New premiere for The Promise at The Royal Opera in Sthlm with our Tobias Westman as Josef. Premiere Feb 23.
It is also a debut for Tobias Westman at The Royal Opera in Stockholm.
The Promise is based on real events. It was first performed on Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27, 2022. “In this production we are placed in a world outside time when the victims of war are taking their first stumbling steps in an attempt at recovering their humanity,” says librettist Susanne Marko. The Promise was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Opera in close collaboration with Marko and composer Mats Larsson Gothe.