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Topic: Bowie, Verdi Share Billing at Roskilde(NSC??) Return to archive
22nd June 2004 10:26 AM
Martha 06/22/2004  07:29:01 EST
Bowie, Verdi Share Billing at Roskilde
By The Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Opera classics by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner will be performed at Denmark's annual Roskilde Festival, one of Europe's biggest outdoor rock events.

Members of the Danish Royal Opera, a chamber choir and a symphony orchestra will play during the July 1-4 musical festival known more for its rock, punk, funk and hip-hop jams.

"It is always exciting when the arts break out of their tight frames and meet with other genres," Kasper Bech Holten, director of the Royal Theater's opera troupe, said Friday. "I'm sure that it'll give festival-goers a different and strong experience which many might not have expected."

Besides the opera - dubbed by the official program as "the most alternative genre" of the festival lineup - an estimated 40,000 fans will also see and hear more than 150 artists on the festival's six stages, including David Bowie, the Pixies, Morrissey, Sahara Hotnights and Avril Lavigne.

First held in 1971, Roskilde, 25 miles west of the capital, Copenhagen, was inspired by the 1969 Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. The event, which in recent years has appeared on MTV, attracts visitors from throughout Europe and the United States.

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22nd June 2004 11:50 AM
jb Only 40,000 fans...rock shows just don't sell like they use to....