Mozarts Requiem

Örjan Andersson is one of Sweden’s most renowned choreographers and regularly works with the major dance companies in Scandiavia. His choreographic work focuses on the body’s inherent possibilities and limitations – ranging from major live music works to opera, to text-based work and to the exploration of classical music. He is known for collaborating with both actors, opera singers, musicians and dancers, so that they together communicate through the same physical language.

Örjan Andersson is artistic director of critically acclaimed Andersson Dance where he previously also has created works with classical music as a starting point, such as ’Goldberg Variations – Ternary patterns for insomnia’ (2015) and ’Prelude – Skydiving from a dream’ (2018) in collaboration with Scottish Ensemble. Together with Skånes Dansteater Örjan Andersson has created ’Röd & Rapsodi’ (2002), ’2nd Construction’ (2006), ’Seven Clues’ (2011) and ’SVART.BLÅ’ (2014).

German conductor David Niemann was educated at the Folkwang University in Essen, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen. In 2015 he won second prize in the Malko Conducting Competition and in the same year was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Opéra Orchestre National in Montpellier, where he stayed for three years. Since then he has conducted the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Qatar Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre Lyrique Région Avignon Provence. He has also performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw with the Valles Symphony at the Palau de la Musica, Barcelona.

Recent highlights include performances with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Turku Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille and Folkwang Kammerorchester. On the opera side, he has conducted Ivan Eröd's Pünktchen und Anton at the Vienna State Opera and a production of The Fairy-Queen for children at the Salzburg Festival. In 2020, he conducted Falstaff at Malmö Opera.

BJ Nilsen is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work primarily focuses on the sounds of nature and how they affect listeners. Recent work has explored the urban acoustic realm: ’Eye of the Microphone’ (2012), and industrial geography and mining in the Arctic region of Norway and Russia: ’unearthed’ (2015-ongoing), ’ORE’ (2019). His original scores and soundtracks have been featured in installations, theatre, dance, film and expanded cinema.

Bente Lykke Møller has created set design and costume for Mozart's Requiem. The Danish Academy for Theatre in Copenhagen. Bente Lykke Møller is one of the most renowned designers from Scandinavia and her designs have been presented in numerous countries. She has worked with Swedish stage director Staffan Valdemar Holm and choreographer Mats Ek, among others. Bente Lykke Møller has been praised for her minimalistic designs and has been rewarded several times for her contributions to the art of theatre, opera and ballet. In 2019 she was awarded the Swedish Gannevik Scholarship.

Ulrik Gad is a Danish lighting designer educated at the Danish National School of performing Arts in Copenhagen 2001. From 2009-2017 he was head of the light design program at the same school. Artistically he covers a wide field of performing arts, film, television and architecture – primarily working in theatres around Scandinavia and Europe. Ulrik Gad was lighting designer for ’Monicas Vals’ at Malmö City Theatre 2018 and for ’Matilda the Musical’ at Malmö Opera 2019.

28 Oct, 1, 4, 9, 11 Nov:

Sara Swietlicki, Katarina Lundborg, Timothy Augustin, Gustav Johansson

31 Oct, 2, 5, 10, 12 Nov:

Laine Quist, Marie Degener, Magnus Schou Vassbotn, Eric Roos

More info on Malmö Opera's webpage.