Fate & guilt

The Baltic Sea Festival’s grand finale invites you to an evening of drama and rich sonorities. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, baritone Peter Mattei, and saxophonist Asya Fateyeva. The program opens with Erkki-Sven Tüür’s new saxophone concerto – a work that looks toward the future – before Sibelius’s monumental Kullervo draws us deep into the mythic world of the Finnish epic. A closing night where contemporary sound meets Nordic legend in a powerful musical encounter.

29 August
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Berwaldhallen
350 - 650 kr

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Fate & guilt

29 August

VenueBerwaldhallen
Ticket price350 - 650 kr

  • 29 August 2026 ● saturday 19:00

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The Baltic Sea Festival returns to Stockholm from 21–29 August 2026, filling the city with music that spans the intimate to the monumental. You can look forward to a rich mix of orchestral concerts, chamber music, choral works, jazz explorations, contemporary premieres, and boundary-crossing collaborations.

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Baltic Sea Festival 2026

  • 21 August
    350 - 650 kr

    Rythm and ritual

    The Baltic Sea Festival 2026 opens with premieres and pulse! Andres Orozco-Estrada debuts as Chief Conductor, Hillborg’s Hell Mountain has its Swedish premiere, and Molly Kien’s new work receives its world premiere. Soprano Malin Byström sparkles in Alma Mahler’s songs before the evening culminates in Stravinsky’s iconic The Rite of Spring.
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  • 26 August
    350 - 650 kr

    Dreams of freedom

    The Czech Philharmonic returns under Semyon Bychkov, joined by internationally acclaimed pianist Yunchan Lim in his Swedish debut. Ravel’s Piano Concerto dazzles with jazzy, dreamlike colours, followed by Smetana’s Má Vlast, a majestic journey through Bohemia’s landscapes and spirit.
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  • 27 August
    350 - 650 kr

    Beyond baroque

    Day four of the Baltic Sea Festival 2026 takes us beyond the boundaries of time. Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński returns together with the baroque orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro for a program exploring the music of the early Baroque.
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  • 28 August
    350 - 650 kr

    Beethoven's DNA

    What lies at the core of Beethoven’s music – and where do its building blocks come from? Martin Fröst leads the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in a program where Jacob Mühlrad’s Helix meets Hans Ek’s DNA Suite, inspired by Bach, Rameau, and Handel. The evening culminates in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 – a work carrying this entire musical heritage in its DNA.
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  • Few seats remaining
    August 28
    275 kr

    Late Night Concert with the Swedish Radio Choir

    As the summer evening drifts into night, the Swedish Radio Choir takes over Nordiska museet with an atmosphere‑laden programme moving between ancient spirituality and contemporary sonic brilliance. ogether with violist Ami‑Louise Johnsson, we encounter everything from Bach’s introspective Baroque lines and Ligeti’s hypnotic solo viola to the deeply meditative choral music of Tavener and McDowall.
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  • 23 August

    Schweitzer, Lyssarides & Co

    Trombonist and big band leader Tilde Schweitzer and multi-award-winning pianist Joel Lyssarides take the stage at Fasching together with 16 string musicians in a concert that grew out of their shared love of the orchestral jazz tradition.
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  • 29 August
    Free - only signup is needed

    ARTS LAB at the Finnish Institute

    Do you want to hear what the concert halls of the future might sound like? During the Baltic Sea Festival, you can meet the participants of ARTS LAB – a project that brings together promising instrumentalists and composers from across the Baltic Sea region in a creative collaboration. ARTS LAB unites participants handpicked from the Voksenåsen Talent Program and Creative Dialogue, coached by internationally renowned mentors.
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  • 22 Augusti

    Family day and open house

    Join the Baltic Sea Festival's traditional family day for all ages!
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  • 22 August
    80 - 275 kr

    Back to Bach with Lozakovich

    Internationally acclaimed violinist Daniel Lozakovich offers an exklusive concert in Storkyrkan featuring music by his great artistic beacon, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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  • August 25
    350 - 650 kr

    Passion and protest

    The Czech Philharmonic visits the Baltic Sea Festival! Under its legendary chief conductor Semyon Bychkov, Janine Jansen performs Shostakovich’s first violin concerto, followed by Dvořák’s dramatic seventh symphony.
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  • 27 August
    275 kr

    Berwald’s septet and Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings

    Musicians from the Czech Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra meet in the Queen Silvia Concert Hall to perform chamber music by Franz Berwald and Antonín Dvořák.
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  • 29 August
    275 kr

    Opus13 & Monbijou Quartet

    Monbijou Quartet and Opus13 come together in a program that moves between contemporary sonic imagination and the rich tradition of the classical...
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