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Waiting
World
premiere
GRIEGH A LLE N
GRIEG SA L E N
DAT E/ T I M E
By Calixto Bieito
& Karl Ove Knausgård
Wednesday 22 May
at 18:45
Thursday 23 May
at 19:30
1:30
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FOU N DAT I ON S
Opening Performance
km t
D U RAT IO N
BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2019
Peer Gynt from Solveig’s
point of view.
What is Norway’s national epic like, seen
through Solveig’s eyes? What is the story of
the one who waits?
The 2019 Bergen International Festival opens
with the world premiere of a symphonic Pas-
sion to the music of Edvard Grieg. Norwegian
novelist Karl Ove Knausgård has created a
modern Solveig in a poetic novella, and this
forms a backdrop for the performance. Spa-
nish director Calixto Bieito returns to the fes-
tival a decade after overturning Ibsen’s Peer
Gynt and Brand.
‘The theme of Waiting is the inescapable of
the loneliness of the human being, and the
little details and stories that make up our exis-
tence,’ says the director.
The role of Solveig is played by Norwegian
soprano Mari Eriksmoen, accompanied by the
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and sixteen
singers from Edvard Grieg Kor under the baton
of Eivind Gullberg Jensen. Video design is by
Sarah Derendinger, whose merits include the
opening of the London Olympics. And Peer?
He may turn up, but in an uncredited role.
Waiting is an international co-production. Af-
ter the world premiere it will tour the Nordic
countries and Europe.
‘Above me some crows came flying inland.
More followed, and soon the air was black with
birds. It was like a carpet of flesh, I thought,
with beautiful shifting patterns in blue and
black, which dissolved the next instant …’
– KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD
Calixto Bieito director, idea, concept
Karl Ove Knausgård libretto
Sarah Derendinger video design
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Kor
Eivind Gullberg Jensen conductor
Mari Eriksmoen soprano
Alexander Nohr baritone
Stephen Gill Photo / from series and book:
The Pillar / 2015 - 2019
​ roduced by Bergen International Festival
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in collaboration with Tivoli Copenhagen,
Teatro Arriago de Bilbao, Vilnius Festival,
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland
Symphony Orchestra.
Supported by H. Westfal-Larsen og
Hustru Anna Westfal-Larsens
Almennyttige Fond
Sponsored by DNB and Equinor
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