In December 2024, the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie premieres a brand new opera based on the 1982 Ingmar Bergman film "Fanny and Alexander". Music by Mikael Karlsson and libretto by Royce Vavrek. Ivo van Hove directs the piece. The cast includes Sasha Cooke (Emilie), Thomas Hampson (Bishop Vergerus), Peter Tantsits (Oscar), Doris Soffel (Helena), […]

A play in two acts by legendary Swedish playwright Kristina Lugn, directed by Mellika Melouani Melani, at the Royal Dramatic Theater (Dramaten) in Stockholm. The play is in Swedish, with no subtitles. Description in Swedish from the Dramaten homepage. verpastej och döden. Medelålder och avgrund. Kristina Lugns Titta en älg handlar om kvinnorna som lyckats […]

Mikael Karlsson’s song cycle So We Will Vanish about the destruction of the natural landscape is dedicated to the Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Text by Royce Vavrek and Orchestration by Michael P. Atkinson and Mikael Karlsson. At Berwaldhallen von Otter meets the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by […]