5 large rolling sculptures, by Marit Benthe Norheim. Campingwomen are functional caravans from the 60s and 70s. The torsos of the female figures grow out of the roof so that the caravans function as the women' s skirts.

Deborah Voigt is the leading dramatic soprano of our time. Her programme features songs by Amy Beach, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Strauss and Ottorino Respighi, and four songs by American contemporary composer Ben Moore, ending with some of musical virtuoso Leonard Bernstein's most popular songs. Accompanist will be Brian Zeger.

An unconventional art exhibition in four lighthouses around Iceland, one in each quarter of the island. Artists have been invited to install their work in the lighthouses that will be open to the public during the summer. Each of the participating artists is quite different from the others, even if they belong to the same generation.

See here all Visual Art Events around the country at the Festival 2009.

The forefathers of Brechtian Punk Cabaret, the Tiger Lillies, were founded in 1989 and 20 years later, their sound remains one of the most unique and original things you could come across.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky is widely acclaimed as one of today's greatest conductors. He studied at the Moscow Conservatoire, was the principal conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre and was appointed the Bolshoi's General Music Director.

It is the dawn of a new republic! As you enter a different world at the frontier of The Cultural House of Icelandic Heritage a new border has been established.

Pop band Hjaltalín hosts its grandest concert event to date at the Reykjavík Arts Festival, appearing in the Icelandic Opera with a chamber orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason, one of Iceland´s youngest and most promising conductor and composer.

Living Room Concerts in 25 homes. Outstanding musicians and ensembles in classical music, jazz, pop, rock, electro and other music genres make music in unusually intimate surroundings.

The opera Í Óðamansgarði (The Madman’s Garden) will be performed at the National Theatre of Iceland in collaboration with The National Stage of The Faroe Islands.

Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father and an American mother. She started singing in a Greek café in San Francisco when she was thirteen.

The members of the Trio Nordica, violinist Auður Hafsteinsdóttir, cellist Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir and pianist Mona Kontra, play music by famous composers, but also play Icelandic compositions. It specialises in programmes of music by female composers.

“ VÖLUSPÁ - PROPHECY OF THE SEERESS “, is the first and best known poem of The Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its inevitable end, related by a “ Völva “ or Seeress addressing Odin. It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology.

We seek to demonstrate that the many forms of artistic expression are drawn from the same source. On the most basic level, this is about involving the viewer in the artwork. Decoration, pop music and trivial literature do not demand the viewer's involvement; rather they support his sense of contentment and satisfaction.

Panel discussion led by Hjálmar Sveinsson. Other participants are Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, María Kristjánsdóttir, Þórunn Erlu Valdimarsdóttir, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, Gestur Guðmundsson and Ragna Sigurðardóttir.

The Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra performs works by four renowned female composers from the East at Reykjavík Arts Festival. The conductor will be the Russian-born French conductor and pianist, Vladimir Stoupel

Hel is a new Icelandic opera, based on a classic and highly influential Icelandic story about the choices people make in their lives – the need for freedom versus the need for security.

a Melbourne-based performing arts company, produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium.

Born into a family of musicians, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson received his first piano lessons at age four from his mother and quickly took to the instrument. He entered the Reykjavik College of Music in his early teens and graduated with a Soloist Diploma in 2001.

A booklet with the programme 2009.

In 2007, the Reykjavík Big Band commissioned an entire concert programme from composer, arranger and saxophonist Bob Mintzer, a New Yorker who has been one of the leading jazz musicians on the big band scene for 30 years.

11 poets and writers hold At Home Readings in their houses. The readings offer a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with the authors and their work. Poems, stories, readings from novels, children’s material, prose, published as well as unpublished material, it’s all there!