Strauss/ Soderstrom/ Stregard - ElektraBased on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy Electra, the opera is the second of Strauss's two highly modernist operas, the first being Salome. Laila Andersson Palme was born in 1941 and moved to Stockholm in 1960. She was immediately accepted in the solo class at the Royal College of Music and began to perform in small roles at the Opera. Following a hugely successful career often singing Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, in various

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set by Dimitri Mitropoulos in a highly expressionistic free atonal idiom inspired by Schoenberg

a three-time Latin Grammy nominee

genuine musical maverick and sonic explorer

The latter is the first piece that Krigul wrote for the choir and it's conductor Kaspars Putninš and includes ideas that has been carried over into their later collaboration

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intuitive and in the moment as anything these veterans have ever recorded

Between these two composers in the register of fame falls the French composer Francois Devienne

Since forming in the tiny Stockholm suburb of Bandhagen in 1990

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