Monica Danielson

In April 2012 I will sing Lucia in Mascagnis Cavalleria Rusticana  in Gothenburg Concert Hall.

Performances: 22/4 15.00 and 19.00

In May Duo EGO perform the opera ”Vad man måste” by Paula af Malmborg Ward in Stockholm Concert Hall, Grünewald room.

Also broadcast in Swedish Radio P2 7/5.

”The Unabomber manifesto” is a performance piece based on the true story of The Unabomber – Ted Kaczinsky who some years ago set USA in fear by sending anonymous bombs to  people. He also wrote a long manifest about the danger with industrial evolution and what harm it might do to the planet.

Composers Lars Indrek Hansson, Tony Blomdahl and DanTommi Hildén and myself  built a visual and musical performance around this manifest and we called the performance ”Unabom”.

World premiere in Capitol,Stockholm 19th of february 2011.Unabom was also performed during the Geiger festival in Gothenburg 26/2.

In the spring of 2009 I got a phone call from Petter Sundkvist, conductor and artistic leader of Norrbotten Neo. First of all he asked me if I would like to sing ”Infinito Nero” there in a production autumn 2010. Of course I did! I few weeks after that he called me again and told me they had decided to give it as a double bill with ”Pierrot Lunaire”, and since I knew both pieces so well – would I like to direct them? To my own big surprise I heard myself say that I would love to do that….

I did regret that several times through the year of preparation, but thanks to the lovely and brave artist Sofia Jernberg who performed Pierrot, and the briljant designer Svante Grogarn, beautiful work by costume designer Ina G Andersson, Petter and the fantastic Neo and all support from Tomas Isacsson and Piteå Chamber Opera we made a performance to be really proud of!

Soloists: Sofia Jernberg and Monica Danielson Conductor: Petter Sundkvist Orchestra: Norrbotten Neo Set and light designer: Svante Grogarn Costume: Ina G Andersson Director: Monica Danielson Translation: Monica Danielson Production: Piteå Chamber Opera

Premiere in Piteå 16/10 2010

Review from Svenska Dagbladet (swedish only).
Review from Opera (swedish only).

For every artist with interest in contemporary music, John Cage is a very important composer. He didn’t write much opera music, but one pice that he wrote in the end of his career is the ”Europeras”. Me and MusikTeaterVerket have for quite some time had the performance ”Europera 3&4” prepared, but we had difficulties in finding the right stage for the production. But after a successful meeting with Staffan Rydén (principal of Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama) and the dedicated Birgitta Winnberg (artistic leader of Gothenburg Dance- and Theatre festival) we found the perfect match!

At Artisten, Gothenburg 26/8 2010 we were proud to present the Swedish premiere of John Cage’s ”Europera 3 & 4”!

Soloists: Monica Danielson,Karl Peter Eriksson, Nina Ewald, Marie-Louise Granström, Jan Kyhle, Olof Söderberg, Erika Tordéus,Cecilia Vallinder.

Pianists: Joakim Kallhed, Yumi Kimachi Olsson.

Director: Ola Beskow Set designer: Sofie Persvik Light designer: Fredrik Magnusson Computer design: Tony Blomdahl, Linus Andersson Production: MusikTeaterVerket, HSM, Dance- and Theatre festival

”… like a riddle without questions… beautiful,painfully beautiful!” S. Rånlund in Nutida Musik

Don´t miss this – performed during the Dance- and Theatre festival 26-28/8 in Artisten, Gothenburg

In april of 2010 I went together with the pianist Jonas Olsson and producer Max Käck  from ensemble Gageego  to the contemporary festival ”Two days & nights”in Odessa to perform music by Cage, Wallin, Rehnquist, Ligety and Aperghis.

A beautiful city to visit and a very nice festival audience who seemed to really like our concert!

The first question we got at the airport was ”Do you want some vodka?”, and well, we didn´t at that time but we all brought big bottles home to Sweden…

The Bear, based on Tjechovs play is the latest production of MusikTeaterVerket and I sang the part of the widow Popova as well as producing the opera.
The other two soloists where Karl-Peter Eriksson in the part of The Bear Smirnov and Torgny Sporsén played the part of the servant Luka. Mattias Ermedahl directed the piece to a fun and heartwarming performance and Svante Grogarn transformed the beautiful Bio Roy to a 18th century Russion salon.
Gothenburg Chamber Soloists with Joakim Kallhed piano, Christian Berg cello and Kristina Olsson flute played Waltons beautiful music in a new arrangement by Martin Skafte.