Join in revealing the secrets of the theatre machinery and experience the story of Acis and Galatea!
Join actress Marika Lagercrantz as she tells the tale of Acis and Galatea, and of the mysterious Polyphemus who lurks behind the scenes! We meet up in the foyer where we are introduced to the world of Baroque theatre and all its secrets. Together with Marika, we will get a sneak peek from the rehearsals of this summer’s opera performance, Acis and Galatea, and see how theatre magic can be created with a theatre machinery, costumes and make up!

Join in revealing the secrets of the theatre machinery and experience the story of Acis and Galatea!
Join actress Marika Lagercrantz as she tells the tale of Acis and Galatea, and of the mysterious Polyphemus who lurks behind the scenes! We meet up in the foyer where we are introduced to the world of Baroque theatre and all its secrets. Together with Marika, we will get a sneak peek from the rehearsals of this summer’s opera performance, Acis and Galatea, and see how theatre magic can be created with a theatre machinery, costumes and make up!

Join in revealing the secrets of the theatre machinery and experience the story of Acis and Galatea!
Join actress Marika Lagercrantz as she tells the tale of Acis and Galatea, and of the mysterious Polyphemus who lurks behind the scenes! We meet up in the foyer where we are introduced to the world of Baroque theatre and all its secrets. Together with Marika, we will get a sneak peek from the rehearsals of this summer’s opera performance, Acis and Galatea, and see how theatre magic can be created with a theatre machinery, costumes and make up!

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

with Mime Brinkmann Yamahiro
– A life journey with Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites
We know very little about why Johann Sebastian Bach composed his cello suites. But we know that his music has given countless people joy and comfort since the cellist Pablo Casals rediscovered and recorded the cello suites in the 1930s and made them known to a wider audience. This concert will be like a journey through life as one of Europe’s finest baroque musicians, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed .

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– a choreographed concert performance!
Pythagoras’ theory of harmonia mundi – that music was a central force behind the creation of the world – inspired the English poet John Dryden to write a text that was put to powerful and humoristic music from Georg Friedrich Händel’s pen in 1739 and now inspires us to a choreographed concert show in which the whole Confidencen theatre, both stage and auditorium, becomes a creative space for dancers, choir, soloists, instrumental soloists and orchestra.

– a choreographed concert performance!
Pythagoras’ theory of harmonia mundi – that music was a central force behind the creation of the world – inspired the English poet John Dryden to write a text that was put to powerful and humoristic music from Georg Friedrich Händel’s pen in 1739 and now inspires us to a choreographed concert show in which the whole Confidencen theatre, both stage and auditorium, becomes a creative space for dancers, choir, soloists, instrumental soloists and orchestra.

– a choreographed concert performance!
Pythagoras’ theory of harmonia mundi – that music was a central force behind the creation of the world – inspired the English poet John Dryden to write a text that was put to powerful and humoristic music from Georg Friedrich Händel’s pen in 1739 and now inspires us to a choreographed concert show in which the whole Confidencen theatre, both stage and auditorium, becomes a creative space for dancers, choir, soloists, instrumental soloists and orchestra.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– on a treasure hunt in Europe with Johan Helmich Roman
Twice in his life the Swedish musician and composer Johan Helmich Roman was sent on educational journeys to Europe by the Swedish court.In the beautiful Orangery of the Ulriksdal Palace Park, after their winter’s sleep, the orange trees give room for this year’s festival orchestra performing some of the musical treasures from Roman’s journeys, but also music by our Swedish baroque master himself.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this drama, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed works.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– on a treasure hunt in Europe with Johan Helmich Roman
Twice in his life the Swedish musician and composer Johan Helmich Roman was sent on educational journeys to Europe by the Swedish court.In the beautiful Orangery of the Ulriksdal Palace Park, after their winter’s sleep, the orange trees give room for this year’s festival orchestra performing some of the musical treasures from Roman’s journeys, but also music by our Swedish baroque master himself.

– en pastoral om att älska och att mista!
När Georg Friedrich Händel 1718 skrev sitt verk om de två älskande Acis och Galatea, gav han karaktärerna och berättelsen ett överdåd av stora känslor och färger. Livet är skönt och kärleken fullkomlig för de två. Men den svartsjuke Polyphemus hotar lyckan och sorgen tar plötsligt plats mitt i livet. Med Confidencens intima och praktfulla rum som utgångspunkt iscensätter Elisabeth Linton detta verk, som under Händels livstid blev ett av hans mest älskade och spelade.

With Jonas Nordberg och Marika Lagercrantz
– The Persian poetry of the Morning Land meets the Italian lute music of the Evening Land
Jonas Nordberg is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after lutenists of our time. Marika Lagercrantz is an actor who for many years, with passion and devotion, has given audiences the deep, human insights that can be reached through poetry and theatre. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger wrote marvellous music for the lute in 17th century Italy. The Persian poets Rumi and Hafiz wrote marvellous poetry many hundred years earlier. Now they will come together on the Confidencen stage.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– a pastoral about love and loss
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– a pastoral about love and loss
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.

Singing together has a long tradition in Sweden. The 18th century poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman performed on the Confidencen stage, possibly singing together with the audience. Now there is a chance to join in singing both his and other songwriters’ contribution to our Swedish song treasure. We will perhaps also discover that much of what we see as genuinely Swedish music has been borrowed in many places from other cultures and traditions.

– a pastoral about love and loss!
When Georg Friedrich Händel wrote his opera in 1718 about the two lovers Acis and Galatea, he gave the characters and the story an abundance of great emotions and colour. The opera tells the story of the love between the mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. When the jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit. With Confidencen’s intimate and magnificent space as a starting point, stage director Elisabeth Linton captures this work, which in Händel’s lifetime became one of his most beloved and performed.