A wonderful fairytale, fairies and elves in the woods, love, witchcraft and humor. The country's best female voices, strings and blowers in top form, one of Europe's foremost choir conductors and a storyteller with wit, spoiled and power from the tall north.
With all of this and a bit more, this year's edition of Oslo Chamber music Festival is opened with a lot of noise in the University Aula.
Mendelssohn's A Midnight Night's Dream is his most known scene music. In this piece he captures the mood of a romantic fairytale in a fabulous way, which Shakespeare facilitates for in his text.
But Shakespeare's English text is this time translated to Northern Norwegian in a fiery translation by Ragnar Olsen. Here, you just have to be entertained!
Program
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): A Midsummer Night's Dream
Contributors
Ensemble Allegria, Oslo Chamber Academy, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Conductor: Grete Pedersen
Storyteller: Ketil H?egh
Soloists': Eldrid Gorset - sopran, Maria Dale Johannessen - mezzosopran
Tickets and prices
Ordinary: 420–460 kroner
Young: 220 kroner
Practical information
For security reasons, the University Aula has mandatory coat check. We recommend arriving well before the event starts.