Press - reviews
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Operas
DAGNY - An opera-cabaret by Henning Sommerro :
Opera Magazine, UK: With a tiny lightening rig, approximate period costumes, and ferocious focus, Sommerro´s small team of performers bring Dagny back to life. Augestad gives a wonderfully capricious, self –assured nuanced performance…
Shirley Apthorp (2017)
(Complete review)
Blog, Dorota Szwarchman (Culture jounalist, Polityka, Poland)
Tora Augestad impresses the most with her convincing and captivating portrayal of Dagny, full of warm, generous colour.
Dorota Szwarchman
(Complete review)
Glåmdalen (Newspaper Kongsvinger)
The ensemble were showered with roses and enthusiastic applause after an intense hour. Dagny is thriving!
Anita Krog
(Complete review)
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QUERINI OPERA - an opera at Røst
Nordland News
The Querini opera is with its history and quality so exceptional that it will bring international attention… it is easy to feel enthusiastic by the idea, the spirit and the creative crazy-ness…it is art of upper-class.
Nordland News 2012
NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting - Nordland
Three performances, four million crones, outsold houses and the one and only word from a gathered audience is: fantastic. The newly written opera about Pietro Querini´s shipwreck and rescue is a huge success.... John Inge Johansen
Financial Times
The tiny Lofoten island of Røst, with its 500 inhabitants has written opera history 2012 “ Olsen and Sommerro have created an unpretentious, effective account of Querini´s story.. Their music is simple without being simplistic, and they sing it with polish and infectious passion
Shirley Apthorp
Opera Now
Above all this was an effective and highly engaging instance of a community coming together and celebrating its heritage through music and drama
Simon Rees
Orchestral Music
Aly Bain & the BT Scottish Ensemble, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Financial times
Collaboration between classical and traditional music are not new, nor are they always good news, but Sommerro hit precisely the right tone here.
It was the Scottish sequence that showed Sommerro´s talent at it´s most imaginative.
January 1996
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