
Hedvig Jalhed
Director

Hedvig is a trained opera singer and founder of the independent group Operation Opera (2010) and since 2013 the artistic director of the Halland opera & vocal festival. In 2022, she earned a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, after having conducted a practice-led artistic research project in interactive and immersive chamber opera. For the position at IAC, she is taking a time out from her work as project manager at the Malmö Academy of Music.
Publications
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Against Practice : An Artistic Theory of Knowledge
Mattias Rylander, Hedvig Jalhed
(2026) Global Philosophy, 36
Journal articlePatterns as basis for immersivity across the arts : A practice-led hypothesis
Hedvig Jalhed
(2025) Frontiers in Psychology, 16
Journal articleBack to the Creature : Characters and Casting in AI-Based Opera
Hedvig Jalhed
(2025)
Conference paper: abstractOperans fysik : Övertoner i ljud och ljus
Johan Mauritsson, Hedvig Jalhed
(2025) Kosmos, 101 p.57-57
Journal articleAn Operatic Chamber Model : Towards a Structured Visitor's Journey in Immersive Opera
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg, David Hornwall, Katariina Poikela
(2025) Ludokonst , p.43-60
Book chapter1, 2, 3 Playtime
(2024) Reports from Inter Arts Center
ReportMusic and Embodied Action In Opera : A Reflective Practitioner Dialogue
Hedvig Jalhed, Sara Wilén
(2024)
Conference paper: abstractThe Delphic Room : An Artistically Derived Metaphor
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg
(2024)
Conference paper: abstractThe Prophecies
(2023)
Artistic workThe Consultant's Quest : Expansion Game for the Opera The Prophecies
(2023)
Artistic workLudiska lockelser : Spelen flyttar in i finrummen
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2023) Kulturimperiet, 2023 p.24-24
Journal articleUnfinished Business
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2023) VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research
Journal articleThe Artificial Lyricist : Prototyping an Interactive Opera for Humans and Machines
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Kristoffer Åberg
(2023) From Abstractness to Concreteness : Experiential Knowledge and the Role of Prototypes in Design Research , p.831-847
Conference paperAn Operatic Game-Changer : The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera
Hedvig Jalhed
(2022)
DissertationTysta leken
(2021)
Artistic workOpera Inside-Out : Reversed Staging for Sensory Immersion
Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander
(2021)
Conference paper: abstractReich of Ran
(2018)
Artistic workIn the Darkness, Everything Went all Black
Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson, Hedvig Jalhed, Mattias Rylander, Agnes Wästfelt
(2018)
Artistic work