Organization

Conductor

Alexander Hanson

Stage director

Mirja Burlin

Set designer

Heidi Saikkonen

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Joakim Brink

Choreographer

Magnus Lundgren

Singer

Bass

Åke Zetterström

Sam Macintosh

Baritone

Lars Hjertner

Präsident Chamoix

Mezzo-soprano

Karin Mårtenson Ghods

Marylou

Micaela Sjöstedt

Infantin Isabella

Tenor

David Lundqvist

Prinz Stefan Andreas

Anders Wängdahl

Albert

Ingahlill Wagelin

Matard

Sound designer

Jonathan Assarsson

Aivis Greters

Natasja Jean Charles

Gräfin Inez de Ramirez

Åsa Sjöblom

Mabel

Tobias Ahlsell

Barry

Jonathan Böiers

Dr. Dryser

Sami Yousri

Baron Don Lossas

GöteborgsOperan

Orchestra

Göteborg Opera Orchestra

Swedish

Det var en gång på Grand Hôtel

Gothenburg

Sweden

Operan

Stora scenen

Det var en gång på Grand Hôtel: Märchen im Grand-Hotel Abraham

Public

Märchen im Grand-Hotel

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Swedish premiere for a swinging musical cracker with dazzling dance scenes and slapstick routines.

Marylou, an American, travels incognito to the French Riviera to convince the elite at a luxury hotel in Cannes to take part in a Hollywood blockbuster movie. She’s looking for genuineness – real people! – and is joined in her search by Princess Isabella. Together, they discover all the false fates and genuine feelings of the people at the hotel. After many twists and turns, the story has a happy ending.

Director Mirja Burlin’s swinging musical cracker fills the stage with the eary 1930s flair and dreams of riches, glamour and love. There are dazzling dance scenes with tap, tango, minuettes and barbershop – as well as slapstick routines.

When Berliner Paul Abraham – one of the great opera composers of the early 1930s – wrote his stylish comedy Märchen im Grand-Hôtel in 1934 (The Göteborg Opera’s production has been renamed Det var en gång på Grand Hôtel), he was already living in exile because of his Jewish origin. The work was premiered in Vienna, and then fell into oblivion. In recent years, this ‘jazz operetta’ has enjoyed a renaissance in Germany. Now it’s time for Marylou, the Princess and other characters to take Sweden by storm.

Märchen im Grand-Hôtel and this season’s spectacular musical Cabaret are both set around the same time. Yet they are essentially different. While Cabaret immerses us in the darkness that enveloped Europe with the onslaught of Nazism in the 1930s, Märchen im Grand-Hôtel portrays the buoyant effervescence just before.

Det var en gång på Grand Hôtel by Abraham, From (2023/2023), Directed by Mirja Burlin,, Conductor Alexander Hanson, Aivis Greters, GöteborgsOperan, Gothenburg, Sweden

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