(Photo credit: Eliasson Artists) Swedish bass-baritone Kristoffer Töyrä has won the 2024 Mogren Music Prize, with a prize sum of SEK 250,000 (approx. $23,000 USD). The Mogren Music Prize’s goal is to “support young, promising musicians in the beginning of their careers, in the hopes of facilitating their step into the arts.” The criteria for receiving this awards incudes an {…}
(Credit:Jānis Ķeris) Aivis Greters has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor at Gothenburg Opera. He will take over the position from the fall of 2024 to 2027. This season the young conductor is leading several opera productions including “Nabucco,” “Don Giovanni,” “Der Fliegender Holländer,” and “Tosca.” The new position comes at the start of an important 2023-24 season which will see his {…}
The Gothenburg Opera has announced that Henning Ruhe will be its new Artistic Director for Opera and Drama. He is slated to take up the position on Jan. 1, 2020 and will start full time with the company during that ensuing summer. Ruhe studied at the University of Music Franz Liszt, where he won a number of awards as a {…}
The Gothenburg Opera, the International Opera Awards Company of the Year nominee for 2019, revealed its plans for next season. The season will open with a Steven Langridge production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” conducted by Rory McDonald. Ida Falk Winland and Mattias Ermedahl will sing the Countess and the Count, while Mia Karlsson and Henning von Schulman will {…}
