Editing Aniara (section)

== Adaptations ==
An [[opera]] by [[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]] also called ''[[Aniara (opera)|Aniara]]'' premiered in 1959 with a [[libretto]] by [[Erik Lindegren]] based on Martinson's poem; it was staged in Stockholm, Hamburg, Brussels and [[Darmstadt]], and later in Gothenburg and Malmö.<ref name="nobel2">{{Cite web |last=Larsson |first=Ulf |title=Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1974/martinson-article.html}}</ref> A performance by the [[Royal Swedish Opera]] at the [[Edinburgh International Festival]] was broadcast on the [[BBC Third Programme]] in Sept 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Issue 1868 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/e14a9222c5d74f508bb404a8504166f1 |access-date=2020-08-19 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

Aniara (1960), a Swedish TV film directed by Arne Arnbom, written by Erik Lindegren and Harry Martinson, and starring Margareta Hallin, Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Sædén and Arne Tyrén. The music was composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

The [[BBC Third Programme]] broadcast an English translation, read over five nights, in November 1962.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results – BBC Genome |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=1&media=radio&order=asc&q=Aniara+&yf=1962#search |access-date=2020-08-19 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

In Martinsons home country of Sweden, ''Aniara'' has commonly been used as the basis of planetarium shows,<ref name="nybooks" /> the first one set up in 1988 by Björn Stenholm using music by Dmitrij Shostakovich in the planetarium then housed in what is now the [[Lund Observatory|Old Observatory]] in [[Lund]], [[Sweden]]. An English-language show premiered during the [[International Planetarium Society]] conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/a_ottandbroman1988 |title=Aniara: On a Space Epic and its Author |first1=Aadu |last1=Ott |first2=Lars |last2=Broman |date=1988 |website=International Planetarium Society}}</ref>

[[Tommy Körberg]] headlined ''31 songs from Aniara'', a stage concert first set up in [[Olofström]], Sweden in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=31 sånger från Aniara &#124; Välkommen till Dominique Musik! |url=http://dominiquemusik.se/sv/31-sanger-fran-aniara/ |website=dominiquemusik.se}}</ref>

The fourth album from the Swedish [[progressive metal]] band [[Seventh Wonder]] called ''[[The Great Escape (Seventh Wonder album)|The Great Escape]]'' (2010) is based on ''Aniara,'' the title track last 30:21 minutes and relates all the poem from beginning to end.

Swedish musician [[Kleerup]] released an album based on ''Aniara'' in 2012.

A melding of ''Aniara'' and Beethoven's opera ''[[Fidelio]]'' was staged by the [[Opéra de Lyon]] under the direction of American artist [[Gary Hill]] in 2013.<ref name="hill1">{{Cite web |last=Ashley |first=Tim |date=11 August 2013 |title=Fidelio – Edinburgh festival 2013 review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/11/fidelio-edinburgh-festival-2013-review |website=The Guardian}}</ref>

''[[Aniara (film)|Aniara]]'', a 2018 Swedish feature film by directors Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, starring [[Emelie Jonsson]], premiered at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]] that year.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2018 |title=Aniara |url=https://2018.tiffr.com/shows/aniara |access-date=2018-09-08}}</ref> Also in 2018, artist Fia Backstrom made the installation '' A Vaudeville on Mankind in Time and Space'', using ''Aniara'' as its point of origin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fia Backström "A Vaudeville on Mankind in Time and Space" |url=http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2018/443A |website=www.nyartbeat.com}}</ref>

''Aniara: Fragments of Time and Space'', a choral theatre work with [[The Crossing (choral ensemble)|The Crossing]], Helsinki’s Klockriketeatern, and composer Robert Maggio was performed in 2019."