Farewell concert at the Opera house – a gift to the audience

The Royal Swedish Orchestra, celebrating their 500th anniversary in 2026, takes to the stage and plays well-known pieces by Mozart, Dvořák and Puccini side by side with music by the Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad. The concert marks the end of the Royal Swedish Orchestra's anniversary, but also a farewell to the Opera House ahead of the five years long renovation. And the farewell is written into the music itself. The concert concludes with the finale of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45, The Farewell Symphony. In one of the most famous endings in music history, the orchestra's musicians leave the stage one by one, until only a few remain. This will be a concert for the music, the memories and the audience before the doors to the opera house close.

Several of Jacob Mühlrad's works are performed in arrangements written especially for the evening, and he has curated the program together with Royal Court Kapellmeister Alan Gilbert.

MUSIC: Haydn, Mozart, Dvořák, Puccini och Mühlrad
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

ON STAGE

Julia Sporsén 
Johanna Rudström 
Jeremy Carpenter 
Daniel Johansson  
Royal Swedish Orchestra  
Royal Swedish Opera Choir 

PROGRAM 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Overture from The Marriage of Figaro

JACOB MÜHLRAD

Excerpt from Anim Zemirot

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

»Song to the Moon« from Rusalka

 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

»Soave sia il vento« from Così fan tutte

JACOB MÜHLRAD

Excerpt from Time

GIACOMO PUCCINI

»And the stars were shining« from Tosca

JACOB MÜHLRAD

Excerpt from REMS

JACOB MÜHLRAD

Extract from RESIL I

RICHARD WAGNER

»Entry of the Guests« from Tannhäuser

JOSEPH HAYDN

The final from Symphony No. 45 in F minor, "The Farewell Symphony"