Stockholms Kulturfestival

Birgit Nilsson

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A disparate group of artists and a lot of different activites in different places in Stockholm - somewhat difficult to overlook.

I started - thursday - with the Dance museum and there I saw a TV-program transmitted in connection with our great operasinger Birgit Nilsson's 75th birtday! It contained interviews with singers, conductors and others who gave their opinion concerning Nilsson as artist.

They also displayed an old TV-program (I remember having seen it) with the two divas Birgit Nilsson and Zarah Leander (the great swedish singer and actor who worked at the UFA-studio in Germany before and during World War II, accused of having sympathized with the nazi's).
Zarah Leander

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After this I went on to see the dance performance Mouse a Rokoko Tale, with a touch of 18th century ambience. It was performed by the choreographer Claire Parson and her dance company. 

Claire Parson

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Organconcert in S:t Jacobs church close to the Opera.

Michael Waldenby one of Sweden's most prolific organists, performed different works in this concert.

After this at the stage in front of the Opera, a concert and tribute to Olle Adolphsson, one of Swedens most popular and well known songwriters. Today we would call him a singer-songwriter but in Sweden he belonged to the 'troubadours'!
He was the son of Swedish actor Edvin Adolphson.

Olle Adolphson

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Edvin Adolphson

(Photo Edvin Adolphson. Photos copyright: 
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A lot of well-known singer-songwriters of today, performed among them Tomas Andersson-Wij, Nicolai Dunger, Freddie Wadling (one of the first punkrockers in our country who also performed in groups as 'The Leathernun', 'Fläskkvartetten' 'Blue for two'), Plura Jonsson among others.
Freddie Wadling

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