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Gothenburg Culture Festival 2022
Join us in celebrating Gothenburg Culture Festival!
Length
TBC
Where
Main Stage
Genre
Other
Price
Free admission (ticket required)
Accessibility
During the Gothenburg Culture Festival on 1–4 September we present several activities.
Programme
Thursday 1 September ↓
Friday 2 September ↓
Saturday 3 September ↓
Sunday 4 September ↓
Thursday, 1 September
Guided tours
3.00–4.00pm & 5.00–6.00pm
Join us behind the scenes! Why are there TV-screens on the balconies? What happens during a blackout? Is it possible for a singer without a microphone to be heard over a full orchestra? Discover the answers to all this and more on a guided tour through the house, which will take you behind the scenes and through the auditorium.
Tickets required. Limited places available.
Friday, 2 September
Opera rehearsal: The Bartered Bride
3.30–4.00pm
Main Stage
Eavesdrop as singers and orchestra rehearse the opera The Bartered Bride together for the first time om the Main Stage. The composer is Smetana, who lived in Gothenburg for five years, and who has imbued this comic opera with irresistible charm. It offers romantic arias, lively choruses and Czech folk music. The Bartered Bride will see its premiere later this fall in a staging by director Mellika Melouani Melani, who dusts off this Czech national-romantic opera and imbues it with punky love, strong desires and violent rebellion against traditional norms.
Ticket required. Limited places available.
Learn more about The Bartered Bride here
Guided tour
3.00–4.00pm
Tickets required. Limited places available.
After work at the Opera
3.30–7.00pm
Enjoy food and drinks with a relaxed after work in the musical company of the Göteborg Opera’s singers!
Asian glass-noodle salad, roasted peanuts, chili mayonnaise, served with either deep-fried halloumi or grilled flank steak SEK 229
Tuna tartare with kimchi mayonnaise, crispy lotus root, teriyaki-poached shiitakes and tobiko (flying fish caviar), served with french fries and chili mayonnaise SEK 229
Prawn sandwich on organic Danish rye bread with horseradish and lemon mayonnaise SEK 239
Chocolate truffle SEK 59
Concert: The Göteborg Opera’s Children’s Choir
4.00–4.20pm
Foyer
Enjoy a wonderful concert in our foyer with the Göteborg Opera’s Children’s Choir, with 30 children aged 9 to 12.
Guided tour
5.00–6.00pm
Tickets required. Limited places available.
Saturday, 3 September
Dance with baby
11:00am – 12:00pm (meet at 10:45)
A dance class for parents with babies who haven’t yet begun to crawl or walk (about 3–8 months). Learn more about Dance with baby here
Ticket required. Limited places available.
Guided tour
11.00am – 12.00pm & 12.00–1.00pm
Tickets required. Limited places available.
Chamber concert: Musical metropolis Prague
12.30–1.10pm
Foyer
Music by Dvořák, Smetana and Suk. Our café is open all day (11.30am-8pm) – enjoy traditional Swedish fika while keeping up with everything going on at the Opera today!
Learn more about our chamber concerts here Chamber Concerts
Concert: The Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg
2.00–2.30pm
Foyer
Prelude. Allegro vivace
Sarabande. Andante
Gavotte. Allegretto
Air. Andante religioso
Rigaudon. Allegro con brio
With string ensemble from the Göteborg Opera Orchestra. Concert Master: David Bergström.
Family concert: The Carnival of the Animals
3.00–3.45pm
Small Stage
Classical music by Camille Saint-Saëns – a musical parade.
Text by Claes Eriksson. Narrator: Ingahlill Wagelin. Musicians: Dieter Schöning, Alex Chojecki (violin), Franziska Wenzel (viola), Patrik Harryson (cello), Johan Ekenberg (double bass), Sabine Daniels (flute), Helena Nyman Panofsky (clarinet), Johan Bejke, Simon Trabjerg Pedersen (percussion), Karin Holm, Michel Sikesh (piano).
The text will be presented in Swedish. Tickets required. Limited places available.
Concert: Witches
4.00–4.30pm
Main Stage
Concert with the Göteborg Opera’s Women’s Chorus ,Daniel Ralphsson (tenor), Karin Mårtensson Ghods, Åsa Sjöblom, Micaela Sjöstedt (musical artists), Ellen Larsson (soprano), Léonie Hayes (soprano), Natallia Salavei (mezzosoprano), Ronnie Karlsson (bas). Offering insight into their intensive day-to-day work in various languages, musical styles and characters. Including excerpts from Macbeth, Hansel and Gretel, Rusalka, Witches of Eastwick.
Piano: Bernhard Greter
Ticket required. Limited places available.
Concert: Operas to long for
5.00–5.45pm
Foyer
A taste of this season’s operas, performed by Ida Falk Winland, Ellen Larsson, Carolina Sandgren, Matilda Sterby (soloists), Erika Tordéus (mezzosoprano), Davide Giusti (tenor), Anders Lorentzson (basbaryton), David Lundqvist, Anders Wängdahl (musical artists) and pianist. Presenter: Göran Gademan
Concert: Drinking songs
6.00–6.30pm
Main Stage
Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Smetana: Drinking song from The Bartered Bride
Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Wagner: Introduction to act 3 and Sailor’s Chorus from Der fliegende Holländer
Bizet: Introduction to Carmen act 4
Bizet: Toreador from Carmen
With Mats Persson (baritone), Göteborg Opera’s Men’s Chorus and Göteborg Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Aivis Greters.
Ticket required. Limited places available.
Sunday, 4 September
Awards ceremony: Näverlur (birch trumpet) of the Year
10.30–11.15am
Foyer
Annual cultural award to the individual or group working in the Nordic region that has done most to promote herders’ music and traditional horn playing in the Nordic folk music tradition.
Guided tour
11.00am – 12.00pm
Tickets required. Limited places available.
Brunch at the Opera
11.30am – 3.00pm
Restuarant
Brunch accompanied by musical entertainment 12–2.00pm, performed by musical students from the Ballet Academy of Gothenburg and the Performing Arts School.
Brunch menu
Eggs Royal: poached egg, smoked salmon, hollandaise sauce, and toast SEK 159
Add pommes frites SEK 49
Moules frites SEK 198
Steak frites: Entrecôte, bearnaise and tomato salad SEK 289
Tuna tartar with kimchi mayonnaise, crispy lotus root, teriyaki-cooked shiitake mushroom, tobiko roe and pommes frites SEK 249
Avocado tartar with tomato variation, pickled onions and toast SEK 149
Add burrata SEK 69
Add smoked salmon SEK 69
Whipped mascarpone cream, blackberry meringue, crispy nut base and blackberries SEK 119
Ice cream/sorbet, flavour of the day SEK 59
The Opera’s chocolate truffle SEK 59
Guided tour
12.00–1.00pm
Tickets required. Limited places available.
Dance: Of lost and wild roses by Lea Ved
1.00pm – 1.30pm & 2.30–3.00pm
Small Stage
Creation by Lea Ved from Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) for three dancers in GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. The creation had its world premiere in May, 2022 and was the first collaboration between the two prestigious dance companies is a platform for choreographic exchange that shines the spotlight on new female choreographers.
Ticket required. Limited places available.
Opera: Rigoletto
3.00–5.40pm
Main Stage
“World-class” Dagens Nyheter
“Go and see this masterpiece!” Borås Tidning
“Excellent performances” Göteborgs-Posten
Tickets required. Limited places available.
