【Date&Time】

Mar. 20, 2025 (Thur.) 2:00PM & 6:00PM

【Venue】

Multifunction Room 106, Teaching Building

School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen

Admission Free.

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【Reminder】 

*Children under 1.2m are not admitted.

ANNE RANDINE ØVERBY

Anne Randine Øverby is a very profiled and well-known opera artist from Norway. She has been working for the art of opera throughout her career – as a conductor, a producer, and the entrepreneur for the foundation of the second main opera company in Norway – the Opera Bergen.

On an international standard, she has created more than 120 opera productions for a domestic audience. In cooperation with her artistic and technical staff in Opera Bergen, she has managed to bring singers from all over the world to her hometown. The singers performed at a very high level in opera productions that are very well-reviewed by international opera critics. She has demonstrated a remarkable sense of quality in picking her singers, many of them at the beginning of an international breakthrough, and now frequent performers on the most famous opera stages in the world. Thus she has also managed to develop a taste of quality for the art in her hometown and its audience. Also, through the numerous productions, she built the competence of the different technical and artistic challenges connected with the art of making opera.

Her energy and love for the art of opera has been important for creating several first performances in Norway or Scandinavia of high raging opera works, as Massenet's Manon (1982), Verdi's Macbeth (1989), Puccini's Turandot (1993) and Le Villi (1999), Massenet's Werther (2000), Floyd's Susannah (2006), Rachmaninov's The Miserly Knight (2012) and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City Kitezh (2017). She has also brought the Opera Bergen and its productions abroad on different occasions – to Cairo Opera House with Gerschwin's Porgy and Bess (1992) and Samson & Delilah (1993), conducting the Israeli Raanana Symphonette Orchestra. 

In 1998, she brought the Bergen Opera Choir to Smetana Hall in Prague and Goldene Saal, Musikverein in Vienna, performed and conducted Mozart's Requiem. In 2001 Bergen Opera Choir was invited by China National Orchestra to participate in Mahler's 2nd and 8th Symphonies, conducted by Muhai Tang. During their stay in Beijing, Mrs. Øverby conducted her choir and Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem in Forbidden City Concert Hall.

Mrs. Øverby has also opened the world of opera for children through productions of children's operas, including the children as performers in a children's opera choir in Karl Jenkin's Eloise – an opera for young people (2005/06), Libby Larsen's Dreaming Blue (2007) and Peter Maxwell Davies' The Two Fiddlers (2009).

In addition to her extensive domestic work for the art of opera, she also made visits to a large number of international arenas as a conductor of orchestra and opera performances. In 2010, she was invited to the 9th Celebrity Season at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai (India), and produced and conducted a Lloyd Webber Gala Concert/Requiem and a fully staged Puccini's Tosca. In 2008, she was invited to Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China, to conduct Bergen Opera Choir and Beijing Opera and Ballet Orchestra in the Asian premiere of Lloyd Webber's Requiem. In 2007, she was a guest conductor in Shanghai with The International Festival Choir & Orchestra in Handel's Messiah; in Rome, Italy, conducting the Roma Philharmonic Orchestra in the Symphonic Festival 2007; and in Sibiu, Romania, conducting the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. In 2006, she visited Timisoara, Romania, to conduct the Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Schumann's Das Paradies un Der Peri. She was engaged by il Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Italy, to conduct Rimskij-Korsakov's opera Mozart und Salieri, together with Salieri's Requiem. She also was a guest conductor at the Season's opening of the Theater Vorpommern in Strahlsund/Greifswald in Germany.

Other international conducting engagements are Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Arad Philharmonic Orchestra, Romania (2005) and Verdi's Requiem at Budapest Congress Centre in Hungary, Handel's Messiah in Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing/China, and Opera Gala Concert at International Music Festival in Pietra-Neamt, Romania – nationally broadcasted (2004). 

She has also visited as a guest conductor in New Orleans and Mississippi for Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1994), The State Opera in Bucharest for Nabucco (1997), and the Prague State Opera for Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1994).