Every year, more than 1,000 costumes are made for the Opera's various performances. The costumes can make characters come to life and transform opera singers into - robots, dancers into snowflakes (or even polar bears!) and magically transform an entire choir into bears. The possibilities are endless. All costumes worn by the singers and dancers on stage are created and sown here at The Royal Swedish Opera. But how is a costume made from scratch? In this episode, the host Sara Lewerth meets Annette who works as a cutter at the costume studio and finds out more about how a costume is made.
Use our holiday activities' guide to keep the young ones busy this summer (above).
Teacher? Use our teacher's guide in the classroom - you can download it here (in Swedish).
A big thank you to Astrid Ohlin, who contributed to making this episode possible, in memory of Jan Ohlin - and Wallenius Lines.
In Swedish.
Young at the Opera
THE
MAGICAL HOUSE
AVAILABLE UNTIL: DECEMBER 31
YOUNG AT THE OPERA | DISCOVER THE OPERA HOUSE
EPISODE 4. Welcome to the Opera House! Art and magic is created here all year round. Did you know that the Opera House is twelve storeys high and 27,000 square meters in size? That’s the equivalent of 64 basketball courts! In this episode of The Magical House, we pay the auditorium a visit and have a peak behind the main stage – there’s so much to discover behind the scenes during a performance! Together with our discoverer Sara, we meet some of the key people who work here. Just about everyone on and behind the stage is equally important to make the Opera a truly magical house.
The Young at the Opera section has created the web series The Magical House for grades 1-3. Here there are over 1000 rooms and 120 professions - which we discover together!
A big thank you to the Signatur Foundation Sweden for making this episode possible.
Teacher? Use our teacher's guide in the classroom - you can download it below (in Swedish).
The MAGICAL House part 3
The MAGICAL House part 2
Costume magic! At the top of the Opera building you find the costume department. The Royal Opera actually has more than 30 000 costumes! The costumes strongly contributes to the magic created on stage - they invite us to a world of magicians, bears and princesses - and all in between. Together with our host, Sara, we try on some costumes and we get to know more about how to get the right costume on the right person!
The Young at the Opera section has created the web series The Magical House for classes 1-3. There are more than 1000 rooms and 120 professions that we will discover together! This is the second episode of the series.
You can find our holiday activities' guide above!
Teacher? Use our teacher's guide in the classroom - you can download it here (in Swedish).
A big thank you to Astrid Ohlin who made this episode possible - to the memory of Jan Ohlin - and Wallenius Lines.
In Swedish.
The MAGICAL House part 1
Lär dig dansa balett! What does it take to become a ballet dancer and how do you actually do a pirouette? In this episode we learn the basics of classical ballet and what it is like to work as a ballet dancer. Together with discoverer and guide Sara we try out the basic "positions" and we learn how to spin - without getting dizzy!
The Young at the Opera section has created the web series The Magical House for classes 1-3. There are more than 1000 rooms and 120 professions that we will discover together! This is the first episode of the series. A big thank you to Wallenius Lines who made this episode possible.
You can download our Teacher's guide to the episode here.
Available until June 13.