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Just as you say in the beginning this is from a musical written by Benny Andersson (music) and Björn Ulvaeus (lyric) - Kristina from Duvemåla. It is based on three books written by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg about a group of Swedes emigrating to the US due to famine in Sweden. These books have also been translated into English and are much read and loved by Swedes and they have been filmed twice. The most recent film came 1 or 2 years ago. This video is from a concert with some of the show stopper songs only. They also toured the states in USA where most of the emigrating Swedes ended up, i.e Minnesota and Wisconsin. This clip could actually even be from that American tour. I believe you have already reacted to Helen Sjöholm, singing Du måste finnas from the same musical. On a slightly different note just let me say that I'm so glad that Björn and Benny of ABBA still to this day, continue to cooperate and create fantastic music. Thank you for all your great reactions!!!

Peter Jöback does the swedish voice and singing of Aladdin in Disney's Aladdin from 1992

As I had close contacts and relations with the persons behind the creation of the musical ”Kristina från Duvemåla” I can reveal some unknown facts about it: The musical is written by the two male ABBA-members Benny Andersson (music) and Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics). I was together with Björn and Benny the main speakers at a conference at the Royal Library in Stockholm about the famous Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg (who wrote the four novels that the musical is based upon). I talked about ”Vilhelm Moberg as dramatist, and Björn and Benny talked about how they created the musical ”Kristina från Duvemåla). After Björn and Benny had their great success with their musical ”Chess” in London, they thought about a subject for a new musical. They read a lot of Swedish novels and short stories, but didn’t find anything to work on. Benny then had a small party in his home, and in exactly the moment he was putting a lamb steakinto his oven, he suddenly was struck by the thought of making a musical from Vilhelm Mobergs novel ”Utvandrarna” (The Emigrants). He immediately phoned Björn and told this idea to him. Björn was a bit hesitant, because they were looking for a short story, and now Benny suggested a very long epic story presented in a series of four thick volumes. I saw the musical three times on stage. First in Malmö with its original cast including Per Jöback, and then once more in Malmö and once in Stockholm. The musical is very good with wonderful music. Björn and Benny wanted it to get produced in English at Broadway. They had contact with different producers, but never succeeded to get a production of it at Broadway. It was in America only produced in a concert version that especially toured around in the tradional ”Swedish” states in USA. I suggested to Björn and Benny that they instead should try to get it produced in London, where their earlier musical ”Chess” had made a great success. And especially I argued that ”Kristina från Duvemåla” has much in common with the French musical ”Les Miserables” that had made a great success in London and played there for ten years. But Björn and Benny insisted that thjey wanted the musical first produced in New York as it is about Swedish emigrants to America. I was also a close friend to the daughters of the author Vilhelm, especially his daughter Eva Moberg, who was a famous Swedish author herself, just like her father (all of them died some years ago). They owned the rights of the four novels in the series starting with ”The Emigrants”. So Björn and Benny had to get an agreement from them to be able to make the musical ”Kristina från Duvemåla” based upon their father’s novels. The three daughters were then actually directly involved in the creation of the novel in different ways. Eva Moberg told me privately that she actually didn’t like how the end scene of the musical was presented on stage, but she never revealed that publicly.

He has arms. That outfit is just a poncho. Used in the 1800s in America lol. You will find the same outfit worn by Clint Eastwood in old westerns for example

Helen Sjöholm is Kristina in this musical and she is his sister in law and he sends her a letter telling him of what happened with him and his best friend. He was the little brother of her husband and more close to Kristina than to his older brother....

P.S. Kristina is the name of his sister in law to whom he is telling this utterly sad story. (Yes, Peter Jöback has arms 😁)

Guldet blev till sand, they were serching for gold and they found it, but they were scamed when they sold it. They got false money.and lost everything and thats what it means, the gold turned to sand and his friend died. Sad story

Peter was in USA, New York. Sang Phantom of the opera. -13.😊 ( Andrew Lloyd Webber chose Peter)

I can listend to this many times ❤❤❤

Have you listened to swedish singer Molly Sandén singing Husavik from the Eurovision movie and her Oscars performance?

Awesome

Love it 😊