Alexander Ekman's hit MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is back at the Royal Swedish Opera A universal theme, the same longing for light summer nights, a dream of the origin of everything, a night of love and lust. The boundary between reality and the supernatural is unclear. Traditions are distorted, the world changes, and all of a […]

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 Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by […]

Dance piece by Mari Carrasco. 40 minutes. On the small stage at the Royal Swedish Opera. Who hasn't felt alone at a party at some point, despite being among people? In the dance performance Forever, the audience is part of an ongoing party in the Opera's Rotunda. During the performance they go from being observers […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

Maria Radutu is one of Europe's leading pianists. She recorded "Sovereign" by Mikael Karlsson for her album "Phoenix". Her new concert program "The Liberation of Classical Music" which premieres in the legendary MuTh Konzertsaal in Vienna on April 28 finishes with Mikael's "Ragtime" which was written for five pianos as part of Alexander Ekman's "Rooms", […]

Four dancers as rock stars in “Little Concert” – a dance piece of contrasts for young people. It is wild and elegant, passionate and depressing. Internationally, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani are almost as acclaimed as rock stars. Tickets for their tour performances sell out all over the world. When four of the dancers go on tour in […]

Alexander Ekman's PLAY, created for the Paris Opera Ballet, goes to Tokyo, Japan. All the same musicians, including Callie Day, will perform there. I will be there for the premiere.

For this one Michael P. Atkinson and I have composed the score together. Renaissance meets punk in Scottish Ballet’s retelling of the story of one of Scotland’s most famous women. Two women. Two crowns. One story. As her death approaches, Elizabeth I of England is haunted by memories – both real and imagined – of […]

Participants Omer Meir Wellber, conductor Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Swedish Radio Choir Works Mikael Karlsson & Anna von Hausswolff: Grand Guignol 42 min (final orchestration by Michael P. Atkinson) Claude Debussy: Nocturnes 25 min Alexander Skriabin: Poème de l'extase, Op. 54 22 min Grand Guignol is based on a type of theatre that was born […]

”Romeo och Julia” med Unga Klara, 6–7 september, Sergels torg.