New Year's Concerts
End the year in great style!
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DATE:January 31
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STAGE:Main stage
The year traditionally ends with New Year's Eve celebrations on the Royal Swedish Opera's main stage with the Royal Swedish Orchestra and opera soloists. To meet the great demand for tickets, we can offer two concert opportunities this year!
Brighten up your New Year's Eve with a wonderful concert experience on the Royal Swedish Opera! Enjoy the playing of the Royal Swedish Orchestra and the singing of soloists Sofie Asplund and David Risberg. Oleksandr Yankevych from Ukraine is the conductor. New for this year is that the concert is given twice on New Year's Eve: at 3 P.M. and at 6.30 P.M. Choose the time that suits you best, and enjoys a refreshing drink in the Golden Foyer during the break, toast to the year that has passed and the new one to come!
This year's New Year's concert offers musical journeys to the Vienna of operettas and waltzes and to belle époque Paris, with some detours in the form of music by Ethel Smyth, George Gershwin and Hans Christian Lumbye's Champagne Galop. The concert begins with the rousing overture from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and a duet from the same opera, the first of many duets during this lovely and luxurious concert!
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Part I
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Interval
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Part II
Cast subject to change.
Programme
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Overture from Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
"Cruel! Perché finora« (Susanna and the Count's duet) from Le nozze di Figaro
SOLOISTS Sofie Asplund, David Risberg
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
Wiener Blut, waltz, op. 354 (1873)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
»Mein Herr Marquis« (Adele's laughing song) from Die Fledermaus (1874)
SOLOIST Sofie Asplund
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897–1957)
»Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen« from Die tote Stadt (1920)
SOLOIST David Risberg
HANS CHRISTIAN LUMBYE (1810–1874)
Champagne Galop (1845)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
FRANZ LEHÁR (1870–1948)
»Lippen schweigen's flüstern Geigen« (duet ending Act I) from Die lustige Witwe (1905)
SOLOISTS Sofie Asplund, David Risberg
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Unter Donner und Blitz, polka, op. 324 (1868)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
INTERMISSION
GEORGES BIZET (1838–1875)
Entr’acte, act III from Carmen (1875)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
JACQUES OFFENBACH (1819–1880)
»Il m'a semblé sur mon épaule« (The Fly Duet) from Orphée aux enfers (1858)
SOLOISTS Sofie Asplund, David Risberg
ETHEL SMYTH (1858–1944)
Serenade in D major, third movement (Allegretto grazioso) (1890)
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893)
»Je veux vivre« (Juliet's Waltz) from Roméo et Juliette (1867)
SOLOIST Sofie Asplund, David Risberg
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
»Bess, you is my woman now«, duet from Porgy and Bess (1935)
SOLOISTS Sofie Asplund
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Can-can from Orphée aux enfers
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
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