Listahátíð - 2009

Opening Ceremony 2009

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:49:00 +0000

Reykjavik Arts Festival 2009 was opened May 15 by the Mayor of Reykjavik, Mrs Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir in Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir.

The opening ceremony will feature performances by festival artists such as the rolling sculptures Campingkvinner, Norvegian caravan women by Marit Benthe Norheim and Strange fruit, Australian performing artist on 4 meters high flexible poles, delivering a sublime performance, bending and swaying in the air.

CAMPINGWOMEN

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:01:00 +0000

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

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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.

STRAY BEACONS

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:58:00 +0000

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.

Visual Art

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:27:00 +0000

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

Tiger Lillies

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:38:00 +0000

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 and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:10:00 +0000

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.

ORBIS TERRAE - ORA

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:00 +0000

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.

Hjaltalín / Daníel Bjarnason

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:03:00 +0000

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

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:28:00 +0000

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 Madman's Garden

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:12:00 +0000

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 DE SELA

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:15:00 +0000

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.

Trio Nordica

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:52:00 +0000

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.

V Ö L U S P Á

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +0000

“ 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.

art&love&art

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:19:00 +0000

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.

Art can change the world

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:19:00 +0000

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.

WOMEN FROM THE EAST

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:49:00 +0000

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

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:44:00 +0000

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.

Strange Fruit

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:00 +0000

Strange Fruit,

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.

Víkingur Ólafsson

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:07:00 +0000

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.

Booklet 2009

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A booklet with the programme 2009.

Bob Mintzer and the Reykjavík Big Band

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:42:00 +0000

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.

Readings at Writers´ Homes

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:36:00 +0000

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!