Norwegian National Opera Eagerly Anticipates Per Boye Hansen

Per Boye Hansen will take charge in
Norway starting January 2012
(Photo: Nytt Kunstnerisk)

Although he doesn't officially take over the position of director at Den Norske Opera until January 2012, certainly there is excited anticipation for Per Boye Hansen to arrive. Chosen from a list of 61 names, Mr. Hansen was one of only two Norwegian applicants for the job. The current director, Paul Curran has held the position since August 2007. Per Boye Hansen, born October 11, 1957, is a Norwegian opera director and has worked in opera for more than 30 years. He has previously worked as director of the Bergen International Festival (2005-2011). In the years 1983 to 1989 he was assistant director at the opera in Cologne and the Salzburg Festival. During these years he worked with such regarded directors as Michael Hampe, Willy Decker, Hans Neugebauer and Jean-Pierre Ponelle. From 2001 to 2005 he was director of the Komische Oper Berlin. Hansen has a degree in theater studies and musical director at the University of Oslo and received his diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, the Ruhr, the line of music-director. He founded the Oslo Summer Opera in 1983 where he was artistic director until 1992, and Oslo Arts Management AS in 1990 as he led until 2000. He is from 2011 chairman of the jury for the International Ibsen Award. [Source, Source] More about the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, as well as photographs of the award-winning structure of the Oslo Opera House, after the jump.