Original Cast Recording of KRISTINA To Be Released 4/12

The original cast recording of Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Herbert Kretzmer's KRISTINA will be released on April 12 by Decca Records.

The album, which is a recording of the show when it was performed at Carnegie Hall last year, will come as two discs. The cast featured on the CD includes Helen Sjöholm, Russell Watson, Louise Pitre and Kevin Odekirk, and the American Theatre Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Paul Gemignani.

The tracks on the CD include "Where You Go I Go With You," "Golden Wheat Fields," "Peasants at Sea," "Wild Grass," and "Here I Am Again."

Originally titled Kristina från Duvemåla, the musical premiered at the Malmo Music Theatre in Sweden in 1995 to great acclaim from critics and audiences alike. The musical ran for almost four years, winning four Guldmasken Theatre Awards (Sweden's Tony) and was seen by more people than any other musical in Swedish history.

In 1996, a concert version of KRISTINA was performed (in Swedish) at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; a part of the country where many of the events in the Moberg novels took place. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called the concert "engaging, emotionally charged and haunting."

Based on The Emigrants series of novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg (The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home), KRISTINA tells the epic story of an extended family's migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th Century.
KRISTINA will have its U.K. premiere on April 14 at the Royal Albert Hall.

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