Musik på Slottet - anrik festival annorlunda innehåll
Right now Royalfestivals are taking place. The festival has existed for more than 40 years. Within the walls strict protocol rules which makes it difficult to run an artistic festival in the Royal Palace. In Rikssalen and Karl XV-salen, Mats Liljefors for many years had a classical music festival. Since a few years Anna Eklund Tarantino is responsible and now more contemporary music, folk and world music is entering the festival. This year the festival highlights minorities and stages a Mozart opera together Fröjelgårdens accommodation for refugees.
At this year's festival appears Maxida Märak and Jon Henrik Fjällgren. Zinat pirzadeh is doing a stand-up show in Persian, and Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio with Syrian and Afghan influences, is staged with the help of refugees from Fröjelgården on Gotland and soloists under the direction of Maria Lindal and the orchestra Rebaroque.
- In classical music, people can be a little terrified about how to behave with new influences. But we have taken in the music that people at the refugee accommodation listen to and sing and added it in Mozart's opera, says Anna Eklund Tarantino.
Read more about the festivalprogrammet
read the article in DN: Musik på Slottet lyfter minoriteter