Today, I’ve been digging through heaps of old programmes and newspaper clippings and I feel a little stories-from-my-life-ish. Here is one:
Bach’s coffee cantata is perfect stuff for a mini opera. During the summer season of 1993, we performed this piece on stage together with an intermezzo by Giuseppe Orlandini in the beautiful riddarsalen (today called kungssalen; possibly the knight became king between 1993 and now) of Läckö Castle upon Lake Vänern in Sweden. After the cantata, there was an intermission where the public was able to get a cup of real coffee. The intermission was announced by an actor in a classical jester’s costume (more…)
