Organization

Stage director

Stefan Larsson

Lighting designer

Torben Lendorph

Costume designer

Nina Sandström

Set designer

Sven Haraldsson

Video designer

Andrea Grettve

Dramaturge

Katarina Aronsson

Singer

Soprano

Hanna Husáhr

Spoken

Agnes Auer

Rosa

Baritone

Jens Persson

Karl-Magnus Fredriksson

Tenor

Jonas Degerfeldt

Gustav

Niklas Björling Rygert

Contralto

Katarina Leoson

Maria

Bass-baritone

Kristian Flor

Fritz

Clifford Lewis

Josef

Klas Hedlund

David

Jesper Taube

Mezzo-soprano

Johanna Rudström

Elisabeth

Karolina Blixt

Conductor

Stefan Solyom

Alan Gilbert

Kungliga Operan

Orchestra

Kungliga Hovkapellet

Others

Kungliga Operans Kör

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Sualainnis

The Promise

Stockholm

Sweden

The Promise (Löftet in Swedish) is the story of Ava who becomes separated from her husband, Teo, in a concentration camp. Determined to be reunited with her husband after the war, she travels through the ruins of a traumatised Europe in search of him. We accompany her on a journey that sways between dream and reality, hope and despair.

27th January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Royal Swedish Opera pays tribute to the victims in a new comission from composer Mats Larsson Gothe. The world premiere happens on this day and live on OperaVision. It is a story about the invincible power of love seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz. ‘We find ourselves in a time outside time, as the victims of war take their first uncertain steps towards reclaiming their humanity’, says librettist Susanne Marko, who was inspired by her own family history.

World premiere streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 27 January 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 27 July 2022:
https://operavision.eu/en/library/per...

@Kungliga Operan 

CAST

Ava: Hanna Husáhr
Rosa: Agnes Auer
Teo: Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
Gustav: Niklas Björling Rygert
Maria: Susann Végh
Fritz: Kristian Flor
Josef: Clifford Lewis
David: Jesper Taube
Elisabeth: Karolina Blixt
Chorus: Royal Swedish Opera Chorus
Orchestra: Royal Swedish Orchestra

Music: Mats Larsson Gothe
Text: Susanne Marko
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Director: Stefan Larsson
Set Designer: Sven Haraldsson
Costume Designer: Nina Sandström
Lighting Designer: Torben Lendorph
Dramaturg: Katarina Aronsson
Video Director: Andrea Grettve

0:00 Introduction
5:23 Prologue and Act 1
1:15:35 Intermission and interviews
1:47:02 Act 2 and Epilogue

Stora scenen

The Promise Larsson Gothe

Public

Approved

Físeáin