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Kylián Festival: Day before Tomorrow

Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo, Norway
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Important Info
Type: Modern Ballet
City: Oslo, Norway
Starts at: 19:00
Intervals: 2
Duration: 2h 30min

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Ballet company: Norwegian National Ballet
Creators
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Alessandro Marcello
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Dirk Haubrich
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: John Cage
Composer: Lukas Foss
Composer: Philip Glass
Choreographer: Jiří Kylián
Overview

A celebration of Jiří Kylián’s artistry. The Norwegian National Ballet is proud to present the Kylián Festival! Day before Tomorrow features the timeless ballets Bella Figura, Wings of Wax and Gods and Dogs.

Three masterpieces on the Main Stage 
Poetic and hypnotic dance: Get ready for a full-evening performance by one of the world’s greatest living choreographers! 

Czech Jiří Kylián has breathed new life into ballet as an art form. This can clearly be seen in this performance, when the National Ballet dances three of his more recent and unmistakable works.

Oslo Opera House full of Kylián 
Jiří Kylián not only creates dance works, but in recent years has also worked with photography and video, sculptures and installations.  

In May and June 2025, the theatre will be celebrating this unique artist with very own Kylián Festival: Wings of Time in the Oslo Opera House! It is also a tribute to the close partnership between him and the Norwegian National Ballet that has spanned over 30 years. 

The entire Oslo Opera House will be filled with Kylián’s art: We are exhibiting a number of his installations and photographs, in addition to showing films – and on the Main Stage, the National Ballet will be dancing seven of his ballets divided into two programmes. 

The Kylián Festival is the largest showcase to date of his art in Norway, and with Jiří Kylián himself as curator and on hand to set the stage for a rare event.

“Such rare beauty to behold” wrote the critic Inger Merete Hobbelstad in Dagbladet when the National Ballet danced Bella Figura (1995) in 2010. Baroque solemnity is combined with humour and set to music by such composers as Vivaldi. It is open, vulnerable and an aesthetic feast for the eyes. 

The myth about Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and fell from the sky when his wings melted, inspired the name Wings of Wax (1997). A naked tree is suspended upside down over the stage floor as if at any moment it might drop onto the eight dancers dressed in black. “A metaphor for humanity’s endless ambitions to always want to reach higher and achieve even more,” says the choreographer about the work.

Gods and Dogs (2008) is a hypnotising ballet the spans the gap between turmoil and beauty, set to a soundscape in which electronic music is interwoven with Beethoven. A vast, dancing silver curtain accentuates the nerve-racking atmosphere, behind dancers who really know their Kylián.

History

Bella Figura is a one-act ballet by Jiří Kylián, first presented in 1995 by Nederlands Dans Theater.

Premiere of this production: 23 January 1997, Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague, Netherlands
Venue Info

Oslo Opera House - Oslo
Location   Kirsten Flagstads Plass 1

The Oslo Opera House is the home of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building is situated in the Bjørvika neighbourhood of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. It is operated by Statsbygg, the government agency which manages property for the Norwegian government. The structure contains 1,100 rooms in a total area of 38,500 m2 (414,000 sq ft). The main auditorium seats 1,364 and two other performance spaces can seat 200 and 400. The main stage is 16 m (52 ft) wide and 40 m (130 ft) deep. The angled exterior surfaces of the building are covered with marble from Carrara, Italy and white granite and make it appear to rise from the water. It is the largest cultural building constructed in Norway since Nidarosdomen was completed circa 1300.

In 1999, after a long national debate, the Norwegian legislature decided to construct a new opera house in the city. A design competition was held and, of the 350 entries received, the judges chose that of Snøhetta. Construction started in 2003 and was completed in 2007, ahead of schedule and 300 million NOK (~US$52 million) under its budget of 4.4 billion NOK (~US$760 million). The gala opening on 12 April 2008 was attended by His Majesty King Harald, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and President Tarja Halonen of Finland and other leaders. During the first year of operation, 1.3 million people passed through the building's doors.

The Opera House won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008 and the 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

The roof of the building angles to ground level, creating a large plaza that invites pedestrians to walk up and enjoy the panoramic views of Oslo. While much of the building is covered in white granite and La Facciata, a white Italian carrara marble, the stage tower is clad in white aluminium, in a design by Løvaas & Wagle that evokes old weaving patterns.

The lobby is surrounded by 15 m (49 ft) tall windows with minimal framing and special glass that allows maximum views of the water. The roof is supported by thin angled columns also designed not to interfere with views.

Interior surfaces are covered in oak to bring warmth to spaces in contrast to the coolness of the white exterior. The main auditorium is a horseshoe shape and illuminated by an oval chandelier containing 5,800 handmade crystals. Seats include monitors for the electronic libretto system, allowing audiences to follow opera libretti in Norwegian and English in addition to the original language.

Several art projects were commissioned for the interior and exterior of the Opera House. The most notable is She Lies, a sculpture constructed of stainless steel and glass panels by Monica Bonvicini. It is permanently installed on a concrete platform in the fjord adjacent to Opera House and floats on the water moving in response to tides and wind to create an ever-changing face to viewers. The work was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Sonja on 11 May 2010.

A perforated wall panel which covers roof supports in the lobby was designed by Olafur Eliasson. It features hexagonal opening and is illuminated from below and behind to create the illusion of melting ice. Other artists involved in the construction include Kristian Blystad, Jorunn Sannes and Kalle Grude, who designed the shape of the pavers on the forecourt and roof; Bodil Furu and Trine Lise Nedreaas, who created a film and video project; Marte Aas, Talleiv Taro Manum, Tom Sandberg, Gerd Tinglum and Nina Witoszek Fitzpatrick, who created the art book Site Seeing; and Linus Elmes and Ludvig Löfgren, who created the foundation stone.

The main stage curtain is the work of Pae White who designed it to look like crumpled aluminum foil. White scanned a crumpled piece of foil into a computer which translated the information to a loom that wove the curtain from wool, cotton and polyester to create a three-dimensional effect. The curtain was manufactured by the German-based theatrical equipment company Gerriets GmbH. The finished curtain measures 74 ft (23 m) wide and 36 ft (11 m) and weighs 1,100 lb (500 kg).

Important Info
Type: Modern Ballet
City: Oslo, Norway
Starts at: 19:00
Intervals: 2
Duration: 2h 30min
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