26th October

Concert will begin at 11:30 hours GMT

Grieg's 'Peer Gynt' with Redpath, Sezer, Steffani and Jordens from Amsterdam

'Peer Gynt' is a play by Henrik Ibsen's 1867 with incidental music by Edvard Grieg. Peer Gynt is the son of the once highly regarded Jon Gynt. Jon Gynt spent all his money on feasting and living lavishly, and had to leave his farm to become a wandering salesman, leaving his wife and son behind in debt. Åse, the mother, wished to raise her son to restore the lost fortune of his father, but Peer is soon to be considered useless. He is a poet and a braggart, not unlike the youngest son from Norwegian fairy tales, the 'Ash Lad', with whom he shares some characteristics.

Performers: Filip Jordens, narrator, Solveig Liv Redpath, soprano, Anitra Aylin Sezer, soprano, Peer Raoul Steffani, baritone.

Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.

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