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New opera season approaching

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Culture

This year’s opera season is nearing an end. The highlight has, without doubt, been Guiseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto that played last week – and although Peter Grimes (only remaining) probably will be good, I take the chance of already declaring Rigoletto the best of the season. Next year’s season is approaching rapidly and I’ve already secured

The month of traveling

The month of traveling

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Cigars, Culture, Travel

September ended up becoming this year’s Month of travel. It started off with a trip to Dortmund, Germany between the 17th and 19th in relation to Inter-tabac, a cigar gathering. As I’m the majority owner of a cigar importer in Norway this proved to be a very informative event. Below is a picture of myself

My Opera Calendar

My Opera Calendar

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Culture

Granted I’ve always been an opera nut, but this year I am particularly looking forwards to the season, which is set up with a few twists. 15 August 2010: AIDA by Guiseppe Verdi I’m not gonna write too much about the opera itself, that can quite easily be read elsewhere, e.g. on wikipedia . What