26 Apr
Spring Concert 2025
University Main Building, Uppsala
This page is about a historical event. Under Concerts, you will find information about upcoming performances, including the next Spring Concert.
Orphei Drängar (OD) is considered one of the world’s leading male choirs. By consistently striving for the highest possible quality, collaborating with the best soloists, conductors, and orchestras, and regularly commissioning new music, OD aims to lead the way in the development of male choral singing in Sweden and internationally. For OD’s Spring Concert 2025, we are delighted to welcome bass-baritone Erik Rosenius as a soloist, a rising star on the Swedish vocal scene.
Erik Rosenius was educated at the Royal College of Music and the University College of Opera in Stockholm, as well as the opera studio of the Berlin State Opera, where he performed numerous roles under the direction of conductors such as Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta. Rosenius has sung roles at the Göteborg Opera and has been affiliated with the Royal Swedish Opera in recent years. In the summer of 2023, he performed the role of Banco in the acclaimed production of Macbeth at Läckö Opera and sang Frank in Die Fledermaus at Vattnäs Concert Barn during the winter of 2023-24. Rosenius is also an experienced oratorio and art song performer.
At OD’s concert, Rosenius will perform together with the choir as well as in opera arias and art songs, all under the direction of OD’s associate conductor Folke Alin. As is tradition at the spring concert, the choir’s repertoire will range from romantic music to key 20th-century works, including a world premiere by Benjamin Staern. Additionally, a selection of spring songs will celebrate the arrival of the beautiful season ahead.
We look forward to offering you, our audience, an artistic experience filled with both familiar and new musical encounters, and we warmly welcome you to a richly varied spring concert!
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Said about OD
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Ola Salo
Singer -
- With OD behind me, I felt unstoppable.
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Petra Mede
Comedian -
- You become euphoric when you see them, and then they start to sing. That is when you feel true bliss!
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Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra -
- ”They really got to the depths of Sibelius music. I cannot think of any other choir to perform Sibelius with.”
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Peter Sellars
Director -
- Orphei Drängar is an explosion of intelligence, feeling, intensity and precision.
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Malena Ernman
Mezzo-soprano -
- OD is a national pride of Sweden with the best male choir sound in the whole world!
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor and composer -
- OD possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Opera Soprano -
- It was one of my most enjoyable professional experiences to work with this collection of super nice, super good, super good-looking gents.
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Henrik Dorsin
Comedian -
- OD is like a dream (with a whole lot of tail coats in it)!
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