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All single tickets autumn 2025 are released on Monday April 28. Or be an »early bird« and secure your seats for autumn AND spring 2026 with a subscription right now!
All single tickets autumn 2025 are released on Monday April 28. Or be an »early bird« and secure your seats for autumn AND spring 2026 with a subscription right now!
Kulturnatt at the Opera
It's time for this year's Culture Night on Saturday April 26! Welcome to the Opera House, which is buzzing with activity between 6 p.m. and midnight.
Find this year's program here
Be an Early Bird — get 25% off
As an "early bird," you secure your seats for autumn and spring's most anticipated performances if you buy at least three. Don't miss out on audience favorites like Swan Lake, Madama Butterfly, Gustavia and many more!
Il barbiere di Siviglia
In this first chapter of the Figaro story the resourceful barber Figaro helps love-struck Count Almaviva get his Rosina. The next chapter is revealed in Le nozze di Figaro, another production by the same director and creative team on the spring programme.
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Short Stories V
With Short Stories, the Royal Swedish Opera introduces new, 20-minute works sung in Swedish in an intimate setting.
Short Stories V
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s moving love story, Sergei Prokofiev’s classic ballet music to Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s dazzling choreography. Love as a matter of life and death.
Romeo and Juliet
Early Summer Concert
The season concludes with a magnificent concert on the Royal Swedish Opera main stage with the Royal Swedish Orchestra performing Johannes Brahms’s first symphony, conducted by Music Director and Royal Court Kapellmeister Alan Gilbert.
Early Summer Concert
Midsummer Night's Dream
The audience hit Midsummer Night's Dream, created by Alexander Ekman, is finally back with the Royal Swedish Ballet!
Midsummer Night's Dream
Rusalka
Czech fairy tale opera on the theme of an unhappily in love water nymph — a mermaid for our time — signed by the master Dvořák.
Rusalka
Dugan/Naharin
A modern classic and a sensational debut on the Main Stage: an evening of 100% movement energy with the Royal Swedish Ballet!
Dugan/Naharin
Who's there?
With ingenious set design, imaginative melodies and classical ballet, Who's there? is a beautiful dance tale about meeting and being seen exactly as you are.
Who's there?
A Faust Symphony by Liszt
Alan Gilbert conducts the Royal Swedish Orchestra in this epic work on the Opera House’s main stage!
A Faust Symphony by Liszt
Eatnama váibmu
Opera in Northern Sami for the whole family! Eatnama váibmu (The Heart of the Earth) takes us on a visual, musical journey into the Sami tradition.
Eatnama váibmu
Swan Lake
It has been called the ballet of ballets — Swan Lake is a veritable display of the mastering of en pointe technique and tutus you can't miss!
Swan Lake
Sleeping awake
A marvelous small-format opera production with a score that sounds like a combination of Tchaikovsky and Tom & Jerry!
Sleeping awake
Figaro Gets a Divorce
Figaro Gets a Divorce — a worthy sequel to Il barbiere di Siviglia and Le nozze di Figaro, now being performed for the first time in Sweden. How will it end?
Figaro Gets a Divorce
Madama Butterfly
One of two beloved Puccini operas of the 2025/2026 season — Madama Butterfly continues to fascinate audiences. Now in a new version for today's audience!
Madama Butterfly
Die Zauberflöte
Always on the top list of the world's most watched — and loved — operas, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is a must-see for both the opera enthusiast and the beginner!
Die Zauberflöte
Gustavia
The gripping story of Gustav Badin Couschi, inspired by real people and events, came to life on the Royal Swedish Opera's stage with a star-studded artistic team 2024 - now back!
Gustavia
Welcome to the Opera!
»The 2025/2026 season is a dazzling display of everything that makes our art forms so amazing, and of how much a cultural experience can encompass.«
Fredrik Lindgren, CEO of the Royal Swedish opera
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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.
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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.
