Discover the next season
ROYAL SWEDISH OPERA
Join us for the last autumn at the Opera House before the move to the Gasometer: tickets for all of this autumn's opera and ballet performances are on sale.
Join us for the last autumn at the Opera House before the move to the Gasometer: tickets for all of this autumn's opera and ballet performances are on sale.
Le Corsaire
A classical ballet tale of passion, jealousy and adventure, a full-length ballet where the Royal Swedish Ballet impresses with large ensemble numbers and intimate duets.
Le Corsaire
Tosca
Tosca is the opera that has it all: grand set design, a large chorus and some of the most beloved duets in opera history in a classic prouction.
Tosca
Royal Orchestra & Stemme
The Royal Swedish Orchestra’s 500th anniversary celebrations continue with a magnificent start to this autumn’s concerts. A powerful programme of Wagner’s works features Nina Stemme as a soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting.
Royal Orchestra & Stemme
Melancholia
Lars von Trier's film Melancholia as an operatic experience. A wedding that ends in the end of the world, to the sound of the Royal Swedish Orchestra, synthesizers and magnificent voices.
Melancholia
Rite of Spring with the Orchestra
Hear enchanting works by Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten, two of the 20th century’s greatest composers, in concert on the Opera House’s main stage. Music director and Royal Court Kapellmeister Alan Gilbert conducts.
Rite of Spring with the Orchestra
Lost
"The opera is simply a little gem – lucky are those who manage to secure a ticket!” wrote Dagens Nyheter after the 2024 premiere. Now, Lost (Vilse) is finally back!
Lost
Chamber/Cacti
Kinetic energy, humour, precision and collective power in 2 x 30 minutes of modern dance expression: Walerski's ritual work Chamber and Ekman's expressive Cacti.
Chamber/Cacti
Così fan tutte
A playful story with darkness at its core — an opera about romantic relationships, disguises, and desire, set to ingeniously crafted music by Mozart.
Così fan tutte
Gershwin to Bernstein
As the grand finale to the Royal Swedish Orchestra’s 500th anniversary celebrations, the main stage will come alive with colourful, energetic orchestral music from the USA. Alan Gilbert conducts.
Gershwin to Bernstein
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker, choreographed by Pär Isberg, is one of the Royal Swedish Ballet’s greatest successes. The plot has been updated with Elsa Beskow’s fairytale characters, and Tchaikovsky’s dance fantasy has become a Christmas tradition for audiences of all ages. This year’s performance will be staged at Cirkus.
The Nutcracker
Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss II, a master of the art of composing waltzes, wrote Die Fledermaus in 1873. It has since become one of glittering Vienna’s best loved operettas. Guest appearance at Filadelfia Convention Center in Stockholm.
Die Fledermaus
Summer on Swedish National Radio
Get inspiration for the autumn at the Opera - among others, Alexander Ekman (his Cacti playing from October) and Eiln Rombo (From Gershwin to Bernstein and Die Fledermaus) are featured in Summer in P1. And rediscover previous summer speakers who are visiting the Opera over the coming months.
Read more about summer speakers »
Make your visit to the Opera an experience
Don't forget to book something delicious for the interval - or why not book a table in one of the Opera's most beautiful (and secretive!) rooms, Restaurant Grodan.
Book a table & your interval treat!Meet the stars of the Opera
A large number of artists and performers work at the Opera: discover our stars in the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Royal Swedish Opera Chorus, the Royal Swedish Orchestra and all the vocal soloists.
Royal Swedish Opera
The Royal Swedish Opera is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet, founded by King Gustav III in 1773. The heart of opera in Sweden and home to opera singers, the Royal Swedish Opera Chorus and the Royal Swedish Ballet, the country's only classical ballet company and one of the world's oldest. The Royal Swedish Orchestra is also one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1526. We offer both adults and children strong emotions, tulle, pointe and tragedy.
