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Daniel Harding quits as chief conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – and the Baltic Sea Festival offers an opera about Russian history. So will Berwaldhallen’s upcoming season.
For 18 years, Daniel Harding has led the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, but the coming season will be his last. Harding then stages the world premiere of Jesper Nordin’s “Silhouettes & shadows” and makes a concert version of Wagner’s last opera “Parsifal”. In addition, he highlights women in the history of classical music – and some of those who are played are Valborg Aulin, Lili Boulanger and Emmy Lindström.
The season otherwise opens with the Baltic Sea Festival on August 23, with pianist Yuja Wang as guest star. But first is Modest Mussorgsky’s opera “Khovanshchina”, about a turbulent time in Russia’s history.
“There is no other opera whose plot is like reading a daily newspaper today,” says conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, one of the founders of the festival in a press release.
On Ukraine’s Independence Day, August 24, “Looking at Ukraine” is given, where Ukrainian and Swedish musicians play together, under the direction of Ukrainian-British Maxim Rysanov.
The radio choir will also be 100 years old in 2025 and will celebrate the anniversary with a number of concerts, starting in February 2025. Among other things, there will be Britta Byström’s “Another part of the wood”.
