Last year, the Royal Swedish Opera season programme was enhanced through ground-breaking AR-technology. The upgraded app brings every image on the page to life, including soundtracks with introductions to premieres by RSO artistic directors. From now on, audiences and first-time visitors will be able to enjoy a multi-dimensional experience of stage productions, concerts and other RSO activities.

Three of the world’s pre-eminent choreographers, Jiři Kylián, Mats Ek and Ohad Naharin, have chosen to work with the Royal Swedish Ballet, and for the first time they appear together with one work each: Wings of Wax (Kylián), Woman with Water (Ek) and Minus 16 (Naharin). Premiere/first performance February 21.

Ellen Lamm and Magdalena Åberg have both worked on a number of acclaimed productions for the RSO and the Royal Dramatic Theatre. They will now collaborate for the first time on the RSO production of La traviata, a study in love, death, oppression and human hypocrisy. Premiere 23 November.

The choreographer Örjan Andersson has created a Gesamtkunstwerk with his version of Orpheus & Eurydice. It features dance, spoken word and a new score by Jonas Redig. In collaboration with the youth initiative Unga Dramaten. First performance on February 1.

- Anna Karinsdotter, Artistic Director of Young at the Opera:

»You could say that the story of Orpheus and Eurydice has an inbuilt youth perspective. The modern expressions offer an extra dimension to our production.«

Franz Schreker’s late Romantic opera Der ferne Klang will be directed by the celebrated opera director Christof Loy. After an acclaimed international debut in 2007, Agneta Eichenholz has earned a reputation as one of Europe’s finest sopranos. This is her much awaited debut at the RSO. The male principal part is sung by tenor Daniel Johansson. Premiere October 5.

Leonard Bernstein’s captivating, jazzy opera Candide, based on Voltaire’s satire, in an extravagantly surreal staging by Ole Anders Tandberg and with the tenor Joel Annmo as Candide. Court singer Elin Rombo is cast as Cunegonde, a role that includes the showpiece »Glitter and be Gay«. Premiere 25 January.

The critically acclaimed Short Stories project is back with three new commissioned works. Short Stories II features short operas by Andrea Tarrodi, Malin Hülphers and Viktor Åslund with subjects from the worlds of art, finance and the therapist’s couch. First performance on February 17.

»We are especially proud of the diverse blend of popular classics, newly discovered treasures and new works on this season’s repertoire«, says RSO Director Birgitta Svendén.

- Nicolas Le Riche, Ballet Director on the upcoming season:

»During the season 2019–20, we will offer a diverse and multi-faceted programme that includes everything from iconic ballets to contemporary works.«

Apart from Kylián/Ek/Naharin, we will be seeing works associated with Les Ballets Russes och Les Ballets Suédois; both ballet companies are representative of the expanding Paris dance scene in the early 1900s.

Music by Igor Stravinsky is the common denominator of Noces/Agon/Rites of Spring. The Royal Swedish Ballet present three Stravinsky interpretations by master choreographers Angelin Preljocaj, George Premiere/first performance October 25Balanchine and Maurice Béjart. One of the three, Rites of Spring, paved the way for a period of great innovation..

During the 2019–20 season we will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Les Ballets Suédois. Les Ballets Suédois were active in Paris between 1920 and 1925, and to this day the company is recognised across the world as a major progressive dance and arts phenomenon. Les Ballets Suédois 100 Years – A Tribute commemorates the legacy of this iconic dance company and its importance for dance, art and music. Premiere May 15.

- Star-studded

We will be hearing the international soprano Iréne Theorin as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with the award-winning soprano Cornelia Beskow as Sieglinde and court singer Katarina Dalayman as Fricka. Malin Byström – who received the Female Singer of the World award in London in 2018 – will appear in Giacomo Puccini’s La fanciulla del West, conducted by the former director of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert. Ida Falk Winland and Karl-Magnus Fredriksson – who have previously appeared together in an acclaimed production of Rigoletto – will perform two of the principal parts of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata – and Christina Nilsson is back to sing Verdi’s Aida after her major breakthrough in the title role in 2018.

The perhaps greatest star of all, »the Swedish nightingale« Jenny Lind was born 200 years ago. She will be commemorated in a string of concerts.

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