Many a TV advertisement (or, dare we say it, telephone on-hold service) has used the opening movement, Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 to create a musical mood. The fourth movement depicting ...

Edvard Grieg always wanted to write a truly Norwegian opera; he never did, but the incidental music he wrote for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, which includes several aria-like songs and some choral numbers, is ...

I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing talent! Last night, at Peer Gynt, the stage at the Stifel was chock-a-block with the full St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the SLSO Chorus—plus ten ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend at Stifel Theatre with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The project reunites ...

Written in five acts of rhyming Danish verse, Peer Gynt is a play by Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, which was set to music by fellow countryman Edvard Grieg. Where does the jazz come in? Like so much jazz, ...

"Peer Gynt is arrogant, manipulative, and dishonest, yet we can't take our eyes off him. This timeless fantasy captures the misadventures of its charismatic central character on a journey to find his ...

I expected the worst: when one reads that a director has abused the actors at a public preview one assumes a disaster is in the offing. But, compared to such previous Olivier stinkers as The Villains' ...

Thought impossible to stage, the original Peer Gynt is Henrik Ibsen‘s 1867 5-act masterwork of poetic indulgence, combining trolls, demons, storms, even a pack of apes. Thought to be a deliberate ...