Vattnäs Concert Barn - Song Festival

Festival 2018: "Norrmalmstorgsdramat"

On August 23, 1973, a masked and armed man enters a bank at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm and takes four bank employees hostage. The drama that shook Sweden lasted for five days during a huge media coverage. It gave rise to the concept of "the Stockholm syndrome" - meaning that the victims begins to sympathize with their perpetrator.

Now the story becomes opera premiered in Vattnäs Concert Barn in July 2018. For the music is composed by one of Europe's most interesting composers, Swedish Albert Schnelzer, who makes his debut as an operatic composer. The libretto is written by stage director and choreographer Patrik Sörling. His intention is to create a drama that shows the complex mental mechanisms under extreme stress. Norrmalmstorgsdramat -  will be played on 13, 14, 18, 20, 21 and 22 July.