The Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra kicks off the new year with its traditional Twelfth Night concert. Conducted by Per-Otto Johansson, the program features music by Wagner, Strauss, Lehár, Dvořák, Lumbye, and others. The soloists are soprano Åsa Jäger and trumpeter Ellinor Bengtsson.

Pomp, splendor, and New Year’s glamour. Step into 2027 in style! The concert opens with the overture to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, followed by Senta’s ballad from the same opera, featuring soprano Åsa Jäger.

Trumpeter Ellinor Bengtsson is the soloist in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto and later also in The Carnival of Venice. The program also features music by Kodály, Strauss, Suppé, and Lehár.

After the intermission, the program includes, among other pieces, the tranquil second movement from Dvořák’s “From the New World” Symphony and Wagner’s “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde. The concert concludes with Lumbye’s Kopenhagener Eisenbahn Dampf Galopp.

Program:
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman: Overture
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman: Senta’s Ballad
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galanta (excerpt)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (first and third movements)
Johann Strauss Jr.: On the Beautiful Danube
Franz Suppé: A Morning, a Noon, an Evening in Vienna
Franz Lehár: Giuditta: Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiß
Jean-Baptiste Arban: The Venice Carnival
Antonín Dvořák: The New World, Second Movement
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde: Liebestod
Hans Christian Lumbye: The Railway Race

Norrlandsoperan Symfoniorkester

Norrlandsoperan

Den flyvende hollænder: Ouverture

The Flying Dutchman: Overture

Den flygende hollender: Ouverture

Den flyvende hollænder

The Flying Dutchman

Den flygende hollender

Galántai táncok

Dances of Galánta

Galánta-danser

Trompetkoncert

Trumpet Concerto

Trompetkonsert

Den smukke blå Donau

On the Beautiful Blue Danube

Den vakre blå Donau