Nordic education, culture and media:
Nordic culture, education and media
As well as content on culture, education and media, you will also find articles on art, literature, belief systems and public policy. Phenomena as diverse as Nordic noir, new Nordic cuisine and Nordic design have achieved global recognition more recently, as Nordic literature and architecture have done historically. Culture is taken in its broadest sense, including for example political culture and that of belief systems, such as the Lutheran church. Content about all these issues and more will be found on this page.
2019.08.05 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Elisabeth Söderström (1927-2009)
Elisabeth Söderström was a Swedish soprano known for both her acting and her singing talent, and particularly noted for her performances of Mozart and Strauss and her recordings of Janáček.
2019.08.02 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (b. 1927)
Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor known for both championing Nordic composers and his well-received interpretations of German and Austrian composers over many decades.
2019.08.02 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Anne Sofie von Otter (b. 1955)
Anne Sofie von Otter is a Swedish mezzo-soprano noted for her versatile voice, her trouser roles in classical and romantic opera as well as her interpretations of oratorios, German Lieder, and Scandinavian songs.
2019.08.01 | Biography, Linda Haverty Rugg, The arts
Lennart Nilsson (1922-2017)
Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson won fame with his photographs of the development of human life inside the uterus.
2019.07.30 | Biography, Linda Haverty Rugg, Literature
Sven Lindqvist (1932-2019)
A wide-ranging and prolific social commentator and provocative essayist, Sven Lindquist focused on questions of environmentalism, colonialism, war, social justice and racism.
2019.07.24 | Biography, Linda Haverty Rugg, The arts
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
Ingmar Bergman was a pre-eminent Swedish film director, theater director, screenwriter, and author. Internationally acclaimed as a cinematic auteur, he was known for his exquisite aesthetics and a focus on intense psychological drama, gender issues, theology, philosophy, and autobiography. He worked with a select group of actors and technicians,…
2019.07.19 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968)
Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Swedish composer and teacher best known for his 1959 prize-winning space opera 'Aniara', his third symphony 'Facetter', his choral work 'I speglarnas sal', as well as other symphonic and chamber pieces.
2019.07.16 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005)
Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish soprano who performed in the world’s top opera houses and festivals, noted particularly for her roles in Wagner (especially Isolde in Tristan and Isolde), Puccini (Turandot), and Richard Strauss (Elektra). She is considered perhaps the best Wagnerian soprano of her time.
2019.07.15 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Evert Sixten Ehrling (1918-2005)
Evert Sixten Ehrling was a Swedish conductor who led opera houses and symphony orchestras in Sweden and the United States. He was particularly noted for his recordings of Nordic composers (especially Berwald, Nielsen and Sibelius), his high standards and his technical precision.
2019.07.09 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Fred Åkerström (1937-1985)
Fred Åkerström was a Swedish ballad singer best known for his three albums of interpretations of the eighteenth-century poet Carl Michael Bellman.