Visit to the arc­tic ope­ra – 29th March 2016

Tue
29 Mar
2016

The­re is a moun­tain on the north side of Advent­da­len, 7 km east of Lon­gye­ar­by­en. It is cal­led Ope­raf­jel­let, becau­se it has got a natu­ral amphi theat­re. The tenor is cen­ter sta­ge, like Pava­rot­ti. Behind him, the­re is Diri­gen­ten (the con­duc­tor), and a bit more in the back­ground, bas­so and sopra­no, as it should be.

Teno­ren

The tenor is 656 m high. The music that is being play­ed here is arc­tic silence, twel­ve voices, some­ti­mes in major, some­ti­mes minor, as you plea­se, on and off, with the rhythm of timel­ess­ness. The regu­lar guests are rein­de­er and ptar­mi­gan. Grass has taken some of the hig­her ranks, dres­sed with ele­gant, shiny coa­tings of ice. The spot­light is on as orde­red from the abso­lute­ly hig­hest level, cloud curtains are play­ing with the light only occa­sio­nal­ly, cas­ting play­ful shadows on the orches­tra pit and pain­ting colour­ful applau­se onto the cei­ling.

Gal­le­ry – Visit to the arc­tic ope­ra – 29th March 2016

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

The final cre­scen­do up to the thro­ne of the tenor is too much of a screa­ming glis­san­do for the guests today. That is left for a da Capo.

By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be orde­red 🙂 it is a pho­to book with the tit­le “Nor­we­gens ark­ti­scher Nor­den (1): Spitz­ber­gen – vom Polar­licht bis zur Mit­ter­nachts­son­ne”, with Ger­man text Click here for fur­ther details!