La Bohème at Norwegian Opera garners critical acclaim "In his countryman Eivind Gullberg Jensen, he [Stefan Herheim] found a brilliant music fellow on the podium. Similar to Herheim, who went against the grain of 'Bohème' staging traditionalists and delving into the depths of the human soul, Gullberg Jensen explored the real richness and details of this virtuosic score developing the fast changing, nervous, painful, threatening, grotesque, dramatic and ambiguous themes." [Opernwelt, March 2012] "The tremendously acting and sound, sensitive young conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen, as well as the young amazing singers played an enormous part in the striking impact of the performance." [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 January 2012] "The orchestra is very familiar with the music and Gullberg Jensen succeeded in casting the spotlight beautifully on the great sound of Puccini's music." [Dagbladet, 23 January 2012] "The conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen adapted the orchestra to the tight musical frame. A performance that was about beautiful passion, not about scarlet red passion. Puccini wouldn't have had to take too deep a breath in order to be bursting with pride." [Vårt Land, 23 January 2012] "The orchestra follows closely and is always spuring on the story. Eivind Gullberg Jensen leads the orchestra with excellence and it sounds fantastic. Isn't this music really beautiful?" [VG, 23 January 2012] "The young Maestro Eivind Gullberg Jensen conjures from the pit a sumptuous soundscape for Herheim's production..." [Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 22 January 2012] "Thanks to Eivind Gullberg Jensen's alert conducting that was a break through for an impressive music-dramatical teamwork at the Opera House in Bjørvika. [...] We witnessed a perfectly harmonic timing, intertwining the powerful stage settings and the phenomenal sound of the opera orchestra in such a way that they led us to completely new and dark horizons within this well-known drama." [NRK Radio, 22 January 2012] "This opera makes high demands on the artists. To experience the close and detailed collaboration of the orchestra and the singers under the baton of Eivind Gullberg Jensen is simply overwhelming." [Aftenposten, 22 January 2012] "The straightforward conducting style of Eivind Gullberg Jensen was absolutely incredible." [Deutschlandradio Kultur, 20 January 2012] [back to reviews]