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Swedish contemporary dance company GöteborgsOperans Danskompani pushes the audience off balance with a quirky, compelling, and innovative double bill. 

Krisztian Lada's thoughtful production goes to the dark heart of ETA Hoffmann's stories, mixing Offenbach's deceptively cheerful music with staging that is always impactful and sometimes gross.

Forced to shift to online for the third episode of its Ring cycle, Göteborg Opera delivers absorbing new production by Stephen Langridge.

Members of the GöteborgsOperans dance company, along with members of choreographer Sidu Larbi Cherkaoui’s own Eastman ensemble, recently danced a joint venture of an extraordinary kind in Winterthur. 

Gothenburg Opera's revival under the baton of Leo Hussain shone with a harmonious cast in a timeless staging.

Wonderful costumes, sublime comic timing, beautiful playing and world class singing.  A 5* production of La Cenerentola at the Gothneburg Opera.

Everything is right in this Gothenburg production of Mozart's Figaro that exceeds all expectation and offers high-level entertainment up until the very last chord.

La Juive, Fromental Halévy's grand opéra, makes a powerful return to Gothenburg, the same city where it received its Swedish première 150 years ago, in Günther Krämer’s stark staging. 

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Saburo Teshigawara present a double-bill under the heading Spirit. At the Gothenburg Opera. The evening promises high quality, yet harbors the danger that the level of abstraction which permeates the two works might undermine the urgency of the message.

Les styles très différents de Hofesh Shechter et Sharon Eyal sont magnifiquement servis par la GöteborgsOperans Danskompani précise, virtuose et engagée, pour le plus grand bonheur du public.

Le concept de Skid ? Des danseurs lâchés sur une pente inclinée à 34°. Et pourtant, ce n'est pas l'idée de force, mais celle de fragilité qui domine le spectacle... Une performance troublante d'intelligence et de beauté.

Mit starken Solisten und wohl dosiertem Orchesterklang führte Antony Hermus durch die düstere Geschichte nach Shakespeare.

Mit Ambroise Thomas' Oper über den dänischen Prinzen beginnt die Oper Göteborg ihr Mitfeiern am Shakespeare-Jahr 2016.

In der Göteborger Inszenierung der Butterfly gab es viel zu hören, viel zu sehen, viel zu erleben: so soll Oper sein!

337 Jahre Jugend - Segen oder doch ein Fluch? Die Oper Göteborg geht dieser Frage in einem kurzweiligen und spannenden Opernerlebnis nach.