Birgit Nilsson-dagarna Master Class

About Birgit Nilsson Master Class

On August 4 – 7, 2024, the Birgit Nilsson Master Class for singers will be arranged. The work culminates in a concert in the Birgit Nilsson hall at Ravinen, Båstad on August 8.

Thank you for your support

Birgit Nilsson Master Class is carried out with the support of Prince Carl Gustaf’s foundation, Annika and Gabriel Urwitz Foundation, Helge Ax:son Johnson’s foundation and Anders Wall’s foundation.

A big and warm thank you!

Additional information about Birgit Nilsson-Days 2024 and tickets can be found at Julius Biljettservice.

Katarina Dalayman

Katarina Dalayman is leading this summer’s Master Class for young singers in Båstad. If you are a novice in the opera genre, the Masterclass is a fantastic opportunity to participate as an audience during the teaching.

Birgit Nilsson hall, Ravinen in Båstad, 4–7 August at 10.30-16.30 Tickets are sold via Julius Biljettservice.

Elisabeth Boström

Pianist Elisabeth Boström works as Casting Director at Malmö Opera and is responsible for the Malmö Opera Academy, the two-year master’s program for opera singers and repetiteurs that Malmö Opera runs in collaboration with the Malmö Academy of Music.

She is a frequent chamber musician specializing in romance interpretation and operatic repertoire and has toured the US, the Middle East and Europe. She has appeared repeatedly on radio and TV, on several CD recordings and streamed concerts. Scholarships and awards awarded to her include the Royal Academy of Music’s Wilhelm Freund Scholarship and Märta Stuhre’s Piano Scholarship.

Elisabeth Boström is a recurring guest at the Birgit Nilsson days.

Jacob Lidåkra

Jacob Lidåkra is a pianist from Stockholm, educated at the Royal Academy of Music and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 2016 he debuted at the Musikverein in Vienna and has played at festivals in Sweden and abroad. In addition to his solo career, Jacob has worked with singers for over a decade. He has been an accompanist at the Mirjam Helin international singing competition in Helsinki and he is a regular guest at the Master Class during the Birgit Nilsson days.

Birgit Nilsson Master Class Foto Gunilla Hovenäs

Fantastic to experience the course leaders' tremendous professional accompaniment of extremely promising young singers, grateful to experience this

Anna Forsman

Ravinen Kulturhus

RAVINEN is a living and dynamic meeting place for art, music, experiences and design on the Bjäre Peninsula in Southern Sweden. RAVINEN is located at Norrviken’s gardens in Båstad, next to the stream ravine that gave the cultural center its name.

Birgit Nilsson hall

A venue and common room for various forms of scenic creation such as chamber music and jazz concerts, theatre, opera and dance performances, film screenings, symposia, lectures, literary events and more. The selection and content must correspond to the high artistic level that applies to RAVINE, but must also provide room for experimentation and play. A unique, flexible, aesthetic and imaginative room with a new Steinway C-grand and 210 audience seats.