Twelfth Day concert
Twelfth Day at Berwaldhallen means gala, glamour and classical entertainment across a generous array of genres. Feast on the cream of the crop with a customarily surprising and luxurious concert programme that assuredly will bring back life to frozen, wintry souls. This year Sarah Dawn Finer invites the world famous artists Malin Byström and Peter Mattei to a stunning performance with everything from opera to ballad.
Participants
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
Zero8 is a Stockholm-based male choir that was founded in 2007 by a group of students from Stockholm’s Musik Gymnasium under the direction of Doug Harrington. With its roots in barbershop, the choir also sings music from the classical repertoire, allowing the two genres to influence each other. In September 2024, the choir won the European Grand Prix in choral singing.
The choir is then led by Rasmus Krigström, a composer, conductor and singer with Ringmasters, and consists of 20-50 world-class singers. Zero8’s merits include a top 3 placement in the International Barbershop Chorus Competition, a Grand Prix win at the Rimini International Choral Competition, three CDs and recurring appearances on Swedish Television.
Patrik Ringborg är en av Sveriges internationellt mest efterfrågade dirigenter med en bred konserterfarenhet och en operarepertoar som omfattar över 90 verk. Sedan 2022 är han förste gästdirigent vid Malmö Opera, där han redan lett en lång rad produktioner. Han har varit förste kapellmästare vid Aalto-teatern i Essen, chefsdirigent vid teatern i Freiburg och gästat de flesta stora tyska operahus. Som Generalmusikdirektor vid Staatstheater Kassel ledde han under tio års tid över 150 konserter och 27 nyproduktioner. 2010 debuterade han vid operan i Köln med nypremiären av Rosenkavaljeren, inklusive Dame Kiri te Kanawas avskedsföreställningar.
Som förste gästdirigent vid GöteborgsOperan dirigerade han bland annat Göteborgspremiären av Tristan och Isolde 2003 och premiären av Valkyrian, en nyproduktion av Salome, urpremiären av Hans Gefors Notorious och 2022 Gösta Nystroems Herr Arnes penningar. Vid Kungliga Operan har han bland annat lett den omskrivna premiären av Parsifal i regi av Christof Loy och urpremiären för Daniel Börtz Medea, samt Kungliga Hovkapellets 490-årskonsert.
Ringborg har dirigerat över trettio orkestrar i Tyskland, däribland Dresdens statskapell, Frankfurts Radios symfoniorkester, WDR Västtyska Radions symfoniorkester i Köln och Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, samt varit verksam i många andra länder. I Sverige har han arbetat med samtliga större orkestrar. Han har gästat Kungliga Filharmonikerna i över 25 år och lett orkestern vid exempelvis Nobelprisutdelningen 2008 och utdelningen Birgit Nilsson-priset 2022.
Ringborg tilldelades Svenska Dagbladets Operapris 2014 för produktionerna Parsifal och Rhenguldet och var överst på Opuslistan 2015. Han är ledamot av Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien och förärades 2022 utmärkelsen Litteris et Artibus.
In the winter of 2020, baritone Peter Mattei sang his first Wozzeck, the title role of Alban Berg’s opera, at the Metropolitan in New York. In January, 2020, he also performed Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Lars-David Nilsson at Carnegie Hall in New York. Last season, the same duo went on an acclaimed Nordic concert tour with Winterreise, which led to an album recording as well as a TV version for SVT.
During 2020, Peter also appeared in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at both the Metropolitan, and at Wiener Staatsoper. The role gave him his international breakthrough in Peter Brooks’ production at Aix-en-Provence, and remains one of his favourite roles. He has since performed it at prominent venues, such as the Royal Swedish Opera, the Scottish Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, and the Teatro alla Scala.
Peter made a sensational debut performance as Amfortas in Wagner’s Parsifal at the Metropolitan in the spring of 2013. The following season, he saw yet another success as Wolfram in Tannhäuser at Staatsoper Berlin. Among his many other roles are the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role of Billy Budd, Don Fernando in Fidelio, and Pentheus in Daniel Börtz’ The Bacchae, directed by Ingmar Bergman at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Amelie Borg
Lilly Zetterberg
Philip Sundset Granat
Pontus Sundset Granat
Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission
In collaboration with the Swedish Television (SVT).
The concert will be broadcasted on SVT Chanel 2 on January 5, 19.00.
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