(Credit: Øystein Torheim)

Opera Nordfjord has canceled its U.S. tour.

The tour, which had been planned since 2023, was canceled due to the recent direction the U.S. government has been going with regards to the safety and security of the travelers.

In a statement, opera director Kari Standal Pavelich said, “It is sad to cancel a tour that we know would arouse great excitement, joy and recognition in the Norwegian-American community, and it would have been a great experience of a lifetime for all travelers. However, the safety and security of all Opera Nordfjord’s participants is of utmost importance. As long as we hear about innocent people who have been detained during passport control, it is not appropriate to expose the opera’s employees to similar danger. When we have also been advised by both the Norwegian and American governments to tone down the focus on migration today in order to please the new administration, it is not appropriate to travel.”

Opera Nordfjord was set to tour with the emigrant musical “Soga om Sol” by Øystein Wiik and Gisle Kverndokk and was set to team up with the Utvandrarjubileet, Crossings 200 and all in the musical ensemble.

The tour was set to take place in at the South Street Museum under the auspices of the Norwegian Consulate, all in New York, and at the Norway House in Minneapolis, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, and The Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.

Opera Nordfjord is the latest international company to cancel following such artists as Sir Andras Schiff and Christian Tetzlaff’s decisions to cancel U.S. concerts.

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