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Favourite. In our new and most advantageous season package, Favourite, you get six selected performances. You only pay for five and also you may buy an additional three at very reasonable prices.
Favourite +. Buy one, two or three more performances for Favourite and save up to SEK 817.
Choose between:
CRAZY MIXMAS – Dance, TURANDOT – Opera, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE – Opera
For further information about tickets and booking: abonnemang@opera.se
Are you 28 years old or younger? If so, you will get 50% off the regular
season package price.
Chess in swedish
MUSICAL by Benny Andersson, Tim Rice & Björn Ulvaeus Adaptation: Lars Rudolfsson
Swedish text: Lars Rudolfsson, Jan Mark & Björn Ulvaeus Conductor: Anders Eljas/Bjorn Dobbelaere
Direction: Mira Bartov
Premiere 8 september 2012
Chess is the musical about four main characters in life crises: the superstar Freddie with his girlfriend Florence, the Russian Anatoly and his wife Svetlana. Each one stands at the crossroads of life and when they meet during a few chaotic days for the chess championship they are changed for ever. The director Mira Bartov's update is filled with strong characters, choreography and music.
Using the graphic style of the comic world, the production team creats a magnificent update of this national gem.The stage is set in the middle of today's media-controlled society and the meeting between the chess champions becomes a match where everything is at stake. After all - chess is really like life - it is all about opportunities, choices and consequences. The next move can change everything ...
Listen and read more about Chess in swedish here
Rusalka
OPERA in three acts by Antonin Dvořák
Libretto: Jaroslav Kvapil Conductor: Olaf Henzold
Direction: David Radok
Premiere 22 September 2012
Premiere 22 september 2012
Dvořák's Rusalka, with its many interpretations of nature and mysticism, has been a much-requested work that we will now perform for the first time in Gothenburg. The libretto is based on H.C. Andersen's The Little Mermaid. We get to experience a visually vertiginous journey, a musical idiom from the Late Romantic period and Dvořák's masterly ability to write for orchestras. The soprano, Elisabet Strid, has played Rusalka on many world stages and now performs her first role at The Göteborg Opera. The Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff creates the role of the prince and as the witch we see Susanne Resmark.
Listen and read more about Rusalka here
Homeland?
DANCE A dance programme in two parts by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar /
Guy Weitzman and Roni Haver
World premiere 13 October 2012
A thought-provoking evening, where the choreographers explore alienation and identity from some very different angles using a combination of gravity, irony and humour. Native Israeli Sharon Eyal was the house choreographer for the Batsheva Dance Company for which she has created a number of critically acclaimed works which appeal to audiences and have the power to move them.
Roni Haver and Guy Weizman focus on contemporary subjects with the aim to inspire, confront and touch the audience. The recurring theme in their work is personal liberation. Mama I’m coming home is a creation about social identity, personal liberation and belonging.
Read more about Homeland here
Tristan and Isolde
OPERA Musical drama in three acts by Richard Wagner
Conductor: Stefan Lano Direction: Wilhelm Carlsson
Premiere 9 february 2013
On a ship out at sea, between the royal princess Isolde's Irelandand her prospective homeland, Cornwall, the tragic story with a fatal love potion at the centre is enacted. Wagner tells of a love so overwhelming that it can only be realised in death. Here we see some of the best Nordic singers. The role of Isolde is created by Annalena Person, her beloved Tristan is performed by Lars Cleveman and as the chamber maid we have the international star Katarina Karnéus.
Listen and read more about Tristan and Isolde here
The Rite of Spring / bODY_rEMIX
DANCE Dance programme in two parts by Marie Chouinard
Premiere 2 march 2013
When the internationally famous, award-winning Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard is creating a new piece she focuses her artistic antennae on hidden dimensions. bODY_rEMIX is all about role reversal. It is feminine and brilliant, sophisticated, taut and, at the same time, painfully physical. 2013 it will be 100 years since the world premiere of The Rite of Spring. In this spring of the “Rite” we will present two world classics on Stravinsky’s ballet. In Chouinard’s version, the movements from 1913 are remixed for our time in a way which allows them to be reborn in a new harmonious context. The Göteborg Opera Orchestra plays the famous music.
Listen and read more about The Rite of Spring / bODY rEMIX here
Simon Boccanegra
OPERA in prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave & Arrigo Boito
Conductor: Giancarlo Andretta
Direction: Claus Guth
Premiere 6 April 2013
In Simon Boccanegra Verdi illustrates power, its premises and how it is possible to be a good and just person in power in spite of battles and intrigues all around. Strong autobiographic threads run through the work, for example Verdi's grief over having lost his wife and child. This successful production from the Hamburg Opera is directed by Claus Guth. The title role is sung by Anders Larsson and as his daughter Amelia we see Malin Byström.
Listen and read more about Simon Boccanegra here
Favourite+. Buy one, two or three more performances for Favourite.
If you choose an extra performance you get a 25% discount on that ticket. If you take two extra you get a50% discount on both. And, if you choose three extra performances you get 55% on all three.
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The barber of Seville
OPERA in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini Conductor: Olof Boman
Direction: David Radok
Revival premiere 27 april 2013
In April The Barber of Seville will return to The Göteborg Opera for the fourth time. David Radok's much appreciated performance is full of humour, clever tricks, false disguises and a men's choir unusually fond of dancing. The story is about the barber Figaro who helps his friend the Count Almaviva to get his Rosina, in spite of her guardian wishing to keep her for himself. Everything happens at a high speed to the sparkling music of Rossini. In the role of the clever barber we meet Åke Zetterström; Rosina is sung by Ida Falk Winland and our own Markus Schwartz sings the guardian Doctor Bartolo.
Crazy Mixmas
DANCE Dance programme in three parts by Alexander Ekman/Medhi Walerski,
Jo Strømgren and Fernando Melo.
Premiere 6 december 2012
In a newly composed evening of dance based on the theme of homeland/belonging/alienation, Alexander Ekman’s / Medhi Walerski’s La La Land returns, together with Jo Strömgren’s Outskirts. Both works have been created specifically for The Göteborg Ballet, and both have been acclaimed by critics and public alike. A new creation by Fernando Melo, choreographer and dancer in The Göteborg Ballet, serves as a bridge between these playful items.
Turandot
OPERA in three acts by Giacomo Puccini accomplished by Franco Alfano
Libretto: Guiseppe Adami & Renato Simone Conductor: Tobias Ringborg/Finn Rosengren Direction: Vladimir Moravek
Revival premiere 17 november 2012
Puccini's Turandot, with its approximately two hundred participants, was acclaimed by critics and public alike and became a great success when it was performed in 2006. The opera has its point of departure in a Chinese saga in which only he who can guess the three riddles of the Princess Turandot may marry her. Whoever guesses wrong is beheaded. Turandot is sung by the Italian soprano, Francesca Patanè, the part of Prince Calaf is sung by Tomas Lind and the slave girl Liù is sung by the Swedish soprano, Charlotta Larsson.
