Hummelhonung "Dense musical poetry"

“Composer Carl Unander-Scharin has heard Lindgren’s language perfectly and succeeded in reshaping it into hair-raising and completely congenial music. Scharin’s music is intelligent and singable; it is written by an active singer who knows how to make use of all the subtleties of the art of opera. His tonal world is deeply personal and every note carries meaning. This is music in which the melody of the language has imperceptibly been translated into song. Music so dense that one can touch it, flowing as thickly as honey and as nourishing as meat.
“It is a poetic and fascinating production which the Opera presents. The music concludes in the spoken answers of the solitary Kath. And in the thought that it is productions like this one which justify the whole existence of opera as an art form in our modern society.”