Peer Gynt

For the first time Edward Clug’s Peer Gynt debuts at La Scala, a narrative yet oneiric ballet with an evocative theatrical structure that accompanies the physical and inner journey of this legendary figure from Nordic folklore, a dramatic character among the most complex to come out of Ibsen’s pen. A powerful and compelling work, born of research into the great playwright’s text and Grieg’s music in order to unite their respective inspirations, overcoming the limitations of each. Clug has created a new libretto that follows Ibsen’s narrative chronologically and combines Grieg’s stage music for Peer Gynt with his other famous concert and chamber pieces for a dynamic and coherent development of the narrative. By fusing the artistic worlds of Ibsen and Grieg, a new ensemble is created, and a landscape with many doors: Clug has chosen his own, which he opens to audience and invites them to walk through them, to enter a new experience of contemporary ballet.