THE NORWEGIAN OPERA & BALLET

Timeless classic. Verdi’s Aida is back! In a new production based on what went on behind the facade. Forget the camels and elephants - the ...

New dance grows in the National Ballet’s Ballet laboratory. Twice a year the public are invited in to see. The dance – it may be ...

New dance grows in the National Ballet’s Ballet laboratory. Twice a year the public are invited in to see. The dance – it may be ...

Kverndokk’s musical drama returns. “Sigismund and Gunhild ... Sigismund and Gunhild” resounds the cry between the slag heaps in the old mining town of Røros. ...

Little Brother and Twiglet – now as an opera! “What! Is Twiglet going to sing opera? I thought he could only talk!” – Sverre, aged ...

9 June 2012 19.00 Free introduction on the 1st balcony at 18.30 Pure Russian. This will be an evening for great emotions. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto ...

Classic fairy tale ballet. All about love at first sight and good versus evil in a magical fantasy world. The story of Cinderella is found ...

A helpless human being. Ulysses has been away at war for 20 years and throughout this time his wife Penelope has remained faithful to him. ...

GUEST PRODUCTION A dance depiction of the age of enlightenment. Choreographer Wayne McGregor found his inspiration for F.A.R. in Ray Porter’s book Flesh in the ...

6 May 2012 19.00 Free introduction in front of state stage at 18.00 ”More of the same, please” was the message from a delighted audience ...

Lightfoot and León’s strange and wonderful world. Full of captivatingly startling dance, light and dark, the humorous and the serious. Choreography duo Paul Lightfoot and ...

Unconditional love – timeless music. Like Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde has become an expression of unconditional love. First performed in 1865, Wagner’s opera ...

Free introduction on the 1st balcony at 17.30 Quite solo. The merits and qualities of Leif Ove Andsnes cannot possibly be described in a few ...

We serve up a cocktail of arias, duets and ensembles and play with the prejudices and myths that surround opera. The setting is a TV ...

A tribute to the reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, who both died young, in 1981 and 1987 respectively. Their work has had a ...

Intimate concerts in the Second House. This season too, members of the Opera Orchestra will give us intimate concerts in chamber format in the Second ...

Italian evening. We can look forward to a repeat visit from the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, this time playing Italian works. The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra is ...

Love has its price. Puccini’s immortal masterpiece portrays how strongly we humans value our own freedom and how much we fear death. Rodolfo and his ...

Comedy and cabaret, absurdity and acrobatics. Such are the hallmarks of Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak’s artistic signature. Now this renowned Israeli company is appearing ...

GUEST PERFORMANCE Kaizer’s Orchestra as theatre on the Opera stage. Sonny is a Baroque, burlesque, grandiose production about life’s great questions: friendship, treachery, war, love ...

Christine Brewer arrived late, but with a vengeance! She began her musical career as a violinist, and continued as a music teacher and choir member. ...

For the first time in Norway, you can experience a centuries-old folk music tradition from West Bengal. Demons in nature are confronted through music, dance ...

A romantic ballet. “Eternally beautiful on the Main Stage,” wrote Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten following the premiere of Giselle in autumn 2009. “If you are looking ...

Classic Alessandrini. We don’t let Rinaldo Alessandrini go so easily. He is a much loved conductor with audiences, singers and musicians after his time as ...

Rui Horta is back! For his third collaboration with Carte Blanche, Norway’s national contemporary dance company, award winning Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta has revamped his ...

A revolutionary drama. El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a dramatic recital set in revolutionary Cuba about escaped prisoner Esteban and his fight for freedom ...