THE YEAR WAS 2023
A Composed Bank Statement from 2023
What did you buy today?
What did you buy this year?
What does it say about you as a person?
THE YEAR WAS 2023 is a musical reconstruction of the year 2023. A year marked by financial pressure, artistic expansion
and the private calculations that shape a life.
The work turns a full year of transactions into composition: every debit and credit from a personal bank account, scored for voice and piano,
unfolding the emotional, economic and existential logic of 2023.
INFO
Premiere
Dec 2023, Konträr Stockholm
Composition, libretto, direction
Freja Hallberg
Arrangement and piano
Aron Abrahamsson
Soloist
Thora Möller Jensen
Production
Sweets