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@Vergiliosity: I have! I'm not the biggest fan of it, though, I'm afraid - Judas is great, but I'm not sure Ola Salo had a clear idea why Jesus is doing or saying any of what he does or says outside of "Gethsemane", and as a result his performance falls very flat for me outside of that one song.

I also felt the translation watered down several significant bits of interesting nuance in Tim Rice's original lyrics - e.g. "There may be a kingdom for me somewhere, if I only knew" is a line about Jesus having doubts, not being sure if there is anything waiting for him, and the Swedish translation (as best I can tell, not fluent in Swedish) just rendered it as "Where you do my father's will, that is my kingdom" which completely erases the point of the original line. I wrote a post with more musings about it here if you're interested! I can agree on the staging and costumes generally being well done, though.

» Reply to this [01/04/2025 15:07:53]

Vergiliosity

Have you seen the 2014 Swedish tour recording? It was uploaded by the actor playing Judas. Yes, it's all in a Swedish translation, but the staging is super interesting and the costumes are really cool.

» Reply to this [01/04/2025 09:05:03]