Carl Unander-Scharin

Having sung roles at many Swedish venues such as the Folkoperan and the Vadstena-Academy, during 2000 to 2011 he was a tenor soloist at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, where he appeared 355 performances in 25 roles, including Tamino (Mozart's Die Zauberflöte), Almaviva (Rossini's Il Barbiere da Siviglia), Raoul de Gardefeu (Offenbachs La Vie Parisienne), Gonzalve (Ravel's L'heure Espagnole).

His radio-opera Mannen på Sluttningen (The Man on the Hillside) represented the Swedish Broadcasting union in Prix Italia in 1991.

The song cycle for radio, Figures in a landscape was commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Union and awarded an honorary mention in Prix Italia, 1999.

It was encored in 2006 and selected to represent the future possibilities of oratorio writing by the Church of Sweden's cultural council.

For the Kroumata percussion ensemble and the Swedish soprano Erika Sunnegårdh he wrote The World As I see It with texts by Albert Einstein.

The interactive Dreamplay The Crystal Cabinet was premiered by Piteå Chamber Opera and toured the north of Sweden in the fall of 2008.

In the fall of 2010 Medmänniskor/ Mankind (an oratorio with texts by Stefan Einhorn) was given its first performance in the Berwaldhall by The Swedish Radio Choir under Peter Dijkstra.

The dance Artificial Body Voices was created in collaboration with Åsa Unander-Scharin, Lene Juhl and Mark Viktov in 2011 and shown on Swedish Television as well as at the Studio Acusticum in Piteå.

Current commissions include Varelser och Ballader/ Beings and Ballads (Musica Vitae 2016), Calligrammes (Berwaldhallen 2017) and ReCallas (Croatian National Opera 2018), Plåtsax - Hjärtats Instrument (private commissioner, 2018), Riddartornet (Mälardalens Högskola, 2018) [1] This article incorporates text from a free content work.