Welcome to the birgitta festival 2008!

The Birgitta Festival is a festival with a unique milieu of a medieval convent, offering a wide scale of what goes on in the musical theatre. The audience will come through the medieval cemetery into the walls of the nun cloister from the 15th century, and will then move along the passageways lighted by torches in the low light of an August evening. This special milieu grants a unique experience and makes the audience a part of the show. There will be audio and light equipment on the level of the best European festivals set up between these ancient walls, the rising rows of seats ensure an ideal view, and a removable roof will be placed above it all.

This is a festival that brings together special and new genres and different production methods from all over the world.

The main guests of the festival of 2008 are the Russian Imperial Ballet and the Moscow Novaya Opera. Russian classics and oriental exotics are performed on the ballet stage. The extremes of the opera offerings are a traditional picture of bel canto opera with one of the world's leading sopranos in the main role, and a shocking production of the classical opera brought to a movie set. The chamber opera of the 20th century is brought before the audience in an entirely avant garde production. There are new genres of musical comedy about the life of the world-famous violinist Gidon Kremer and the performance of the Spanish flamenco theatre on the subject of Don Juan.

Welcome to the Birgitta Festival!


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