review04.02

Knausgård’s Apocalypse as Opera

Sebastian Fagerlund’s »Morgonstjärnan« transforms the novel’s existential unease into a powerful, collective musical drama.

By Andrew Mellor

review26.01

Sacred, Profane, and Unsettlingly Alive

Sacrum Profanum in Kraków offered intense sonic experiences and musical battles – but also performances where the idea outweighed the music.

By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

• review24.01

  Matias Vestergård revisited

  
  Revivals have moved onto the agenda among Danish composers, and this month two violent operas by Matias Vestergård benefited from the trend. What is it that makes him so good at writing precisely that kind of work?

  By Sune Anderberg
• review23.01

  Universal Music with Local Truths 

  
  Local traditions play a central role in the second-ever Faroese opera, in which Sunleif Rasmussen reclaims a local story made famous by Wagner.

  By Andrew Mellor
• reportage15.01

  War Reverberations: Sound Stories From Kyiv

  
  Air raid sirens, artillery, and everyday sounds have altered the city’s rhythm – and forced its residents to develop new ways of listening.

  By Joanna Kwapień

• reportage28.12

  Across America – a Grown-up Boyband’s Search for a Sound

  
  Four Scandinavian musicians and a Canadian banjo amateur/karate instructor cross the American South to find out whether they can become a band – somewhere between Schubert, country, and doubt.

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• interview24.12

  A Case for Simplicity

  
  The Taiwanese-Danish percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen explores the world’s smallest sounds – from red deer bones to roof tiles – in her pursuit of a music that is both ancient, courageous, and radically simple.

  By Henrik Marstal
• comment21.12

  Let’s Finally Drop the Rhetoric of »forgotten« Women Composers

  
  Women opera composers of the past have returned for good. But how do we break the closed circuit of opera history?

  By Jakob Gustav Winckler

essay19.12

2025 Between Straw and Signal

A dialogue on listening, loss and resonance across Poland, Germany, UK and Denmark.

By Ed Cooper, Małgorzata Heinrich, Bastian Zimmermann & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek

reportage17.12

The Anatomy of the Organ

It has become a cherished December tradition that Koncertkirken opens its doors to curious explorations of the nature of the organ when the Organ Sound Art Festival moves in. This year the festival could celebrate its 10th anniversary, and the fascination with the organ’s many paradoxes remains intact.

By Rasmus Steffensen