Official Website Is Now Live For Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus' KRISTINA Carnegie Hall Concerts

The official website for the upcoming Carnegie Hall concerts of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' musical KRISTINA, headlined by original star Helen Sjöholm and internationally renowned tenor Russell Watson, is live now!

Featuring a 50 piece symphony orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani and directed by Lars Rudolfsson, the complete 32 member company of KRISTINA will be announced shortly.

Visit www.kristinathemusical.com to experience exclusive custom content including the following elements, and sign up to receive upcoming KRISTINA news:

- Video of Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Paul Gemignani and Helen Sjöholm in the studio in Sweden.
- Letter from Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus.
- Slideshow of original Swedish production photographs and production history.
- Star and creative team biographies.
- Production reviews.
- Bonus material: Helen Sjöholm singing the newly released Benny Andersson Band single "Story of a Heart."

KRISTINA, with music by Benny Andersson and lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus, will be performed in a concert presentation for two performances only at Carnegie Hall on September 23 and 24, 2009. This will be the first presentation in English with lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Herbert Kretzmer.

Tickets for KRISTINA are on sale now at the Carnegie Hall Box Office (57th Street & Seventh Avenue), via phone at 212-247-7800 or online at www.carnegiehall.org.

One of Sweden's national treasures, musical theater star Helen Sjöholm made her breakthrough performance in the original Swedish production of KRISTINA. She is currently starring in My Fair Lady at the Oscars Theatre in Stockholm, and is a lead vocalist in The Benny Andersson Band, whose hit song "You Are My Man" has stayed at the top of the Swedish charts for the past five years.

Platinum selling recording artist Russell Watson, known as "The People's Tenor" in his native Britain, is one of the biggest classical crossover stars in the world. Watson was the first ever British male to simultaneously occupy a No.1 spot in the UK and American classical charts, as well as the first artist to have a classical album at the No.1 spot in the UK classical charts for an entire year.

Originally titled Kristina från Duvemåla, the musical premiered at the Malmo Music Theatre in Sweden in 1995 to great acclaim from critics and audiences alike. The musical ran for almost four years, winning four Guldmasken Theatre Awards (Sweden's Tony!) and was seen by more people than any other musical in Swedish history.

In 1996, a concert version of KRISTINA was performed (in Swedish) at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; a part of the country where many of the events in the Moberg novels took place. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called the concert "engaging, emotionally charged and haunting."

Based on The Emigrants series of novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg (The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home), KRISTINA tells the epic story of an extended family's migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th Century.

Universal Music is proud to promote the concert alongside Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. A cast recording will follow, released through Universal Music's Decca Records.

Best known as the song-writing partners of ABBA, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus are also the composers of the stage musicals Chess and Mamma Mia!

www.KristinaTheMusical.com

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