BERGEN OPERA CHOIR
pb 763 Sentrum
N-5807 BERGEN
tel +47 5554 4340
fax +47 5554 4341

Artistic manager:
Anne Randine Øverby

Chairman:
Fredrik Harloff

Bergen Opera Choir was established in 1976 as a season based choir which participated in operas in Bergen. The necessity for a permanent activity resulted in the debut concert autumn 1981, with Brahm`s "Liebeslieder Waltzer" and Gade`s "Elverskud", and this indicated the start of a full year activity with a large number of participations in operas, symphony and church music.

The choir has 60 members. New members are recruited by audition and are selected on basis of voice quality and musical flexibility. Anne Randine Øverby has been the artistic manager since the choir was established in 1981.

Bergen Opera Choir has a broad church music and symphonic repertoire in co-operation with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen International Festival and by them selves. This includes works by Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler and Berlioz.

Turandot, Bergenhus Castle, 2002

The choir has participated in a large number of opera performances produced by Opera Bergen and West Norwegian Opera. A嵐, Macbeth, Turandot, La Boheme, Der fliegende Holl䮤er are some of the operas the choir has participated in. To show the width in their repertoire it would be fair to mention their participation in "Chess", Gershwin?s "Porgy and Bess" and Tippet's "A child of our time". Through different concert- and operaparticipations Bergen Opera Choir has had the honour of being conducted by Rafael Fr?de Burgos, Aldo Ceccato, Per Dreier and Carlo Felice Cillario. Norway, Scandinavian countries, Praha, Vienna, Budapest and Beijing are some of the places Bergen Opera Choir has toured, and the choir has visited Eritrea, Egypt and Israel participating in opera performances. Bergen Opera Choir recruits soloists for concerts, musicals and smaller parts in opera.