Saturday 1 May Anna Larsson returns to Royal Festival Hall for Brahms' Alto Rhapsody with London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski.


London Philharmonic Orchestra

In March Stockholm Concert Hall arranges a two week Mahler Festival. Anna Larsson will participate in two concerts. 11 March she sings the part for contralto in Mahler's Symphony no. 2 and 12 March in Das Lied von der Erde.

Stockholm Concert Hall

Mats Ek's highly acclaimed production of Gluck's opera Orphée returns to the Royal Swedish Opera 25 February 2010. Anna Larsson sings the part of Orphée, a part for which she was awarded the Swedish magazine Opera’s prize 2008.

The Royal Swedish Opera

The record Unheard of Again by Sonanza Chamber Orchestra received the Swedish Grammis prize 2010. Anna Larsson sings Djuro Zivkovic's "Le Cimetière Marin" and "Nattens djupa violoncell" by Benjamin Staern on the record that contains work by seven Swedish composers.

Sonanza

In December Anna Larsson sings the part for contralto in Mahler's symphony no 3 at the new concert hall in Copenhagen. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the two concerts given 17 and 18 December.

Koncerthuset

Anna Larsson will sing the part of Mephistophila in a semi-staged performance of Alfred Schnittke's opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten at Royal Festival Hall 18 November. London Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by Vladimir Jurowski at this UK premiere of the opera.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

In November Anna Larsson returns to Vienna to sing Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried at Wiener Staatsoper.

Anna will also give a concert together with Antonio Pappano and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Musikverein 23 November where she will sing songs by Shostakovich.

Photo: Axel Zeininger

Wiener Staatsoper
Musikverein

In October Anna Larsson will do three concerts of Mahler's Symphony no 2 together with Josef Pons and Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España. The concerts will be given October 2, 3, and 4 in Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España

In the end of September Anna Larsson will go on tour with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Anna will sing Mahler's Rückert Lieder and Sibelius' song Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte. The tour visits Hamburg, Bonn, Amsterdam and Brussels.


Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

In September Anna Larsson will sing Brahms' Alto Rhapsody in two concerts in Genève and Lausanne with Marek Janowski and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.





Photo: Anna Thorbjörnsson

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

June 2009 Anna Larsson will sing the role of Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at Palau de les Arts in Valencia. Anna made her debut as Fricka in Valencia 2007, and she is now returning when the opera house gives the whole Ring cycle. Zubin Mehta is conducting Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana. The cast includes Juha Uusitalo as Wotan and Plácido Domingo as Siegmund.

Photo: Eva Ripoli

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

During May and June 2009 Anna Larsson will sing the role of Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried at Wiener Staatsoper. Franz Welser-Möst is the conductor, and the whole Wagner Ring cycle is directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf.
Austrian Radio Ö1 will broadcast the premiere of Das Rheingold 2 May at 19.00 CET (18.00 GMT). The broadcast will be available via web radio.
Photo: Axel Zeininger

Listen to Austrian Radio Ö1 here.

Wiener Staatsoper

During the Salzburg Easter Festival Anna Larsson will sing the role of Erda in Richard Wagner's Siegfried. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the production is directed by Stéphane Braunschweig. Siegfried is part of Salzburg Easter Festival's Ring cycle 2007-2010 which is a coproduction with Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
Photo: A. Knapp

Salzburg Easter Festival

In March a performance of Das Rheingold recorded in Valencia 2007 will be shown in Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York. The performance is Anna Larsson’s debut as Fricka. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana. Das Rheingold is part of an opera series playing at several theatres in USA during the spring 2009.

Photo: Eva Ripoli

Read more about the opera series and find your nearest theatre here.

Anna Larsson is the contralto soloist in two performances of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Berwaldhallen, to be conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. The dates for the performances are 6th and 7th March.

The first concert will be broadcasted live 6th March at 19.30 CET (18.30 GMT) by Swedish Radio P2. The broadcast will be available via web radio.

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Soloists: Malin Byström (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Werner Güra (tenor) and Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Swedish Radio Choir

Swedish Radio P2

Berwaldhallen

Anna Larsson is awarded the Swedish magazine Opera’s prize 2008 for her interpretation of Orphée in the last season’s production of Gluck’s opera Orphée at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

The prize has been given annually since 1986. Each year four candidates are nominated by the magazine for their artistic achievements, and the winner is selected by a vote among the readers.

The prize ceremony will be held after the performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera in Stockholm 24 February 2009 where Anna will sing the role of Erda.

To the magazine Opera

On Monday 15th. December 2008, you can tune in to the Belgian Radio Channel Klara, and hear Anna Larsson as the contralto soloist on a recording of Verdi's "Messa da Requiem", made in Brussels, November 2008. The concert will be broadcasted within the program Ludwig at 14.00 – 17.00 CET (13.00 – 16.00 GMT). The broadcast will be available via web radio.

Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Soloists: Marina Poplavskaya (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Fabio Sartori (tenor) and Carlo Colombara (bass).
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Klara

On Thursday 27th November Anna Larsson will appear in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Copenhagen together with conductor Thomas Dausgaard, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and tenor Robert Dean Smith. The concert will be broadcasted live by the Danish radio channel DR P2 and will be available via web radio. The broadcast starts at 8 PM CET (7 PM GMT).

DR P2

Monday 24 November Anna Larsson and Stephen Kovacevich give a song recital in Wigmore Hall in London. The program includes music by Brahms, Bartók and Sibelius. The concert will be broadcasted live by BBC Radio 3 at 1 PM GMT and will be available via web radio.

The program will be broadcasted again 29 November 2 PM GMT and is available at BBC Radio 3's website until 30 November.

Listen to BBC Radio 3 here!

Wigmore Hall

Anna Larsson is the contralto soloist in 3 performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem at La Monnaie, to be conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Her supporting artists are Marina Poplavskaya, soprano, Fabio Sartori, tenor, and Carlo Colombara, bass. The dates for the performances are 31 October, 2 November, and 4 November.

La Monnaie

Saturday 13th September Anna Larsson will appear as Delilah in the premiere of Saint-Saens' opera Samson and Delilah, at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.

Swedish Radio P2 will broadcast the performance live, and it will be available via web radio.


Cast
Delilah: Anna Larsson
Samson: Richard Decker
The High Priest of Dagon: David Bizic
Abimelek: Sten Wahlund
An old Hebrew: Michael Schmidberger

Conductor: Gregor Bühl
The Stockholm Royal Opera Chorus
The Stockholm Royal Court Orchestra

Photo: A. Kenney/Royal Opera Stockholm

Swedish Radio P2

We are happy to present a video clip of Anna Larsson from the Polar Prize Ceremony 2008, honouring Renee Fleming. Anna was chosen to open the Ceremony but unfortunately her wonderful, unique rendering of Dalila's most sensual aria - "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" was ommitted from the brief TV4 Classical telecast.
Therefore we are delighted that you are now able to feast your ears and eyes on her superb artistry, which brought tears to the eyes of the usually unmoved camera crew......

Annas song
The video clip is also available on YouTube.

On Wednesday 27th. August 2008 at 20.00 CET (19.00 GMT), you can tune in to the Norwegian Radio Channel NRK Klassik, and hear Anna Larsson singing on a recording of Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder", made in Brussels, September 2007. The broadcast will be available via web radio.
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Waldemar : Stephen Gould
Tove: Anne Schwanewilms
Waldtaube: Anna Larsson
Bauer: Gerd Grochowski
Klaus Narr: Eberhard Francesco Lorenz
Narrator: Brigitte Fassbaender

Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera

Link to NRK Klassisk

On Saturday 16th of August at 20.00, the Stockholm Royal Opera in cooperation with Stockholm's Culture Festival invites you to their traditional open-air (free) concert at Gustav Adolf Square in Stockholm. Conductor Gregor Bühl will direct soloists from the Royal Opera, the Royal Opera Chorus and the Stockholm Royal Court Orchestra. The concert will be presented by Stefan Johansson.

The program will include excerpts from Samson and Dalilah by Saint- Saëns:
Scene between Samson and the Israelites from act 1
Love duet and Dalilahs's aria from act 2
Bacchanale from act 3

Soloists: Anna Larsson contralto and Lars Cleveman tenor

Source: www.operan.se. Photo: Stockholm Royal Opera

Web site of Stockholm's Culture Festival

It has been announced that Anna Larsson has been given the honour of officially opening the Polar Music Prize ceremony, singing an aria from "Samson and Dalilah". (The opera will be premiered at the Royal Opera Stockholm on Saturday 13th September 2008 with Miss Larsson creating the fascinating role of Dalilah. After her splendid interpretation of Gluck’s Orphée earlier this year, her Dalilah is awaited with bated breath.)

In 2005 Anna Larsson and Renée Fleming recorded Richard Strauss' rarely performed opera Daphne in Cologne. The record was nominated for a Grammy.

Photo: © Decca/Andrew Eccles

Polar Music Prize

On Wednesday 30th. July Anna Larsson will appear in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. The concert will be broadcasted live by WNYC, and is available via web radio. The broadcast starts at 8 pm EDC (31th. July at 1 am GMT).

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Soloists: Anna Larsson and Paul Groves
Conductor: Louis Langrée
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

Mostly Mozart Festival
WNYC

Friday 4th. July 2008, 17.30 on Radio Classique, and via web radio - an event to tune into..

Don't miss this golden opportunity to hear the live broadcast of Wagner's 'Siegfried', direct from the Aix en Provence Festival, featuring a brilliant cast of international singers, with the enigmatic Anna Larsson in the role of 'Erda'. Anna has recently been acclaimed as the foremost interpreter of this role for her breathtakingly beautiful vocal delivery and histrionic excellence - and surely the most beautiful visual 'Erda' on the planet !

Siegfried: Ben Heppner
Mime: Burkhard Ulrich
Der Wanderer: Sir Willard White
Alberich: Dale Duesing
Fafner: Alfred Reiter
Erda: Anna Larsson
Brünnhilde: Katarina Dalayman
Stimme des Waldvogels: Mojca Erdmann

Conducting this performance is the well loved English conductor Sir Simon Rattle - with The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - this will surely become a classicly rated event.

Listen to Radio Classique here.

Festival d´Aix–en–Provence

On Saturday 17th. May 2008, Birgit Nilsson would have reached the age of 90. The Birgit Nilsson Foundation Scholarship Fund, in collaboration with the Stockholm Royal Opera, will present a concert on the Stockholm Operas Grand Stage.

A illustrious group of Swedish singers, all of whom are Birgit Nilsson Foundation Laureates, will join to celebrate the life of their brilliant patron.
They will include Anna Larsson, Hillevi Martinpelto, Lena Nordin, Emma Vetter, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, Anders Larsson, Michael Weinius - and you will have the opportunity to meet, and enjoy, the two newest Laureates - Malin Bystrom and Marcus Jupiter.

The piano accompanists for this occasion are Martin Virin and Robert Rydholm, in a programme of operatic excerpts and songs from the works of Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

Stockholm Royal Opera

The first production of Saint-Saens' most lusciuos lyrical work - "Samson et Dalilah", at Stockholm Royal Opera - for fifty years !

On Saturday 13th. September 2008, Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalilah", will premire at the Royal Opera House, Stockholm, Sweden.

Photo: Carl Thorborg

Anna Larsson will assume the role of Dalilah, with Lars Cleveman and Richard Decker alternating in the role of Samson.

The production will be directed by Renaud Doucet.

Annas comments on the part of Dalilah :- " For me it's the obvious dream role! I have been waiting until now for this opportunity. It demands so much, both as an actress and a singer. In 2006 I sang the role in concert at Dalhalla, and enjoyed embodying this strong, wonderful woman. I don't know if it's a good thing but I have high hopes for Dalilah - and not surprising, as I have worked for fifteen years to create and develop this fascinating character."

Stockholm Royal Opera

Listen to Anna Larsson at YouTube!

Mahler: Symphony no 3
Soloist: Anna Larsson
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Ladies of the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, Wien
Tolz Boys Choir
Lucerne Festival Orchestra

The concert was recorded in the Lucerne Festival in August 2007

Mahler 3 "O Mensch" at YouTube.
Mahler 3 "Bimm bamm" at YouTube.