Ballet „Peer Gynt”

Henrik Ibsen’s world famous dramatic poem (1867) is the basis for this full-length ballet. The plot centers on the adventurous Peer Gynt, having gone off into the world in search of …. , finally returns home a mature man where his beloved Solweig has waited for him. Will this courtship be Peer’s last adventure? The illustrious Slovenian choreographer Edward Klug has modernized the proceedings and chooses elements of irony, absurdism and surrealism as his main tools of expression, all set to Edvard Grieg’s lilting melodies.