Åsa Melldahl's recent activities include the leadership from 1995 to 1999 of the theatre section of National Swedish Radio, where she has also produced numerous plays. Among her several stage productions may be mentioned in particular Jonas Forssell's and Magnus Florin's Trädgården (The Garden) in Stockholm in 1999. This opera has the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) as its main character. Melldahl's production of it was selected by the Financial Times as one of the five best opera stagings in the world that year. Her subsequent productions include Copenhagen, which was set up at the Royal Swedish Dramatic Theatre in 2000, when she also arranged the entertainment in connection with the Nobel Festivities. In 2001, she produced George Bizet's opera Carmen in Stockholm.