In December 2024, the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie premieres a brand new opera based on the 1982 Ingmar Bergman film “Fanny and Alexander”. Music by Mikael Karlsson and libretto by Royce Vavrek. Ivo van Hove directs the piece. The cast includes Sasha Cooke (Emilie), Thomas Hampson (Bishop Vergerus), Peter Tantsits (Oscar), Doris Soffel (Helena), Anne Sofie von Otter (Justina), Loa Falkman (Isak), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Ismael), Gavan Ring (Gustav Adolf), Justin Hopkins (Carl) and more to come.

Conductor is Ariane Matiakh.
Orchestration by Michael P. Atkinson and Mikael Karlsson.

Exact dates and more info to come when La Monnaie announce their 2024-25 season.