The Nina Stemme show: Puccini's Turandot at the Royal Swedish Opera

By Aksel Tollåli, 18 February 2013

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Reviewed at Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm on 16 February 2013

Puccini, Turandot

Royal Swedish Opera

Thomas Søndergård, Conductor

Marco Arturo Marelli, Director

Royal Swedish Orchestra

Royal Swedish Opera Chorus

Nina Stemme, Turandot

Magnus Kyhle, Emperor Altoum

Michael Schmidberger, Timur

Riccardo Massi, Calaf

Yana Kleyn, Liù

Ola Eliasson, Ping

Daniel Ralphsson, Pang

Niklas Björling Rygert, Pong

Anton Eriksson, Mandarin

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Aksel Tollåli

Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.