Royal Swedish Opera
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Royal Swedish Opera is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Royal Swedish Opera in 2021
The original building of the Royal Swedish Opera, Bollhuset at Slottsbacken in Stockholm, during the 1780s. From right to left: Stockholm Palace, Storkyrkan, Bollhuset Theatre and the Tessin Palace. Drawing by Martin Rudolf Heland.
The Royal Swedish Opera, 1934
The Gustavian opera building in 1880
Gustav III
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Gustav III, also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
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…residence of the Prime Minister of Sweden, and the Parliament House. The opera company was founded with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music by King Gustav III, and its first performance, Thetis and Phelée with Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin, was given on 18 January 1773; this was the first native-speaking…
Gustav's outfit during the assassination
Gustav's parents, King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louise Ulrica
Portrait of Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, painted by Alexander Roslin in 1775
King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers; Gustav III (left) and his two brothers, Prince Frederick Adolf and Prince Charles, later Charles XIII. Painting by Alexander Roslin.