New Photo Albums of the Opera House

For those of us who are special interested in ballet and opera, it might be worth taking a closer look at our beautiful Opera House in Oslo.

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Norwegian Opera & Ballet and the Norwegian National Ballet

• Oslo Opera House
• Oslo Opera House Backstage

About Oslo Municipal Cinemas

Norway opens a new full digital 3-D cinema in Oslo – Ringen Kino. Some claims it to be the first all-digital multiplex in the Nordic countries! It is situated in Ringnes Park at Grünerløkka in Oslo.

Ringen Kino (Ring Cinema) has 925 seats divided in 6 theatres, where three is digital. Colosseum THX has 978 seats in the main theatre alone!

Will Ringen Kino be the new favourite, or will Colosseum, the world largest THX theatre, hold its position?

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Link to – Film Online.

Link to – Oslo Municipal Cinemas.

The winner of architecture

Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo by Snøhetta, won the Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2009. Congratulations!


Outbound link to the report
WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE – MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD 2009 pdf

Fantasia (the Walt Disney film from 1940)


For many years I really wanted to see this ambitious animated film. I bought the new 2010 digital revised version, so it’s possible to watch it in HDTV. Anyway, even this is a Disney classic that features ballet classics; I was somewhat a little disappointed. What really rescued this classic movie were the hippopotamuses dancing en pointe in tutus. That was awesome!

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Content of the movie

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
  
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
• Nutcracker Suite
  
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  
  • Paul Dukas – The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• The Rite of Spring
  
  • Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
• Intermission
  
  • Meet the Soundtrack
• The Pastoral Symphony
  
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 in F, Op.68 "Pastorale"
• Dance of the Hours
  
  • Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
• Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria
  
  • Musical score
    
    • Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
    
    
    • Franz Schubert – Ave Maria

And the Oscar goes to…


Will the Black Swan (2010), Social Network (2010) or The King's Speech (2010) take home the Academy Award? It’s very seldom that so many quality films compete to get this prestigious prize from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Among those three films I will say that the Black Swan had the best climax, while the Social network was a surprising movie for all fans of social network and social media. The King's Speech had the best characters and especially Colin Firth was awesome as King Georg VI. He was convincing, and this film’s climax (when the new King holds his speech before WWII) was strong too.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

For the first time in more than twenty years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has visited the Norwegian Opera and Ballet. Alvin Ailey is one of the world’s most respected companies and they literally gave a stunning performance tonight.

The repertoire for 22 June 2011:

• Night Creature (1974)
  
  • Coreography: Alvin Ailey
  • Music: Duke Ellington
• In/ Side (2008)
  
  • Coreography: Robert Battle
  • Music performed by: Nina Simone
• Love Stories (2004)
  
  • Coreography: Judith Jamison med Robert Battle og Rennie Harris
  • Music: Stevie Wonder og Clarence Paul-Henry
• Revelations (1960)
  
  • Coreography: Alvin Ailey
  • Music: Trad.

La Boheme at Ringen Cinema in Oslo

Saturday, February 4th

Again in this forum, we see that culture and film can be combined. On Saturday the Norwegian Opera & Ballet in joint venture with Cinemas across the country had rigged up for live event of Puccini’s La Boheme. The Cinemas in Norway are often sending live performance by satellite from Bolshoi, the Royal Ballet and the Met, but it is the very first time the Norwegian Opera do something like this.

And gosh the performance was successful. La Boheme was beautiful with stunning scenography. That Stefan Herheim is the director nearly promises that something is changed in the production. This performance was no exception. As an example: Syphilis is exchanged with cancer.

It is a Norwegian tradition to struggle with the sound, and this live event was neither any exception. Sometimes the sound fell out on the amplitudes, but it only lasted for maximum a second. I think that this is called clipping! Anyway, the clipping of the sound did not destroy the event. I really hope the Norwegian Opera & Ballet keep up the good work.

Do they need fundraising before next live performance?