Sissel Kyrkjebø: The Olympic Hymn - Lillehammer 1994

Sissel Kyrkjebø 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 12.02.94
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.
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