Norway’s Oscar Hopes Spread Out to Multiple Categories

Lise Davidsen, “Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi” (Decca)To open her new album, the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen revisits the role that provided her most recent operatic triumph.It’s a smart choice for this eclectic collection of arias and songs. As Leonore, the wife determined to free her unjustly imprisoned husband in Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Davidsen created a sensation at London’s Covent Garden before the run was cut short by the pandemic a year ago.It’s easy to see why.

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Celtic.But the Norwegian defender has refused to comment on his future or suggestions from his international manager Stale Solbakken that he needs to get out of Glasgow to improve.Ajer is back with his national team for the last gathering before the final clutch of club games including the conclusion of the Premiership.Celtic need to win the delayed Scottish Cup to avoid a blank campaign in terms of silverware.However, while accepting it’s tough to assess his personal situation when it’s all

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Kristoffer Ajer must make a move away from the club. The centre-back, 22, has long been linked with a host of teams from Europe's top leagues, most notably AC Milan who were unable to seal a summer move.

EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood star Rani Mukerji is set to lead feature drama Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway, we can reveal.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Norway’s 84-year-old King Harald V will remain on sick leave from his ceremonial duties until April 11 after successful leg surgery earlier this year, the palace said Friday.In January, the ageing monarch underwent a surgery for torn tendons above the knee and was “in good recovery and continues treatment and training,” the palace said.The sick leave is one of several for the popular king in the past two years.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThough it will forever be associated with one brief mid-1970s heyday, the disaster-movie genre has made a stealth comeback in recent years, being a natural fit for a cinematic era dominated by CGI-laden action fantasies. Of course Hollywood has kept its hand in, with efforts like “San Andreas” and “Pompeii.” But there have also been parries as far afield as China, whose enjoyably ridiculous, volcano-centric “Skyfire” from late 2019 only reached the U.S.

There’s no shortage of movies about kids who discover they possess special powers. Most of these, however — from The Incredibles to the Harry Potter franchise to the Razzie-nominated Tim Allen-starring Zoom: Academy for Superheroes(no, we didn't bother either) — are very much aimed at a younger audience.

straight to your inbox every day for freeAndy Cole has warned that Manchester United will have to offer something more than name recognition if they want to entice Erling Haaland to Old Trafford.United have already missed out on Haaland once, with the Norwegian forward opting to move to Borussia Dortmund from RB Salzburg in January 2020, but they retain an interest in him thanks to his links with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after the two worked together at Molde.

As hooks go, The Painter and the Thief has a great one: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary, by 31-year-old Norwegian filmmaker Benjamin Ree, follows a friendship between a Czech painter and the tattooed gangster who stole two of her most valuable works from an Oslo art gallery. What begins as a caper with a twist, however, soon reveals itself to be a much deeper rumination on things like friendship, self-destructiveness and the artistic impulse.

The Mole Agent”), Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic’s “Charlatan”), Maria Sødahl (Norway’s “Hope”) and Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia’s “The Man Who Sold His Skin”) — have little obviously in common, ranging as they do from long-lauded veterans to a rising talent enjoying her first major international breakout.