The world’s largest classical music prize honours the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for outstanding artistic acheievements, giving special recognition to the 2021 premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera “Innocence”. The prestigious French Opera Festival, becomes the first festival to receive the Prize, to be presented on October 21 by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf at Konserthuset Stockholm. The musical celebration will be accompanied by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Swedish Opera Chorus under the direction of Susanna Mälkki. Tickets go on…

The recipient of the Birgit Nilsson Prize 2025 will announced on May 21. Follow the live broadcast of the announcement from Stockholm at 11.00 CEST here. Founded in tandem with the Stipendium which Birgit Nilsson created to support young singers, the Birgit Nilsson Prize pays tribute to an active artist or institution which has contributed an important chapter to music history. Her legacy lives on just as she intended – giving incentive to young musicians at the start of their careers…

Good evening your majesties, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, my fellow musicians — I am truly overwhelmed. I thank your majesties, I thank you, Susanne, I thank the Birgit Nilsson Foundation for this great honor. I am grateful to all of you for making me feel so much at home in Stockholm and welcoming me into the magnificent world of Birgit Nilsson. I never met La Nilsson in person. I so wish I could have. The world acknowledges that that…

World famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma is the fifth recipient and first instrumentalist to be awarded the Birgit Nilsson Prize by King Karl XVI Gustav. The ceremony took place on October 18 in a packed Konserthuset Stockholm and was followed via live stream by viewers world-wide. Receiving the Prize, Yo-Yo Ma said “As I leave Sweden tomorrow, I will carry with me these forever memories, the memory of this evening, with such moving performances … But l will also leave with…

October 18 cellist Yo-Yo Ma will receive the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize. On the occasion of his visit to Sweden a group of young cellists from various cultural schools across Sweden had the opportunity to meet the world star. They also attended the rehearsal and concert at Konserthuset Stockholm where Yo-Yo Ma performed Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. The young cellists were invited from all over Sweden to meet a role model that was just as interested in them as they were…