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Operaorkestret er tilbake på Hovedscenen med intet mindre enn Tsjajkovskijs Pathétique-symfoni, Schumanns Manfred-ouverture og Thomas Adès' Concentric Paths – med konsertmester Catharina Chen som solist....

One of a Kind er en sjelden sjanse til å se en helaftens ballett av mesternes mester Jiří Kylián – med sterke dansere i fengslende ...

En teaterforestilling om hvor vanskelig det kan være å stå opp om morgenen. Et B-menneske drømmer om å bli et A-menneske. Spørsmålet er om vi ...

Musikerne i Operaorkestret feirer Beethoven, også året etter det store jubileet. Og hva er vel bedre enn å åpne en ny sesong med hans populære ...

Fire norske solister har kommet gjennom nåløyet i Dronning Sonja Internasjonale Musikkonkurranse! Her møter vi tre av dem, sammen med Operaorkesteret....

Carmen is a hitlist of an opera with a rebel of a woman in the centre. A hundred years before the hippies proclaimed ‘make love, ...

In Romeo and Juliet, the dancers show what they are made of in strong character roles like Mercutio, Tybalt and Benvolio, not to mention the ...

An amazing opera experience! Ready for a different kind of experience? Want to enjoy Wagner’s magnificent music for hours on end, while witnessing a story ...

One of a Kind presents a rare opportunity to enjoy an entire evening of ballet with the master of all masters, Jiří Kylián. Is there ...

Master Detective Porriot, an entertaining mix of leek and detective, is brought in to investigate the disappearance of a valuable museum piece. A small bronze ...

End-of-term performance with graduating opera students Each year the graduating students of the Academy of Opera perform an opera with which they have been working ...

Tchaikovsky’s romantic opera is a close encounter with intense, youthful love. At the same time, Eugene Onegin is a powerful portrayal of something we have ...

A young Japanese girl meets an American naval officer, she with a dream of American freedom and he with a longing for the exotic East. ...

The dance version of Ibsen’s drama Gengangere has become a signature work and an export commodity for the Norwegian National Ballet. The production is now ...

La donna è mobile. The woman is fickle. This is proclaimed by the duke in Rigoletto, while at the same time getting his fill of ...

What are we afraid of? Getting lost? The freak who loves children and entices them with sweets and entertainment? Witches are not what they used ...

The Norwegian National Ballet’s Christmas fairytale The Nutcracker offers dreams and magic for the entire family – in a story set in Kristiania in 1905....

Ragnhild Hemsing has distinguished himself as one of our foremost young violinists. As 13-year-old she made her debut as a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic ...

The last time Alexander Ekman visited the Oslo Opera House, he created a brand new swan lake that required 5,000 litres of water. Now the ...

The first sharp chords of Puccini’s popular opera Tosca take us into a world of political unrest, torture and merciless power games. At the centre ...

A Doll’s House is resident choreographer Jo Strømgren’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s immortal drama, performed in English by American artists in a doll’s house. A ...

The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra is the mainstay of our activities. Without music, there can be no opera – and no dance. The orchestra’s concert ...

Anti-hero Don Quixote heads out into the world to do good deeds, but soon becomes entangled in the love story of Kitri and Basilio. Based ...

Stefan Herheim’s version of Puccini’s La bohème caused the international opera scene to turn towards Oslo. Now this extraordinary production is finally back, with Marita ...

When world-renowned Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter occupies Opera she offers popular chansons and French classic songs from the 20th century. Along with Bengt ...

The annual student performance from the Norwegian National Ballet School brings pearls of dance, an abundance of talent and a genuine delight in dance. Around ...

Get ready for a unique evening of dance! Four choreographers, each with their unique signature style, have created new works to music ranging from Tchaikovsky ...

Claude Debussy’s only opera, about lost love and forbidden relationships, is based on the Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name. Despite ...

Act I José killed a man over a game of cards and fled south to join the army. His mother has sent Micaëla, his ex-girlfriend, ...

In Kammer series presents outstanding Norwegian and foreign musicians pearls from the rich chamber music ? ie music performed by a few practitioners with a ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

Beethoven’s Fidelio is an homage to freedom, justice and the greatness inherent in the smallness of the individual. In this concert version of the opera, ...

His voice has been compared to that of both Jussi Björling and Luciano Pavarotti, and now Maltese star Joseph Calleja will perform at the Oslo ...

Experience the ten aspiring dancers in the National Ballet Youth Company. The dancers are aged 17-23 years and is led by a soloist and choreographer ...

How many lies can a person tolerate? This is the question posed by Henrik Ibsen’s drama Ghosts, which has been transformed into a ballet by ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra is Norway’s leading early music orchestra, and consists of the best baroque specialists from across the country. The ensemble is led ...

Debussy’s opera Pelléas and Mélisande will soon premiere in the Main House, and in connection with this musicians of the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra will ...

Hilary Hahn first performed as a soloist at just 11 years of age. She debuted at Carnegie Hall as a 17-year-old and has since played ...

In Kammer series presents outstanding Norwegian and foreign musicians pearls from the rich chamber music ? ie music performed by a few practitioners with a ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

The Norwegian National Ballet’s Carmen is back, performed to Georges Bizet’s well-known music. Choreographer Liam Scarlett has created a steamy and dramatic classical ballet, which ...

The story of the servant girl who is magically transformed into a princess exists in many forms. Stefan Herheim’s version of Gioachino Rossini’s Cinderella brings ...

“I have invited Bouchra to work with Carte Blanche because of her ability to explore her own history, and to make it available to us ...

Dancer and choreographer Bouzies Bouteldja takes the notion Reversible up religion, sexuality and power. Bouteldja background from Algeria and France and works with themes that ...

Daniil Trifonov has been described by critics as a phenomenon with almost superhuman piano skills. The 25-year-old pianist from Novgorod will now perform a solo ...

Like opera, tango combines poetry, chamber music, song and dance to create a fervent Latin collaborative work of art. Our international tango master, Per Arne ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra is Norway’s leading early music orchestra, and consists of the best baroque specialists from across the country. The ensemble is led ...

Prolog Tonio forteller publikum at den kommende forestillingen ikke er oppdiktet, men virkelighet. 1. akt En teatertrupp ankommer en landsby i Calabria. Truppens leder, Canio, ...

For decades, Arve Tellefsen has made an impression on several generations of music lovers. He has enjoyed a successful international career as a solo violinist, ...

The first afternoon concert of the year presents one of the most famous works ever composed for string quartet, Dvo?ák’s “American”. Dvo?ák composed the string ...

Award-winning theatre director Jonas Corell Petersen stages Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comical work about the seriousness of desire, Così fan tutte. It all starts with a ...

Snowflakes on tiptoes, Tchaikovsky’s trill tones and the story of Clara’s Christmas: The Nutcracker is a Christmas tradition for young and old alike. This year ...

This year as last year guests Thomas Dybdahl Opera before Christmas fully set in, and another year has come and gone. On 2 concerts last ...

On your toes provides young people with commitment and talent for modern dance opportunity to further develop their skills. After courses at selected schools with ...

Consisting of 29 professional musicians, the Norwegian Royal Navy Band is a unique ensemble that performs concerts both in Norway and abroad. The ensemble performs ...

Is The Nutcracker the only Christmas ballet? “No”, is the answer from resident choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, who has created a playful Christmas performance for ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

After several years of sold-out concert hall in southern Norway and Sweden, lays Sissel year up to a touring route through Denmark, via Reykjavik and ...

To coincide with the performance of Mozart’s opera Cosìì fan tutte in the Main House, musicians from the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra will offer an ...

Every year, thousands of practitioners from across the country meet to compete in traditional folk music and dance at the Landskappleiken and Landsfestival festivals. During ...

The 70 vocalists of the Norwegian National Opera Children’s Chorus have a great musical appetite. Here, Emil of Lonneberg, Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson-on-the-Roof and several other ...

First act B F Pinkerton, a young American naval officer, hasrecently arrived in Japan. He has bought a house, a wife and servantsfrom a Japanese ...

Have you ever wondered why Balanchine is known as the master of masters? Treat yourself to an evening of ballet with the father of neo-classical ...

Norwegian opera education is a three-way collaboration between the Opera Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, the Academy and the Norwegian Opera and Ballet. In ...

The Virus starts with the notion of an external threat, sealed off by thick walls and airtight hatches. The first hint of something not being ...

Oslo World Music Festival 2016 ends with a grand tribute to the leading yoiker and Sápmis yoiks queen, Inga Juuso. The stage is set for ...

Mari Erik Moen has become a crowd favorite after several main roles at the National Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus, Olympia in The Tales ...

For 25 years since it was started a musical collaboration that should excite all TV Norway. Rune Larsen had been commissioned by NRK to make ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, audiences will encounter members of the orchestra in a format that differs from the familiar orchestral pit. On ...

The stage is set for a historic collaboration when 180 children, Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Soloists unite a full-length concert on the main stage. ...

The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra is the mainstay of our activities. Without music, there can be no opera – and no dance. The orchestra’s concert ...

When Grigory Sokolov last visited the Oslo Opera House in 2015 he was greeted by a full house every evening – and played six extra ...

León and Lightfoot are back! The weird and wonderful world of the two choreographers has fascinated Norwegian audiences, and The Norwegian National Ballet will now ...

Simulacrum is a meeting between award-winning Argentinian dancer Daniel Proietto and 77-year-old Japanese flamenco legend Sh?ji K?jima. By weaving dance together with theatre, and Japanese ...

Act 1 Orfeo grieves before the tomb of his wife, Euridice, as a group of mourners place tributes on her grave. Orfeo is touched by ...

Under the direction of Calixto Bieito, Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece War Requiem is a clear protest against terror and the destruction of war. A large chorus, ...

Rocks & Straws are Anneli Drecker home reversion of a journey that began in 1986 with the adventure Bel Canto. This evening, she experienced along ...

The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra is the mainstay of our activities. Without music, there can be no opera – and no dance. The orchestra’s concert ...

Magic and acrobatics will combine with ballet and raw dance when The Norwegian National Ballet 2 and dancers from the Kingwings Crew breakdance group embark ...

In Kammer series presents outstanding Norwegian and foreign musicians pearls from the rich chamber music ? ie music performed by a few practitioners with a ...

Two of the music world’s most eminent musical practitioners, German baritone Matthias Goerne and our very own magician at the piano Leif Ove Andsnes, interpret ...

2016 will be the year where everything happens for Eva & The Heart Maker. New album is in the works and Eve guested year's season ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

Kirsten Flagstad was already in his lifetime hailed as "the century's voice," and soprano Isa Katharina Gericke and pianist Bengt Forsberg highlights new aspects of ...

Burt Bacharach is a legendary pianist, arranger and conductor within popular music. With this concert, the Norwegian Wind Ensemble pays tribute to his work. Together ...

Ian Anderson celebrates the life of the English inventor Jethro Tull, and the time he lived. The concert tells the story of the original Jethro ...

The Marriage of Figaro has entertained audiences for well over 200 years. Mozart's melodic inventiveness is limitless, the comedy is excellent and the strong emotions ...

In A Swan Lake, choreographer Alexander Ekman looks at the epitome of all ballets, Swan Lake, with singularly new eyes – and fills the stage ...

You can experience some of the best dancers in the world at the Oslo Opera House. Dancers such as Yolanda Correa, Yoel Carreño, Osiel Gouneo, ...

Bryn Terfel has been a favourite of song-lovers all over the world for many years. Now this master singer from Wales is giving a solo ...

The collaboration of Bjerke district with the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet during the period 2014–2017 continues in the spring of 2016, with around 70 ...

f you uncover all of a person's secrets, what is left? Judith arrives at Bluebeard's gloomy castle as his bride. Unlocking seven doors, she gradually ...

In Puccini's opera, Princess Turandot has sworn never to marry any man unless he can correctly answer her three riddles. Captivated by her beauty, the ...

The Verdi Requiem is one of the most magnificent works in the orchestral repertoire. Expect drama and thunderbolts as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Norwegian ...

“He can tell a complete story with just a single movement,” says Director of Ballet Ingrid Lorentzen about the choreographer Ji?í Kylián. Welcome to Kylián’s ...

Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær enjoys tremendous recognition at home and abroad. Finally he at the Opera with its modern, Nordic tones like painting landscapes in ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

The annual student performance from the Norwegian National Ballet School brings pearls of dance, an abundance of talent and a genuine delight in dance. Around ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra was established in 1988 as one of the first independent early music ensembles in Scandinavia. The orchestra performs at a high ...

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg, premiered at the Oslo Opera House in autumn 2014. "One of the rawest, ...

Jo Strømgren is in-house choreographer at Oslo Opera House and his The Hospital, which was selected as “The Sexiest Show of the Year” at the ...

A test of musical strength like no other: the magnificent piano quartets by Johannes Brahms played by Andsnes, Tetzlaff, Zimmermann and Hagen – four of ...

A hundred years into the future humans have managed to create a new and improved version of themselves. Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin has created the ...

Chamber Series is a newly established concert series, where excellent Norwegian and foreign musicians perform gems from the rich chamber music literature. In this concert ...

Norwegian opera education is a three-way partnership between the Academy of Opera at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Norwegian Academy of Music ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj is considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written. The Norwegian National Ballet is now to dance Christian ...

Maria Mena makes its first concert in Oslo with 6-piece band since November 2013, when she finally takes the big stage at the Opera. Mena's ...

Violinist Janine Jansen performs all over the world and can regularly be heard as a soloist with the world's biggest orchestras. Now the Dutch superstar ...

Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, about the free-spirited Violetta Valéry, is beloved of audiences worldwide. Our production of the world's most frequently performed opera is directed ...

Stellaris DansTeater celebrates 35 years in 2015 – and has decided to celebrate at the Opera House! The company brings with it from its base ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

Det er tid for vinhøst i den lille landsbyen ved Rhinen. Skogvokteren Hilarion kommer med gaver til Giselle og hennes mor. Han er forelsket i ...

Kammerserien er en nystartet konsertserie, hvor fremragende norske og utenlandske musikere fremfører perler fra den rikholdige kammermusikklitteraturen. Håvard Gimse tar her for seg tre av ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra was established in 1988 as one of the first independent early music ensembles in Scandinavia. The orchestra performs at a high ...

When the Oslo Opera House receives Nordic Black Theatre as visitor for the fifth time, it is for a dance drama about the legendary American ...

Young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has conquered the world with her virtuosity and musical expression. Now she takes on the Main House together with the ...

"A revelation of a production." Thus wrote Dagbladet after the 2012 premiere of Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg. NRK's critic ...

A performance in which dance meets live music – from Carte Blanche. This is what the performance by carte blanche gives us, making the title ...

A Doll’s House is how resident choreographer Jo Strømgren brings to us Henrik Ibsen’s immortal drama, performed in English by American actors. The premiere will ...

Mozart's instantly captivating music meets a fantastic universe of beautiful princesses, strange creatures, magical music, wonderful humour, conjuring and mischief in Alexander Mørk-Eidem's new version ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will encounter members of the orchestra in a format that differs from the familiar orchestral pit. ...

Magical ballet, captivating music and Christmas. For many children, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker is their first experience of the Oslo Opera House. For others, it’s a tradition ...

Welcome to the Second House, where the Opera's soloists, Children's Chorus and musicians will perform beautiful Christmas music. Take a break from busy stores and ...

Last time Thomas Dybdahl guested Opera was snap a full house and it was a magical evening that was sitting in the spinal cord to ...

In a solo recital, Leif Ove Andsnes offers classics by Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven along with Sibelius's piano pieces, which are a new discovery for ...

After 25 successful and eventful year shall Hellbillies mark the anniversary year on conventional manner. Namely by keeping active. As always, the band will tour ...

Oslo Kammerakademi is a new ensemble consisting of some of Norway's premier wind soloists. It focuses on performing chamber music with the same instruments as ...

Five of Norway's foremost young chamber musicians are behind the new Edvard Munch Ensemble, and you are invited to their inaugural concert at the Oslo ...

Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is about a ghost doomed to roam the sea forever. The curse can only be broken if a woman gives ...

In Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s children’s opera Der Jasager – He who says “Yes”, a whole village is hit by an epidemic. A young ...

Odd Nordstoga, born in 1972 and oppvaksen courtyard in Vinje, beating large through då he in 2004 released the album with the song luring which ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra was established in 1988 as one of the first independent early music ensembles in Scandinavia. The orchestra performs at a high ...

n this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will encounter members of the orchestra in a format that differs from the familiar orchestral pit. ...

Musical traditions from northern Norway and the grandeur of the natural world characterise the programme when Alta motettkor (The Alta Motet Choir) visits the Oslo ...

With Back to the Future you experience two powerful short ballet pieces from choreographer William Forsythe, and a newly written work from our in-house choreographer ...

Two of Spain’s greatest stars of flamenco take over the Main House when the Oslo World Music Festival holds its final concert at the Oslo ...

Kammerserien er en nystartet konsertserie, hvor fremragende norske og utenlandske musikere fremfører perler fra den rikholdige kammermusikklitteraturen. Program Johannes Brahms: Scherzo for fiolin og klaver ...

Double bill is a programme in two parts that looks at individuality and duality. MAN is a solo created by Sølvi Edvardsen for Indian-born dancer ...

How can the stereotype of old people as eccentric or frightening be counteracted? Hege Haagenrud has been gripped by this question when working with the ...

Taking to the stage in m¡longa – an alternative take on tango are five tango couples from Buenos Aires, each with their own idiosyncratic dancing ...

Brand new dance to live music – this is what spectators hungry for dance will be served once a year at the House of Choreography. ...

The main character, Violetta Valéry, chooses to break free from a society that is slowly suffocating her, and a world that cares only for money, ...

In a nonsensical language known as Sovietic we meet actors Thorbjørn Harr, Espen Reboli Bjerke, Kyrre Texnæs and Jan Ivar Lund as Soviet dissidents caught ...

The choreographers of the four-part Dream Play share a certain musicality. The evening includes a premiere from Jo Strømgren, resident choreographer and elder statesman of ...

In Rune Belsvik's version of the Brothers Grimm tale, Snow White is a tough modern girl who wins her prince because she knows what she ...

Under John Helmer Fiores spenstige og inspirerende ledelse siden 2009 har Operaorkestret utviklet seg stort, også som konsertorkester. «De spiller med enda mer personlighet og ...

Under the lively and inspiring direction of John Helmer Fiore since 2009, the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra has developed enormously, including as a concert orchestra. ...

Without the music there would be no opera and no dancing. It's a simple as that. So it's important for the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, ...

Korall koral is a performance created specifically for children below the age of three and their adult companions. They are coaxed by noise into a ...

The Norwegian National Ballet School is turning 50, and we are celebrating and celebrating in the Main House! On-stage, nearly 120 students aged 6 to ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will encounter members of the orchestra in a format that differs from the familiar orchestral pit. ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra was established in 1988 as one of the first independent early music ensembles in Scandinavia. The orchestra performs at a high ...

Georges Bizet's soulful Carmen is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, but the story of the female seducer is also a ...

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (BFO) has national orchestra status and is one of the world’s oldest orchestral institutions, dating all the way back to 1765. Edvard ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will experience the orchestra in a different format. The orchestra will perform in a smaller group, ...

I denne konsertserien med kammermusikk møter vi orkestret i et annet format enn vi vanligvis gjør. Orkestret stiller i en mindre gruppe, og vi kommer ...

Elsa of Brabant has been accused of the most heinous of crimes: murdering her brother. But one day a mysterious man who promises to help ...

Without the music there would be no opera and no dancing. It's a simple as that. So it's important for the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, ...

Viva la mamma is a wild farce about an opera company trying to stage a new production – the extremely serious and earnest Romulus and ...

The early music ensemble Barokksolistene is known for its musical virtuosity, playful performances and infectious joy in music-making. Violinist Bjarte Eike is both a collaborating ...

Since the premiere in 1875, the character of Carmen in Bizet's hitlist of an opera has captivated audiences all over the world. Carmen desires desire ...

Paul Hindemith's Sancta Susanna describes a young nun's first sexual awakening. The libretto was written by expressionist poet and dramatist August Stramm. We meet Susanna ...

17-year-old Simon lives an isolated life in his room, his only contact with the outside world coming through his PC. When he «meets» Mia one ...

1. Akt Grev Almaviva tar en kveld med seg en gjeng musikere for å synge en serenade utenfor Rosinas vindu. Dr. Bartolo, hennes formynder, holder ...

Five out of five stars was the verdict in Time Out St. Petersburg when the Norwegian National Ballet performed at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. ...

There was Pina fever last time Tanztheater Wuppertal visited us with their production of Vollmond. While the stage was filled with water, the temperature rose ...

It is one of The Norwegian National Ballet's biggest successes, bringing in more Critics' Award nominations than any other production in recent times. Romeo and ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will experience the orchestra in a different format. The orchestra will perform in a smaller group, ...

«Who are you?» That is the question Peer Gynt asks the Bøyg, the Mountain King and the Sphinx, receiving only the answer, «Myself». But who ...

The year is 1832 and 22-year-old Charles Darwin is on the journey of a lifetime. As Captain FitzRoy steers the HMS Beagle toward the Galapagos ...

Welcome to the Second House, where the Opera's soloists, Children's Chorus and musicians will perform beautiful Christmas music. Take a break from busy stores and ...

«An explosion of colour, billowing fabrics, a glittering Christmas tree and a smile on every single face,» is how Vårt Land described The Nutcracker i ...

The On Your Toes-project gives students who show exceptional commitment, talent and enthusiasm for modern dance, the opportunity to develop their skills and creative voice ...

Hosted by Oslo this year, ICE HOT Nordic Dance Platform presents Nordic contemporary dance at its best. The four days of the festival includes 21 ...

Dette svenske søstreparet med den unike sounden er klare for å levere sitt norske publikum en konsert helt utenom det vanlige i Operaen 5. desember ...

In recent years, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra has undergone intensive artistic development and attracted increasingly large audiences, both nationally and internationally. In the autumn of ...

The operatic fable about Funiculi and Funicula is an enjoyable, informal production inspired by the English pantomime tradition: a captivating story told with lots of ...

Through our Miniseries they are from four to seven years familiar with the opera or ballet performance. It opens small ears and heads for Opera ...

Welcome to a festive evening of folk music and dance. Every year, thousands of practitioners from across the country meet to compete in traditional folk ...

For 20 years, Oslo Danse Ensemble has challenged the grey area between jazz and contemporary dance with its expressive, physical performances. As they turn 20, ...

After being performed by hundreds and seen by thousands of children and young people around Norway, Cinderella – a Children's Opera returns to Bjørvika and ...

Fascinated by the musical heritage of Jewish and Arabic culture, Yaniv d’Or founded Ensemble NAYA together with Nora Roll and Anders Ericson in 2008. Now ...

Don Giovanni is attractive and repulsive at the same time, a character who, with scrupulous honesty, recklessly lives out his urges and satisfies his desires. ...

«If there is a master of masters, it's Ji?í Kylián,» says ballet director Ingrid Lorentzen of the choreographer who has regenerated dance through decade after ...

The guys from the Oslo neighbourhood of Kampen share a common interest, that is to entertain, and they do just that very often both here ...

Under the lively and inspiring direction of John Helmer Fiore since 2009, the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra has developed enormously, including as a concert orchestra. ...

Oslo Camerata consists of professional musicians and young talents from the Barratt Due Institute of Music. The ensemble's Artistic Director is Stephan Barratt-Due. Oslo Camerata ...

While three of Ji?í Kylián's most famous works are danced in the Main House, Kylián – Last Touch First in the Second House shows off ...

Reza Aghamir har hatt en eventyrlig reise i livet: Vokste opp i vakre, kulturrike Iran. Flyktet med foreldrene fra Khomeinis regime i 1986. Kom til ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will experience the orchestra in a different format. The orchestra will perform in a smaller group, ...

Are we ever honest enough to be unaffected by lies? This is the question asked by Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts in this production at Bjørvika. ...

The first time the young, specially selected dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater 2 visited Norway, the newspaper Aftenposten reported an "audience knockout". This season they ...

Under the lively and inspiring direction of John Helmer Fiore since 2009, the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra has developed enormously, including as a concert orchestra. ...

With Buenos Aires we present the world premiere of a completely new chamber opera. The work is about indirect communication and, as implied in the ...

We don’t know, so we ask the children. The ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival hands over the responsibility for this to future generations and lets ...

In this series of chamber music concerts, the audience will experience the orchestra in a different format. The orchestra will perform in a smaller group, ...

First act B F Pinkerton, a young American naval officer, hasrecently arrived in Japan. He has bought a house, a wife and servantsfrom a Japanese ...

Summer at the Opera House has become a popular tradition, and we continue our success. In addition to enjoying opera in lovely summer sunlight, you ...

When it is carnival time in Brazil the entire country explodes in a popular festival of costumes, music and dance. Hundreds of thousands gather on ...

When Norwegian choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen was challenged to create a dance from Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck in Hong Kong, she used the perspective ...

A man and a woman share a workplace. They respect each other, but beneath the surface a territorial struggle is taking place. It is a ...

It is now a tradition that the new Opera House holds chamber concerts on the first balcony each summer. Between 2 July and 3 August ...

Den Norske Opera & Ballett ønsker igjen velkommen til sommerkonserter på lystslottet Oscarshall på Bygdøy i Oslo. Slottet har i de senere år vært restaurert, ...

Denne sommeren presenterer LidalNorth International Opera Workshop to eventyroperaer: Massenets Cendrillon og Wagners Das Rheingold, som to separate forestillinger. Cendrillon forteller den velkjente historien om ...

This summer, LidalNorth International Opera Workshop presents two operas, Massenet's Cendrillon and Wagner's Das Rheingold, as two separate performances. Cendrillon tells the well-loved story of ...

Denne sommeren har vi gleden av å kunne by på noe helt spesielt. Vi har nemlig invitert inntil 50 sangere for å begeistre publikum på ...

Cristina Ortiz begynte sine studier i hjemlandet Brasil. Hun reiste så til Paris for videre studier under Magda Tagliaferro. Etter å ha vunnet Gold Medal ...

Denne sommeren har vi gleden av å kunne by på noe helt spesielt. Vi har nemlig invitert inntil 50 sangere til to konserter for å ...

Alvin Ailey and a group of young Afro-American dancers went on stage in New York in 1958 and performed a memorable mix of genres as ...

“A ship with scarlet sails and black mast, and on the bridge a ghostly figure, the ship’s captain.” Thus is the Flying Dutchman described in ...

Swan Lake is to ballet what Hamlet is to theatre: an audience favourite, but also perhaps a dancer’s greatest challenge. The work is veiled in ...

The Norwegian National Ballet invites you to the ball! The tale of the impoverished maiden who became a princess is brought to life in the ...

This is the tale of a meeting between two young people, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It tells about the transition from childhood to adulthood, ...

This is the tale of a meeting between two young people, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It tells about the transition from childhood to adulthood, ...

Rhythm, Roots and Revolution takes us into the dynamically expressive world of reggae. Reggae is a style of music with great contrasts and is considered ...

Through our Mini series they will be from four to seven years to know an actual opera or ballet performance. Here the little ears and ...

Choreographer Hallgrim Hansegård from Frikar Dance Company took four of his best Halling folk dancers with him to the Wudang Mountains in China, where kung ...

Swan Lake is our best known ballet. But why is it so famous? Why are we so fascinated to see people performing as birds on ...

Dynamic² is the result of the legendary choreographer Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project, in which 20 dancers from around the world learn the same ...

Domestic ballettens commitment to the development of dance in Norway, with a focus on high artistic quality. The goal is to be a corridor between ...

Choreography House, the former Ballet lab, is part of the National ballettens bet on the development of dance in Norway, with a focus on high ...

Choreographer and dancer Stian Danielsen graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2009 with a Bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance. He began his ...

Music Manager John Helmer Fiore is considered to be a glittering conductor, but also a very skilled pianist. By this time, he gives you a ...

That both the Hege Schoyen and Øivind Blunck as well as their unquestionable scenic talents also have vocal abilities, have the Norwegian Theater audience experienced ...

Don Giovanni, often called the opera of operas, has inspired thinkers from Lord Byron to Kierkegaard and is considered to be the most influential music ...

Both Jaimie Schoyen and Øivind Blunck in addition to his undisputed talents also has scenic vocal abilities, the Norwegian Theatre audience experienced from time to ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra continues the musical journey through European history that they embarked on last season. With a sidelong glance at historic events and ...

On Lørdans you can see excerpts from the ballets, and premiereklare meet the dancers, choreographers and Ballet Chief Ingrid Lorentzen. Saturday, 12. april 23: 00. ...

Nina Stemme wanted to live a normal life and began studying economics. She did not complete her studies – because she had such an exceptional ...

The season’s final chamber music concert sees the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra embark on a musical journey to experience Geirr Tveitt’s compositional impressions from Italy, ...

Beautiful, original and visually stunning. A journey with Kjersti Alveberg across a dreamt ocean takes you from a world of fantasy to the exotic Babies ...

Strong emotions and dramatic destinies are interwoven in Alexander Pushkin’s love story about the cynically aloof popinjay Onegin and the innocent, ardently romantic Tatyana – ...

Welcome to an introductory talk with Director Francisco Negrin, Musical Directors Bjarte Eike and Christopher Bucknall, soprano Nicole Heaston (Alcina), tenor Marius Roth Christensen (Oronte), ...

On Lørdans you can see excerpts from the ballets, and premiereklare meet the dancers, choreographers and Ballet Chief Ingrid Lorentzen. Saturday, 15. March 23: 00. ...

Music and opera students are cooperating on a new opera performance. The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet again makes available its Second House when the ...

As resident choreographer, Alan Lucien Øyen brings to the Oslo Opera House a wide range of scenic expression. Øyen moves effortlessly from the ballet Petrushka, ...

First picture A studio flat in Paris on Christmas Eve The poet Rodolfo and the painter Marcello are hungry and cold. Withno firewood, Rodolfo burns ...

Mezzo-soprano Hege Høisæter in concert with Oslo Sinfonietta is contemporary music at its best. Hege Høisæter has been singing with the Norwegian National Opera’s soloist ...

On Lørdans you can see excerpts from the ballets, and premiereklare meet the dancers, choreographers and Ballet Chief Ingrid Lorentzen. Saturday 22. February 23: 00. ...

When an orchestra gives a concert there are no dance, drama or visual effects to interpret the music. The musicians and the conductor are the ...

When an orchestra gives a concert there are no dance, drama or visual effects to interpret the music. The musicians and the conductor are the ...

Nordic Black Theatre is one of Oslo Opera House’s partners and has previously appeared with their productions Guantanamo – what now?, The Legends and Motown ...

Georg Friedrich Händel’s Alcina remained forgotten for over 200 years until, like the composer, it experienced something of a renaissance in the 20th century. Today ...

Outside a city stands an abandoned, ramshackle house. One day, two people appear from different directions. They each stand on opposite sides of the house, ...

There will be headspins and pirouettes, acrobatics and en pointe when the popular Kingwings vs. Norwegian National Ballet makes a return appearance. In this performance, ...

Can you love someone without having met them? And can love survive an encounter with reality? These are some of the questions raised by Kaija ...

The dedicated musicians at the National Opera quote the Hungarian composer György Ligety: "I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, ...

The Norwegian Baroque Orchestra continues the musical journey through European history that they embarked on last season. With a sidelong glance at historic events and ...

Med mer enn 50 barn og unge i alderen 4–18 på scenen, formidler bydel Bjerke og Den Norske Ballettskole sceneglede og kjærlighet til musikk, dans ...

As in 2013, the Barratt Due Institute of Music will once again fill the Opera House with top practitioners of all ages: soloists, chamber ensembles ...

When Barratt Due’s Symphony Orchestra plays in the Main House, the audience will experience some of Norway’s best young talents playing together. The orchestra consists ...

Gjennom vår Mini-serie blir de fra fire til sju år kjent med en aktuell opera- eller ballettforestilling. Her åpnes små ører og hoder for Operaens ...

With Beethoven’s 5th and final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’ Concerto, Leif Ove Andsnes is nearing the conclusion of his extensive project The Beethoven Journey. The ...

The Baroque Soloists are a group of Norwegian musicians who are excellent soloists in their own right. The group was founded in 2006 – with ...

Carte Blanche is Norway’s national company for contemporary dance, and the company’s 25th anniversary is being marked with Shadows Remain Silent, a new work by ...

When an orchestra gives a concert there are no dance, drama or visual effects to interpret the music. The musicians and the conductor are the ...

Two of the music world’s foremost performing artists, German baritone Matthias Goerne and Norway’s own piano genius Leif Ove Andsnes, interpret songs by Russian composer ...

The author and poet Hoffmann sits in a pub, quite inebriated, and telling stories from his life. So starts Jacques Offenbach's only opera, The Tales ...

Act 1 The mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer with that big, black robe, is asked to Stahlbaum family on Christmas Eve. He ranks just to make the ...

In a lavishly decorated Opera House the soloists, chorus singers and musicians welcome you to our Christmas concerts being held for the third year in ...

Through our Mini series they will be from four to seven years to know an actual opera or ballet performance.Here the little ears and heads ...

Some events are more epic than others. When the curtain rises on the first meeting between Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh, we can expect ...

Herborg invites to the Christmas concert on the main stage. Well known and beloved Christmas carols are on the programme, based on the album Christmas ...

The baroque masters, Johann Sebastian Bach in particular, meet the giants of modern ballet in Evening with the Masters of Baroque. Choreographers Balanchine, Forsythe, Kylián ...

Dynamic² is the result of the legendary choreographer Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project, in which 20 dancers from around the world learn the same ...

Following Puccini’s Japanese Madama Butterfly, the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra presents chamber music by Puccini and a number of Japanese composers....

This Friday evening promises to be fresh, audacious and good-naturedly playful when the Baroque Soloists transform the Opera House foyer into an English pub. Come ...

"What! To sing opera Knerten I thought he could talk only, I! "– Sverre, 4 ½ years. This will be a great opera about little ...

When an orchestra gives a concert there are no dance, drama or visual effects to interpret the music. The musicians and the conductor are the ...

The performance was magisterial in every way” - wrote Norwegian daily Dagbladet when Madama Butterfly had its premiere in autumn 2012. Director Stephen Langridge sets ...

Christoph Willibald Gluck has gone down in music history as one of opera's great reformers. Gluck felt that music theatre in his day had become ...

The dedicated musicians at the National Opera quote the Hungarian composer György Ligety: "I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, ...

Gjennom vår Mini-serie blir de fra fire til sju år kjent med en aktuell opera- eller ballettforestilling. Her åpnes små ører og hoder for Operaens ...

An extraordinarily spirited performance about love, resurrection and how we learn to fear the dark. Three weeks before the start of rehearsals at the Norwegian ...

Av og til dukkar det opp talent heilt uttom det vanlege. Ingebjørg Harman Bratland er eit slikt talent. Sidan ho var lita jente i fjøllbygda ...

The scene is set for a completely new Firebird and Petrushka when the curtain rises on the Norwegian National Ballet's opening performance of the season, ...

Ad undas – Solaris corrected is a newly written opera based on Øyvind Rimbereid’s lyric poem from 2004, in which he largely invents his own ...

For over 35 years, Julyen Hamilton had a profound influence on the development of improvisation as a theatrical genre. He makes radical and original productions ...

CODAfringe is a new concept in the Festival. Young, creative dance artists in the free field, which is mainly working on choreography and research, are ...

György Ligeti's opera Le grand macabre portrays a society on the brink of an apocalypse. The story, taken from Michel de Ghelderode's play of the ...

Ingun Bjørnsgaard in dance risk dialogue with Ibsen's most enigmatic and modern woman....

With Fun, Laughs, Good Time to Louis Daae celebrate their idols in the field of popular culture.Using the familiar aesthetic expression, he examines the concepts ...

An evening of contemporary dance set to Polish hits from the past ten years and with associations to a man's midlife crisis. Performance is a ...

“What we are not allowed to say these days, we’ll have to sing”, wrote a Viennese newspaper in 1786, the year The Marriage of Figaro ...

China’s Liu Kun is named in the Guinness Book of World Records as the juggler who can keep more rings in the air than any ...

The Gospel of Judas, the third and final part of Tore Vagn Lid’s tragedy trilogy, is based on the recently discovered Gospel of Judas and ...

A society of sworn coffee drinkers in Europe gathers for its daily ritual. But the harmony is disturbed by a terrible event – the discovery ...

With H.M. Queen Sonja as the patron and presenter of the awards, given for mastering the art of singing at the highest of levels, the ...

Competition in 2007, Audun Iversen from Harstad was a relatively unknown quantity. Then all that changed. While he was studying at the Royal Danish Opera ...

In august guests the Norwegian Opera Ballet like Castle & Oscarshall at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Oslo Chamber music festival in ...

Laurie Anderson er en av USAs mest anerkjente - og dristige - kreative pionerer. Hun er best kjent for sine multimediapresentasjoner og innovativ bruk av ...

Since the world premiere in 1905 has just been all regissørers challenge. So Salome created scandal when, Stefan Herheims production both genierklært and debated at ...

Sleeping beauty is one of the great classics of the ballet repertoire. Ever since the premiere in St. Petersburg in 1890, the dancing Princess Enchanted ...

Composer Knut Vaage and librettist Torgeir Pedersen Rebolledo newly written Khairos is a contemporary on & offshore-opera about a man with a hypersensitivity to sounds. ...

Joseph Haydn is not very well known as an opera composer, but his collection of 24 operas contain several masterpieces. One of them is L'sola ...

Here's how easily a night in Ji?í Kyliáns the world behaves. Again, we can base ourselves to a show signed the Czech choreographer who revolutionized ...

Daniel discovers suddenly that hero from the computer game Robin Hood is in his room. The game that his father has made, becomes magical when ...

Coral Chorale is a performance created specifically for children between zero and three years. Here they are enticed by the sounds into a skjellformet tent ...

True to tradition, ends the ballet school school year with student performance. About 100 dancers aged 6 – 16 shows new choreography in classical ballet, ...

Seething temperament and strong emotions are in play in these two operas in which we are invited on a journey to Sicily's hot-blooded universe of ...

Raw movements, high tempo and strong dancers. There are some of the ingredients in Cina Espejords new works. She lets herself be inspired by individuals ...

Here to invite composers to develop new expressions and concepts with Opera Lab's resources. Sometimes the experiment itself is the finished product, other times brought ...

Something daring to invite to våryrhet in February, you say? It can be so, but we believe now even that hearts will beat for dancing ...

Legendary conductor Neeme Järvi presents his “new” orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Founded in 1918, the orchestra is based at Victoria Hall in Geneva ...

Since the beginning of the Motown era's music style influenced artists from almost all the world's continents. Show Motown Revisited takes you back to the ...

Opera Nordfjord has been established as an opera company since 1998 and had his own opera house in 2009. Now customers of the Norwegian Opera ...

Avenida Corrientes is Alan Lucien island's tragicomic play from the dance world. Here is Theatre, dance and documentary film. We meet the famous German choreographer ...

After the premiere of Don Pasquale in 1843, Donizetti was commended for its ability to capture the essence of opera buffa genre, thus winning his ...

Song power Berlevåg is an organization that aims to create a stronger song culture in their region, and has among other things established Finnmark Operakor. ...

Through our Mini series they will be from four to seven years to know an actual opera or ballet performance. Here the little ears and ...

In the Norwegian Opera and Ballet's new production of Die Fledermaus (the Bat), we find ourselves in the company of the nouveau riche of New ...

Get ready for something completely new! Carte Blanche, the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, presents the cream of the choreographic undergrowth. Yaniv Cohen, Núria ...

"A startling notion of a strong, raw and topical theme. It is a party to hear a solistensemble so unified and sovereign (...) The English ...

Singing Lieder is like walking in a meadow of flowers, "says Angelika Kirchschlager, one of Europe's most acclaimed mezzo-soprano singers. With its large, supple voice ...

Every year before Christmas, the Norwegian National Ballet stages Peter Tsjaikovskij's Nutckracker, a Christmas ballet for the whole family. This classic is full of magic, ...

Mesteraften 2012 offers three monumental works from the world of dance. "A choreographic jewel", "aesthetic”, and "brilliant" are recurring terms used in descriptions of George ...

In this production of Madama Butterfly, director Stephen Langridge sets the story in Japan during the Second World War. American soldiers occupy the country. It ...