Anne Sofie von Otter leads this summer's Master Class for young singers in Båstad, with a focus on concert and lieder repertoire. The course features within the framework of the Birgit Nilsson Days, which this summer takes place for the sixth consecutive year.  The week long musical activities also include the annual Stipendium recital, traditionally held in the church of Västra Karup (locally acknowleged as “Birgit’s church), and an open-air concert performance of Puccini’s opera Tosca at the Birgit Nilsson…

After an intense week for the participants in this year's Birgit Nilsson Masterclass, they gave a closing concert on Thursday evening in front of an enthusiastic audience at the Birgit Nilsson hall at Ravinen, Båstad. After introductory words by Birgit Nilsson Society's chairman Claes Remminger, six singers - Ola Heinpalu, Isabella Lindström, Antonia Neld, Caroline Ottecan, Jessica Faselt and Hugo Paulsson Stove - performed a varied program of both romances and opera arias, from Werle to Sibelius, Richard Strauss to…

On 8 - 11 August 2022, Birgit Nilsson Master Class will be arranged for singers. Court singer  Hillevi Martinpelto will lead the education in cooperation with pianist  Elisabeth Boström and assisting pianist  Jacob Lidåkra.  This year's Master Class is carried out with the support of Annika and Gabriel Urwitz Foundation, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation. A big and warm thank you! More information about the Birgit Nilsson Days 2022, program & tickets can be found here Participants 2022 We are pleased…

Soprano Hillevi Martinpelto debuted at the Royal Opera in Stockholm as Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly and has since performed on most of the world's leading opera and concert hall stages, for example in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Dresden, Leipzig, Salzburg, Vienna, Milan, Florence, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, London (where she participated in 8 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall), Glyndebourne, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Tokyo and Hong Kong. She has worked with conductors such as Sir John Eliot…