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2014 Bergen International Festival



Celebrate freedom with the 2014 Bergen International Festival

From 21 May to 4 June, Bergen, one of the oldest cities in Norway, turns into the hub of the Nordic art universe
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BERGEN/NORWAY:  Set against a dramatic, fjord-filled backdrop, the Bergen International Festival showcases the best of both Norwegian arts and the wider northern European scene through broad and imaginative programming. Every year, around 200 events across opera, music, theatre and dance are staged over 15 days, many of them premieres and new productions. The Festival uses a number of venues in and around the city centre, amongst them the homes of Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull. 21 May – 4 June 2014

Anders Beyer, foto: Thor Brødreskift


Andsnes & Reich

This year’s music programme features world-renowned artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Le Concert Spirituel, Julia Lezhneva, The Tigers Lillies and Steve Reich.


Steve Reich will be visiting the Bergen International Festival with contemporary music ensemble London Sinfonietta, one of the world’s best orchestras

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. Steve Reich himself will also be performing in Clapping Music, written for four hands, and at the same concert we will also hear his Radio Rewrite, inspired by Radiohead, says the Festival director.

The Norwegian world-class pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has reached the last part of  The Beethoven Journey, a four-year project in which he and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra tour worldwide and record all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos.

For the 2014 tour, the pianist couples the Fifth Concerto with Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, and orchestra, leading both works from the keyboard. The following week he will give another Festival concert together with a trio of Norway’s most talented young musicians.


Fights for freedom and Pussy Riot

2014 marks the bicentennial of the Norwegian constitution. The country’s first free constitution was adopted on 17 May 1814 and is the second oldest written Constitution in the World still in existence

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. In celebration of this historic event, the themes of the 2014 Festival are freedom, identity and democratic values.

– We will open the 2014 Bergen International Festival with a spectacular, colourful and thought-provoking performance about liberation. Behind this world premiere is the British composer Orlando Gough. The performance takes the bicentennial of the Norwegian Constitution and freedom fighting in India, South Africa and Palestine as its starting-point, says the Festival Director.
The Bergen International Festival has also invited Pussy Riot to introduce the documentary Pussy vs. Putin and to talk about their fight for freedom. A performance by the Danish company Caféteatret is based upon the collection of texts titled 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence by Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway ‘to stop the “Islamisation”’.
The extensive theatre programme also features a world premiere by Jon Fosse.

– Fosse is recognized as one of the most influential Norwegian writers of today. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages, and his plays have been staged more than a thousand times around the globe. The Bergen International Festival has premiered a number of his plays. In HAV (OCEAN) Fosse returns to some of the ideas that have formed important points of reference in his writing, says Festival director Anders Beyer.

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