EDVARD GRIEG - SOLVEIG'S SONG

SOLVEIG'S SONG

MARITA SOLBERG

SONGWRITER: Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907)

SCRIPT: HENRIK IBSEN

COUNTRY: NORWAY

ALBUM: Peer Gynt - Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

LABEL: ERATO DISQUE

YEAR: 2005

Solveig is a central character in the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. She sings the famous "Solveig's Song" in Edvard Grieg's musical suite of the same name. Ibsen uses sun imagery in association to the character (scene 10, act 5), indicating that Ibsen may have favored the idea that the name is etymologically associated with the sun. There is also a female central character in the Argentine novelist Leopoldo Marechal's Adán Buenosayres named Solveig Amundsen. Furthermore, Solveig is the main character and narrator of Matthew J. Kirby's Icefall.

Marita Kvarving Sølberg (March 22, 1976) is a Norwegian soprano.

Kanske vil der gå både Vinter og Vår

Og naeste Sommer med, op det hele År

Men engang vil du komme, det ved jeg visst.

Her skal jeg nok vente, for det lovte jeg sidst.

Gud styrke dig, hvor du i Verden går

Gud glaede dig, hvis du for hans fodskammel står

Her skal jeg vente till du komme igjen

Og vente du hisst oppe, vi traeffes der, min Ven!