Ghosts
Ibsen's Ghosts
Ghosts - Ibsen's Ghosts (2014) was a ballet production by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, loosely based on Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, in a choreography by Cina Espejord to music by Nils Petter Molvær. The production was performed at the opera's main stage.
Marit Moum Aune directed the production.
Camilla Spidsøe Cohen danced the role of Helen Alving.
Ghosts - Ibsen's Ghosts by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet was part of The International Ibsen Festival 2014.
A digital version of Ghosts was released by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation during the Corona crisis of 2020. You may read more about that here.
Information
(Objekt ID 40872)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | September 19, 2014 |
| Produced by | The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet |
| Based on | Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen |
| Audience | Adults |
| Keywords | Ballet |
| Running period | September 19, 2014 |
"Osvald Alving comes home from his free existence as an artist in Paris to a narrow fiord in Western Norway. Meeting people who do not communicate, Osvald responds through becoming ironic and distanced. Gradually he discovers more of the secrets weighing down the family, but also secrets within himself. His mother, Mrs. Alving, welcomes her son, whom she has longed for - and eventually she becomes aware of what, or who, he carries in his luggage.
'Ghosts is an inner thriller in which the persons uncover more and more of their own history. It is about how the unsaid can grow to become unsurpassable. Great courage is required if one is to confront the life-lie', says director Marit Moum Aune.
With the young, critically acclaimed choreographer Cina Espejord she tells the story of Ibsen's play as ballet. The two find that the story is suitable for dance, because its brutality, at an outer and an inner level, can measure up to the forces of dance."
Once before Marit Moum Aune and Nils Petter Molvær have collaborated in a production of Ibsen's Ghosts, at The Norwegian Touring Theatre in 2005. You may read more about that production here.
SOURCES:
Einar Dahl's private archive, donated by Einar Dahl, 2016.11.11
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, http://operaen.no/Forestillinger/Ghosts--Ibsens-Gengangere/
The National Theatre, program for The Ibsen Festival 2014, http://www.nationaltheatret.no/Her+er+programmet!.b7C_wRnG5W.ips
Sceneweb on Ghosts at The Norwegian Touring Theatre 2005, http://sceneweb.no/en/production/41332/Ghosts-2005-3-12
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Henrik Ibsen | – Author |
| Marit Moum Aune | – Direction |
| Cina Espejord | – Choreography |
| Pia Holmquist | – Instruction (Dukkespill) |
| Nils Petter Molvær | – Composer |
| Even Børsum | – Stage design |
| Ingrid Nylander | – Costume design |
| Odd Reinhart Nicolaisen | – Video/Film |
| Kristin Bredal | – Lighting design |
| Kristian Alm | – Dancer (Snekker Engstrand, Regines far 2017) |
| Kári Freyr Bjørnsson | – Dancer (Snekker Engstrand, Regines far 2020) |
| Grete Sofie Borud Nybakken | – Dancer (Regine, tjenestejente) |
| Camilla Spidsøe Cohen | – Dancer (Fru Alving, Osvalds mor 2014, 2017 og 2018) |
| Yolanda Correa | – Dancer (Fru Alving, Osvalds mor 2017) |
| Philip Currell | – Dancer (Pastor Manders 2017 og 2020) |
| Philip Currell | – Dancer (Ung pastor Manders 2017) |
| Natasha Jones Dale | – Dancer (Ung fru Alving 2020) |
| Natasha Jones Dale | – Dancer (Ung fru Alving 2014) |
| Cina Espejord | – Dancer (Regine, tjenestejente 2020) |
| Ole-Willy Falkhaugen | – Dancer (Pastor Manders 2014 og 2017) |
| Andreas Heise | – Dancer (Osvald / Kaptein Alving 2014 og 2017) |
| Silas Henriksen | – Dancer (Osvald / Kaptein Alving 2017 og 2020) |
| Melissa Hough | – Dancer (Fru Alving, Osvalds mor 2020) |
| Yoshifumi Inao | – Dancer (Snekker Engstrand, Regines far 2014 og 2017) |
| Yoshifumi Inao | – Dancer (Ung pastor Manders 2017) |
| Lisa Nielsen | – Dancer (Ung fru Alving 2017) |
| Jonathan Olofsson | – Dancer (Ung pastor Manders 2020) |
| Aarne Kristian Ruutu | – Dancer (Snekker Engstrand, Regines far 2020) |
| Sonia Vinograd | – Dancer (Ung fru Alving 2017) |
| Mark Wax | – Dancer (Ung pastor Manders 2014) |
| Una Bruvold Velle | – Performer (Regine som barn 2020) |
| Kristoffer Ask Haglund | – Performer (Osvald som barn 2017) |
| Mikkel Skretting | – Performer (Osvald som barn 2014) |
| Selma Smith Kvalvaag | – Performer (Regine som barn 2014) |
| Arild Tyssvang | – Performer (Osvald som barn 2020) |
| Erle Østraat | – Performer (Regine som barn 2017) |
| Jan Bang | – Musician |
| Nils Petter Molvær | – Musician (Trompet) |
| Torill Næsheim | – Puppet maker |
| Erik Berg | – Photo |
| January 16, 2020 – Hovedscenen, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet | Season premiere/Seasonal opening |
| Navember 7, 2018 – Shanghai International Dance Center | visiting performance |
| April 4, 2017 – Theater an der Wien | visiting performance |
| February 21, 2017 – Hovedscenen, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet | Season premiere/Seasonal opening |
| April 7, 2016 – Komische Oper Berlin | visiting performance |
| March 30, 2015 – Dance Salad Festival, Houston, USA | visiting performance |
| September 19, 2014 19:00 – Hovedscenen, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet | Worldwide premiere |