The Promise RSO

The Promise Löftet in Swedish is the story of Ava who becomes separated from her husband Teo in a concentration camp Determined to be reunited with her husband after the war she travels through the ruins of a traumatised Europe in search of him We accompany her on a journey that sways between dream and reality hope and despair 27th January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Royal Swedish Opera pays tribute to the victims in a new comission from composer Mats Larsson Gothe The world premiere happens on this day and live on OperaVision It is a story about the invincible power of love seventysix years after the liberation of Auschwitz We find ourselves in a time outside time as the victims of war take their first uncertain steps towards reclaiming their humanity says librettist Susanne Marko who was inspired by her own family history