The search for the true self
Peer Gynt in the concert version by Alain Perroux in Strasbourg (****½) [live]
“In the 19th century, the question of national identity was crucial in Norway after the country united with the Kingdom of Sweden in 1814. Artists then sought to define what was specifically Norwegian, drawing on legends, popular traditions and Nordic landscapes”. It is what we like to read in a program booklet, at a time when globalism is strongly in decline and the nation state is regaining importance.
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