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The Birgit Nilsson Prize is the classical music world’s most prestigious award. It is presented to a singer, musician or institution that has made significant contributions and left a major international mark within classical music. This year, the Prize honours the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for its outstanding artistic achievements, with special recognition given to the 2021 world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence.

Birgit Nilsson Prize

Stockholm City Hall

Since the world premiere by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on the radio, at the height of the war in 1940, Lars-Erik Larsson’s God in Disguise has become a Swedish concert classic. It is a work that tells the story of humanity and instils hope, which is as urgent now as it was then.

God in Disguise

Three finalists compete for the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s prestigious Soloist Prize: sopranos Matilda Sterby and Kathrin Lorenzen, and saxophonist Theo Hillborg. Don’t miss this thrilling final concert and award ceremony with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tobias Ringborg. Well-known radio presenter Erik Blix hosts the evening. 

The Soloist Prize 2024: Finals

SR Berwaldhallen

Der Rosenkavalier weaves opulent, bittersweet waltzes with lush late-Romantic orchestration, evoking both nostalgic elegance and the ache of time passing. Strauss’s co-creator, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, wrote of a world of ceremony and lavish ritual, in which the characters are helplessly entangled.

This is the much-anticipated return of Bruno Ravella and Gary McCann’s stylish and opulent 2021 production, which had to be performed to a limited audience after lockdown. Making their Garsington debuts are conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, Matilda Sterby, Andreas Bauer Kanabas and Niamh O’Sullivan, whose Octavian at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées received great acclaim. We are also delighted to welcome back Soraya Mafi as Sophie and Robert Murray as Valzacchi.

Soprano

Matilda Sterby

Events

Upcoming events

May 28 - Jun 29, 2026

Der Rosenkavalier · Garsington Opera

Past events

Oct 21, 2025

Birgit Nilsson Prize · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

8 - 10 Feb, 2024

God in Disguise · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss

Garsington Opera

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