By Fredrik Rütter On March 10, 2020, at 6.35 pm, the audience was mingling in the foyer of Oslo’s opera house, waiting for the doors to the great hall of the theatre to open. The upcoming production by the Norwegian National Ballet was titled A Night of Dance x 12, referring to the 12 ballets,
By Fredrik Rütter It has been 30 years since the first performance of Peer Gynt by Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen on the shore of Gålå Lake, which is situated in the heart of the mountain chain where the play is set. This year’s Peer Gynt Festival in August featured a new production of the Ibsen