• review18.09

  When Mysticism Loses Its Magic

  
  This year’s Rued Langgaard Festival set out to open the gate to Danish mysticism, but at times disappeared itself into a haze of filler and gimmickry – though a few concerts stood strong.

  By Jeppe Rönnow
• reportage08.09

  Sound Bath At the Edge Of the Headland

  
  Lost Farm Festival transformed an abandoned farm into a global gathering point for grief, anger and creativity – where concerts, rituals and installations turned Sjællands Odde into a new center of the world.

  By Sanne Krogh Groth
• review07.09

  No Dying Diva in Paris – but Glitter, Dog Life and Office Humor

  
  Copenhagen Opera Festival 2025 turned away from opera’s classical themes of fate and instead gave space to intimate music-dramatic experiments on queer identity, domestic violence, climate crisis, and mental illness.

  By Jeppe Rönnow

• review22.08

  Opera’s Darkness Finds a Home in Savonlinna

  
  Savonlinna’s castle festival lets Finnish national opera resonate between stone, lake, and summer night – and shows how dark dramas can mirror the soul of a people.

  By Jeppe Rönnow
• review15.08

  Walking Blind

  
  At its best, the ambitious sound art walk »Witness Stand« at Refshaleøen pierces right into Copenhagen’s gentrification of the old industrial area. But does it realise that it is itself part of the problem?

  By Sune Anderberg
• comment13.08

  I Most Certainly Will Not Stay Away From Your Theatre

  
  A few days before this year’s Copenhagen Opera Festival begins, I, as a critic, have been asked to keep away from one of the festival’s most experimental performances at the theatre Sort/Hvid. This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of criticism.

  By Sune Anderberg

• review29.07

  A Festival For Experiments – But Only When It Dares

  
  Borealis in Bergen promises experimental music but falls short when it comes to traditional concert formats. Instead, magic emerges when the audience is invited out into the forest or into floating sound saunas.

  By Patrick Becker
• review10.07

  Between Skin and Noise in Berlin

  
  From digital melancholy and ritual noise assaults to pure silence – MaerzMusik explored the tactile forces of sound and the boundaries of the body.

  By Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek
• comment07.07

  Roskilde as a Battleground of Sound

  
  Roskilde Festival insists on ecstasy and togetherness, but the most beautiful moments arise in the dark, where the curious still dare to listen.

  By Rasmus Steffensen & Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek