Nobel Prize Concert 2024
Court Singer Malin Byström performs magnificent Richard Strauss, while conductor Petr Popelka makes his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of dance-inspired music.
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Sunday 19 January 2025 19.00
About the video
- Published online 19 January 2025.
- Filmed 8 December 2024.
- The video is approximately one hour and 20 minutes.
- The concert can be seen until 7 December 2025.
Vienna, London, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Stockholm. Swedish soprano Malin Byström is the internationally acclaimed artist who graces the world’s most prestigious opera stages. She is the soloist of the year at the Nobel Prize Concert.
Court Singer Malin Byström is one of the most sought-after sopranos of our time, having been named Female Singer of the Year at the International Opera Awards, among other honours. With the rich palette of her lyric-dramatic voice and a radiant stage presence, she has captivated and charmed audiences worldwide. ”I am very much looking forward to this extraordinary concert”, says Malin Byström. ”To be part of Nobel Week, when the eyes of the world are on Sweden, makes me both incredibly proud and deeply humbled. I will sing with all my heart.”
Malin Byström made her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006, performing music by Richard Strauss. Strauss’s operas have become something of a speciality for Byström, and at the 2024 Nobel Prize Concert, we hear the magnificent final scene from his opera Salome.
The programme also includes the marvellous Symphonic Dances by Rachmaninoff, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the Czech conductor Petr Popelka, newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and also Chief Conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Popelka opens the concert with music from his homeland, featuring Vítezslava Kaprálová's Suite Rustica from 1938, a work that resonates with delightful Czech folk songs and dances.
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The Nobel Prize Concert is an annual event of the highest international standard at which the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra appears with world-leading musicians. The concert is part of the official programme during Nobel Week and is a tribute to the year’s Nobel Prize recipients.
The concert is presented by Nobel Prize Outreach AB in collaboration with Konserthuset Stockholm.
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The music
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Otto Lindblad The Swedish Royal Anthem ’’The King’s Song’’
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Vítezslava Kaprálová Suita Rustica
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Richard Strauss Ah! du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen, Final Scene from Salome
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Encore:
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Jean Sibelius Was it a Dream? op 37:4 arr Simon Parmet
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Sergej Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
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Participants
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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
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Petr Popelka conductor
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Malin Byström soprano
