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Review: An Exclusive Evening with Peter Jöback at Rival


by Annette Stolt - April 15, 2024

Peter Jöback has released a new record, Atlas, and tonight was the first time he played all the songs live in. At the winter concerts in 2023, we got a first glimps of his new sound when he played the title song Atlas.  In total there are ten new songs on the album, all which he has co-written with ...

Review: HAZEL, AN EXTRAVAGANT, MUSICAL at Ö2 Scenkonst Södermalm


by Annette Stolt - April 07, 2024

What did our critic think of HAZEL, AN EXTRAVAGANT, MUSICAL at Ö2 Scenkonst Södermalm?...

Review: HOTELL VITA HÄSTEN (THE WHITE HORSE HOTEL) at Folkoperan


by Annette Stolt - March 20, 2024

An impressive cast combined by actors and opera singers. The operetta The White Horse was written in 1930 in Berlin by Ralph Benatsky and is one of the world's most famous and performed operettas with songs that many people recognize, such as 'It would be wonderful'....

Review: David Bowie's LAZARUS At Göta Lejon


by Annette Stolt - February 15, 2024

Is this a movie or musical? Great acting and song performances....

Review: GENGÅNGARE BY IBSEN At Stadteatern


by Annette Stolt - February 15, 2024

Modern and an updated version...

Review: LILLE EYOLF at Dramaten


by Annette Stolt - February 15, 2024

A moving and update version....

Review: NANNE THE BEST - THE MUSIK OF TINA TURNER At Hamburger Börs


by Annette Stolt - February 09, 2024

Nannes tribute to Tina Tuner if full of both heart and pain, and energize the audience....

Review: MRS CLAUS IS THE WIFE OF SANTA CLAUS (TOMTEMOR ÄR FRU TILL TOMTEFAR) at Aliasteatern


by Annette Stolt - December 04, 2023

A musical about the wife to Santa, the person who actually created Christmas. entertaining and thought provoking...

Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL at Stadteatern


by Annette Stolt - December 02, 2023

What did our critic think of MATILDA THE MUSICAL at Stadteatern?...

Review: WICKED at Göteborgsoperan


by Annette Stolt - November 27, 2023

Gothenburg Opera's production of Wicked is impressive musically and vocally. If you have seen Wicked abroad, you should definitely see this as well if you still have it on the list of musicals to see, because Wicked doesn't get more grand than this....

Past Shows

Don Giovanni
12/15


Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s ...

Klaus Nomi
10/4 - 11/19/2023

Rigoletto
11/11


Considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's career. It's every parent's nightmare...the child you adore falls victim to an ...

Le Corsaire
10/27


Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Corsair, which sold ten thousand copies on the first day of publication, this three-act ballet was first performed ...


With several nominations and awards (including best actress at Cannes for Kirsten Dunst and a Palme d’Or nomination) already under its belt, Melancholia is the ...

Manon
9/21 - 9/28/2023


Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr ...

En midsommarnattsdröm
4/29 - 5/25/2023

Var är smörgåsen?
4/21 - 5/21/2023

Julia & Romeo
3/21 - 4/28/2023

Spader dam
4/20 - 4/6/2023

Le Nozze di Figaro
2/4 - 3/31/2022


Mozart’s biting yet charming indictment of the aristocracy is a supremely elegant and tuneful work. Figaro must defend his fiancée, Susanna, from the clutches of ...

La boîte à joujoux/Carmen
2/18 - 3/12/2022

La traviata
La traviata
5/13 - 6/13/2015


Violetta Valéry, a young lyxprostituerad meets love. Alfredo can give her a new life far away from the nightclubs of Paris. But Alfredo's father thinks ...

Don Quixote
Don Quixote
5/22 - 6/12/2015


The Spanish nobleman Don Quixote is sick. In their fever dreams he is a knight from the medieval novels he constantly reading. Even when awake, ...

Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
11/8 - 6/11/2015


Giacomo Puccini's opera about Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly, who forsake their family, their faith and their culture in order to marry the American Lieutenant Pinkerton, ...

The Royal Swedish Ballet School


The Royal Swedish Ballet School, Sweden's most important school for aspiring professional dancers, presents its spring show in 2013 at the Royal Swedish Opera in ...

Freud's anatomical theater
Freud's anatomical theater
5/2 - 5/21/2015


The tour has come to the Royal Opera in Stockholm that is visited by the great Doctor Freud and his touring anatomical vaudeville theater. On ...

Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
4/24 - 5/20/2015


Two queens, Elisabetta and Maria. Cousins ??rivals of the same faith and the same man's love. Maria is a Catholic, Elisabetta Protestant. To Elisabetta to ...

Otello
Otello
3/14 - 5/15/2015


Otello believes in his friend Jagos word about the beloved wife Desdemona has been unfaithful with Cassio. When Otello realizes he can not stop his ...

A Swedish mid- summer night's dream


High summer, the longest day, and all come together to celebrate the most cherished of traditions - midsummer. Expectations are high; pick seven kinds of ...

Xtra
Xtra
10/7 - 4/27/2015


Meet the singers, dancers, directors and composers! Discuss set design and learn more about the music. Under the heading Opera Xtra offer interesting seminars and ...

The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
12/13 - 4/13/2015


The Queen of the Night gives Tamino the task of freeing her daughter Pamina who have been abducted by Sarastro. If Tamino is successful he ...

Tristan and Isolde
Tristan and Isolde
3/24 - 4/2/2015


Tristan und Isolde have downloaded and will bring her to King Marke that she should marry. But a fatal mistake changes their lives forever and ...

Spring '15
Spring '15
2/20 - 3/17/2015


Thaw out after the winter with the Royal Ballet and a completely new interpretation of Stravinsky's classic work The Rite of Spring, and a new, ...

Xerxes
Xerxes
2/6 - 3/3/2015


Xerxes is in love with Romilda. She loves not him but his brother, Arsamenes. Xerxes has additionally already a betrothed, Amastris, who dresses as a ...

Written on Skin
Written on Skin
1/14 - 2/22/2015


The opera is based on a medieval ballad also narrated in Bocciccios Decamerone. The libretto tells of lord of the manor, The Protector, who order ...

New Year's Gala


Raise a glass of champagne and welcome the new year with us Take a glass bubble in Gold foyer and beginning the new year with ...

Raymonda
Raymonda
11/28 - 12/30/2014


The year is 1898., The new Royal Theatre in Stockholm is completed. On stage, repeated the ballet Raymonda, a story about a woman who is ...

Karmelitsystrarna
Karmelitsystrarna
11/22 - 12/15/2014


The opera is based on true events during the French Revolution when the sixteen nuns in a convent was sentenced to death because they continued ...

Christmas Concerts
Christmas Concerts
12/6 - 12/7/2014


Hear the vocal soloists, members of the Royal Opera Chorus and the Royal Opera Orchestra performing Christmas beautiful melodies from the main stage....

Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
10/17 - 11/15/2014


The charismatic nobleman Don Giovanni's days are numbered. Obsessed by the opposite sex, the serial seducer becomes a victim of his own lustful urges. And ...

Killdag
Killdag
11/15


A day for boys 8-10 years in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Ballet School. Meet our male dancers and try yourself at dancing. It will ...

Bill
Bill
10/18 - 11/7/2014


See the modern dance's dizzying development depicted by three of the world's foremost choreographers. It will be a night of dancing, ranging from tight toes ...

My brother is Don Juan
My brother is Don Juan
10/10 - 11/7/2014


Zerlinas big brother has done most of the worst. Still, he's like a magnet - everyone wants to be where Juan is. He lives like ...

Idomeneo
Idomeneo
9/6 - 9/20/2014


King Idomeneo returning from the Trojan War. Victorious, and after many hard years of war, he'll finally get to see his beloved Crete. But the ...

The Magic Flute concert
The Magic Flute concert
8/30 - 9/13/2014

Guided tour
Guided tour
6/3 - 9/10/2014


Have a look into the auditorium, visit the royal appartements, learn more about the Royal Opera's exciting history and catch a glimpse of life behind ...

Music at the shipyard


Royal Opera performers and Royal Opera Orchestra in front of the delights of opera and film world on Ramsmora laps on Ljusterö. Together with Music ...

The Royal Opera in Vitabergsparken


Once again, the Royal Opera has the pleasure of performing at Parkteatern in Vitabergsparken and o present opera and ballet under the stars. This year ...

Young Opera park tour
Young Opera park tour
8/23 - 8/24/2014


Experience the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns and sing in Vitabergsparken together with the Royal Hovkapellets brass ensemble. Among the heroic deeds and ...

Elektra in Umeå
Elektra in Umeå
8/14 - 8/23/2014


Norrlandsoperan creates history when presenting a unique version of Richard Strauss Elektra. Opera performed outdoors in a production involving more than 250 participants. The Royal ...

Opera at Stockholm Culture


Royal Opera begin the season 2014/2015 at Gustav Adolf Square with sa?ngsolister and Royal Opera Orchestra which offers a taste of the new spela?rets repertoire ...

Don Quixote
Don Quixote
5/22 - 6/12/2014


The Spanish nobleman Don Quixote is sick. In their fever dreams he is a knight from the medieval novels he constantly reading. Even when awake, ...

National Day in Hagaparken


Swedish National Day is celebrated with a concert in the green with sa?ngsolister, members of the Royal Opera Chorus and the Royal Opera Orchestra. It ...

Juliet & Romeo
Juliet & Romeo
5/16 - 5/29/2014


A girl and a. In love. Why does everyone think that their love is wrong? A romantic story in a brutal environment. A clash of ...

Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas
4/24 - 5/24/2014


Dido and Aeneas are two young people who, because of war and conflict, are forced to flee their homelands. They meet and fall head over ...

Royal Hovkapellets brass and percussion


Royal Hovkapellets brass and percussion give two concerts in Nobility. Wed May 14 at 19:00 to 21:00 Conductor: Ingemar Roos Music of Bach and Pictures ...

Lunch Concerts
Lunch Concerts
9/18 - 5/16/2014


At least two days a week it's lunchtime concert with the Royal Opera egan singers and musicians and other prominent artists. The concerts begin with ...

Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser
4/14 - 5/2/2014


Tannhäuser lives in everlasting bliss with Venus, the godess of love. But he soon tires of Life in paradise and leaves, returning to Wartburg, to ...

Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
3/15 - 4/27/2014


The charismatic nobleman Don Giovanni's days are numbered. The men possessed serial seducer is a victim of its hot operation. Death breathes him cold in ...

Xtra
Xtra
10/1 - 4/22/2014


Meet the singers, dancers, directors and composers! Discuss set design and learn more about the music. Attend the Royal Opera's interesting seminars and events. Premiere ...

Bill
Bill
4/17


In the spring of 2014 we will see the dizzying developement of contemporary dance depicted by three of the world's foremost choreographers. A night of ...

The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
9/14 - 4/5/2014


The Queen of the Night gives Tamino the task of freeing her daughter Pamina who have been abducted by Sarastro. If Tamino is successful he ...

Incredibly unheard
Incredibly unheard
9/12 - 3/27/2014


For centuries composing was a profession entirely dominated by men, but as the female emancipation process progressed, more and more female composers emerged during the ...

Concert with the Royal Opera Orchestra


Royal Opera Orchestra in concert from the main stage....

The Royal Swedish Ballet School


On March 21st, the Royal Swedish Ballet School return to the Royal Opera's main stage. Get to know the school's dance students from Year 4 ...

Onegin
Onegin
2/21 - 3/18/2014


Onegin, cynical and despairing, scornfully rejects the love of the young Tatyana, flirting instead with her sister Olga, which results in tragedy. Much later, he ...

Stiffelio
Stiffelio
2/1 - 3/8/2014


The minister Stiffelio preaches in his church and to his family about the importance of forgiveness. But what happens when he himself is betrayed? Is ...

Salome
Salome
11/30 - 2/17/2014


Princess Salome has life served on a silver platter. She is desired by men and used to having her own way. But there is one ...

The Emperor
The Emperor
1/24 - 2/8/2014


Get ready for some calculated craziness as two of Scandinavia's foremost choreographers create an evening of dance for the Royal Swedish Ballet. Mix Örjan Andersson's ...

The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
12/13 - 1/11/2014


Petter and Lotta have been cared for by Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Gredelin and will celebrate Christmas for the very first time in ...

Andrea Chénier


The poet Chénier is fighting for freedom, love and poetry. The butler Gérard becomes a revolutionary leader to avenge the oppression and injustice. Both love ...

New Year's Gala


The Royal Swedish Opera presents an unforgettable evening of gold glitter and glamour in a dazzling concert with soloists, choir and the Royal Opera Orchestra ...

Opera School student concert


Opera School students perform with the Royal Opera Orchestra....

Christmas Concert at the Opera
Christmas Concert at the Opera
12/5 - 12/17/2013


Hear the soloists and the Royal Opera Chorus perform beautiful Christmas melodies from the main stage in December....

Turandot
Turandot
11/9 - 12/10/2013


He who wishes to marry Princess Turandot must first solve three riddles. One wrong answer will be punished with decapitation. Prince Calaf, who is in ...

Swan Lake
Swan Lake
11/1 - 12/2/2013


Prince Siegfried is smitten by the legend of a princess who has been turned to a swan. He goes to the lake alone at night ...

Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera
10/15 - 11/8/2013


At the castle an attack on Gustav, the king, is planned. But he ignores the warnings about a conspiracy. The king is possessed by a ...

Parsifal
Parsifal
10/5 - 11/7/2013


Young Parsifal wanders the earth. He meets Amfortas, Knight of the Grail, whose bleeding wound cannot be healed. He meets Kundry whose kiss opens his ...

Maskeradbalen
10/15 - 10/30/2013


At the castle in planned an attack against Gustav, King, but he is waving off warnings about a conspiracy. The King is obsessed with a ...

Time Themes
Time Themes
10/18 - 10/25/2013


Modern dance brilliance In Time Themes, we meet two of Europe's hottest choreographers, Emanuel Gat and Johan Inger. Emanuel Gat isthe choreographer who's currently taking ...

Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
9/26 - 10/14/2013


Her and Him. They love each other. Why does everyone else think that their love is wrong? A romantic story in a brutal environment. A ...

The Magic Flute
9/14 - 9/22/2013


Tamino, on behalf of The Queen to release her daughter, Pamina, who abducted by Sarastro. Successful mission should he be Paminas hand. His followers will ...

Mozart at the Royal Dramatic Theatre


No other composer has described the deeply human in their music like Mozart. How it feels to love, doubt, cry, hate, laugh, forgive - it's ...

Confit the danse
Confit the danse
8/29 - 8/31/2013


The dancers of the Royal Ballet invite you to an evening at the beautiful Confidencen. We let our young talents try out their wings and ...

Viva Verdi!


Welcome to Italian opera gala on Ljusterö, right in the Stockholm archipelago! There will be the famous arias and duets from the Italian repertoire with ...

Opera Vitabergsparken
Opera Vitabergsparken
8/23 - 8/30/2013


Once again, the Royal Opera has the pleasure to to perform at Parkteatern in Vitabergsparken and to present opera and ballet under the stars. This ...

Opera at the Baltic Sea Festival


This year's Baltic Sea Festival gets a flying start in the name of love. The opening concert will feature Hector Berlioz' passionate interpretation of Shakespeare's ...

Opera in Stockholm's Culture


Program G. Verdi From Masked Ball Prelude Ogni cura si doni al Diletto Ecco l'Orrido campo From Trubaduren Il bale part suo sorriso Royal Opera ...


The Royal Swedish Ballet School, Sweden's most important school for aspiring professional dancers, presents its spring show in 2013 at the Royal Swedish Opera in ...

Romeo and Juliet
5/24 - 6/7/2013


Mats Ek recognizes Romeo and Juliet! It will be världskoreografens first major full-evening works since sleeping beauty for the Hamburg Ballet in 1997. Shakespeare's tragedy ...

Peter Grimes
5/4 - 6/4/2013


Peter Grimes does not fit. Society have their eye over the shoulder and whisper among themselves his name. Certainly, Grimes committed a crime? He was ...

Tosca
5/18 - 6/2/2013


In 24 hours we will accompany the artist and revolutionary Cavaradossi, the famous opera singer, Tosca and Scarpia, The tyrannical and korrupte police chief. Passion, ...


During one day, we are following Don Giovanni. 24 paved with lust and betrayal, violence and death and ruthless exercise of power that affects both ...

Il Trovatore
3/23 - 5/9/2013


Love, war and blood feuds is the theme in the opera literature's most popular works. As part of the celebration of the Verdi year 2013, ...

Giselle
3/30 - 5/3/2013


Peasant girl Giselle falls in Albrecht. But Albrecht is not the pawn he masqueraded as, without count and already married to a noble. Giselle dies ...

Die Fledermaus
4/12 - 5/1/2013


After the masquerade, Gabriel von Eisenstein once his friend Dr Falke drunk and dressed as a bat. Now the time has come for Falke to ...

Karlsson on the roof
3/16 - 4/13/2013


On the roof of a very ordinary House on a perfectly ordinary Street in Stockholm live Karlsson. He is a beautiful, genomklok and satisfyingly thick ...

Turandot
2/16 - 4/5/2013


Anyone who wants to marry Princess Turandot must solve three riddles. Wrong answers are punishable by decapitation. Prince Calaf, who is in Beijing, attracted by ...

Impromptus
2/21 - 3/14/2013


Two Ballets Franz Schubert's music has attracted two of Europe's most interesting contemporary choreographers to kreera two completely new works exclusively for the Royal Ballet. ...


With equal parts passion, courage, and humor is the Swedish scenpersonligheten Charlotte Engelkes an operagiganten Richard Wagner. Like Wagner, create Engelkes art where she uses ...

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