FULL Dronningoffer (Johansen) Trondheim 2021 Hansen Sødal Moen Rueslåtten
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Dronningoffer
- Composer: Johansen Bertil Palmar
- Libretto: Tale Næss Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Nidarosdomen, Trondheim, Norway
- Recorded: July 28, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: David Hansen, Nils Harald Sødal, Ann–Helen Moen, Kari Rueslåtten
- Conductor: Tabita Berglund
- Orchestra: Trondheimsolistene
- Chorus: TSO-Koret
- Chorus Master: Ursa Lah Rasmussen
- Choreographer: Hallgrim Hansegård
- Stage Director: Hallgrim Hansegård
- Stage Designer: Pekka Stokke
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Ingrid Høsøyen
Information about the Recording
- Published by: NRK
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: NRK FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
It will be queen against queen, popular music against classical, in a bloody showdown. And they are not kind to each other, so to speak. But which of them will be sacrificed? That is the big secret, smiles composer Bertil Palmar Johansen.
The captivating story in “Queen’s Sacrifice” and the way it is told, is in three parts. Firstly, the story of the world’s most famous chess pieces, the Lewis pieces, is told. From the beginning as walrus teeth from Greenland, via Trondheim where they were carved by craftsmen around the year 1100, how the ship they were transported in was wrecked outside the Hebrides, and how they were found by chance in the 19th century. Today, the Lewis pieces, which were once made in Trondheim, are at The British Museum as the world’s most famous chess pieces.
At the same time, “Queen Sacrifice” is an eternally relevant triangular drama about power, love and honor, between one king and two queens.