Elisabeth Söderström
Birthday: 1927-05-07 Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Synopsis
Anna Elisabeth Söderström CBE was a Swedish soprano and actress who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninov and Sibelius.
Acting
The Adventures of Picasso
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.
Aniara
Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected from the solar system after an accident and into an existential struggle.
