Curtain Call: Lars Petter Hagen & Rob Young in conversation
Sentralen/Vinterhagen
16 September, 4 pm
Free entry
This year, Ultima’s Artistic Director Lars Petter Hagen is leaving the post after eight editions. In this relaxed conversation at the end of his last Ultima Festival, Hagen will relive the highs and lows, the goals and achievements, and the behind the scenes drama that goes into producing Northern Europe’s biggest contemporary music gathering.
Triologen – Opera Lab II
KHIO
16 September, 5 – 8 pm
Free entry
Once again, KHiO and the Norwegian Music Academy collaborate on a project where students and postgraduates join forces in a workshop setting, working towards the production of three short pieces of music theatre. Singers from the Opera Academy, composers and trainee musicians from the Music Academy, and playwrights from the Theatre Academy, have formed three groups in order to develop some musical stagings as part of Ultima Academy.
Participants: John Wilhite (double bass), Kristoffer Almås (drums), Finn Lunker (text), Bernhard Bornstein (composer), Nora Oleanne Sårheim (soprano), Mikkel Fjeld Skorpen (tenor), Andreas N. Angell (accordion), Live Berger Brekke (accordion), Tze Yeung Ho (composer), Eilert Egil Taugbøl Hasseldal (baritone), Tina Tuven (soprano), Linda Gabrielsen (text), Andjela Brankovic (scenographer), Emil Havold Næshagen (bass baritone), Maja Linderoth (composer), Marcela Randem (mezzo-soprano), Aseta Koloeva (harp), Bojana Sovilj (piano), Tale Næss (text), Edo Hayek (horn).
Directors: Silje Aker Johnsen (postgrad at Operahøgskolen, KHiO), Erik Dæhlin (postgrad at NMH), Carle Lange (professor of scenography at KHiO), Henrik Hellstenius (professor in composition at NMH), Kai Johnsen, professor of stage direction at Teaterhøgskolen, KHiO). Project leaders: Anna Elisabeth Einarsson (Opera Academy, KHiO) and Henrik Hellstenius.
In connection with Triologen – Opera Lab II, there will also be a seminar about music theater and opera with composer Rolf Wallin, composer Trond Reinholdtsen, opera director Susanne Øglænd and the Artistic Direcor of The Norwegian Opera& Ballet Annilese Miskimmon. These four significant players in the field of music theatre and opera will comment and reflect on the state of these creative art forms today.
A collaboration between KHiO and NMH.
Ultima Academy is supported by Norwegian Society of Composers.
