1. The Göteborg Opera reaches a large and broad audience. In 2025, we attracted 319,000 visitors and the audience occupancy rate for Main Stage performances averaged at 85%.
2. In 2025, the Göteborg Opera gave a total of 358 performances. 91 of these were performed in the region or other stages outside the opera house.
3. Every week, the Göteborg Opera offers free choir activities for around 100 children and young people – one of many participatory and co-creation projects within the framework of the Skapa department. In collaboration with business partners and libraries in Göteborg, we distribute free Cultural Hero tickets to new visitors. In 2025, we gave 54 school performances for a total of 7,100 students and each year around ten performances are audio-interpreted.
4. The Göteborg Opera has a self-financing rate above average for comparable institutions. On the Main Stage, we have regular prices from 150 kr for adults and 75 kr for visitors between 8 and 29 years old, students and pensioners. Everyone under 20 years old pays half the ticket price and we also have activities with free admission.
5. In 2022, the Göteborg Opera was named the world's most sustainable opera house in the prestigious International Opera Awards. Our restaurant is eco-certified, we have solar cells on the roof and the company is ISO 14001-certified – which means that our operations meet current environmental legislation and client expectations, and we work systematically with environmental issues on a daily basis.
6. We have a borad repertoire. We mix popular titles with rarely-played works, newly-written pieces with well-known classics. You can experience musicals, opera, contemporary dance and concerts in performances by both international and Swedish creators.
7. Part of our mission is to show what the Västra Götaland region can offer by going on international tours. In the 2025/26 season, we met new audiences in France, Spain, Germany, the UK, Finland and Austria, amongst others.
8. The Göteborg Opera has the resources to create performing arts of the highest quality. We employ dozens of opera and musical soloists, around 40 dancers, an orchestra with 86 musicians and an opera chorus with 46 singers. Set designs, costumes, wigs, props and more are created in workshops in the house. In total, 90 professions are represented among our employees who come from around 30 different countries.
9. The vast majority of those who visit us – both loyal audiences and first-time visitors – say in surveys that they are very satisfied with their experience. An absolute majority also state that they would like to come back.
10. The Göteborg Opera has won numerous awards and its productions are praised by critics both within and outside Sweden, such as “Electrifying” (The Guardian, UK), “Musical craftsmanship of the highest international standard” (Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden) and “More than just world class” (Tanz, Germany)*. In 2025, the Göteborg Opera was one of six nominees for best opera house in the International Opera Awards.
* about the opera Peter Grimes in 2025, the musical Miss Saigon in 2025 and the dance work Wild Poetry in 2023.
