Notes on a Requiem

Based on the life and music og Carlo Gesualdo

Written and Directed by Terje J Tveit

Peder C Lærum Kaalstad

Early Voices

 

Biermanngården, 28 September, 2023

Bryn Kirke, 29 September, 2023

Langestrand Kirke, 30 September, 2023

 

Produced by Larvik Barokk Festival and Early Voices

Co-produced by Ibsen Stage Company

 

Don Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conzas, was one of the most fascinating composers of his time. Gesualdo's music was radical and still sounds intense and almost hauntingly beautiful.

His life was tragic, dramatic and marked by the murders he committed of his much older and adulterous wife and her lover. The murders, which took place over 400 years ago, are described in detail in witness statements and tell of a particularly cruel vindictiveness. Gesualdo was part of the nobility and therefore had immunity and eventually suffered greatly from depression after he remarried.

 

 

Dido and Aneaes

By Henry Purcell

Designed and Directed by Terje J Tveit

 

Griegakademiet and University of Stavanger

27 October - 3 November

 

 

Romeo, Guilio, Guilia & Juliet

By William Shakespeare

Adapted and Directed by Terje J. Tveit

 

Produced by Larvik Baroque Festival

Co-produced by Ibsen Stage Company

 

Romeo, Giulio, Giulia & Juliet is presenting Shakespeare’s two young star-crossed lovers as a play-within-a-play. The production addresses gender identity and reflects on how truth and power structures are created and enforced in society limiting our opportunities for self-development.

 

 

The Passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Written and directed by Terje J. Tveit

Music (adaptation) by Malcolm Bruno

Thüringen Bachwochen

 

The passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a modern passion retelling the story of the German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident whose writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential. The production amalgamates biographical material with music by Johan Sebastian Bach shedding timeless light on the human condition.