Lögberg-Heimskringla - 06.05.1994, Side 25

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 6. maí 1994 • 25
The Reykjavík
Arts Festiva!
The by-annual
Reykjavílc Arts Festival
is a major event.
Started in 1970 and held in
June, it has drawn some of
the best known artists in the
world today such as:
CLASSICAL, Vladimir
Ashkenazy, Daniel
Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman,
André Watts, Vienna String
Quartet, André Previn, Rafael
Fruhbeck de Burgos, Gidon
Kremer, Swedish Radio
Orchestra, Claudio Arrau,
ICrzysztof Penderecki,
London Sinfonietta, Les,
Negres vertes, Gabriel
Chmura, Pinchas Zukerman,
Paul Zukofsky, Yhudi
Menuhin, John Williams,
John Cage, Jacqueline du Pré,
Jean Pierre Jacquillat,
Mstislav Rostropovich, Petri
Sakari, Andrej Gavrilov,
Wiener Sangerknaben, I
Salonisti, Kocian Strin
Quartet.
THEATRE AND DANCE,
Ingmar Bergman, Cullberg
Ballet Stockholm, Royal
Danish Ballet, Els
Comedians, Mstislav
Rostropovich, The Royal
Dramatic Theatre Stockholm,
Helgi Tómasson, San
Francisco Ballet, Lilla teatem
Helsinki, Rajatabla Theatre,
Tadeusz Kantor.
SINGERS, Victoria de los
Angeles, Boris Christoff,
Elisabeth Soderstrom, Renata
Tebaldi, Gisela May, Kristján
Jóhannsson, Luciano
Pvarotti, Fiamma Izzo
d’Amico.
JAZZ, POP AND FOLK
MUSIC, Herbie Hancock,
Dave Brubeck, Oscar
Peterson, Leonard Cohen,
Cleo Laine, The Dubliners,
Led Zeppelin, Wold
Bierman, Bob Dylan, Leonid
Chizhik, Salif Keita, Les
Negresses vertes.
EXHIBITION,
Hunterwasser, Richard Long,
Donald Judd, Karel Appel,
Picasso, Marc Chagall, André
Masson, Richard Serra.
It is in itself amazing that a
small nation is able to inter-
est such notables as listed
above. This is of course main-
ly thanks to the concert
pianist, Russian bom
Vladimir Ashkenazy, who
married an Icelandic girl,
Þórunn Jóhannsdóttir herself
a þianist. They made their
home in Iceland after
Ashkenazy could not retum
to Russia. He became an
Icelandic citizen and Mr. &
Mrs. Ashkenazy brought
their children up there. They
now reside in Switzerland.
Vladimir Ashkenazy is
one of the founders of the
Festival and he was able to
attract some of his friends to
come and perform at the first
Festival. Icelanders being an
appreciative audience has
made it easier in these latter
years to get the big names to
perform for them.
Separately, but a part of
the RAF, is the Movie
Festival, held in October. A
selection of movies from all
over the world are shown
over a period of 10 to 14
days.
For those that have the
opportunity to take in either
or both of these major arts
events, it is a worthwhile
trip.
OOListahátíð í (teykjavíkO
The Reykjavik Arts Festival
May 27 - June 18, 1994
The Ring of the
Nibelungen
by Richard Wagner
selected scenes linked by spoken text
Artistic supervisor: Wolfgang Wagner,
director of the Bayreuth Festival
lceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor:
Alfred Walter
Director: Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir
Scenery & costume designer: Sigurjón
Jóhannsson
Singers: Anna Linden, András Molnar,
Max Wittges, Elín Ósk Óskarsdóttir,
Signý Sæmundsdóttir, IngveldurÝr
Jónsdóttir, Keith Reed, Ingibjörg
Marteinsdóttir, Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir,
Haukur Páll Haraldsson, Sigurður
Björnsson, Magnús Baidvinsson, Viðar
Gunnarsson, Þorgeir Andrésson, Elsa
Waage, Garðar Cortes, Ólöf K.
Harðardóttir, Hrönn Hafliðadóttir,
Choir of the lcelandic Opera
Premiere in the National Theatre
at 6 pm on Friday, May 27, 1994.
Ticket price US $72.
Also 6pm Sunday, May 29th, Tuesday,
May 31 st, Thursday, June 2nd and
Saturday, June 4th. Ticket price US $53.
Bookings for The Ring of the Nibelungen
at the National Theatre Box Office.tele-
phone Reykjavík 11200, from March 15th.
Open daily (except Mondays)
from 1pm-8pm.
Telephone bookings from 10am daily.
Exhibitions
National Gallery of lceland: Portrait of
lcelandic Culture in a formative period
1930-1944
Kjarvalsstaðir - Reykjavík Municipal Art
Gallery: lcelandic contemporary art
Önnur hæð exhibition space: llya
Kabakov - drawings of unrealised
installations
The Living Arts Museum: Dieter Roth -
kinetic art - prints - artist books
FIM & the Nordic House: Paintings by
lcelandic artist Jón Engelberts
Galleri II: John Greer, Canadian sculptor
Stöðlakot: Works by Leifur Kaldal, gold
& silversmith
Galieri Úmbra: Works by Rudy Antio
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum: Sigurjón
Ólafsson, sculptor "lcelandmarks"
Concerts & Ballet
Monday, May 30th
Guido Pikal, tenor, Alfred Walter, piano
Songs by well known conductors of
the Bayreuth Festival
Böhm, Furtwangler, Richard Strausss,
Siegfried Wagner, etc.
Icelandic Opera, 8:30 pm Price US $21
Wednesday, June 1st
Rekjavík Wind Qunitet & Vovka
Ashkenazy, piano
Works by Mozart, Poulenc & Rinsky-
Korsakov
lcelandic Opera, 8:30 pm Price US $21
Friday, June 3rd
Gerry Mulligan & The Gerry Mulligan
Quartet
Hásk6Iabt5f8 pm Prices US $48/$44/$37
Sunday June 5th
Igor Oistrakh, violin, Natalia
Zersalova, piano
Works by Beethoven (Spring sonata), ■
Brahms, Paganini/Schumann,
Chausson, Rimsky-Korsakov/Zimbalist
lcelandic Opera, 5 pm Price US $30.
Thursday, June 9th
Beethoven 9th Symphony
lceland Symphony Órchestra
Choirs of Hamrahlið Schools &
Soloists, Conductor Osmo Vanski
Hallgríms Church, 8 pm
Prices US $25/US$20/US$14
Friday, June 10th & Sunday, June 12th
lcelandic Ballet Company
First performance of new ballets by
Hítf Svavarsdóttir, Nanna Ólafsdóttir &
Maria Gísladóttir
Reykjavík City Theatre, 8 pm
Price US $25
Saturday, June 11 th
New work by Tómas R. Einarsson
"Just a big heap of rocks", concert
about lceland for 5 solo singers & 6
jazz musicians
lcelandic Opera, 9 pm Price US $25
Sunday, June 12th
"Time and Water" by Atli Heimir
Sveinsson (premiere)
Reykjavík Chambre Orchestra, choir &
soloists Marta G. Halldórsdóttir, Sverrir
Guðjónsson & Bergþór Pálsson.
Conductor, Paul Zkofsky
Langholts Church 8 pm
Monday, June 13th
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Works by Beethoven & Prokofieff
Háskólabíé8 pm
Price US $37/US$32/US$28
Tuesday, June 14th
New Danish Saxophone Quartet
Inc. premiere of work by Per Norgard
Nordic House 8 pm
Wednesday, June 15th
Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, cello
Works by J.S. Bach & Atli Heimir
Sveinsson
lcelandic Opera 8 pm Price US $30
Thursday, June 16th
Grand Opera Concert
Kristján Jóhannsson, tenor
lceland Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Rico Saccani
Date to be announced
Milska, oratorio by Kjell Mörk Karlsen,
To the text of a Medieval lcelandic
poem. Asker & Tensberg Church
Choirs, solist and speaker
Hallgríms Church -
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For further information please contact The Reykjavík Arts Festival, Post Box 88, 121 Reykjavík, lceland. Phone: 354 1 612444; Fax: 354 1 622350.