Göteborgs Konserthus Mahler 4 with Tabita Berglund

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Göteborgs Konserthus, the funk gem at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2017-2018 season, Santtu-Matias Rouvali has been Chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Ida Falk Winland is associated with the Gothenburg Opera since 2014. She has sung Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Gilda in Rigoletto, Mimì in La bohème, Ilia in Idomeneo, Adalgisa in Norma, Morgana in Alcina, Cleopatra in Julius Caesar, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, the Countess and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Nedda in Pajazzo and Beate Bella Bravura in Julglitter and Operakaos. In recent seasons, Ida Falk Winland has been a guest at the Glyndebourne Festival in the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and at the Royal Opera, where she sang Violetta in La Traviata and Gilda in Rigoletto. Furthermore, she has done Così fan tutte at the Opéra National de Paris, The Magic Flute and Xerxes at the Royal Opera and Peter Grimes at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She has also appeared at the Helsinki Festival, Opéra National de Lorraine, Covent Garden and at the Internationale Händel–Festspiele in Göttingen. In 2018, Ida Falk Winland was the winner of the Opera Prize for her performance as Adalgisa in GöteborgsOperan's production of Norma, a prize that was voted for by magazine Opera's readers. In the spring of 2024, Falk Winland returned to the Royal Opera in the role of Violetta and appeared in concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berwaldhallen. On cd Ida Falk Winland can be heard in Bach's Mass in B minor under the direction of Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion Records), Haydn's Creation with Philipp von Steinaecker (Fra Bernardo) and on a solo cd where she performs songs by Copland, Nystroem and Richard Strauss. She is educated at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio in London.