Week of Nobel magic in India

Annie Samson
New Delhi, Oct 30 (PTI) The build up to the annual
Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm and Oslo begins Friday in
India with five cities in the country participating in a
week-long of festivities.

The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2009 will be held
between Oct 31 and Nov 7, across Delhi, Mumbai, Pune,
Chennai and Bengalaru. After Delhi, the group will tour Pune
and Mumbai respectively.
Kickstarting the festival is an opera concert where
popular Swedish opera singers, Ulrika Tenstam and Mats
Carlsson accompanied by pianist Michael Engstrom will perform
extracts of famous musicals like 'Chess', 'Phantom of the
Opera' and 'Sound of Music.'
Along with this the repertoire consists of a mix of
classical music from famous European operas, traditional
Swedish songs and modern popular music.
"This is the third year now that we have arranged this
Nobel memorial week and the focus is to try to popularise
Sweden in India and to show the potential for more economic
cooperation between both the countries," Lars-Olof Lindgren,
Swedish ambassador to India told PTI.
The weeklong activities are strung together by the
Nobel thread around the broad themes of creativity and
innovation. The Nobel Week is an unique initiative in India
and is not observed in other countries. MORE PTI ANS