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BE RGE N INTE RNAT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2016
FOU N DAT ION S
FOU N DAT I ON S
Premiere
G RIE G H A L L E N
G RIE G SA L E N
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Verklärte Nacht/
Erwartung
Saturday 28 May
at 18:00
DU RAT ION
Duration 1:10
L A N G UAG E
Performed in
German, subtitled
in Norwegian
Two staged masterpieces in a musical
and moral borderland.
OT H E R
How does one describe a moment in a woman’s
life where she desperately seeks through the
forest for the man she loves? How does one
capture the feelings that rage through her
body?
Introduct ion in
Danish by Henrik
Engelbrecht
at 17:15
T IC K E T
Standard: 190–490
Under 30: 150
Festival Card:
30 % discount
BT Fordel:
25 % discount
Arnold Schönberg’s Erwartung stretches this
moment into thirty passionate minutes. In this
Bergen International Festival, Bergen National
Opera and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra production, the soprano Allison Cook and British
video artist Netia Jones takes us on a visual
journey in Schönberg’s disquieting soundscape.
Erwartung is one of the most dramatic monologues in music history and has served as a
source of inspiration for Netia Jones. She has
been named the most imaginative opera director in Great Britain, and many will remember her
staging of the BNO production Marco Polo at
the 2013 Bergen International Festival.
The psychological monodrama is a sharp contrast to the beautiful Verklärte Nacht. Here
we meet the late romantic Schönberg and the
atmosphere is brought on by the whole string
section together with Jones’ video art. Forest
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and moonlight plays a key role in this piece
inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem by the
same name. We join a woman into the forest
where she shares her dark secret with her new
boyfriend – she carries another man’s child.
Verklärte Nacht caused a stir in its time. The
text shows contempt towards the moral damnation of sexual urges, and the work points
to a musical crossroads and moves into the
borderland of tonality.
Netia Jones director
Marie Pappenheim libretto (Erwartung)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Allison Cook soloist (Erwartung)
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951)
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Erwartung, Op. 17
A co-production by Bergen International
Festival, Bergen National Opera and Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra.
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