La Scala Ballet

Peer Gynt

In Cinemas 4, 5 & 8 Oct 2025
Conductor
Victorien Vanoosten
Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Cast
Navrin Turnbull (Peer Gynt), Alice Mariani (Solveig), Andrea Crescenzi (Death), Emanuele Cazzato (A deer), Antonella Albano (Åse, Peer’s mother), Linda Guibelli (Ingrid, the bride), Maria Celeste Losa (Woman in green), Edoardo Caporaletti (A troll chief
Music
Edvard Grieg
Choreography
Edward Clug
Designs
Marko Japelj
Duration
Approx 2h including an interval
Captured live from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 18 Apr 2025
Official Event Listing
  • An outstanding, spellbinding performance that demonstrates the breadth of the company’s talent, with an impressive Navrin Turnbull in the title role. Greig’s glorious score was driven along thrillingly.
    Graham Spicer, GRAMILANO
    Set to Edvard Grieg’s sublime score, the drama is an irresistible mix of naturalism, realism and the absurd, a profile which would spur any imagination. Clug has achieved it famously.
    Sarah Batschelet, BACHTRACK

Ballet in two acts (2015)

New Production! Acclaimed choreographer Edward Clug's striking and poetic contemporary ballet, based on the classic Ibsen play of the same name, comes to La Scala for the first time.

Follow the fantastical and tumultuous journey of the impulsive Peer (Australian rising star Navrin Turnbull), who abandons his humble origins in search of adventure and glory. Peer's travels take him through imaginative landscapes - from the mountains of Norway, through the kingdom of the trolls, to the deserts of North Africa – only to return to Solveig (Alice Mariani), whose enduring love offers him a chance at redemption and meaning.

Featuring bold stage and costume design by Marko Japelj and Leo Kulaš, and set to Grieg’s spellbinding score that boasts some of the most recognisable melodies in all of classical music - from the bucolic serenity of "Morning Mood" to the diabolical frenzy of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" - Clug’s irresistible mix of naturalism, realism and the absurd delivers true magic. Don't miss it

La Scala Ballet

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