Rock, classical, gospel, avant-garde, jazz and blues meet and mix in a performance of hope and faith in a world that gives us every reason to the opposite. Bernstein's MASS challenges and entertains in the tension between the strict and the playful, between meaning and the absurd, between acoustics and quadrophony.
«This is digg, ass'; it fluctuates like hell at times » wrote Morgenbladet's reviewer after the Norwegian premiere in Johanneskirken. 12 years later, Opera Bergen moves the performance outdoors - to Skansedammen - in the middle between the city's variability and the timelessness of the mountainside - and invites you to a party night with depths under Bergen's late summer sky.
