On Sunday, November 29 - two days before the final opera performance - a concert will be given at the Royal Swedish Opera: the Royal Swedish Orchestra, the opera choir and soloists will perform opera classics and compositions by Jacob Mühlrad, who has made new arrangements of his own music.
"When you're a composer, it's hard to resist trying new things, and it's fun to put your compositions in a new light. You also see how they work side by side with older, iconic works," he says.
Both choir and orchestra
The piece "Time", originally composed as an a cappella choral work, has now been rearranged for both choir and orchestra.
Jacob Mühlrad composed his first commissioned work, a ballet, at the Royal Swedish Opera. Together with the Royal Orchestra's chief conductor Alan Gilbert, he has now put together an evening where his own music is interspersed with opera gems by Mozart, Dvorák, Puccini and Wagner.
There is sadness, but not as an overall mood for the entire program, according to Mühlrad.
It's the whole spectrum, much of what you can feel as a human being is included.
"Farewell Symphony"
The last piece is fittingly the final movement of Haydn's "Farewell Symphony".
In mid-March, the new-old Gasometer in Hjorthagen will open its doors. Ferdinand Boberg's gas clock from the 1890s is now being rebuilt into an opera stage and will become the opera's home arena during the five-year renovation of the worn-out opera house at Gustav Adolfs Torg.
It feels sad and exciting at the same time. This is a fabulously beautiful house but the gas bells are also exceptionally beautiful. A whole new stage is being built there. It's really cool that we're getting a new arena, we need more arenas and more culture!
