Year: 2021

Review: Anne Sofie von Otter in Saariaho’s ‘La Passion de Simone’

SWEDEN Stockholm Kaija Saariaho owes her belated debut at the royal swedish opera to the social distancing guidelines for musical venues and to the organization Jewish Culture in Sweden, which sponsored this performance of her 2006 oratorio La Passion de […]

The Boat that Sank – the Sibelius opera that got away

published in Opera magazine, December 2015 ‘I believe that music alone, that is to say absolute music, is in itself not enough. It arouses emotions alright and induces certain states of mind, but it always leaves something unsatisfied in the […]

Christen Købke’s portrait of Carl von Nutzhorn

Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Portraits by Henry B. Goodwin