Are you as passionate about culture as we are? Then you've come to the right place.
The Royal Swedish Opera needs competent, enthusiastic and committed employees who want to be involved in developing the business and contribute to us maintaining the highest quality and reaching our high-set goals.
At the Opera, more than 600 employees work in over 100 different professional roles on, behind and in front of the stage. We want all our employees to thrive and develop in a positive working climate, characterized by equality and diversity.
Vacancies
We are always interested in competent employees. Log in to manage your submitted application or subscribe to new postings. Read more and apply under each post.
Communications and Marketing Manager
Application Deadline: 2025-05-19
Are you a strategic leader with a passion for culture and communication? Do you want to help shape the future of Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet? Then this could be the role for you! As Head of Communications and Marketing at the Royal Swedish Opera, you have the overall strategic responsibility for all communication as well as marketing and branding work. The Royal Swedish Opera is facing an exciting period of change with an extensive reconstruction and renovation of the Opera House. This means that the operations will be moved to new premises over several years. You will play a key role in communicating these changes both internally and externally. Read more (in Swedish).
Royal Swedish Opera
Communication and Sales
HR partner
Application Deadline: 2025-05-19
The Royal Swedish Opera is looking for an experienced and committed HR partner who wants to make a difference in a dynamic and creative environment. Here art, innovation and tradition meet, and we are looking for you who want to contribute to a workplace where both people and ideas can flourish. If you are driven by working closely with the business, have strong HR skills and want to be part of a journey of continuous development, then you could be the colleague we are looking for! Read more (in Swedish).
Royal Swedish Opera
HR
Permanent employment, 100%
Wig and Make-up Artist
Application Deadline: 2025-05-20
Are you a skilled makeup artist with a passion for wig making and masking? With us you will have the chance to use your craft skills and create magnificent masking. The Royal Swedish Opera is now looking for a permanent makeup artist who has broad knowledge of both wigs and masks. As a makeup artist at the Opera, you will work with making wigs, hairdressing, make-up and carrying out character masking and the manufacture of loose masks. You will work in a department with several committed and competent colleagues, with a tight working group and in close collaboration with the production team and other departments at the Opera. Read more (in Swedish).
Royal Swedish Opera
The Wig and Make-up department
Permanent Contract 100%
Procurement Officer
Application Deadline: 2025-05-26
The Royal Swedish Opera is looking for a committed and knowledgeable procurement officer with a focus on assisting the organisation with procurement, including in light of the upcoming relocation when the Opera House will be closed for renovation. As a procurement officer at the Royal Swedish Opera, you will, together with the Royal Swedish Opera's existing procurement officer, assist the entire operation with procurement based on the LOU, the Royal Swedish Opera's procurement policy and other rules and guidelines in connection with this. You will assist the operation with advice and administrative support in procurement matters. Read more (in Swedish)
Royal Swedish Opera
Public procurement/legal
Permanent employement
Why work at the Opera?
Many different professional roles
As the national stage for opera and ballet, the Opera must stand at the highest level in terms of development, renewal, artistic quality and craftsmanship in studios and workshops. Maybe you are one of these key persons?

Examples of professional roles
Ballet dancer
Lighting technician
Blacksmith
IT technician
Usher
Machine operator
Stage manager
Chorus member
Examples of professional roles
Ballet dancer
Lighting technician
Blacksmith
IT technician
Usher
Machine operator
Stage manager
Chorus member
As an employee, you get
In addition to working with performing arts at the highest level - you will be part of a dedicated group of employees who are passionate about the business! Our benefits include:
- Training card at Nordic Wellness
- Private gym in the Opera House
- "Förmånscykel" - chance to acquire a bike at preferential rate
- Holiday exchange
- Possibility to see performances
