Reykjavík Arts Festival
Previous Festivals

2011

Opening Ceremony 2011

Listahátíð í Reykjavík 2011

The opening ceremony of the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2011 was held in the foyer of Harpa, the new concert and conference hall by the harbor in Reykjavik. The Festival was opened by Katrin Jakobsdottir, the Minister of Education, Science and Culture. Among artists performing were Ólöf Arnalds and Skúli Sverrisson, Högni Egilsson and the mail choir Fóstbræður and Byzantine Silhouette played traditional Macedonian and Bulgarian melodies.

 

Jonas Kaufmann and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra

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Arias and overtures from Tosca, Carmen, Cavalleria rusticana, Lohengrin, etc.

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La Fura dels Baus

Fura

Breathtaking street performance

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Afrobeat

Tony Allen

The legendary Tony Allen with Icelandic musicians

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We saw Monsters

Monsters

A poetic work in which dance, singing, music and visual arts come together

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Les SlovaKs - Opening Night

Les Slovaks

An exuberant and contagious union of folk-inspired music and imaginative movement

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Tomi Ungerer

Ungerer

Visual Arts

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Solaris

Music for Solaris e. Ben Frost og Daníel Bjarnason

Krakaw´s sinfonietta, Daniel Bjarnason and Ben Frost

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Barbara Bonney

Barbara Bonney

Solo concert accompanied by the pianist Thomas Schuback

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Ojos de Brujo

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Fuse flamenco's driving rhythms with hip-hop, funk, punk and other stray sounds snatched from the streets of Barcelona

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Tómas R. Einarsson - String

Tómas R. og Matthías Hemstock

Double bass, percussion and water sound

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Edda Erlendsdóttir - solo concert

Edda Erlendsdóttir

30 year anniversary concert

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Fox story - Le Roman de Renart

Roman de Renart

French shadow and puppet theatre

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Big Wheel Café

Big Wheel Cafe

Guest theatre performance from Denmark

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Six Pairs

Sex pör

Six dancers and choreographers meet in creation

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Högni Egilsson, Davíð Þór and the male choir Fóstbræður

Högni

New Icelandic composition with a video installation

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Klúbburinn - The Club

Klúbburinn

Six men reveal the most profound secret of art

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The Journey of the Phoenix

Eivör

Dance theatre with live music

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Subtales

Subfrau

Songs from the middle class

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Flétta - Twine

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Premiere of composer Haukur Tómasson‘s new composition

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Von den Sagas: We survived Eyjafjallajökull

Söguslamm

Fresh spoken word poetry dusted off by young German and Icelandic poets

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Readings at Writers' homes

Bergsveinn

Bergsveinn Birgisson

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Readings at Writers' homes

Kristín Steinsdóttir

Kristín Steinsdóttir

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Michel Houellebecq

Houellebecq

Evening with the French writer

CANCELLED

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Ólöf Arnalds and Skúli Sverrisson

Olof Arnalds og Skuli Sverris

The Festival´s Opening Concert

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