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Maskeradbalen

Folkoperan

Rumors have circulated ahead of the premiere of Folkoperan’s *Maskeradbalen* that the singers were not allowed to start singing at rehearsals until three weeks before the premiere and that the team feasted on old TV recordings of Erik Lindegren for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Lindegren did the previous Swedish, classic translation of the Verdi opera in 1958).

I don’t know what’s true, but one thing I do know: This is self-ironic, opera-geeky meta-musical theater with live video, men in dresses, and not one but two Amelias on stage, but they never fail to put the music at the center. How often does that happen, really?” (Hanna Höglund, Expressen)

Music: Giuseppe Verdi

Text: Antonio Somma

Direction: Mellika Melouani Melani

Musical direction: Joakim Unander

Dramaturgy: Magnus Lindman

Set design & lighting: Bengt Gomér

Costume: Karin Erskine

Mask & wig: Therésia Frisk

Choreography: Charlotta Öfverholm

Ensamble: Yinjia Gong, Olle Persson/Johan Rydh, Lisa Carlioth, Paulina Pfeiffer, Ulrika Tenstam, Sara Widén, Dan McLEllan/Arash Azarbad, Peter Haeggström, Andreas Lundmark. Folkoperans kör & orkester

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