![]() And while most groups’ debuts are introductions meant to build new audiences, the Kaizers’ Met performance - its only American date - is also its farewell. The group, a Norwegian alternative-rock sextet whose music is an idiosyncratic amalgam of Scandinavian and Eastern European folk influences filtered through high-energy blues and metal, has had big musical ambitions: its last three albums were installments of “Violeta, Violeta,” a complex rock-opera that involves a dysfunctional family, Satan, vodka and a hefty dose of magical realism (a mother and daughter who can communicate only in dreams, for example).īut though it has a huge following in Scandinavia and devoted audiences elsewhere in Europe, the group is virtually unknown in the United States, probably because it performs only in Norwegian. As high-profile debuts go, the circumstances could hardly be odder for Kaizers Orchestra’s first American performance, on Thursday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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