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We welcome one of the world’s leading dance companies Batsheva Dance Company with their new piece Last Work. Led by one of the most exciting, ...

The passionate arias and the broad musical and dramatic spectra make La Traviata one of Verdi’s most popular works. David Radok’s elegant and timeless production ...

“Come and see it and bring everyone you know,” wrote Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter’s reviewer following Die Zauberflöte’s (The Magic Flute) premiere at The Göteborg ...

Richard Strauss’ Elektra from 1909 is thrilling from the beginning to the end. It’s a breathtaking drama that also tore down the boundaries of tonality. ...

Richard Strauss’ Elektra from 1909 is thrilling from the beginning to the end. It’s a breathtaking drama that also tore down the boundaries of tonality. ...

Besides running his own company La Veronal in Spain, Marcos Morau choreographs around the world. Being a photographer as well as a choreographer, Morau deals ...

The independent Carmen is passion personified: wild, fearless and all-consuming. When she throws her rose to Don José, it is the prelude to a relationship ...

The pieces are created for and will be performed by some of Sweden’s most promising young dancers. A unique chance for the graduate students from ...

In this theatre and dance performance by the Norwegian Alan Lucien Øyen, the dancers excel as actors in a touching story about nostalgia, being lost ...

Fredrik Benke Rydman’s version of Stravinsky’s classic is a raving Firebird of irresistible energy. In 2015, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, four of Sweden’s top break-dancers and non-professionals ...

Choreographer SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI reflects upon the subject of icons and iconoclasm. How we create them and seem to have a need to destroy them. ...

Idomeneo is an opera about new life by breaking of the old – but accepting the new and bidding farewell to the old is always ...

"Touring is like breathing. You return full of new impressions while at the same time increasing your knowledge of yourself and what is unique to ...

Guest performance: A classic in new clothes. Semperoper Dresden’s amazing ballet ensemble will visit us to present this classic title, with new choreography by Gothenburg ...

I am in blood stepp’d so far … Macbeth is the darkest of Verdi’s Shakespeare adaptations. A study in how the lust for power corrodes ...

Reality/illusion/delusion. Our Artistic Director for Opera/Drama, Stephen Langridge, directs this magnificent tragic opera about Shakespeare’s enigmatic Danish prince. Ambroise Thomas' magnificent Hamlet has had to ...

Puccini's own favourite work, about two lovers from different continents, is a tragedy of cultural stereotyping and misunderstandings. We are proud to present Madama Butterfly ...

A few Saturdays every season, the musicians and singers of from The Göteborg Opera perform a casual concert in our foyer. The Foyer Concerts start ...

The Story Foyer is the name given to The Göteborg Opera concerts for our very youngest audience. It is aimed at children of different ages ...

The Göteborg Opera also arranges Saturday Concerts at our Stage in Skövde. The programmes contain musical gems from a varied repertoire: operas, operettas, musicals and ...

Dance beyond movement and body. A world premiere for “Still”, created exclusively for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, and a revival premiere of the acclaimed “Metamorphosis. Both by ...

New and untested ideas, installations, video, performance art and intellectual challenges. Northern (de) Lights 2016 pushes the boundaries and to see what will happen. This ...

William Shakespeare and opera itself were born in nearly the same year. While the very first operas were being composed in Italy, Shakespeare was writing ...

The award-winning BBC documentary series, with music by George Fenton. The GöteborgsOpera is transformed into a movie theatre – an experience for the whole family! ...

Le nozze di Figaro is a brilliantly convoluted but fully human comedy of lust, desire, and, often farcical trickery in a rigidly hierarchical society. It ...

Emilia Marty has lived for 337 years. Now the potion that prolonged her life is wearing off and she desperately needs a new dose – ...

Three dance favourites on passion, instinct and consolation. Interfacial Scale, Your Passion is Pure Joy to Me and Noetic – three highly acclaimed dance performances ...

Welcome to Vienna! Experience an unforgettable Twelfth Night at The Göteborg Opera. This magical winter’s evening will be filled with treats for the eyes, ears ...

A Christmas show for the whole family! A musical adventure for all ages, with all the trimmings. Come and get in the Christmas spirit with ...

A concert with hits from the Gershwin brothers’ collected works. The Stadsteater in Skövde, Kronhuset in Gothenburg and on tour in the Västra Götaland region. ...

Opera på Läckö Slott sommaren 2012 DEN LISTIGA LILLA RÄVEN av Leoš Janácek (1854-1928) en tonsättare som just nu är i ropet och vars romantiska, ...

Concert with Helen Sjöholm, Freddie Wadling och Fredrik Lycke, Conductor: Josef Rhedin...