Operabyrån – Artemisia

In 2018, Operabyrån’s multi-year collaboration with Konserthuset Stockholm began, and the performance of Artemisia is the fourth in Konserthuset since then.

In 1612, the artist Artemisia Gentileschi was raped by her teacher. Despite Artemisia’s elevated status as the daughter of one of the country’s best known painters, she could not avoid the judgement of the people. The case went to court and during a seven-month trial, Artemisia was insulted and tortured; still, she found the power to move on in life and with her art. Artemisia gradually became one of art history’s most prominent baroque painters. Artemisia’s timeless fate is both terrible and amazing.

Operabyrån continues to place forgotten women in the spotlight and to move audiences. Artemisia is a striking piece for the stage, a work about human vulnerability and the power to break norms.

Operabyrån’s artistic directors Christina Larsson Malmberg and Catalina Langborn are responsible for ideas, concepts, music selection and project management.

Operabyrån is the winner of the 2019 Guldkvast award. The explanation from Kvast, the Association of Swedish Women Composers, is as follows: “The Guldkvast award goes to Operabyrån for their contributions to adjusting music history with numerous excellent stage and opera performances of music by and about female composers from the baroque period.”