Name: Swing!
Start: 2026-03-21T15:00:00
Location: Norrlandsoperan

Norrlandsoperan is set to dazzle audiences with a diverse array of performances in early 2026. From the folk music tour of Sister Polishand and Fredrik Hangasjärvi to the modern ballet performances of Works and Days and Knocking, there is something for everyone. The events also include orchestral evenings featuring Strauss and Beethoven, a family performance exploring Sami mythology, the vibrant Tap Dance festival, and the powerful opera Tosca. Whether you are a fan of classical music or contemporary dance, these events promise to enrich your cultural experience.

A Tapestry of Music and Dance: Norrlandsoperan's Diverse Event Lineup for 2026

Dive into an eclectic collection of performances at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå in 2026, where diverse artistic expressions converge. From ballet and dance to orchestral symphonies and the rich tapestry of Sami culture, this season promises a vibrant celebration of creativity. Explore epic narratives, rhythmic explorations, and timeless symphonies, as artists infuse their unique perspectives into each performance. Join us as we unpack the events that make this season a testament to the power of art in connecting cultures and sharing stories.

Unraveling Diversity in Artistry: A Journey through Norrlandsoperan's 2026 Lineup

Olle Linder

Dan Knagg

Norrlandsoperan

Norrdan's new performance Knocking celebrates rhythm – not just as a simple accompaniment, but as a language of its own. Rhythm is always there. It is in the music, in the footsteps, in the room, in the breath. Rhythm is a feeling.

Knocking – Horacio Macuacua / Northern dance

The stage-talented star clarinetist David Orlowsky visits Norrlandsoperan with his self-written, hypnotic solo piece Shadow Dancer. A dramatic evening is promised, loaded with emotion and courageous equilibration. As the icing on the cake, the program ends with Beethoven's never-fading masterpiece, the Fifth Symphony, also known as the Symphony of Fate.

Strauss and Beethoven

The stage-talented star clarinetist David Orlowsky visits Sara Kulturhus with his self-written, hypnotic solo piece Shadow Dancer. A dramatic evening is promised, loaded with emotion and courageous equilibration. As the icing on the cake, the program ends with Beethoven's never-failing masterpiece, the Fifth Symphony, also known as the Symphony of Fate.

Strauss and Beethoven on tour

Sara cultural center

Two real multi-instrumentalists take on everyday stories in this rocking and swinging concert colored by Brazilian music with samba pieces.

Swing!

Stockholm International Tap Dance Festival is one of the world's largest tap dance events. 2026 will be the 14th edition and the weekend before the festival starts, we in Umeå will have the opportunity to take part in the festival's opening performance. It is not yet clear who this year's artists will be. But we can already promise a unique evening of world-class tap dance.

Tap Dance

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

Yonderis a hangout in an eternal summer night. Six young dancers embody the roar of adolescence in a powerful and captivating performance with magnificent music by Toussaint “Tusse” Chiza.

School performance: Yonder – OR/ELLER

Yonder is a dance performance in a coming of age format, a teenage hangout in an eternal summer night. In the middle of the universal and the “I get shivers all over my body” feeling, a group of people wait for life, while they live it intensely. What happens is nothing, and everything at the same time. 

In the choreographer duo OR/ELLER’s new work, we meet six young dancers who embody the teenage roar in a powerful and captivating performance. We sit around the stage and feel the breeze from their bodies. A chance to experience what the proximity to dance awakens in us. 

Yonder – OR/ELLER

Cherished world name Boris Giltburg comes to Umeå to welcome spring with one of the world's most beloved piano concertos: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto from 1901, the magnum opus of the bending, grand-ruffled Romantic piano art. The evening also offers new writing by German-Swedish Lisa Streich and playful playing-card classicism by Igor Stravinsky.

Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff

Made of Space is an award-winning visual and musical journey with seven dancers and two musicians (marimba and percussion) in a choreography that both challenges and surrenders to gravity.

The stage space creates the illusion of infinity, that the dance is also taking place outside our field of vision. In an advanced interplay between dance, music and stage space, an endless wave of dance and music arises, a vortex of life energy, a complete presence. Here and now, together.

In the performances of choreographer duo Guy Nader and Maria Campos, the interaction between the dancers is always in focus. An advanced partner work that creates a comforting world, where there is always someone to receive when I fall or throw myself out, someone to offer a starting point when I want to climb, an outstretched hand or foot when I need support. The art of always being at hand and daring to trust each other.

Made of Space – Guy Nader / Maria Campos

The spring season atNorrland Operaends with a real music festival where a variety of musical expressions from different corners of the world share the spotlight. On the podium we find, in honor of the concert and as expected, the house's ownEduardo StrausserThe evening

begins with Jessie Montgomery's Records from a Vanishing City, a tribute to the eclectic soundscape she was surrounded by in the bohemian East Village neighborhood of New York as a child in the 80s and 90s.

Lorenz and Shostakovich

Bring friends and colleagues right after work for a refreshing dose of classical music withNorrland Opera Symphony Orchestra! This time our orchestra, led by chief conductor, invitesEduardo Strausseron Dmitri Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, known as his "classic".

Swing!

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