FRAM
Synne Skouen & Oda Radoor
Showings and tickets
Showings and tickets
Friday, 15/09
Monday, 18/09
Wednesday, 20/09
Friday, 22/09
Synne Skouen's brand new opera takes listeners on a journey through an elderly woman's imagination. Ameli is a dying woman who, wishing to escape old age and a troubled relationship with her son, dreams of sailing to the North Pole with the legendary explorer Fridtjof Nansen on his ship, the FRAM.
Much of Oda Radoor’s libretto is lifted directly from Nansen’s diaries and memoirs. As the music unfolds, we are transported from Ameli's lonely room to the vast expanse of the Arctic Ocean, complete with the creaking planks of the ship’s deck. At its core, FRAM (Norwegian for ‘going forward’) is a deeply human work. It speaks to our desire for adventure and exploration, and to the power of dreams and imagination.
Synne Skouen I Photo: Euishin Kim/Det Norske Kammerorkester
Hege Høisæter I Photo: Anna-Julia Granberg / Blunderbuss
Composer
- Synne Skouen
Libretto
- Oda Radoor
Singers
- Hege Høisæter, Frode Olsen, Silje Marie Aker Johnsen, Eirik Grøtvedt
Accordion
- Ida Løvli Hidle
Director
- Hilde Andersen
Visual design
- Bård Lie Thorbjørnsen
Dramaturgy
- Jonas Forssell
Sonografi
- Synne Skouen and Mats Claesson
Costumes
- Alva Brosten
Lighting design
- Torkel Skjærven
Sound design
- Mats Claesson
String quintet
- Odd Hannisdal
- Madelene Berg
- Witold Serafin
- Erlend Habbestad
- Anders Håberget Rove
Percussion
- Anders Kregnes Hansen
Men's chorus
- Gustav Navas Hasfjord
- Mikkel Skorpen
- Paul Kirby
- Steven Curtis Griffin
- Magnus Dorholt Kjeldal
- Jan-Magnar Andersen Gard
- Jørgen Magnus Haslum
- Johann Dornwald
- Øystein Skre
Choreographer and assistant director
- Eli Stålhand
Musical director
- Magnus Loddgard
In collaboration with
- Den Norske Opera & Ballett
