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Peer Gynt ( / pɪər ˈɡɪnt /, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt, - ˈɡʏnt]) [a] is a five- act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and back.
Henrik Johan Ibsen (/ ˈ ɪ b s ən /; Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀nrɪk ˈɪ̀psn̩]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and the most influential playwright of the 19th century, as well of one of the most influential playwrights in Western literature more ...
Peer Gynt, Op. 23, is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen 's 1867 play Peer Gynt, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1875. It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo). [1] Grieg later created two suites from his Peer Gynt music. Some of the music from these suites has received coverage in ...
The 2013 film A Master Builder was directed by Jonathan Demme. It stars Wallace Shawn, who had translated and adapted it for the stage in collaboration with Andre Gregory. This stage adaptation was the basis for the film. The German director Michael Klette adapted this story for his movie Solness (2015).
See media help. " In the Hall of the Mountain King " (Norwegian: I Dovregubbens hall, lit. 'In the Dovre man's hall') is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen 's 1867 play Peer Gynt. It was originally part of Opus 23 but was later extracted as the final ...
The Feast at Solhaug (or in the original Norwegian Gildet paa Solhoug) is the first publicly successful drama by Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1855 and had its premier at Det norske Theater in Bergen on 2 January 1856. Part of the strength and charm of this play as well as Ibsen's other early poetic works results from the style of the poetic ...
See media help. " Morning Mood " (Norwegian: Morgenstemning i ørkenen, lit. 'Morning mood in the desert') is part of Edvard Grieg 's Peer Gynt, Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen 's play of the same name, and was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 .
Hedda Gabler ( Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈhɛ̂dːɑ ˈɡɑ̀ːblər]) is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage. [1] The play has been canonized as a masterpiece within the genres of ...