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When I direct my biggest wish is to show people another world.

When I was growing up the first thing we did when we got home, if you don’t count making tea, was to put some music on. Classical, blues, folk music, rock, it was all there in a lovely cultural mix. When I was five years old my parents took me and my sister to the opera for the first time. We saw Turandot by Puccini, a brave choice by my parents if I may say so. And we loved it! The music, the colors, the story that transcends language barriers so that even a five year old can be transfixed.

When I was ten years old I was accepted to Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser (a choir school in Stockholm). Two years later I was also accepted to Adolf Fredriks Girls’ Choir. With the school and girls’ choir I toured around the world and learned a lot about commitment and concentration but most of all I learnt about the great joy of making music.

After Adolf Fredrik I attended Södra Latins Gymnasium, Ingesund’s School of Music, Vadstena Folkhögskola and The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen (RDAM).

At RDAM I received a Bachelor and a Master of Music as a classical singer. Some of my roles included La libellule in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel and Sesto in RDAM’s production Cut Away (2014) by Peter Bäckström. 

I have always been interested to see what goes on behind the scene. To see the rehearsals can sometimes be more exiting than the actual performance. Both in Vadstena and in RDAM I acted as a director’s assistant in our opera projects.

It was at RDAM that I met my first teacher and mentor in opera direction, Peter Bäckström. Through him I learnt about all of the different aspects of being a director. There’s the practical and administrative side and the creative and psychological side, all of this has to be in balance for direction to be a success. My love and excitement for directing is greatly thanks to Peter Bäckström, I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to be his assistant in multiple projects and happy to have him as a life long friend.

In the spring of 2015 I had my own debut as an opera director at the Pulsar Festival in Copenhagen with the premiere of the chamber opera Stabat Mater by Frederick Bayani Mabalot. The year after that I directed the premiere of the chamber opera Conscientia by Daniel Fladmose, also at the Pulsar Festival.

Since then I have had the pleasure of directing two productions, Mellomrom 2015 och Elskede 2017, with Kompani Opera Mobile and libretto written by Peter Bäckström. I also directed (at short notice) a semi staged version of Wagner’s Parsifal in S:t Nicolai’s church in Trelleborg.

In the spring of 2020 I studied opera direction under the tutelage of Stina Ancker and Wilhelm Carlsson at Stockholm University of the Arts.

In the summer of 2021 I will be directing Bizet’s Carmen at Opera at Österbybruk outside of Uppsala in Sweden.

I believe that my background as a classical singer gives me a unique perspective when I am directing. It is so important to understand how it is to be on stage and what challenges the singers and musicians face when performing. When I direct my biggest wish is to show people another world, so that they might have the same experience as I did when I was five. Music can be something that you can relate to and something to make you forget time and space. A world where anything is possible if you let it in.