"This studio recording follows the semi-staged [and abridged] concert version [of Ibsen's play] by Svein Sturla Hungnes presented in Bergen in 2003. Includes the complete incidental music"--Container. Compact discs. Program notes, plot summary, and biographies of the performers in English, French, German, and Norwegian, and text of the abridged concert version of the play in Norwegian with English translation (119 p. : ports.) inserted in container. Also included is a booklet of photographs of scenes from various productions of the play from 1896 through 2004 ([18] p. : ports., some col.). Svein Sturla Hungnes (Peer Gynt) ; Marita Solberg (Solveig) ; Kari Simonsen (Åse) ; Andrea Bræin Hovig (Ingrid, Woman in green, Anitra) ; Bjørn Willberg Andersen (Hegstad farmer, Mountain king, Captain) ; Ståle Bjørnhaug (Boyg, Monsieur Ballon, Stranger, Begriffenfeldt, Button moulder). Håkan Hagegård, baritone (Peer Gynt) ; Marita Solberg, soprano (Solveig) ; Ingebjørg Kosmo, mezzo-soprano (Anitra, 3rd herd-girl) ; Kari Postma, soprano (1st herd-girl) ; Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, soprano (2nd herd-girl) ; Iikka Leppänen, bass-baritone (Thief) ; Torbjørn Gulbrandsøy, baritone (Receiver) ; KorVest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble) ; Arve Moen Bergset, Hardanger fiddle ; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ; Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor. Recorded in June 2003 at the Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway.
Summary:
Peer Gynt is the story of the wanderings of a fantasist and dreamer, a dandy, a drunkard, a liar, and a Don Juan figure. From the heights of the Norwegian mountains to the underground kingdom of the Trolls, to a lunatic asylum in Cairo, Peer chases his dream but never finds it. Finally, worn out with advancing age and broken in spirit, he returns to Norway, where he encounters both ominous warnings regarding the path he chose and redemptive love.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)62253344
Locations:
OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)
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