Name: Karolinas sömn
Start: 2022-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: NorrlandsOperan

Organization

Conductor

Christian Karlsen

Singer

Elisabeth Meyer

Soprano

soloist

NorrlandsOperan

Orchestra

Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester

Karolinas sömn

Umeå

Sweden

Karolinas sömn Eliasson

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Bass

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

A concert chamber opera
When Karolina Olsson from Oknö woke up one morning in 1908, she had slept well - not for one night, but for 32 years. Now she would soon turn 47 years old and felt refreshed and well. What had happened? What external cause had brought her into such an exceptional state?

At Christmas 1875, when she was 14 years old, she was out on the ice and had a toothache. She went home, lay down and fell into a 32-year-old sleep. How can one understand or explain the long-term exclusion from everyday life? Would the toothache be the only cause? Was she in fact a simulator - if so why? She must have had some kind of consciousness, during all these years. What did she experience where she lay? How did the next of kin - the mother - look at her? What did she know about how her daughter experienced her childhood - was there anything she had reason to try to hide? An indescribable betrayal? A mental crisis?

Shape sleep in an opera?
The idea for the project comes from soprano Lena Hoel, who first heard about Karolina's sleep when she saw an exhibition with glass artist Bertil Vallien's man-high glass sculptures. Vallien had read about Karolina in an old newspaper article and created the "enclosed" figures. The story of the young woman was easy to associate with the world of stagnant, frozen glass. Would it be possible to portray Karolina's long sleep in an opera?

With Vallien's glass art as a scenographic starting point, Lena turned to the composer Anders Eliasson and the author Bengt Emil Johnson in the belief that they could give words and tone to the two people who act in the room of glass: the mother and the daughter.

Conductor Christian Karlsen
Christian Karlsen, one of Europe's leading conductors, has worked with most of the world's foremost contemporary composers, including Polar Prize winners Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho and Sofia Gubajdulina. In 2015-2017 he was artistic director of the Dutch festival Dag in de Branding and in 2008-2014 he was artistic director of the New European Ensemble. In 2018, together with pianist David Huang, he founded the festival Gränslandet Symfonisk Fest at Trädgården in Stockholm.

English

Karolinas sömn by Eliasson, A., Mie 04 Mai 2022, De la (2022/2022), Dirijor Christian Karlsen, NorrlandsOperan, Umeå, Sweden

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