Captivating high-level drama about St Bridget

“This is music drama at a high level. Byrgitta is so captivating and musically intelligent that it deserves the same success as the composer’s Tokfursten.
“The qualities which characterised the operas after that one, Lysistrate and Hummelhonung [Bumblebee Honey], appear to even better advantage here. This time the care taken with the vocal lines, the musical flexibility within the framework of a moderately modern idiom, and the capacity for dramatic condensation have been welded to a libretto which unites the dramatic with the suggestive.”