FULL Klippeøyene (Ole Olsen) Bodø 2020 Ingegjerd Bagøien Moe, Siv Oda Hagerupsen, Kjetil Støa
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Klippeøyene
- Composer: Olsen Ole
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Stormen Lillesal, Bodø, Norway
- Recorded: November 10, 2020
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Ingegjerd Bagøien Moe, Siv Oda Hagerupsen, Kjetil Støa, Thor Inge Falch, Ole Jørgen Kristiansen, Trond Halstein Moe, Trond Gudevold
- Conductor: Terje Boye Hansen
- Orchestra: Jan Bjørnar Sture, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Arctic Philharmonic
- Date Published: 2020
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ole Olsen from Hammerfest wrote four operas; Lajla, Stallo, Marsk Stig and Klippeøerne. The last two have never been performed, while it has been over 100 years since Lajla was last performed and Stallo has not been seen on stage since 2002.
The Arctic Philharmonic is Ole Olsen’s orchestra! We therefore think it is high time to highlight Olsen’s operas now – 170 years after his birth – not least because in many ways we feel like Ole Olsen’s orchestra. The Hammerfest composer’s vision was to establish his own symphony orchestra in northern Norway.
Ole Olsen (4 July 1850 – 4 November 1927)[1] was a Norwegian organist, composer, conductor and military musician.
Olsen was born in Hammerfest, in the county of Finnmark. His mother died when he was young. His father was Iver Olsen, a craftsman and an amateur musician who played the organ at the local church. From a young age Olsen learnt to play the piano and the violin. At the age of five he composed his first small piece, and by the age of seven he sometimes stood in for his father playing the church pipe organ.
In 1865 Olsen went to Trondheim as apprentice to a craftsman. He also studied composition and the organ from Fredrick and Just Lindeman, and sometimes substituted for Just as the organist in the Trondheim cathedral. In 1870, having given up his apprenticeship, he moved to Leipzig where he studied under Oscar Paul at the music conservatory until 1874. There he wrote his Symphony in G major, and began his opera Stig Hvide.
In 1874 he became a teacher in Christiania (now Oslo), where he spent most of the rest of his life. He conducted the Christiania Artisans’ Choral Society from 1876–1880, the Music Society orchestra from 1877–1880, and the freemason’s orchestra from 1894–1908. From 1884 he was the music director of the Akershus 2nd Brigade. From 1899–1920 he was a music inspector.
He had married Marie Hals, the daughter of piano manufacturer Karl Hals, in 1879. He died in Oslo on November 4, 1927. His interment was at Cemetery of Our Saviour.
Olsen’s operas were influenced by Richard Wagner. Another strong influence was the traditional Joik form of song, as he was involved in collecting folk tunes while in the military. These influenced the large number of military marches he composed, and the nationalist tradition was also represented in his stage works.
Quoted from Wikipedia