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Centenary celebrations at Drottningholms Slottsteater
Tickets for the coming season at Drottningholms Slottsteater go on sale tomorrow. It is 100 years since the reopening of the theatre, and the occasion is being celebrated with a costume exhibition and an evening of dazzling festive music and dance. The season also includes a Vivaldi opera, a family show and plenty of guided tours.
Drottningholms Slottsteater was built in 1766 and enjoyed its first heyday under King Gustav III. Following his death, the theatre fell into oblivion. When it was rediscovered 100 years ago, it had been standing untouched since the late 18th century with its stage machinery and scenery still intact.
The jubilee celebrations will continue throughout the season with Skräddade berättelser – 100 år av teaterkostymer på Drottningholm (Tailored Stories – 100 years of theatrical costumes at Drottningholm), an exhibition of selected finery on display in the historical environment of the theatre itself. As they marvel at the magnificent handicraft, visitors will be able to learn more about which singers wore them and the memories they evoke. The exhibition opens, free of charge, to mark Sweden’s national day on 6 June, after which it will form part of the daily guided and thematic tours for pre-paid visitors.
On 19 August, it will be exactly 100 years since Drottningholms Slottsteater was officially reopened, an occasion that will be celebrated with Salle des machines – an anniversary evening, a jubilee evening of 18th century French and Italian festive music, dance and the stage machinery in action. Francesco Corti conducts the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra.
“It’s wonderful to be able, at long last, to fill the house with audiences again, and to put on an exhibition where the costumes get to tell the history of the theatre from a new perspective,” says the theatre’s artistic and managing director, Anna Karinsdotter.
This season’s big opera production is Il Giustino by Vivaldi, staged for the first time in Sweden. Conducted and directed by George Petrou, one of the world’s leading Baroque specialists, Il Giustino features a top international ensemble that will fill Drottningholms Slottsteater’s magical auditorium with magnificent period music from 6 to 20 August.
More events at Drottningholms Slottsteater this summer:
- Beauty and the Beast, for all the family: 15 to 22 May.
- Musikaliskt Tidsfördrif (Musical pastimes), a concert sampling the feminine repertoire from the 18th and 19thcenturies: 10 September.
- Guided tours of the theatre: weekends in April and November, daily from May to September.
- Thematic tours for visitors interested in learning more about such subjects as occultism and jousting.
For the full 2022 programme, see www.dtm.se
With the generous support of the Friends of Drottningholms Slottsteater through the Henrik Nordmark Trust, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, the Infinity Foundation, the Hjälpfonden Foundation and private donors.
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Drottningholms Slottsteater has remained intact since 1766 and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is the only theatre of its kind in the world that still uses original hand operated stage machinery.
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