Name: The Nutcracker Goes Street dance
Start: 2025-12-06T19:30:00
Location: Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

Alexander Hanson

Pascal Behnan

Norrköpings Symfoniorkester

The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra invites you to a Coffee Concert! The menu includes orchestral music, solo performances and gofika. The Coffee Concert is a wonderful musical experience for our functionally varying audience, and is especially aimed at group homes, day centers, special schools and training schools in the region.

Coffee concert

Béla Bartók left his homeland of Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1940. The war and the political situation in his homeland meant that he could not bring himself to stay in Europe. Nevertheless, he never felt at home in New York, where he settled. In the Third Piano Concerto, one can perhaps also trace a strong homesickness. Bartók's music is in many ways rooted in traditional Hungarian music, even though it has its own very personal musical language. This is also evident in the Third Piano Concerto, which, despite being written when the composer was ill with leukemia, has a bright and dance-like character. The concerto was the last work Bartók wrote, and he never got to experience the premiere in 1946.

Bartok & Bruckner

Louis de Geer konsert & kongress

Jealousy and hatred lead to a cruel and sudden death in the tragic opera Pajazzo  by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. The story is about a traveling theater company. Its leader Canio is constantly jealous of his wife Nedda. Many will surely recognize Canio's great aria Vesti la gioubba (Laugh Pajazzo). When it is time to perform the company's performance, Canio breaks down, this time in the guise of Pajazzo. In blind rage, he gives Nedda the option of giving him the name of her lover or death. Nedda refuses, and Canio stabs her and her lover who tries to save her. He is immediately arrested and shouts the famous words to the audience: La commedia è finita! (The comedy is over).

Clown

A musical fairy tale with the best of both worlds: The music from Tchaikovsky's classic Christmas fairy tale The Nutcracker meets street dancers in a wonderful performance for young and old children, choreographed by Pascal Behnan with the dance company Legacy Family from Hageby Hus.