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Be part of the grand season opening – and experience the legendary Herbert Blomstedt in Bruckner’s magnificent final symphony. This subscription offers many of the great classics, but also music of our time – including the opening of the Composer Festival featuring works by Klas Torstensson, and a brand-new cello concerto by this season’s featured composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
A historic performance of a rarity and the world première of a newly written work.
Thursday 18 September 2025 19.00Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Miah Persson. Photo: Reka Choy
Claire Barnett-Jones. Photo: Rowan Prins
Elgan Llyr Thomas. Photo: Tom Gradwell
Arvid Fagerfjäll. Photo: Jo Titze
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Photo: Markus Gårder
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicSeason Opening – The Young Mahler
A historic performance of a rarity and the world première of a newly written work.
Thursday 18 September 2025 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
325-565 SEK incl. refreshment50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Mahler began composing the work while still a student at the Vienna Conservatory. The composition took just over a year, and he was 20 when he completed it. However, it would be several decades before the music was performed, and Mahler made several revisions along the way. The text of Das klagende Lied is based on a folk tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.
The soloists are Swedish soprano Miah Persson, English allto Claire Barnett-Jones, Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas and Swedish baritone Arvid Fagerfjäll, together with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, the Royal Swedish Army Band and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
The concert opens with the world premiere of a new work by this season’s composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla, followed by the imaginative Fairy Tale Poem by Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025). “Gubaidulina’s music has become something of an obsession for me. Fairy Tale Poem is a truly beautiful piece,” says Ryan Bancroft, who now begins his third season as Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The music
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Tebogo Monnakgotla New Work (World Premiere)
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Sofia Gubaidulina Fairytale Poem12 min
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Intermission30 min
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Gustav Mahler Das klagende Lied68 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Miah Persson soprano
- Claire Barnett-Jones alto
- Elgan Llŷr Thomas tenor
- Arvid Fagerfjäll baritone
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Ensemble from The Royal Swedish Army Band
Thursday 18 September 2025 19.00
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Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Season Opening – The Young MahlerPrice:
325-565 SEK incl. refreshment50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraAn artist’s life in retrospect. Ryan Bancroft conducts, with Clara-Jumi Kang – Konserthuset’s Artist-in-Residence for the season – as soloist.
Thursday 16 October 2025 19.00
Clara-Jumi Kang. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraShostakovich – First and Last
An artist’s life in retrospect. Ryan Bancroft conducts, with Clara-Jumi Kang – Konserthuset’s Artist-in-Residence for the season – as soloist.
Thursday 16 October 2025 19.00
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160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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In the 2025/26 season, she is Artist-in-Residence at Konserthuset and with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the first of her three productions with the orchestra during the season.
Clara-Jumi Kang last appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022, and now she returns as soloist in Shostakovich’s remarkable Violin Concerto No. 1 – a work of profound gravity combined with breathtaking beauty. Shostakovich also reveals his wonderfully sarcastic side here – as if thumbing his nose at Stalin’s cultural enforcers.
The concert also features Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony – his final symphony. While not technically demanding, it remains one of his most enigmatic compositions. In the playful first movement, we hear the famous William Tell theme from Rossini’s opera, but beneath the surface lies a skewed and unpredictable world. Shostakovich also quotes Wagner and some of his own earlier works. He knew his time was running out – and perhaps in this last symphony, we hear a Soviet artist’s life flashing before our ears.
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The music
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Dmitry Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 138 min
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Intermission25 min
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Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 1546 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Clara-Jumi Kang violin
Thursday 16 October 2025 19.00
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160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Shostakovich – First and Last
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
An adventurous operatic expedition and a new work by Klas Torstensson.
Thursday 6 November 2025 19.00Klas Torstensson. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Charlotte Riedijk
Ulf Norberg
Clemens Schuldt. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicComposer Festival – Opening Concert
An adventurous operatic expedition and a new work by Klas Torstensson.
Thursday 6 November 2025 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Composer Festival – Opening Concert
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His magnificent opera The Expedition tells the story of Andrée’s ill-fated Arctic journey – a subject that has fascinated Torstensson since his early teens. We hear Intermezzo and Epilogue from the opera – two sections that vividly reflect the contrasts in his music. The beautiful epilogue, a kind of aria based on letters and diary entries, comes strikingly close to Puccini in its lyrical depth.
The work City Imprints was composed for the 400th anniversary of the city of Gothenburg, and its soundscape includes the bustling life of the harbour and shipyards, the painful farewells at the quay, and the roar of stone masonry. The newly written work for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is connected to A Cycle of the North, which includes the orchestral pieces The Mainland, The Polar Sea and The Heaven. “I consider this a stand-alone continuation of that trilogy.”
At the start of the programme, Torstensson has also included music by Johann Sebastian Bach/Anton Webern – works that were deeply important to him in his youth when he first dreamt of becoming a composer.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Clemens Schuldt, Chief Conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec. The soprano solo in the excerpts from The Expedition is performed by Charlotte Riedijk, who also took part in the concertante world premiere of the opera at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1999, as well as in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s 2001 performance under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach Ricercare à 6 from Musikalisches Opfer, version for organ9 min
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Johann Sebastian Bach Ricercare à 6 from Musikalisches Opfer arr Anton Webern9 min
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Anton Webern Five Pieces for Orchestra op 105 min
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Klas Torstensson Intermezzo and Epilogue from The Expedition22 min
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Intermission25 min
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Klas Torstensson Two (or Three) Icons (World Premiere)20 min
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Klas Torstensson City Imprints32 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Clemens Schuldt conductor
- Charlotte Riedijk soprano
- Ulf Norberg organ
Thursday 6 November 2025 19.00
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160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraHerbert Blomstedt conducts the unfinished work that stands as a final masterpiece.
Thursday 20 November 2025 19.00
Herbert Blomstedt. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBruckner’s Ninth Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt conducts the unfinished work that stands as a final masterpiece.
Thursday 20 November 2025 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Bruckner’s Ninth SymphonyThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/bruckners-ninth-symphony/20251120-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Herbert Blomstedt is Sweden’s most internationally renowned conductor – ever. Among the many orchestras he has worked with are the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and not least the San Francisco Symphony, where he served as Music Director for ten years. He has also conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on more than 200 occasions. In connection with his 90th birthday in 2017, Konserthuset Stockholm named its main conductor’s dressing room in his honour.
Now making a much-anticipated return to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, he brings with him a composer he has devoted his entire life to: Anton Bruckner. “The greatest symphonist since Beethoven,” he said in an interview a few years ago.
Bruckner was also an organist, and his symphonies have often been likened to monumental organ music. He left behind eight completed symphonies but died while working on his Ninth. The symphony thus lacks its intended final movement, yet the three completed movements form a powerful and fully realised whole. Many consider it Bruckner’s greatest masterpiece.
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The music
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Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 960 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Herbert Blomstedt conductor
Thursday 20 November 2025 19.00
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160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraElgar’s deeply emotional Second Symphony and Christina Nilsson in songs by Richard Strauss.
Thursday 15 January 2026 19.00
Christina Nilsson. Photo: Emelie Kroon
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Photo: Lars Gundersen
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraStrauss and Elgar
Elgar’s deeply emotional Second Symphony and Christina Nilsson in songs by Richard Strauss.
Thursday 15 January 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Strauss and Elgar
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Strauss and ElgarThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/strauss-and-elgar/20260115-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Soprano Christina Nilsson is a familiar guest at Konserthuset Stockholm. Most recently, she appeared in February 2025 as soloist with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. She also made a highly acclaimed debut in the title role of Verdi’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On this occasion, we hear her in a selection of songs by Richard Strauss.
La nuit et l’amour is by the French composer Augusta Holmès (1847–1903). The work was originally part of her large-scale choral and orchestral piece Ludus pro patria, composed for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. This is dreamlike and sensuous music, evoking her French contemporaries such as Saint-Saëns and Massenet, as well as the flowing melodicism of Wagner.
Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 from 1911 is a work of deep emotion and great personal significance. Unlike the heroic tone of his First Symphony, this second symphony is more introspective and tinged with melancholy. Elgar himself described it as “a passionate pilgrimage of the heart.” The profoundly moving slow movement is a tribute to the recently deceased King Edward VII. Although it received a mixed response at its premiere, the symphony is now firmly established in the British orchestral repertoire – a kind of soundtrack to the final golden days of Edwardian England, and to the inevitable change that followed.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Danish-born Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Chief Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon, who also continues to enjoy a distinguished parallel career as a violinist at the highest international level.
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The music
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Augusta Holmès La nuit et l’amour from Ludus pro patria6 min
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Richard Strauss Songs
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Intermission25 min
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Edward Elgar Symphony No. 253 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor
- Christina Nilsson soprano
Thursday 15 January 2026 19.00
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
Brahms’s mighty requiem and a song cycle by this season’s featured composer.
Thursday 12 February 2026 19.00Sofi Jeannin. Photo: Christophe Abramowitz/Radio France
Karolina Bengtsson. Photo: Mimmi Holmberg
Sakhiwe Mkosana. Photo: Barbara Aumüller
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Photo: Markus Gårder
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicEin deutsches Requiem
Brahms’s mighty requiem and a song cycle by this season’s featured composer.
Thursday 12 February 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Sofi Jeannin enjoys an international career and is particularly renowned for her expertise in vocal music. She is Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers and of Ars Nova Copenhagen. She has also led the choir school Maîtrise de Radio France for many years, and previously served as Chief Conductor of the French Radio Choir.
In Ein deutsches Requiem, Brahms selected Biblical texts himself rather than using the traditional Roman Catholic mass for the dead. The concert opens with music by this season’s featured composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla. Her exquisite Un clin d’œil for baritone and orchestra is set to French texts by Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1903–1937) – a writer to whom she has returned frequently for inspiration.
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The music
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Tebogo Monnakgotla Un clin d’œil for baritone and symphony orchestra (Version II)20 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem73 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sofi Jeannin conductor
- Karolina Bengtsson soprano
- Sakhiwe Mkosana baritone
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Thursday 12 February 2026 19.00
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250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches Requiem
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Genre: Orchestral performance
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra appears with Norwegian star violinist Vilde Frang.
Thursday 19 March 2026 19.00Vilde Frang. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Martin Fröst. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Orchestral performanceSchumann and Brahms
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra appears with Norwegian star violinist Vilde Frang.
Thursday 19 March 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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This time, she appears together with the visiting Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of their charismatic Chief Conductor, Martin Fröst. The programme features Robert Schumann’s deeply compelling Violin Concerto – a work that shifts between sombre undertones and life-affirming joy. It demands much from the soloist, not only in its virtuosic passages, but also in the slow movements that pulse with Schumann’s own sense of melancholy.
The concert concludes with Johannes Brahms’ magnificent First Symphony – a work that took many years to complete. Brahms was, at times, paralysed by the pressure of living up to the legacy of his great predecessor, Beethoven. But the result was truly a masterful symphonic achievement of striking beauty.
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The music
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Robert Schumann Violin Concerto in d minor32 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 145 min
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Participants
- Swedish Chamber Orchestra
- Martin Fröst conductor
- Vilde Frang violin
Thursday 19 March 2026 19.00
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Konserthuset Stockholm celebrates its centenary with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and a world premiere.
Thursday 9 April 2026 19.00Senja Rummukainen
Andrew Manze
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra100 Years in Blue
Konserthuset Stockholm celebrates its centenary with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and a world premiere.
Thursday 9 April 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BlueThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/100-years-in-blue/20260409-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In the spring of 1926, Konserthuset Stockholm was inaugurated – architect Ivar Tengbom’s blue building remains one of the finest examples of Swedish 1920s neoclassicism. It was one of the country’s very first buildings constructed specifically for orchestral music, and it also became the new home of the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
Konserthuset was built to provide a permanent home for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, which at the time had already been active for over two decades. Until then, the orchestra had primarily been based in the Auditorium – a converted gas holder near Norra Bantorget. At the inaugural concert on 7 April 1926, the programme included Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. This is the direct reason why, nearly 100 years later to the day, the same work features once again on the programme.
Yes, Konserthuset Stockholm is turning 100, and the 2026/27 season will be a celebratory one (marking 100 years of the building and 125 years of the orchestra). Alongside Beethoven’s Seventh, the concert also features Hilding Rosenberg’s Dance Suite from the ballet Orpheus in the City – a story about the statue of Orpheus on Hötorget, just outside the Konserthuset, suddenly coming to life and fleeing the square. The suite was premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in the spring of 1940.
The concert also includes the world premiere of a new cello concerto by this season’s featured composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla. The soloist is Finnish cellist Senja Rummukainen, making her debut with the orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze – a cherished and frequent guest of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
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The music
Approximate times -
Hilding Rosenberg Dance Suite from Orpheus in Town12 min
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Tebogo Monnakgotla Cello Concerto (World Premiere)
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 735 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andrew Manze conductor
- Senja Rummukainen cello
Thursday 9 April 2026 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BluePrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BluePrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst conducts Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
Thursday 23 April 2026 19.00
Franz Welser-Möst. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraFateful Hammer Blows
Franz Welser-Möst conducts Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
Thursday 23 April 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 20.25Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer Blows
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer BlowsThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/fateful-hammer-blows/20260423-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (composed in 1903–04) is often referred to as The Tragic. Mahler himself used the title for a time – at least around the first performances – but later withdrew it. Still, the name has stuck, not least due to the dark force that permeates the entire work. We encounter a Mahler who swings between the joy of life and catastrophe, between march-like determination and a sense of fateful resignation.
Something unique occurs in the final movement: a large hammer strikes with deafening force into a wooden box – a sonic expression of a person being struck down by fate. Originally, Mahler wrote three hammer blows into the score. But after two personal tragedies – the death of his daughter and his own diagnosis with heart disease – he superstitiously removed the third. This has led to one of the symphony’s most debated interpretive choices: will the conductor include two hammer blows – or three?
Franz Welser-Möst has conducted the symphony many times before, and has been praised for his intense and deeply affecting interpretations of what he has called “a monster” of a work. In 2018, he was awarded the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s honorary title, the Eric Ericson Honorary Chair, and he returns regularly to the orchestra in a spirit of musical camaraderie that has deepened over the years.
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The music
Approximate times -
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 682 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Franz Welser-Möst conductor
Thursday 23 April 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 20.25Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer Blows
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer BlowsPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 20.25
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer Blows
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer BlowsPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer Blows
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Fateful Hammer Blows
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Johan Dalene is the soloist and Ryan Bancroft conducts Stravinsky’s Petrushka.
Thursday 28 May 2026 19.00Johan Dalene. Photo: Mats Bäcker
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBrahms Violin Concerto
Johan Dalene is the soloist and Ryan Bancroft conducts Stravinsky’s Petrushka.
Thursday 28 May 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin Concerto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin ConcertoThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/brahms-violin-concerto/20260528-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.We warmly welcome back the phenomenal violinist Johan Dalene, who has already taken the classical music world by storm through competition wins and acclaimed recordings. Here, he performs Brahms’ magnificent Violin Concerto – a work overflowing with melody and rich in harmonic adventures that venture far off the beaten path. It’s stunningly beautiful music – at times euphoric and even dance-like in its joy.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by its Chief Conductor, Ryan Bancroft, who brings his third season with the orchestra to a close. He does so with a true speciality: Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka – which, incidentally, Bancroft has also danced, having a background in dance.
The concert version of Petrushka, heard here, unfolds in four scenes performed without pause. The setting is a bustling winter fairground in Russia. Among the attractions is a traditional puppet theatre, and when Stravinsky composed the music, he imagined a puppet coming to life and challenging the orchestra’s patience. Petrushka is a variation on the stock character of Italian commedia dell’arte – but in an entirely different world.
The concert opens with an orchestral work by French-born composer and musician Aurélie Ferrière. Now based in Sweden and Austria, she has long been involved in cross-disciplinary and experimental projects.
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The music
Approximate times -
Aurélie Ferrière ELTAMIN (World Premiere)
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Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto39 min
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Intermission25 min
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Igor Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 version)34 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Johan Dalene violin
Thursday 28 May 2026 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin Concerto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin ConcertoPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
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Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin Concerto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin ConcertoPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin Concerto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Brahms Violin Concerto
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