Hedda Gabler of the Sol Invictus album "In The Rain". The Norwegian hard-rock band Black Debbath recorded the song "Motörhedda Gabler" on their Ibsen-inspired album "Naar Vi Døde Rocker" ("When We Dead Rock"). As the title suggests, the song is also influenced by British heavy metal band Motörhead. The original play "Heddatron" by Elizabeth Meriwether (b. 1981) melds "Hedda Gabler" with a modern family's search for love despite the invasion of technology into everyday life. In the 2013 novel "Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy" by Helen Fielding, Bridget tries and fails to write a modernised version of "Hedda Gabler", which she
Peer Gynt (Grieg) ""Peer Gynt" progresses slowly," he wrote to a friend in August 1874, “and there is no possibility of having it finished by autumn. It is a terribly unmanageable subject.” "The more he saturated his mind with the powerful poem, the more clearly he saw that he was the right man for a work of such witchery and so permeated with the Norwegian spirit," his wife wrote of him and his music. Even though the première was a "triumphant success", it prompted Grieg to complain bitterly that the Swedish management of the theatre had given him specifications as to the duration