Hkon Berge - Gagarin (a space travel opera) - Oslo 1991
Conductor - Håkon Berge
Director - Morten Thomte
Espen Fegran, Reidar Sørensen, Joachim Beisvåg, Siri Torjesen, Hilde Torgersen, Anine Kruse, Åshild Kyvik Bauge, Folke Bengtsson, Eivind Bøksle, Per Vollestad
Gagarin – a space opera is a Norwegian television opera , written by Håkon Berge (music) and Bing & Bringsværd (libretto) It was shown on NRK TV on 12 April 1991, on the day thirty years after Soviet Russian Yuri Gagarin completed the first manned space flight and orbited the Earth in Vostok 1 . The music was recorded by the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Håkon Berge.