- Concert
- 23 apr 2017, Main Stage.
- Duration: 2 hours and 25 minutes, including 1 interval
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Ensemble
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Team
- Conductor
- Patrik Ringborg
Ensemble
- Mr Arne
- Mats Almgren
- His wife
- Carolina Sandgren
- Elsalill
- Julia Sporsén
- Foster sister
- Ida Falk Winland
- Torarin
- Tomas Lind
- His mother
- Matilda Paulsson
- Sir Archie
- Mats Persson
- Sir Filip
- Daniel Ralphsson
- Sir Reginald
- Peter Loguin
- Olof the Groom
- Lars Hjertner
- Landlord at Branehög
- Thomas Jönsson
- Landlady at Branehög
- Carolina Sandgren
- Boatswain
- Jonas Landström
- Landlady at Marstrand
- Matilda Paulsson
- Fish cleaner
- Yvonne Helander
- Fish cleaner
- Annika Dahlin
- Skipper
- Mats Almgren
- A sailor
- Iwar Bergkwist
- Guest 1/ Voice 1
- Herbjörn Thordarson
- Guest 2/ Voice 2
- Tore Sverredal
- A voice (soldier)
- Miklos Taliga
- The Göteborg Opera Chorus
- Siren – Guest singer from Högskolan för scen och musik in Gothenburg
- The Göteborg Opera Orchestra
- Narrator
- Ingahlill Wagelin
Ticket price SEK 100–295.
Herr Arnes penningar
Opera in one act by Gösta Nystroem (1890-1966).
Libretto by Bertil Malmberg, based on Selma Lagerlöf’s novel. New edition: Patrik Ringborg.
Performed in Swedish with Swedish surtitles, in concert form.
The sea and the Bohuslän coastline are present in every bar of Herr Arnes penningar. Along with the French Impressionists, the sea was a powerful source of inspiration for the composer, Gösta Nystroem.
The story centers around the tragic Elsalill, who falls in love with the murderer of her family, Sir Archie, but is tormented by her dead foster sister, who urges her to avenge their deaths. Nystroem skillfully orchestrates the action, in which the dead sister, written for a high soprano, is accompanied by a saw. He often conveys the constant presence of the sea through the choir, in wordless vocal song, particularly in the final scene as the ice rises and the gates to the sea open.
The lead role will be sung by Julia Sporsén, who enjoyed great success in John Adams’ A Flowering Tree in 2015. With Patrik Ringborg on the conductor’s podium, the audience may expect something extraordinary.
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