SISSEL // Opening Ceremony - Winter Olympic Games, Lillehammer -1994

Sissel is performing The Olympic Hymn at the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway -1994. She is singing in Norwegian (nynorsk). The translation is made by Halldis Moren Vesaas. Music arrangement by Frode Thingnæs. Forsvarets representasjonsorkester and a children’s choir. NRK The Olympic Hymn was first performed in 1896, in the first modern Summer Olympic Games, Athens, Greece. Music by Spirou Samara, original lyrics by Cortis Palamas. Stay in touch with Sissel: