Stockholm: Kungliga Operan

Country: Sweden (Sverige)
City: Stockholm

Built 1898 by Axel Anderberg. 1973 rebuilding.

Notable world premieres:

  • Andreas Hallén: Valdemarskatten (8 Apr 1899)
  • Kurt Atterberg: Härvard Harpolekare (1919)
  • Kurt Atterberg: Bäckahästen (23 Jan 1925)
  • Kurt Atterberg: Fanal (27 Jan 1934)
  • Hilding Rosenberg: Marionetter (14 Feb 1939)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die Kathrin (7 Oct 1939)
  • Kurt Atterberg: Aladdin (18 Mar 1941)
  • Hilding Rosenberg: Lycksalighetens ö (1 Feb 1945)
  • Kurt Atterberg: Stormen (19 Sep 1948)
  • Heinrich Sutermeister: Raskolnikoff (14 Oct 1948)
  • Heinrich Sutermeister: Der rote Stiefel (23 Nov 1951)
  • Hilding Rosenberg: Porträttet (15 Oct 1956)
  • Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Aniara (31 May 1959)
  • Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Herr von Hancken (2 Sep 1965)
  • Franz Berwald: Drottningen av Golconda (3 Apr 1968)
  • Hilding Rosenberg: Hus med dubbel ingång (24 May 1970)
  • Lars Johan Werle: Tintomare (1973)
  • György Ligeti: Den stora makabern ("Le Grand Macabre", 12 Apr 1978)
  • Per Nørgard: Siddharta (19 Mar 1983)

Link: www.operan.se

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Front Text: "Kungl. Operan, Stockholm"
Publisher: Granbergs Konstindustri-Aktiebolags Förlag, Stockholm; No. 218
Type: Undivided Back
Size: Classic
Sent: to Marne in Holstein (Germany), 1905

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Front Text: "Stockholm, Kungl. Operan och Jacobskyrka"
Publisher: Paul Heckseher
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Stereo Photo (not a postcard)
Front Text: "Opera House Foyer, Stockholm, Sweden"
Publisher: "The Universal Photo Art Co., C. H. Graves, Publisher, Phila. U.S.A. - Philadelphia, Naperville Ill., London, Paris, Hamburg" - "Copyright 1900 by C. H. Graves"; Nr. 8116
Size: 17.8 x 8.8 cm

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Front Text: "Kungl. Operan, Karl XII:s Staty Och Jacobs Kyrka, Stockholm - Royal Opera House, statue of Charles XII and St James' Church, Stockholm - Kgl. Opernhaus, Karl XII Denkmal und Jacobskirche, Stockholm - L'Opéra Royal, la statue de Charles XII et l'Eglise St. Jacques, Stockholm."
Publisher: Sago-konst A. B. Stockholm
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Front Text: "Kungl. Operan, Stockholm"
Publisher: Sago-konst A. B. Stockholm
Type: Divided Back
Size: Classic
Not sent.

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Commemorative Stamp and First Day Postmark
Text: "Kungl. Teatern 200 År - 18.1.1973 - Stockholm" [Royal Theater - 200 Years - 18 Jan 1973]
Picture: Pehr Hilleström's painting "Orfeus", showing a decoration for Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" that is still in use at the Drottingholm Slottsteater

[Stockholm: Kungliga Operan] Front Text: "Stockholm"
Reverse Text: "Stockholm, Operan och Jakobs kyrka"
Publisher: Peter Lange Konstförlag AB, Stockholm
Size: 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Not sent.


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