Royal Swedish Opera

A beautiful place, with wonderful operas and ballets. The programme is not as rich as The Royal Opera and Ballet in London, but the limited ones shown in Sthlm are equally good. So far I have seen Romeo and Juliet. Excellent costumes, excellent ballet. Needless to say I love Prokofiev. Then we have seen Rusalka. I loved how the stage arrangements, the modern meeting Dvořák's wonderful melodies. The performances and especially the chess scene were amazing: the details, the humour, costumes, the choreography. We will continue going there. Turandot is on my list ❤️😇

Beautiful theatre, great level of performances, very convenient facilities, lots of cloackrooms and bars. Guided tour in English was fantastic, lead by a former dancer (Roy) with impeccable English, vast knowledge&experience, and a great, balanced sense of humour.

Kulturfestivalen open air for free tonight! It was so great to hear top opera singers collaborated with the Swedish orchestra to play the top classic! So happy to be able to watch it for free with such top class quality performances.

The modern production of Aida was abominable! Instead of Ancient Egypt you can see soldiers with guns and all this modern regiethrater trash. Cloakroom is 30 SEK, nonsense! Subtitles only in Swedish

A luxurious room, and comfortable seating. There was a ballet apparently, Romeo and Juliet. The orchestra did a great job, the music was very enjoyable. On the stage, well it's best described as a lot of people milling around at the edge of the stage. They walked, ran off, even skipped out of sight and often came back out of breath. I'm not sure what they were doing on the rest of the stage, but I'm sure it must have been ballet. In short, these seats are not fit for sale for a visual performance. Be careful booking here. The bar, cloakroom and toilet facilities are also due for modernisation. They're not sufficient to the numbers of people squeezed in. Something went wrong with the booking as well, we were charged 6 coats overall (2 were needed.) So also be careful what you book in advance, it's not necessary, there's no advantage.

I was wondering when I would come here again, so I booked and watched the performance here. The inside was narrower than I thought. Therefore, anyone sitting in a side seat at least a little bit would not have seen the stage. I watched the Giselle performance here, and I don't know if you will perform Giselle here again, but I hope you don't sit on the left side if you do. I don't recommend that seat because the main character mainly performs on the left. My neck and shoulders hurt because I sat there. But it is a beautiful space if you look at it as a place! It would be better if you look up the explanation of this building on the Internet as a building with a long history.

Not my favourite opera I’ve been to, but quite beautiful. More of a classical look compared to the one you can find in Copenhagen. Saw Romeo and Juliet and it was very well done!

Absolutely a great place to see when you are in the town. I bought a cheap last minute ticket to a balett that I actually enjoyed a lot too. The building itself was an experience worth getting in.

WOW! I didn't know what to expect from the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, this dance troupe is rarely talked about compared to the Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theater, or The Royal Ballet. But the Swedes did a phenomenal work art of Sleeping Beauty. The live orchestra, talented dancers, colorful costumes, and elaborate sets all worked together harmoniously to create a wonderful classic ballet...the Carabosse was mesmerizing and seductive! Be careful when buying tickets online for this opera house. I picked out a couple of seats for 330SEK($37) each. They looked decent on the website chart, which unfortunately is not to scale and doesn't fully project the true sharp horseshoe shape of the theater. The seats were still decent, but required turning your head sharply for 3 hours. Fortunately, the show wasn't sold out. After 15 minutes into the show, we snuck over to some better seats that were much central and provided a significantly better view. I guestimate these seats were 500-700+ SEK. Still, I would've been happy with the 330SEK seats, they would've been 50% more in America. Though I'm guessing tax revenue subsidizes the ticket costs, thanks Sweden! If you're into the Arts, go check out a concert, opera, or ballet at this classical & beautiful opera house.

The opera house is unbelievably beautiful. I appreciated that the opera we saw was in Swedish with Swedish captions, as well, despite the fact that I did not understand a damn thing hahaha.

It is hard to not give this venerable institution founded 1773 a top mark; it's the stage where La Nilsson, Jussi Björling, Nina Stemme, Nicolai Gedda, Jenny Lind, Christina Nilsson, Elisabeth Söderström, Anne Sofie von Otter, Sixten Ehrling, and Anneli Alhanko have performed. The Royal Opera is the Swedish National Stage for opera and ballet. I have now been here a number of times, and it is a building that is the ultimate turn of the century building that fills you with awe with an interior to match it; marble stair cases, red velvet and gold (the gilded hall is just made for drinking champagne), busts of King Gustavus III (the founder) and the singer Jenny Lind. The productions have lately started to break free of the conservative, and I am excited to see more challenging and moderna ballet productions, and a La Bohème transferred to Stockholm's Old Town. And I look forward to many new productions - just to mention one: the Ring cycle in 2017! So, why not a five-star review? To me it boils down to the service and welcoming by the people working there. Far too often the people working there come through as too snotty and a tad to self-grandizing in relation to us the visitors. Just by working at a venerable institution doesn't make you shimmer with gold, only your helpfulness and service can. Far too many visitors find the opera intimidating and that they may not be "worthy" visitors - don't add to that feeling!

Absolutely love every performance I have seen here! I am new in town and I have gone every month to each of the shows! Beautiful building! The performers are very passionate and talented! If you are in Stockholm, check it out!! Great prices for those under 25 years old!