergen, Norway and abroad. Their support is by supporting Acosta Danza: Debut (p. 24) in and culture. markets and society in general. crucial to the festival’s ambitious projects that Grieghallen, where the audience will delight connect tradition and renewal, that challenge in this performance by award winning Cuban His reason for becoming Festival ambassador, As Festival ambassador Espen Galtung Døsvig and entertain audiences and make culture dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta, who states Rasmussen, is that he believes the wants to contribute to carrying the Festival into accessible to a broader public. following his exceptional international career Festival is currently experiencing an exciting the future. He is also engaged in developing has gathered Cuba’s most outstanding dancers development. He wishes to contribute to the Bergen as a city of art and culture – through In 2017 Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/Rika AS, in the dance company Acosta Danza. Festival fulfilling their vision of lifting the pro- contemporary art of the highest quality, among together with Trond Mohn, support the con- gramme locally, nationally, and across borders. other things – and the Festival’s position in this cert with the superstar pianist Lang Lang in Bergen International Festival represents inno- project. Grieghallen (p. 38). Lang Lang was born in vation and artistic development, which includes Bergen International Festival is grateful for 1982, and has long been considered one of attracting the world’s most outstanding creative the support from Per Gunnar Strømberg The Festival is grateful for the support from today’s greatest stars of classical music. He and performing artists. In order to realize this Rasmussen/Strømberg Gruppen. Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD. is well-known for his open-hearted, emotive ambition, we are dependent on committed and playing, and has played to sold out concerts ambitious Festival ambassadors who appreciate across the globe. the value of a strong Norwegian cultural life. Aud Jebsen is an ambassador of this calibre; Bergen International Festival would like to her aesthetic sense and appreciation of art of thank Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/Rika AS for the highest international quality contributes to their contribution. giving the audience inspiring and challenging experiences during the Festival.

The Festival thanks Aud Jebsen for her con- tribution.

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projects that involve good commu- the programme at the regular festival made it possible to bring the per- The Festival nication and encourage participation. venues. formance Patina (p. 23) to Bergen and to create a Dialogue event, Leve ASAF thanks Dextra Musica is a subsidiary of the Thanks to support from the Kavli Herman Friele – Mestring – Bevegelse, for people ANDERS SVEAAS’ ALMENNYTTIGE FOND Savings Bank Foundation DNB, and Trust, festival concerts will be arran- living with dementia, their next of Herman Friele is a renowned busi- since 2006 it has purchased valuable ged in hospitals, nursing homes and kin, dance therapy professionals and nessman and politician with his heart The purpose of Anders Sveaas’ string instruments that it lends to senior centres around Bergen. In professionals working in care for the in both Bergen and the festival, and Charitable Foundation (ASAF) is to Norwegian musicians. addition, the Festival’s programme elderly. who wishes to contribute to the contribute to charitable initiatives of tailored events will develop and With support from The Savings Bank further development of the festival. and initiatives that benefit the gene- expand to include audiences of all The Bergen International Festival is ral public – for instance by supporting Foundation DNB – Dextra Musica Bergen International Festival and ages under the conceptual umbrella grateful for the support from the GC young Norwegian musicians through the 2017 Festival presents world Bergen National Opera present Handel’s of Festival Collective. Rieber Funds. scholarships and loan of string instru- The Grieg Foundation supports class young, Norwegian musicians great masterpiece, Messiah (p. 73), as ments. ASAF owns a collection of numerous charitable projects world- and prominent international artists Support from the Kavli Trust ensu- part of this year›s Festival programme. wide, with an emphasis on projects in concerts in Troldsalen and in the res that the festival can offer a free string instruments that are primarily that involve children and youth, composers’ homes of Edvard Grieg, Opening Ceremony for the whole The Festival is grateful to Herman Friele lended to up-and-coming Norwegian H. Westfal-Larsen og medical research and the environ- Ole Bull and Harald Sæverud at town to enjoy. who is supporting this production of one talent. Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsen's ment. The Grieg Foundation makes Troldhaugen, Lysøen and Siljustøl. of the world’s most performed and most We would like to thank the Kavli Trust Almennyttige Fond The Bergen International Festival an active commitment to ensuring valued works for choir. Messiah opens Funds and collaboration from The for their contribution and involve- invests in performers and audience necessary support and progress, and H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna Wednesday 31st May at DNS and runs Savings Bank Foundation DNB – ment in making festival experiences alike, also in our classical program- to contributing in ways that make a Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige fond until June 3rd. Dextra Musica have in addition con- available to more people. me. Through our concert series difference. is a charitable foundation that aims to tributed to make possible the mentor in composer’s homes, the festival support the promotion of initiatives furthers and renews the European The Bergen International Festival programme Crescendo. that benefit Bergen as a city and its salon concert tradition, and with has been a recurrent name when the The Bergen International Festival cultural scene. support from ASAF we continue our foundation bestows their gifts, and would like to thank The DNB Savings With support from the foundation, increased focus on young musicians. we are very pleased that they wish to Bank Foundation – Dextra Musica for composers Einar Selvik and Ivar take part in this festival tradition in their support. The Bergen International Festival Bergen. Their contribution supports a Bjørnson present a world premi- is grateful for ASAF’s support for The Fritt Ord Foundation is a pri- comprehensive children’s and outdo- ere: Hugsjá (p. 78). The Norse word concerts with young performers in vate philanthropic foundation whose or programme that enables children, The GC Rieber Funds support cha- hugsjá means to remember – literally the homes of the great composers. paramount objective is to protect and adolescents and adults to take part ritable social and cultural initiatives, ‘to see in the mind’. Focused on ideas, promote freedom of expression and its in and watch quality performances mainly in Bergen. They also support traditions and instruments from associated structure in Norway, par- – and enjoy the festival atmosphere. research within medicine and other our Norse past, the work recounts fields. Norwegian history while drawing lines ticularly by encouraging lively debate The Bergen International Festival to the present. and the dauntless use of the free word. Among its many good cultural initia- would like to thank the Grieg Support from the Fritt Ord Foundation The Kavli Trust has supported the tives, the funds focus on providing The Bergen International Festival Foundation for their support. ensures the continuation of Dialogues Bergen International Festival for support for young local talent, espe- thanks H. Westfal-Larsen og Hustru (p. 96), a programme of debates, which a number of years, and in recent cially in music. This is done to ensure Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige reflect on and raise important tenden- years the Kavli Trust has supported further development of a rich cultural fond for their generous contribution. cies and current issues based on the the festival’s outdoor programme: a scene in Bergen in the future. festival’s extensive programme. variety of events that are free and The Funds are particularly engaged in open to everyone. supporting and developing projects The Bergen International Festival is grateful for The Fritt Ord Foundation’s The Savings Bank Foundation DNB is The Kavli Trust also continues its aimed at vulnerable people in the support. an independent foundation that collaboration with Bergen Red Cross, community. Dignity in old age and works to increase interest in and Robin Hood House and many other in care for the elderly, for instance understanding of art and culture, organisations that make the festival through , is one such especially among children and youth. accessible to people who, for various area. At this year’s Festival, sup- They achieve this by supporting reasons, are not able to experience port from the GC Rieber Funds has

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Our Public Sector Partners: Arts Council Norway City of Bergen Hordaland County Council

Festival Ambassadors Project Supporters Other partners and contributors Aud Jebsen Ministry of Foreign Affairs Agderforskning Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/ The Oticon Foundation Barratt Due Institute of Music Strømberg Gruppen FINNO (The Finnish-Norwegian (Crescendo) Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD Cultural Institute) Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri Grieg Foundation The Norwegian-Finnish Bekkjarvik Eiendom AS Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/Rika AS Cultural Foundation Bergen Culture School J W Eides Stiftelse Bergen Dansesenter The Sibelius Society of Norway Bergen Domkor Main Partners Music Norway Bergen and Hordaland DNB Bergens Riksmålsforening Trekking Association DNV GL The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Bergen International Culture Center Statoil Foundation Bergen Student Radio Bergens Tidende Norwegian Artistic Research Programme Bømlo Teater Dagens Næringsliv Regional Research Fund for Café Sanaa Western Norway Damsgårdsdagene Den Grønne Sykkel Project Partners Dukkenikkernes teaterverksted The Kavli Trust Venues /Jan Holden Trond Mohn Apollon Platebar Fana and Ytrebygda Cultural Office The Savings Bank Foundation DNB Bergen Cathedral Fløibanen A/S – Dextra Musica Bergen Kunsthall The Grieg Academy The GC Rieber Funds Bergen Public Library – Department of Music, A BALANCING ACT H. Westfal-Larsen og Cornerteateret University of Bergen Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens Den Nationale Scene The Holberg Prize Almennyttige Fond Fana Kulturhus The Joint Immigrant Council At DNV GL we value safety, quality and integrity. Our dedicated employees in 100 Herman Friele Fløien Folkerestaurant of Hordaland countries are committed to one common goal: to have a global impact for a safe and Fritt Ord Foundation Grieghallen KODE Composer’s Homes Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation Hengjo in Bekkjarvik Lysverket sustainable future. Often, we take on the role of balancing the needs of business and Hordaland Teater Norwegian Academy of Music society. We call it the balancing act. Our partnership with Festspillene, one of Norway’s Hotel Ullensvang Norwegian Band Federation finest and most international cultural institutions, underpins our commitment to society. Festival Investor Håkonshallen Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Iwan Eide Knudsen KODE Art museums of Bergen Norwegian Critics’ Association Because culture and society go hand in hand. Litteraturhuset i Bergen The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency Moster Amfi Norwegian Hull Club That is why we are proud to be a main partner of Festspillene i Bergen. Festival Partners Oseana Kunst- og Kultursenter Norwegian Society of Composers Morgenbladet The Reksten Collections Oslo Philharmonic (Crescendo) PwC Solstrand Hotel & Bad Prof. Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy Telenor Studio Bergen Revy & Teaterservice A7 Print The University Aula in Bergen Siljustøl Foundation 07000 Bergen Taxi Siljustøls Venner Learn more about us on Galleriet Steinway Piano Gallery Oslo www.dnvgl.com Atea Co-producers Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen BI Norwegian Business School Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Øvsttun Scout troop Avinor Bergen National Opera BIR Bedrift Carte Blanche – the Norwegian national Crescendo is supported by Tesla Bergen company of contemporary dance Trond Mohn, Bettina Ford Jebsen, Securitas Ingerine Dahl Hans Peter Jebsen, the Savings Bank Stavanger Concert Hall Foundation DNB, Dextra Musica and Talent Norway.

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Aud Jebsen | Per Gunnar Strømberg Rasmussen/Strømberg Gruppen | Espen Galtung Døsvig/EGD Grieg Foundation | Yvonne and Bjarne Rieber/Rika AS