Lighting Designer

Three men have finally found their place on Earth. Here they will stay. With each other. But what happens when doubts creep in? Actors Lennart Jähkel, Andreas Kundler and Hampus Hallberg Take on a huge loom and an even bigger loom in a new performance by Alexander Mørk-Eidem. World premiere January 29 at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset City Theatre.

Men who weave

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Verdi’s celebrated dramatic masterpiece is a triumph of opera, brimming with some of its greatest musical highlights.

Rigoletto has everything one could wish for in Italian opera: a gripping storyline and unforgettable melodies that stay with you long after the curtain falls—including the famous tenor aria La donna è mobile.

Rigoletto

Royal Danish Opera

Harold Pinter's classic play returns to the theater with Johan Rheborg, Sven Ahlström, and Henrik Norlén in the roles. In a run-down house, two brothers offer a homeless man a job as a caretaker—but soon power games, suspicion, and family conflicts come to light. Directed by Emma Bay.

Fastighetsskötaren

Mozart's opera favorite with music you recognize or quickly become seduced by. Join the search for love and freedom with Tamino and Pamina, Papageno and Papagena and, of course, the Queen of the Night. The Magic Flute, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg, is an imaginative and fast-paced performance that features the greatest hits in opera history – and everyone sings in Swedish!

The Magic Flute

Kungliga Operan

Georges Bizet’s titular heroine is as captivating a character as any in the history of opera. The different interpretations of Carmen are legion: we have the seductress, the personification of forbidden yearning, the standard bearer for the “eternally female” in the brutal battle of the sexes, the anarchist unfettered by bourgeois angst and compulsions, the archaic clairvoyante seeing her own death in the cards - yet free, as she does not dread her destiny. Few opera heroines are so open to interpretation and hence so able to serve as a mirror held up to society.

Carmen

Deutsche Oper Berlin

«L'amour est un oiseau rebelle», sings Carmen in Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name. Mats Ek, the Swedish dance legend, made Carmen the heroine of a ballet at the Cullberg Ballet in 1992. He based it closely on the novella by Prosper Mérimée, which also forms the basis for the opera, in which Don José tells the story of Carmen from his death cell. Playing with classic gender roles, Mats Ek avoids common Carmen clichés and finds a deeply human interpretation. Another strong female figure is at the center of Dani Rowe’s choreography. After a career as a dancer with the Australian Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Australian-born choreographer now heads the Oregon Ballet Theater. She is creating her first choreography for the Ballett Zürich, set to the music of Mussorgsky’s «Bilder einer Ausstellung», in the orchestral version by Maurice Ravel.

Rebel Birds

Zurich Opera House

In 1897, three scientists set out to fly over the North Pole in a gas balloon. They never returned. Then, a discovery. Their fate, shrouded in mystery for decades, is revealed through a found camera and rolls of film that were buried in the ice for 33 years. This theatrical exploration blends dance, music, film, and projection to tell a poetic and impressionistic distortion of the true story. A loving tribute to photography and its capacity to expose the power, beauty, and fragility of the environment, this show is a metaphoric comedy about memory, destiny, legacy, and hubris in the face of nature’s force.

White Box

Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston

One day. Three ways to die. Director Eirik Stubø takes on one of opera literature's most multifaceted portraits of women and with perhaps the most beautiful music of all - Puccini's Tosca.

Tosca

Norrlandsoperan

A thriller-like opera set in a time of political unrest and war. At the center are the opera singer Floria Tosca, her lover, the artist and freedom fighter Mario Cavaradossi, and the cruel, all-powerful police chief Scarpia. A triangle drama created for Stubø's minimalist and deeply personal direction.

On the intimate stage of the Folkoperan, Tosca becomes a gripping, intimate study of passion, abuse of power, rebellion and terror. A deadly drama with the opera singer Tosca and Puccini's incomparably beautiful music at its center.

Lighting Designer

Ellen Ruge

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 25, 2025 - Jun 12, 2026

Carmen · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dec 18, 2025 - Apr 13, 2026

The Magic Flute · Kungliga Operan

Jan 8 - Apr 10, 2026

Fastighetsskötaren · Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Jan 16 - Mar 11, 2026

Rigoletto · Royal Danish Opera

Jan 28 - Feb 22, 2026

Men who weave · Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Past events

Jan 28 - Feb 22, 2026

Men who weave · Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Jan 16 - Mar 11, 2026

Rigoletto · Royal Danish Opera

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