Bergen Festival 2024 Review: Edvard Grieg’s ‘Peer Gynt’
(Photo: Matthias Thor Brødreskift) Just as “Hamlet” belongs to the English literary legacy or Goethe’s “Faust” belongs to the German soul, so Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” belongs to the Norwegian culture. Exactly 150 years ago, Henrik Ibsen asked the then 31-year-old composer Edvard Grieg to write a suitable musical setting for his dramatic poem in five acts. The premiere took {…}