FULL Et sjakkspill or Game of Chess (Bjørn Kruse) TV-Opera Norway 1982 Guri Egge, Jan R.Sodal, Oddbjorn Tennfjord, Vessa Hanssen

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Et sjakkspill or Game of Chess  
• Composer: Kruse Bjørn   
• Libretto: Arild Feldborg. Musikk:    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: TV-Studio, Oslo, Norway  
• Recorded: 1982
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Guri Egge, Jan R.Sodal, Oddbjorn Tennfjord, Vessa Hanssen, Tor Fagerland, Stein-Arild Thorsen, Svein Carlsen
• Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite  
• Orchestra: Kringkastingsorkestret  
• Choreographer: Elin Osjord  
• Stage Director:   
• Stage Designer: John Olsson  
• Costume Designer: Ivar Karlsen  
• Lighting Designer: Willy Rustad, Berit Irene Kristiansen  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: nrk  
• TV Director: Erik Ostby  
• Date Published: 1982  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Bjørn Howard Kruse (born 14 August 1946) is a Norwegian painter and composer. He is also professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

  As a composer, he has created more than 150 titles in the genres of chamber music, choral music, larger orchestral works and operas.

  In the dance project Memento Mori young and old are joined together in a theatrical tapestry of dance movement, text, voice, music and sound. Kruse and the choreographer Sølvi Edvardsen wanted in this piece to focus on all stages of life.

  A key work in Kruse’s compositional career is the opera The Green Knight with libretto by Paal-Helge Haugen. It premiered in Kristiansand, Norway, on 10 March 2004.[1] Kruse’s latest major work is Chronotope for clarinet and orchestra, premiered on 21 January 2016 with soloist Fredrik Fors, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Han-Na Chang.

  Kruse formed the vocal group Bendik Singers with his brother Philip Kruse and the singers Anne-Karine Strøm and Ellen Nikolaysen. The group represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song “It’s Just a Game”. Bendik Singers placed 7th of 17 with 89 points.

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