PROGRAMME
Act I
Gustaf's Vision
TEXT Carina Burman
GUSTAV III Rasmus Luthander
Background song Gustafs skål by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795)
From Thetis och Pelée
MUSIC Francesco Antonio Uttini (1723–1709)
LIBRETTO Johan Wellander, after a plan by Gustaf III
Ouverture
»Öde! Dina dolda lagar«
THETIS Hanna Husáhr
From Don Juan
MUSIC Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
CHOREOGRAPHY Regina Beck-Friis
COSTUMES David Walker
DON JUAN Calum Lowden, SGANARELLO Frei Ruhl, DONNA ELVIRA Jeanette Wren
From Un ballo in maschera
MUSIC Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
LIBRETTO Antonio Somma, after Eugène Scribe; Swedish adaptation by Erik Lindegren
»Höll han sitt ord…« (Gustav's recitative and aria from act III)
GUSTAV III Daniel Frank, THE PAGE Hanna Husáhr
From Symfoni no. 4 Ace Major (»Naïve«)
MUSIC Franz Berwald (1796–1868)
Movement II Adagio
Här är vi nu (Here we are now)
TEXT Martina Montelius
ACTORS Thérèse Brunnander, Philip Lithner
From Tema och variationer
MUSIC Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
CHOREOGRAPHY George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
COSTUMES Karin Erskine
DANCE SOLOISTS Luiza Lopes, Kentaro Mitsumori
From I Firenze
MUSIC Helena Munktell (1852–1919)
Ouverture
From Parsifal
MUSIC AND LIBRETTO Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
»Ich sah das Kind«
KUNDRY Nina Stemme
From Tosca
MUSIC Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
LIBRETTO Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
»Te Deum«
SCARPIA Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, SPOLETTA Daniel Ohlmann
Act II
From Lohengrin
MUSIC AND LIBRETTO Richard Wagner
Vorspiel act III
Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte
MUSIC Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927)
TEXT Johan Ludvig Runeberg
SOLOIST Nina Stemme
From Arnljot
MUSIC AND LIBRETTO Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942)
Arnljots hälsningssång (Arnljot's greeting song)
ARNLJOT Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
Gå vidare, Antigone (Move on, Antigone)
TEXT Sara Stridsberg
THE DAUGHTER Manuela Gotskozik Bjelke, THE MAN Andreas Rothlin Svensson, THE STRANGER Rasmus Luthander
From Hamlet
MUSIC Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)
LIBRETTO Michel Carré och Jules Barbier efter William Shakespeare
»Pâle et blonde«
OFELIA Hanna Husáhr
From Kathrin
MUSIC Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
LIBRETTO Ernst Décsey
Vandringssång
FRANÇOIS Daniel Frank
From Sova vaken (Sleeping Awake)
MUSIC Daniel Nelson (b. 1965)
LIBRETTO Irena Kraus
»Var är Majs?«
GUN Jessica Elevant, MAJS Ulrika Skarby
Ur The Promise (Löftet)
MUSIC Mats Larsson Gothe (b. 1965)
LIBRETTO Susanne Marko
»Mitt liv var en flod som rann«
AVA Hanna Husáhr, TEO Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
From Cacti
MUSIC Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
CHOREOGRAPHY Alexander Ekman
COSTUMES Alexander Ekman
LIGHT Tom Visser
Some kind of epilogue, Move on Antigone (En sorts epilog, Gå vidare, Antigone)
TEXT Sara Stridsberg
THE DAUGHTER Manuela Gotskozik Bjelke, THE MAN Andreas Rothlin Svensson
From Drifted (Strandad)
MUSIC Karin Rehnqvist (b. 1957)
LIBRETTO Kerstin Perski)
Atonement Chorus (Försoningskör
SOLOISTS Madeleine Barringer, Anna Norrby, Peter Haeggstrom
From Un ballo in maschera
MUSIC Giuseppe Verdi
LIBRETTO Antonio Somma, after Eugène Scribe; Swedish adaptation by Erik Lindegren
Festive scene Act III
CLOSING MUSIC
From Midsummer Night's Dream
MUSIC Mikael Karlsson (b. 1975)