Opera Alaska

A chance meeting in 2017 in one of the branches of the world-famous Swedish meatball company was the spark needed to bring singer/songwriter Marien Dorleijn and guitarist Marzio Scholten together. Especially when they discovered on the spot that they live a stone's throw away from each other.

Marien Dorleijn and Marzio Scholten share a love for songwriting, equipment and making music. Separately, both have made their mark in the Dutch music scene: Dorleijn as songwriter and frontman of the celebrated indie band Moss and Scholten with his work as guitarist/bandleader of various projects in the more instrumental music scene (Bimhuis, North Sea Jazz).

In Opera Alaska, Dorleijn and Scholten join forces, resulting in playful indie, broken rhythms, dreamy melodies and, above all, rock-solid songs.