Incredibly unheard at Royal Opera AB

Listen to our music Swedish tax in Opera's popular series Extremely unheard. Together with the Academy of Music, we have developed the delights of Swedish opera and chamber music. During four concerts in the Opera's beautiful golden foyer you'll enjoy the classic champion from the 1700s, romantic nationalism and the Swedish 1900s. All concerts are presented by the Opera dramaturg Katarina Aronsson.

The concerts will start at 18.00 in the Golden Foyer. Opera's cafeteria is open all concert evenings.
Program
Music of Gustav III

October 8, 2015 at 18
At Gustav III's court flourished the arts, especially music. Here we find the starting point of what we see today as a Swedish opera.

Composers: Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814) and Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)

Participants: Marianne Hellgren Staykov, Sara Olsson, Johanna Rudström, Jonas Degerfeldt, Dmitry Tyapkin, Andrei Nikolaev with the Swedish String Quartet and others.

Excerpts from Georg Joseph Vogler opera Gustaf Adolf and Ebba Brahe from 1788 with text by King Gustaf III and Johan Henrik Kellgren.

Excerpts from Joseph Martin Kraus Aeneas in Carthage from 1799 with lyrics by Johan Henrik Kellgren.

Additionally piano music by Vogler and Kraus String Quartet E major.


Tales and nature poetry

November 18, 2015 at 18
The Nordic light shone not only in Swedish painting the years around the turn of the century. The love for nature and Swedish folk tales can also be seen on the opera stage and in the music.

Composer: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942)

Starring: Tobias Ringborg, Ola Eliasson, Elisabeth Meyer, Ingrid Tobiasson, Jesper Taube, Hans-Erik Goksöyr.

Excerpts from Wilhelm Peterson-Berger-forgotten opera Adil and Elisiv from 1927, Arnljots Greeting Song (1910) and Peterson-Berger's posthumously published violin sonatas.


Literature composers

February 3rd, 2016 at 18
August Strindberg was the composer Ture Rangström's great motivator, but he was also interested in other writers. The result was strong, concentrated, and lyrical music.

Composer: Ture Rangström (1884-1947)

Excerpts from operas Gilgamesj from 1952 Kronbruden from 1922 and the String Quartet "Un notturno tional maniera di E.Th.A.Hoffmann" from 1909th

Participants: Karin Ingebäck, Marianne Eklöf, Inese Klotina Others


Future beautiful sonorities

April 21, 2016 at 18
During the 1900s the first subversive decades stepped art forms into a new time. Space Operas and expressive modernism coexisted with delicate, beautiful sonorities.

Composers: Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986) and Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968)

Starring: Conny Thom Anderson, Sara Olsson, Susanne Végh, Kristina Martling, Royal Wind Quintet Others

Excerpts from Larsson's opera The Princess of Cyprus (1937) and Blomdahl rythms (1959), Larsson Quattro Tempi - Divertimento for Wind Quintet, as well as songs and chamber of Blomdahl.