The Drottningholm Palace Theatre, or Drottningholms Slottsteater, is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The opera house was completed in 1766, and is today run by a private foundation, the Drottningholm Theatre Museum, and funded by government grants. An opera house is a building where opera and other forms of performing arts are performed. ... The Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. ... Stockholm [, ] is the capital and the largest City of Sweden. ... The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige  listen) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. ... Events January 1 - Great Britain as King Charles III and figurehead for Jacobitism. ...

Drottningholms Palace Theatre (2002)

After King Gustaf III was assassinated at a court masked ball by his captain of the guard, Count Ankerstrom, in 1792, the theater was closed up by his grieving mother. As the kingship was then offered to Count Bernadotte of France, a field marshall of Napoleon Bonapartes', it was forgotten by successive kings of that line until the 1920s. The reinvigorated theatre has since acquired a growing international reputation as a festival theater by focusing on works by Haydn, Handel, Gluck and Mozart and emphasis on authentic performance. Download high resolution version (1093x792, 332 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1093x792, 332 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Gustav III (13 January 1746 (O.S.) (24 January 1746 (N.S.))–March 29, 1792) was the King of Sweden from February 12, 1771 until his death. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... (Franz) Joseph Haydn (in German, Josef; he never used the Franz) (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the classical period. ... George Frideric Handel (German Georg Friedrich Händel), (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German-born British Baroque music composer. ... Christoph Willibald Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they were performed when they were originally written. ...

During the summer, a series of operas is put on in the Theatre at Drottningholm. The 18th century theatre is special also because it was unused for many years, and rediscovered only in the latter part of the 20th century. Almost all of the equipment is original, and the stage is unusual for having a significantly greater depth than width. The operas are performed by musicians wearing period costume, and the orchestra performs using period or copies of authentic instruments. The stage effects include a wave machine, thunder machine, and a flying chair which is often used for deus ex machina effects. Most productions demonstrate some of the effects possible using the original equipment. Because of the possible fire hazard in the wooden building, the theatre uses electric lights, designed to flicker like candles. This article is about opera as an art form. ... Drottningholm, or literally Queens Islet, is a village on the island Lovön in lake Mälaren on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

In 1991, the theatre, along with the Drottningholm Palace, the China Pavilion and the surrounding park, was added to UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. The theater was used in Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film of The Magic Flute UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish film director. ... Die Zauberflöte (English title: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto in German by Emanuel Schikaneder. ...

See also

• Royal Swedish Opera
• Royal Swedish Academy of Music
• Culture of Sweden

The Royal Swedish Opera, as seen from the southwest The Royal Swedish Opera, or Kungliga Operan, is the national stage for opera in Sweden. ... The Royal Swedish Academy of Music or , founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. ... Swedish 20th-century culture is noted by pioneering works by the early days of cinema, with Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström. ...

External link

• Drottningholms Slottsteater (http://www.drottningholmsslottsteater.dtm.se/) - Official site