BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA

Messiah by George Frideric Handel was first performed in Dublin in the spring of 1742. After a rather modest reception in London, the work was ...

OPERA REVOLUTION Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant ...

Rossini, king of Italian opera composition in the first half of the 19th century transformed the opera of his homeland with music of brilliance, sensuality ...

One of the most successful new operas in Europe in the last two years, Private View began with a collaboration between Bergen National Opera and ...

Along with our singers and pianists, the concerts also underline our ongoing relationship with Bjarte Eike and musicians from Barokksolistene, who will be integral to ...

The renowned Norwegian soprano and TV-celebrity Eli Kristin Hanssveen brings her show with songs by Ella Fitzgerald and other classics, plus a drizzle of opera, ...

Bergen National Opera and Grand Hotel Terminus invite you two enjoy an evening with opera mixed with the fine taste of cava, prosecco and champagne ...

The lush string writing in Schoenberg ?s beautiful Verklärte Nacht voices his early years as an intense romanticist. Inspired by a poem by German expressionist ...

Peter Eötvös ?s new opera Senza Sangue raccounts the final pages of an eloquent short story by Alessandro Barrico. During the Spanish Civil War, a ...

Expect stage and musical magic when actor Svein Tindberg, Barokksolistene and singers perform Bach's staged perforance of St. Mark Passion. In a co-production with Bergen ...

Based on the classic Don Juan story of seduction, class division and the philandering Don´s eventual descent in hell, Mozart - as only he can ...

Bergen National Opera and Borealis present a sonic voyage into the shared psychosis known as 'folie à deux', where a delusion is transmitted from one ...

One of the sweet yet tragic figures of Italian opera, Madama Butterfly touches our hearts today, as she did at the opera´s 1904 premiere. The ...

In Aida, written for the inauguration of the Suez Canal and first performed in Cairo in 1871, Verdi confronts us with the political mood of ...

OperaSalon gives us the opportunity to listen to experts discuss the themes behind our productions and to enjoy open discussion around the issues. You will ...

Oliver Mears, kunstnerisk leder for Operaen i Nord-Irland, flytter Don Giovanni fra til SMAU Sevillas strange and stort cruiseskip med sine labyrintiske Korridorer og Salonger. ...

Oh would take on Shakespeare marked a new direction for one of last century's major opera composers, Benjamin Britten. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, he ...

Giuseppe Verdi´s Aida is the story of an Ethiopian princess, who, enslaved in Egypt, ultimately has to choose between the love for her father - ...

Singers from Palestine, Sri Lanka and South Africa join Nordic singers and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in a tribute to fights for freedom around the ...

Strindberg ?s Easter creates a delicate dream world of love and compassion. Its three acts take place on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the eve ...

The brilliant Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) wrote his last opera as a fairy tale, but the authorities in his homeland were not fooled: Behind the ...