S.M.O.K
Svenska Moderna Operaensemblen

… is the ensemble that pushes boundaries – which offers its audience new music, original staging and performance acts that challenge your perception of reality. S.M.O.K delivers stories through voices, bodies, objects, image and sound, and explores the possibilities of the room.

Currently we operate the till disciplinary, ambulatory salon series Calmsleep Chambers. For each salon we invite a musician, artist or other interesting person or group to collaborate with. The salons take place in a new place for each time, so keep an eye out for a salon in your particular place!

  • Månstruken Moonstruck

    Månstruken Moonstruck

    A new chamber opera by Magnus Bunnskog and Anne Pajunen

    What is going on with our Moon? The one that seduced Pierrot, the one we have projected our dreams, yearnings and passions onto. What has gone down since the magic was lost that fatal day back in 1969? A slippage for mankind?

    Evocative, dark, dramatic and at times very comical. Vocal virtuosity, sprechgesang, recitativi, spoken word – it’s all in there, in the soloist’s part portraying the desperate, longing, grieving, searching human. The human, who speaks for all humans who worshipped and adorned the moon, and now has to watch its slow destruction. She is desperate to find a new candidate, a new target for adoration. The iconic chamber piece Pierrot lunaire from 1912 by Arnold Schönberg inspired the creation of an updated situation regarding the relationship between humans and the moon. We don’t dwell in the past. However, there are certain facts that now inevitably belong to the past, such as the moon being the symbol for the unachievable. How did that happen? What will it do to us, in the long run?

    To be premiered in spring 2026.

    Anne Pajunen, voice/electronics
    Åsa Karlberg, alto/bass flute
    Elsbeth Berg, viola
    Louise Agnani, cello
    Boa Pettersson, contra bass clarinet
    Stefan Lindgren, piano
    Mattias Hållsten, sound engineer

    Illustration by Tomas Jönsson

    With support from
    Swedish Arts Council and Swedish Arts Grants Committee

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Fler nyheter…

”SMOK triggers a flood of emotions within us..” “Chip and Dale in a digital meat grinder”

Arbetarbladet

”…astonishing virtuoso expressions in a happening-like cantata..”

SvD

”this is grand art: an experiment with language that, with the greatest presence and concentration…”

Gefle Dagblad

upcoming…

Månstruken Moonstruck

A new chamber opera by Magnus Bunnskog and Anne Pajunen

What is going on with our Moon? The one that seduced Pierrot, the one we have projected our dreams, yearnings and passions onto. What has gone down since the magic was lost that fatal day back in 1969? A slippage for mankind?

Evocative, dark, dramatic and at times very comical. Vocal virtuosity, sprechgesang, recitativi, spoken word – it’s all in there, in the soloist’s part portraying the desperate, longing, grieving, searching human. The human, who speaks for all humans who worshipped and adorned the moon, and now has to watch its slow destruction. She is desperate to find a new candidate, a new target for adoration. The iconic chamber piece Pierrot lunaire from 1912 by Arnold Schönberg inspired the creation of an updated situation regarding the relationship between humans and the moon. We don’t dwell in the past. However, there are certain facts that now inevitably belong to the past, such as the moon being the symbol for the unachievable. How did that happen? What will it do to us, in the long run?

To be premiered in spring 2026.

Anne Pajunen, voice/electronics
Åsa Karlberg, alto/bass flute
Elsbeth Berg, viola
Louise Agnani, cello
Boa Pettersson, contra bass clarinet
Stefan Lindgren, piano
Mattias Hållsten, sound engineer

Illustration by Tomas Jönsson

With support from
Swedish Arts Council and Swedish Arts Grants Committee

(more…)