Exciting contrasts. The Kroumata percussion ensemble combines dreams with reality.

A group of chromatic car horns can liven up most events. Carl Unander-Scharin’s striking “Bilhornsfugato” (Car Horn Fugato) from the family opera “Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang” (Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang) was also a clever nod at the overture of György Ligeti’s anti-anti-opera “Le Grand Macabre”. When after that flying start the now world-famous soprano Erika Sunnegårdh stepped up to the dais she succeeded in spreading Metropolitan Opera glamour over both the sold-out venue Nybrokajen 11 and the world premiere of Unander-Scharin’s “The World as I see it”. The music is almost futuristically rumbling but the text is pacifist. In the intervening gap an exciting contrast arises. The work is both delightful and topical, with the dream-like passages’ meditations being counterbalanced by the gruntings of reality.