Viveka Anderberg, Lena Hoel - sopranos; Bjorn Haugan, Stefan Parkman, Thomas Sunnegardh - tenors; Mikael Samuelson, Erik Saeden - baritones; Jerker Arvidson - bass baritone
Orchestra/Ensemble: The Radio Chorus, The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stig Westerberg (conductor)
The opera in a concert version. Libretto adapted by Erik Lindegren from Harry Martinson's epic poem.
Aniara, an epic poem about space travel that was turned into a successful opera in 1959 by Karl Birger Blomdahl. Martinson's language is lyrical, unconstrained, innovative, and sometimes obscure; his imagery, sensuous; his style, often starkly realistic or expressionistic; and his philosophy, primitivistic.
