The Swedish Academy's crisis becomes scandalous opera in Helsingborg

The goal is that nobody should go home unscathed from the concert, the press release states. Fredrik Österling, the concert manager himself, has written the music for the opera.

- There is a lot of humor to be gained in these scenes that have been played in front of an open curtain. Through the opera look the humor is even more screwed up, says Fredrik Österling.

Hanna Höglund wrote the script:

- This is a way of trying to understand how it could totally bump into the Stock Exchange.

Today, the concert hall has an audience that is mostly over 60 years old and usually ethnically Swedish.

By choosing current, innovative themes around their sets, such as "The Gay Train" and "Power and Glory", the concert hall's management hopes that they will become relevant to more Helsingborg citizens.

The existence of cultural institutions depends on their success.

- I think the concert halls will stand louder and louder otherwise. In the long term, we also risk the whole orchestral activity, ”Fredrik Österling noted for SVT News Helsingborg in October 2018.

In SVT's program "Sweden!", Which is broadcast at 18.15 on Saturday, you can see a longer report from the rehearsal of "Power and glory".