Admin

Organization

Singer

Bass-baritone

Palle Knudsen

Sweeney Todd

David Kempster

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Resmark

Mrs Lovett

Alissa Anderson

Tenor

Nicholas Morton

Anthony Hope

Simon Duus

Soprano

Cassandra Lemoine

Johanna Barker

Renate Ekerhovd

Frederik Päevatalu Rolin

Tobias Ragg

Johannes Mannov

Judge Turpin

Morten Staugaard

Jens Christian Tvilum

Beadle Bamford

Michael Kristensen

Gert Henning-Jensen

Pirelli

Paul Curievici

Aileen Itani

Beggar woman

Helle Grarup

Conductor

Ian Ryan

Stage director

James Brining

Caroline Chaney

Set designer

Colin Richmond

Lighting designer

Chris Davey

Choreographer

Nick Winston

Fredrik Bjellsäter

Costume designer

Royal Danish Opera

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

Orchestra

Det Kongelige Kapel

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -  (Sweeney Todd)

Copenhagen

Denmark

Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene)

Gamle Scene

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sondheim

Public

Approved

Sondheim’s musical about the demonic barber has gathered a cult following on its worldwide victory tour. Now Sweeney Todd can be experienced at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Stephen Sondheim’s razor-sharp musical is about hard-working barber Benjamin Barker, who is unfairly banished to Australia by vile Judge Turpin. Turpin muscles in on the barber’s family, both the wife and daughter, and the barber’s anger and helplessness at the rough injustice boil over. He is transformed from a decent man into a monster by the name of Sweeney Todd. Demonic Sweeney Todd slits his customers’ throats and supplies his downstairs neighbour, Mrs Lovett, with fresh meat for her production of tasty meat pies.

Sondheim’s musical became a huge blockbuster and has been performed all over the world. American cult director Tim Burton’s film version starring Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd made the musical of the barber from Fleet Street even more popular, if that were possible, with a broad  audience spanning all ages. 

A range of opera houses around the world have given Sondheim’s hair-raising and humorous show top billing, and the Royal Opera is looking forward to presenting Sondheim’s classic featuring songs and musical scenarios that shine like a freshly sharpened cut-throat razor. The show is a seamless succession of musical highlights accentuating the Gothic tale of a predominantly evil world shudderingly full of macabre, gory madness. 

Sweeney Todd is a full-blooded show of righteous indignation that fuels a bonfire of raging hatred. See the show before your neighbour, and beware of pies.

The opera is performed in english with danish surtitles.

* This price is obtained through the purchase of youth tickets for persons under the age of 25 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for seats in price category G.

English

Sweeney Todd by Sondheim, From (2019/2020), Directed by James Brining, Caroline Chaney,, Conductor Ian Ryan, Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene), Copenhagen, Denmark

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues