Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) wrote his five-act allegorical drama Peer Gynt in 1867 while living in Italy. It tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero.

A Norwegian conductor really gets it when it comes to Grieg. He understands the folk tales, he gets the folk rhythms, and the odd characters, like trolls, aren't odd to him. Arild Remmereit is the ...

Many a TV advertisement (or, dare we say it, telephone on-hold service) has used the opening movement, Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 to create a musical mood. The fourth movement depicting ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend at Stifel Theatre with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The project reunites ...

In the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday afternoon Dr. Schofield gave a critical analysis of Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer Gynt," with an explanation of the themes which Grieg used in his "Peer Gynt Suite." ...

Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

"Like father, like son," they say. Here we find Paavo Jarvi tackling Grieg's incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a work his father, Neeme, famously recorded for Deutsche Grammophon 18 years ago.

Peer Gynt Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra Edvard Grieg, Composer Bjarte Engeset, Conductor Before a southern convent (Foran sydens kloster) Edvard Grieg, Composer Malmö Symphony Orchestra ...

I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing talent! Last night, at Peer Gynt, the stage at the Stifel was chock-a-block with the full St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the SLSO Chorus—plus ten ...

A star-studded team of actors, singers and musicians guarantees a powerful experience in a fully staged production of Peer Gynt. Johannes Holmen Dahl is in charge of direction. Most people are ...