About Per-Erik Skramstad

Per-Erik Skramstad, Wagneropera.net

Photo made for fun during a photography course in Norway.

Wagneropera.net is developed by Norwegian web developer and editor Per-Erik Skramstad.

Wagner recordings and books can be sent to: Per-Erik Skramstad, Kantarellveien 71, 1476 Rasta, Norway.

I manage several Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts and develop and manage web sites on a contractual basis for larger and smaller companies, mostly Norwegian. I have also done some pro bono work for nonprofit organizations.

My clients have included Teres Medical Group, Aleris, Volvat, Cosmo Clinic, Akademikliniken, Hurtigruten USA, Greater Talent Network and Spitsbergen Travel (Svalbard). My professional goals are to provide high-quality content, search engine optimization and interrelationships between web sites and social media. My areas of expertise include developing and designing sites for small companies, quality assurance and analyzing sites to obtain higher visibility in search engine results so as to increase web page traffic. My Homepage is Webkommunikasjon.no

Richard Wagner is my great passion. I attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1990, 1997, 2008, 2010 and 2013. My greatest experiences at Bayreuth are: Harry Kupfer's Ring (1990), Heiner Müller's Tristan in 1997, Stefan Herheim's Parsifal in 2008 and Hans Neuenfels Lohengrin and Christian Thielemann's interpretation of the Ring in 2010.

Wagneropera.net was launched in April 2008. Articles without a byline are written by the editor. The web site has no income except for a small remuneration from the Amazon affiliate links and this is not enough to cover the costs. So basically the site is driven by passion and in my spare time.

Wagneropera.net's Facebook Page and the Norwegian section on Wagneropera.net are all part of the Richard Wagner web project. Wagneropera.net is also on Twitter and even on YouTube.

Early in my career I wrote two novels of the grotesque genre. Neither of them are translated into English.

Per-Erik Skramstad self-portrait

Phototgraphy is another of my passions. This is a self-portrait through water drop on icicle. On my photo site Amatorfotografen.no you can see some of my photos if you don't have anything better to do.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad

For some years now my work has been concentrating on the travel business, small businesses in various areas and private healthcare in Norway. It has given my a wide range of professional challenges, and has forced me to get deeper into different topics like bank and insurance, RV rentals, tourism in Norway and the Arctic, designer headstones (!), obesity surgery, orthopedic surgery, skin treatments, gynecology, plastic surgery etc. I have had the pleasure of working with some of Norway's and Poland's best developers and companies as well as experts of search engine optimazation and general digital marketing.

Contact info

E-mail: editor@wagneropera.net

Linkedin profile

For press material the snail mail way:

Wagneropera.net
Per-Erik Skramstad
Skårer terrasse 10
1473 Lørenskog
Norway

Social Media

One of the finest monuments in sound ever to have been raised to the everlasting glory of music. (Claude Debussy on Parsifal)

"The thing about Wagner is that there can be no true success in any production of his operas, only degrees of failure. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." (Keith Warner, The Guardian)

"I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. They take everything personally. It makes you a little bit scared, and it's really quite terrifying." (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth)

"People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. The audience, as much as the artists, must be prepared for a performance."
(Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone)

"I was bowled over. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. The light changed with the music, and the shadows and patterns seemed as archetypal as the music itself. Nobody had done that on the stage before. I thought it was extraordinary and wonderful."
(Patrick Carnegy to The Guardian)

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