Melancholia

»The most gripping opera in a long time« wrote Expressen about the world premiere on the Opera's stage in 2023. Follow the musical apocalypse of Justine's depression, the planet approaching, and Anne Sofie von Otter as the sylvan mother. The composer Mikael Karlsson and the librettist Royce Vavrek are an opera duo who have taken the art form into a new era. With a contemporary sound world and texts that go straight through the music, they literally offer the audience opera with a punch in the chest.