Welcome to the Bergen International Festival! On this page you will find information on accreditation, press contacts, delegate programme and available press material.
International Delegate Programme
The Bergen International Festival offers a unique opportunity for international media representatives to join our delegate programme.
Arranged in collaboration with Music Norway, the delegate programme during the 2022 Bergen International Festival provides an opportunity to meet influential representatives of local and international arts industry as well as international media representatives. Travel and accommodation costs may be covered by the programme.
The Bergen International Festival is the largest curated festival for music and performing arts in the Nordic countries and has now launched all events for the 2022 programme.
The theme for the 2022 Bergen International Festival is essence. The Kronos Quartet will be our artist-in-residence, and the programme includes artists such as Taylor Mac, Lise Davidsen, Einar Selvik, Peaches, Roomful of Teeth, Christoph Marthaler and Michael Thalheimer.
Should you be able to travel to Bergen, please let us know.
Press releases
Send us an e-mail if you wish to receive press releases.
Latest press releases
- Press release 10.06.2022 Lise Davidsen to be artist in residence at the 2023 Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.42MB)
- Press release 08.06.2022 More than 70,000 visits to the 70th Bergen International Festival (1) - PDF (0.47MB)
- Press release 25.05.2022 The Bergen International Festival has opened - PDF (0.26MB)
- Press release 16.03.2022 Kronos Quartet to be artist-in-residence at the 2022 Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.46MB)
- Press release 28.01.2022 Lars Petter Hagen announced as Director of the Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.19MB)
- Press release 08.12.2021 The Bergen International Festival turns 70 - PDF (0.43MB)
- Press release 26.10.21 Winner of the Norwegian Soloist Prize 2021 - PDF (0.16MB)
- Press release 09.06.2021 Another different year for the Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.23MB)
- Press release 02.06.21 A cinematic re-telling of The Tempest - PDF (0.41MB)
- Press release 11.05.21 Festival on stage and online - PDF (0.17MB)
- Press release 31.03.21 The American Moth - PDF (0.12MB)
- Press release 02.03.21 Bergen International Festival to China - PDF (0.15MB)
- Press release 24.09.20 Taylor Mac opens the Bergen International Festival with an American extravaganza - PDF (0.43MB)
- Press release 26.08.20 Anders Beyer continues as festival director of the Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.14MB)
- Press release 03.06.20 Audiences came streaming to the Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.35MB)
- Press release 02.06.20 The Bergen International Festival puts evening on hold - PDF (0.13MB)
- Press release 22.05.20 _141 000 views for the Bergen International Festival in its first two days - PDF (0.51MB)
- Press release 08.05.20 Bergen International Festival launches a re-imagined programme for 2020 - PDF (0.13MB)
- Press release 03.12.19 A Festival in motion - PDF (0.14MB)
- Press release 05.06.19 75 000 visits for the 2019 Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.3MB)
- Press release 04.06.19 Salome opens the Bergen International Festival 2020 - PDF (0.15MB)
- Press release 23.05.19 Bergen International Festival Opening - PDF (0.1MB)
- Press release 04.02.19 Festival dreamscapes - PDF (0.26MB)
- Press release 20.12.18 A new look on Peer Gynt – Bieito and Knausgård see the story from Solveig’s point of view - PDF (0.12MB)
- Press release 22.11.18 Yo-Yo Ma to perform in Norway for the first time in 13 years - PDF (0.43MB)
- Press release 06.11.18 Robert Wilson's The Sandman to the Bergen International Festival - PDF (0.26MB)
- Press release 26.02.18 A Festival in faith and doubt - PDF (0.19MB)
- Press release_Anders Beyer Festival Director until 2022 - PDF (0.37MB)
- Press release 07.06.17_A Festival celebrating diversity - PDF (0.49MB)
- Press release 15.02.17 A Festival Programme Exploring Identities - PDF (0.46MB)
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Press accreditation
The 2023 Bergen International Festival starts Wednesday 24 May, and we welcome media representatives. Accreditation for the 2023 edition will open in the spring.
