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A moving guest performance with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Ryan Bancroft, conductor; and Nina Stemme, soprano.

Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission Scene: Stora salen

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Nina Stemme is one of Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed stars of opera. She was awarded the world’s largest prize in music, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and has been celebrated on stages such as the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Vienna State Opera and La Scala in Milan. Hear her in Mahler’s moving Kindertotenlieder &#; Songs about dead children. The work has tragic similarities with Mahler&#;s own life, and the composition would also appear as a foreshadowing: a few years later, Mahler&#;s eldest daughter Maria died.

Sweden’s Andrea Tarrodi is also internationally acclaimed for her beautiful music that shifts in colour and tone. Her piece Liguria is inspired by the idyllic fishing villages on the Ligurian Sea, off the northwest coast of Italy. The concert is crowned with Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony, a magical and humble-sounding masterpiece whose “fate motif” recurs in all

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    • Guide to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in and has since made its home in Konserthuset Stockholm in the city centre. The orchestra endeavours to reinvigorate and expand the traditional symphonic repertoire, organising an annual, internationally renowned composer festival and regularly commissioning and premiering new works. The orchestra participates annually at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and the Nobel Prize Concert.

    Alongside the orchestra’s title conductors Sakari Oramo and Alan Gilbert (Conductor Laureates) and Franz Welser-Möst (Eric Ericson Honorary Chair) the orchestra regularly works with a prestigious list of guest conductors, for instance Herbert Blomstedt, Andris Nelsons, Manfred Honeck and Simone Young. 

    The award-winning American conductor Ryan Bancroft was appointed Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in He begins his tenure from the /24 season. Ryan Bancroft grew up in Los Angeles and first came to international attention in when he won both First Prize and Audience Prize at the prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen. Bancroft and the Roya

    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Symphony orchestra based in Stockholm

    The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Swedish: Kungliga Filharmonikerna or Kungliga Filharmoniska Orkestern, literal translations, "Royal Philharmonic" or "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra"[a]) is a Swedish orchestra based in Stockholm. Its principal venue is the Konserthuset.

    History

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    The orchestra was founded in as the Stockholm Concert Society Orchestra (Stockholms konsertförenings orkester). It became a permanent ensemble in Since , it has been based at Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset). Starting in , Radiotjänst (now Swedish Radio) utilized the orchestra as its main broadcast orchestra, in lieu of having its in-house orchestra.[1] In , it was renamed the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester). In it acquired its present name, with patronage from the Swedish royal family.[2]

    Georg Schnéevoigt was the orchestra's first principal ledare, from to Its current principal dirigent is Sakari Oramo, since , with an första contract of 3 years.[3] In , Oramo's contract with the orchestra was extended