The annual Nobel concert will for the first time this year held in Telenor Arena at Fornebu, with 15,000 seats. After 20 years of peace concerts in Oslo Spektrum will nobel boss now renew and change.
– We want to make the concert more accessible, says Olav Njølstad, Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Research and Information AS and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, NRK.
– Telenor Arena, we can cater for more guests thus offering tickets at a cheaper price. We believe may be of interest, not least for families with children, he said.
Criticized for being elitist
Too little popular and elitist has been some of the criticism of the event in the past years.
– The concert is in a form of identity crisis. Man has tried to bite off a little too much and it has been difficult to understand what type of concert it really is, says Mads Borch Bugge, music director of NRK P3.
The prestigious concert has also been a shortfall undertaking. Now new sponsorship contracts and hopefully increased ticket sales reverse the trend.
– The last few years have been difficult for the concert financially so this is also a consequence of it, says Njølstad hoping to fill Telenor Arena in December.
WILL FILL TELENOR ARENA: Promoters of Nobelconcert move the event from the Oslo Spektrum to Telenor Arena. Photo: Nadir Alam / NRK
Great artists
This is the twenty-second year Nobel concert is held in honor of Nobel Peace Prize winner. In recent years, the concert has been held in Oslo Spektrum pg de soste 15 years been broadcast to a global audience. Every year it attached great excitement around both artists and hosts.
In 2014, it was Queen Latifah who led Nobelconcert NRK1. Artists such as Paul McCartney, Sting, A-ha, Rihanna, Kylie Minouge, Alicia Keys, Cyndi Lauper and Wyclef Jean has played at the Nobel concert.
It is not known which artists will be playing this year.
This year’s concert held on Friday, December 11th at Telenor Arena.
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