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Oslo Chamber Music Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Adventurous opening concert for Oslo Chamber Music Festival 2023

People spread around in front of an orange building smiling at the camera
Photo: B?rd Gundersen

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

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Practical information

For security reasons, the University Aula has mandatory coat check. We recommend arriving well before the event starts.

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