Press quotes 2025

Wallpaper of Dreams
- a Palace Tale

”Here, the cultural heritage is served with both delight and accessibility — it is cultural policy at its purest: offering only the very best to the youngest audience"

Margareta Sörenson, Danstidningen


Orpheus by Telemann

Conductor Francesco Corti leads the Drottningholm Court Theatre’s Orchestra brilliantly, and with this, his third opera production, he once again proves himself a true blessing to the theatre.
— Erik Graune, Tidskriften OPERA

"Under the direction of Music Director Francesco Corti, the Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra once more reveals its gift for making Baroque truly music come alive — it is vibrant, breathing, and full of dance."

Axel Englund, Expressen

With its production of Telemann’s Orpheus, the Drottningholm Court Theatre accomplishes a cultural-historical triumph. The performance is both musically and visually captivating, featuring singers of outstanding quality
— Loretto Villalobos, SvD

”An aesthetically exquisite staging of Georg Philipp Telemann’s rarely performed opera about Orpheus and Eurydice.”

Cecilia Djurberg, Aftonbladet

A visually striking production that in all respects bring the Drottningholm Court Theatre’s cultural heritage to life
— Johanna Paulsson, DN

”il se passe quelque chose de passionnant dans ce théâtre de Drottningholm, bien plus qu’un théâtre musée exceptionnel : un vrai théâtre de création qui devrait, dans un monde meilleur, attirer encore davantage les oreilles et les yeux qu’il ne le fait déjà avec sa salle toujours comble.”

"There’s something exciting happening at the Drottningholm Court Theatre — being far more than just an extraordinary theatre museum. It is a truly living, creative place that, in a better world, should draw even more eyes and ears to it than it already does with its perpetually sold-out house."

Guillaume Delcourt, Wanderer

” Il miracolo di Drottningholm è anche il lavoro invisibile di decine di professionisti: scenografi, sarti, falegnami e macchinisti che conoscono a memoria il respiro del teatro e la sua acustica unica.”

The miracle of Drottningholm is also found in the unseen work of dozens of artisans [...] who all know the theatre’s rhythm and unique acoustics by heart

"The miracle of Drottningholm is also found in the unseen work of dozens of artisans — set designers, costume makers, carpenters, and stagehands — they who all know the theatre’s rhythm and unique acoustics by heart."

Mirko Gragnato, Opera Libera