Peter Mattei is a guest at Konserthuset Stockholm where he performs songs by Mahler together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Manfred Honeck. The concert is live streamed from Konserthuset Play Thursday April 29 april at 12:15 (CEST).
Peter Mattei has earlier thuis month performed Mozart arias togerther with Danish National Symphony Orchestra led by Christoph Eschenbach, a concert that was live broadcasted in Danish Radio on April 22.
The Royal Swedish Ballet presents a commissioned piecen for 12 male dancers, Sonatra, choreographed by Joseph Sturdy. Sonatra is performed to a piano composition by Michael Gordon, recorded by Bengt-Åke Lundin, and a piece by Jane Antonia Cornish.
"Joseph Sturdy has created energetic formations wrapped in an abstract language. The 20 minutes piece is based on each of the 12 male dancers, where the bodies are allowed to speak for themselves. In contrast to the static and isolated life we all live in during the ongoing pandemic, Sonatra creates a constant expansive movement.
Sonatra can be viewed from the Royal Swedish Opera streaming service Kungliga Opera Play until June 12, 2021.
The Göteborg Opera presents a Chamber Concert on April 17. Soprano Kerstin Avemo and pianist Rut Pergament perform Arnold Schönberg's cabaret songs Brettl-Lieder, composed in the early 1900s.
The concert is streamed on April 17 and can be viewed at GO Film until May 1 2021.
Kerstin Avemo has the autumn of 2020 been a guest at the Staatsoper Hamburg where she won acclaim for her interpretation of Elle in La voix humaine. Kerstin Avemo is since the season of 2018-2019 an ambassador for the Göteborg Opera where she has been seen in roles like Juliette in Martinů’s Trois fragments de Juliette, Elle in La voix humaine and Mimì in La Bohème.
The medal Litteris et Artibus is each year awarded by HM King Carl XVI Gustaf for outstanding service to the arts, especially to music, dramatic art and literature.
Tenor Daniel Johansson was awarded on awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus with the motivation "For outstanding artistic contributions as an opera singer".
Daniel Johansson has been a guest at opera houses such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, San Fransisco Opera and Bregenzer Festspiele. This autumn he sang his first Tristan in Tristan i Isolde at the opera house in Essen. Daniel has appeared in several roles at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm Don José i Carmen, Cavaradossi i Tosca och Rodolfo i La Bohéme.
In 2018 Daniel Johansson was appointed Court Singer by H.M. The King of Sweden.