EPIPHANY CONCERT 2021
In Berwaldhallen, Epiphany means glitter, glamour and classic entertainment. Begin the year with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir and amazing guest stars Malin Byström and Lisa Nilsson. Malin Byström replaces Malena Ernman due to illness. Join us for this musical treat, guaranteed to rejuvenate frozen, wintry spirits.
Broadcast on Swedish Radio P2 January 8, 7:03pm and on SVT Play January 9, 7pm. The concert will also be available afterwards at Berwaldhallen Play.
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.
32 professional choristers make up the Swedish Radio Choir: a unique, dynamic instrument hailed by music-lovers and critics all over the world. The Swedish Radio Choir performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, as well as on tours all over the country and the world. Also, they are heard regularly by millions of listeners on Swedish Radio P2, Berwaldhallen Play and globally through the EBU.
The award-winning Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš was appointed Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir in 2020. Since January 2019, its choirmaster is French orchestral and choral conductor Marc Korovitch, with responsibility for the choir’s vocal development.
The Swedish Radio Choir was founded in 1925, the same year as Sweden’s inaugural radio broadcasts, and gave its first concert in May that year. Multiple acclaimed and award-winning albums can be found in the choir’s record catalogue. Late 2023 saw the release of Kaspars Putniņš first album with the choir: Robert Schumann’s Missa sacra, recorded with organist Johan Hammarström.
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Malin Byström sang Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House in London in 2019, a role she has also sung at, for instance, the Metropolitan Opera. She has had recurring engagements at the Royal Opera House in roles including Hélène in Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, Mathilde in Rossini’s William Tell and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
At the Metropolitan Opera she has also sung Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and the title role in Strauss’ Arabella. She has appeared at the Royal Swedish Opera as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, the title role in Giordano’s Fedora and Romilda in Handel’s Serse.
She has also performed at the Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Gothenburg Opera and Grand Théâtre de Genève. On the concert stage she has performed several times with conductor Kurt Masur, she has sung Sibelius’ Kullervo with Eivind Gullberg Jensen and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with Herbert Blomstedt. In 2008 she received the Birgit Nilsson Award and in 2018 she was awarded Court Singer and named Female Singer of the Year at the International Opera Awards.
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