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Forfatter Marit Eikemo og komponist Therese Ulvo har sammen med regissør Maren Bjørseth skapt den helt nye operaen Terminus. Vi tok en kjapp Q&A med skaperne. Urpremieren er på DNO&B i Oslo 15. mai og så kommer den "hjem" til Bergen 28. mai.
Here is a short guide to the characters in the opera Asle and Alida – also with a link to our biography for each artist.
Here's a summary of what happens in the opera Asle and Alida.
Would you like to rise as a ghost and scare your own murderer? We are looking specifically for the bass role as Il Commendatore in the opera Don Giovanni at our Summer Academy Opera by the Fjord in June. APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 23 / the application form is now closed /
The students at our summer academy Opera by the Fjord 2025 will get the chance to perform together with top professionals from orchestras in Vienna and the Nordic countries.
School project ahead of the premiere of Amahl and the Night Visitors
Welcome to Opera by the Fjord - our Summer Academy 2025. NEWS: We have now extended the application deadline to FEBRUARY 2 for these orchestra instruments: Strings, brass, oboe and bassoon. / The application forms are now closed /
Get ready for an extraordinary love triangle: The amorous and confused Paul stands between two women who look completely identical: One is his deceased wife Marie, the other is the vivacious dancer Marietta.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold had an extraordinary life, buffeted between three very different worlds: Mahler’s Vienna, Errol Flynn’s Hollywood, and the years of reckoning that followed World War II.
In our new production the story is moved from Vienna in the 19th century to the Norwegian cities of Bergen and Oslo in our own time.
Do you wish to be the greatest god of all at our Summer Academy 2024? Or the high priest and also a giant? We are now searching for two male singers in the roles as Wotan – and Sarastro & Fafner. // The application forms are now closed. //
You are now welcome to apply for the Summer Academy Opera by the Fjord 2024! Application deadline January 31st. NEW announcement for the roles as Wotan and Satrasto & Fafner. Application deadline March 8. //All application forms are now closed.//
Five groups of architects and consultants have been chosen to compete for the design of the new music theater in Griegkvartalet.
Katya dreams of freedom, but she is trapped in an unhappy marriage, with a cruel, controlling mother-in-law. Then, the charming Boris arrives ... Here's the synopsis of Janáček's opera, Katya Kabanova, which premieres here in Bergen autumn 2023
1st violinist Maxim Brilinsky from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world’s most renowned symphony orchestras, will be concertmaster at our 2023 summer academy.
Meet the persons from The Magic Flute, who enter the stage here in Bergen autumn 2022
A huge heritage, two young lovers – and the very cunny Gianni Schicchi. Here are the highlights of Puccini’s comic one act opera our academists will dive into summer 2022.
Magical instruments, romantic couples and a fight between light and darkness: Here's a summary of Mozart's enchanting opera, which premieres in Bergen autumn 2022.
In this new version spring 2022 we are no longer in an embassy in Paris, but peeking into the secrets of a faulty theatre here in Bergen.
Bergen National Opera welcomes young singers, instrumentalists, conductors and repetiteurs to apply for our summer academy Opera by the fjord 2022, where Gianni Schicchi and more will be performed on July 2nd.
Meet the founders of the summer academy Opera by the fjord, Sascha Goetzel and Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Bergen National Opera are proud to launch our first ever summer academy, which takes place this August by the majestic Bjørnafjorden, near Bergen.
What happens when the water nymph Rusalka falls madly in love with a human prince, and asks the witch Ježibaba for help? Here's a synopsis of Dvořák's enchanting opera, with five musical excerpts.
The murder of Carmen, Bizet's gorgeous music and - a dating agency called Toreamor... Our new film really has it all!
Carmen, Carmen, Carmen..... so breathes our entranced journalist blogger at the opening of Bergen National Opera´s new film Carmen: Obsession in Isolation.
Information with regards to the Corona virus and our performances.
A civilized and balanced society demands that all generations are cultured in the broadest sense.
Here is the plot of the dramatic opera Macbeth, based on the masterpiece by Shakespeare.
Carmen is one of the most performed operas in the world, but what happened after the last act? Bergen National Opera has made a film inspired by Carmen, and now the trailer is ready!
Guest blogger and music supervisor Stephen Higgins reports from behind the scenes of Carmen, a movie currently in the making with star singers and an exciting plot.
MUSIC INDUSTRY BLACKOUT 2ND JUNE / This evening's performance has been postponed
Have you always dreamed about talking directly to a real opera singer, an orchestra musician, a director ... or may be a composer? Now you have the chance to call them all, from up north in Bergen and southwards to Madrid!
Due to the corona virus, Bergen National Opera and Musikkselskapet Harmonien have decided to cancel the Mozart opera La clemenza di Tito.
From its earliest days, opera has always been explicit.
See reviews from The Times, The Guardian, Evening Standard and The Daily Mail
- Cabarets are very much like life, says Janie Dee. You don’t know what’s going to happen next.
The Queen Sonja International Music Competition is one of the world’s leading voice competitions. BNO's General & Artistic Director, Mary Miller, is a board member.
The renowned Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen takes over from Mary Miller as the new Artistic and General Director of Bergen National Opera in 2021.
Werther's music counts as some of the most gorgeously romantic ever written. Here you can see the live recording from 22 March 2019, with Edgaras Montvidas and Catriona Morison as Werther and Charlotte.
"Pure pleasure" - Klassisk Musikk
"Warmly recommended" - Bergensavisen
"An elegant and floating production" - Bergens Tidende
I´ve just been down in the rehearsal room where Massenet´s hero Werther has been dying since 10:00 this morning. The atmosphere is brisk and deeply practical.
It was Winston Churchill who once suggested that ‘while we shape our buildings, afterwards our buildings shape us.’ The content of those buildings – who are they for, and how should they be led - is a conversation currently much in focus.
"Magic", "A triumph", "Fireworks" - The press loved the new production of Candide at Bergen National Opera
The deeply passionate young idealist and poet Werther meets an inexperienced young woman who is bound to her family by duty. She is engaged to Albert – decent, hard-working and steady – and she has promised her late mother to marry him. Werther becomes obsessed, and Charlotte begins a journey of self-discovery.
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Bergen National Opera's new production of The Flying Dutchman gets 4 (out of 5) stars in the international opera magazine. Read excerpts here.
What a week! We moved up into a much higher gear as the chorus arrived, all of whom have their lives and jobs in the city, while forming the backbone of the thriving choral scene in Bergen.
Set, costume and makeup, it's all looking as sleek as we hoped. And best of all - our Dutchman, Iain Paterson, arrives in Bergen!
Big questions of philosophy arise when interpreting the characters in The flying Dutchman during the first week of rehearsals. What is the best way of living one's life, what is a life well spent? Find out more in the director's diary.
A gentle rhythmic clicking floats from the doors as though some dreamy animal is tapping its teeth. Sailors need jumpers, and the BNO staff knitters are hard at work.
The building of a new house on the Grieghallen site brings the possibility of building a new creative hub for the future.
John Ramster, director of The Flying Dutchman, writes about the process of making an opera.
Verdi from two centuries past: opera at its most raw and modern.
The young soprano has this year won a prestigeous prize and this weekend holds two concerts in Amsterdam.
Leeds art gallery gjenåpner med Marita Lervik fra Unge Stemmer i nyskrevet, koreografert konsert!
A witch with a long silver tail is dancing with a bloody saw and cackling horribly. Hansel is trapped on top of a hospital trolley and Gretel is hiding behind lurid pink boxes. Welcome to the opera!
With his first opera Peter Grimes the young Benjamin Britten achieved instant international fame, and with good reason. In addition to brilliant and distinctive music the drama encompasses a universally recognisable phenomenon: the individual against the world, the outsider against the ‘village animal’.
In Grieghallen´s basement rehearsal room, figures in tattered grey sing Händel as they shuffle towards a table where soup is ladled from a vast battered pot.
Razzle-dazzle, high kicks and general mayhem... Mary talks us through the plot of our most glamorous opera to date!
The renowned magazine Opera Now gives 5 (of 5) stars to I Capuleti e i Monthecchi!
Januar kicks off with a great review in Opernwelt for our production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi.