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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

Barclay’s ‘concert-theater’ approach condensed Ibsen’s play to around 80 minutes, providing a rare opportunity to hear ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ in dramatic context Grieg’s ...

There are few pieces of music that are more instantly recogniseable than ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. But everything in the two complete ...

'I’ve done something about the Hall of the Old Man of Dovre,’ Grieg declared in a letter of 1864, ‘and I literally can’t bear to listen to it, it is so full of cow-turds and Norse-Norsehood!’ Indeed, ...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) wrote his five-act allegorical drama Peer Gynt in 1867 while living in Italy. It tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero.

Georgia Jarman and Caleb Mayo in "Peer Gynt" Ah, spring in St. Louis. Pollen floats, rain gushes, sinkholes open and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra programs a topper for its season, a large-scale ...