Bergen National Opera

Grieg Hall, where the Bergen National Opera is based

Bergen National Opera (Norwegian: Bergen Nasjonale Opera) in Bergen, Norway, originally called Den Nye Opera (the new opera)^[1] is a foundation established in 2005 by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Den Nationale Scene, Grieg Hall and the Bergen International Festival. In 2007 Opera Vest became a part of the foundation, which aims to be the regional opera company for West Norway.

In addition to professional opera, Bergen National Opera also runs a participatory program for children and teenagers.

The foundation is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Arts Council Norway, the Hordaland community, the city of Bergen, and several other funds, associations and private supporters.

Opera directors

• 2005–2007 Stein Olav Henrichsen
• 2007–2010 Stein Olav Henrichsen
• 2010– Mary Miller^[2]

Opera orchestras

Bergen National Opera cooperates with the following orchestras:

• Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
• BIT20 Ensemble
• Ung Symfoni

Children and youths

Bergen National Opera runs several projects for children and teenagers in schools in cooperation with BIT20 Ensemble.^[3]

• Vi komponerer, vi!
• Skriv en Opera!
• Prosjekt Opera
• Unge stemmer^[4]
• Sommerakademi^[5]

Programme

Season of 2006

• Tosca (Giacomo Puccini / Luigi Illica / Giuseppe Giacosa) Grieg Hall

Season of 2007/08

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Michael Nyman) Sandnes Kulturhus, Bodø Kulturhus
• Lirendreieren (Magne Hegdal) Oslo Nye Trikkestallen. Co-production with Opera Sør
• Carmen (Georges Bizet / Henri Meilhac / Ludovic Halévy) Grieg Hall
• L'Amour de loin (Kaija Saariaho / Amin Maalouf) Grieg Hall
• Die Walküre (Richard Wagner) Grieg Hall

Season of 2008/09

• Melancholia (Georg Friedrich Haas / Jon Fosse) Grieg Hall
• Der fliegende Holländer (Richard Wagner) Grieg Hall
• Sounds Like You (Bent Sørensen / Peter Asmussen) Grieg Hall – Première
• Bluebeard's Castle (Béla Bartók / Béla Balázs) Grieg Hall
• Die Dreigroschenoper (Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill) Grieg Hall – Berliner Ensemble
• Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Bergenhus Fortress

Season of 2009/10

• Cinderella (Vladimir Tarnopolsky / Roald Dahl, oversatt av Klaus Hagerup) Grieg Hall
• Hypermusikal (Glenn Erik Haugland / Heidi Tronsmo) Logen Teater / Fjellheimen / Radøyhallen – Première
• Opera gala with Barbara Frittoli, Grieg Hall
• Ophelias: Death by Water Singing (Henrik Hellstenius) Teatr Wielki, Poland
• The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Grieg Hall
• Anne Pedersdotter (Edvard Fliflet Bræin / Hans Kristiansen) Bergenhus Fortress
• La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi / Francesco Maria Piave) Bergenhus Fortress

Season of 2010/11

• Veslefrikk (Knut Vaage / Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen) Kulturhuset i Tromsø / Den Nationale Scene / National Theatre of Szeged, Hungary – Première
• Alpha and More, guest performance by the Polish National Ballet
• La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini / Luigi Illica / Giuseppe Giacosa) Grieg Hall
• The Tales of Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach / Jules Barbier / Michel Carré) Grieg Hall
• Hypermusikal (Glenn Erik Haugland / Heidi Tronsmo) Oslo Opera House
• Oedipus rex (Igor Stravinsky / Jean Cocteau) Grieg Hall
• Hänsel und Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck) Grieg Hall

Season of 2011/12

• A New Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Christian Köhler / Jeroen Brouwers) Bodø Kulturhus / Peer Gynt Theatre, Grieg Hall / Sandnes Kulturhus / Brygga Kultursal, Halden
• Siegfried (Richard Wagner) Grieg Hall
• L'Étoile (Emmanuel Chabrier) Grieg Hall
• Pelléas et Mélisande (Claude Debussy) Logen Teater
• Xerxes (George Frideric Handel) Grieg Hall
• La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini) Grieg Hall

Season of 2012/13

• The Cunning Little Vixen (Leoš Janáček) Grieg Hall
• Marco Polo (Tan Dun) Grieg Hall
• Alt om min familie (Atle Halstensen ) Logen Teater
• Fidelio (Ludwig van Beethoven) Grieg Hall

References

External links

• Bergen National Opera homepage