Drottningholms Slottsteater — Attraction in Ekerö kommun

I toured this theater in the summer of 2014, so my info is dated. However, this was a GREAT tour! From sleeping upright to social hierarchy and flirting amongst the audience at performances to creating thunder to the use of short actors to portray distance on the stage to the tale of a dead Swedish king swearing in Swedish during performances because he can no longer see the show to the tale of a famed French theater director imported in the 18th century to enliven Swedish theater and then held against his will because the king didn't want the director to leave. And who does this director look like? Quentin Tarantino. As far as I can lookup on the internet, the theater director was Jacques Marie Boutet de Monvel and the Swedish king was Gustav III. A VERY interesting tour and a looming movie for Quentin Tarantino to write, direct...

Warning: Everything Rick Steves says about this theatre is no longer true. 1. They no longer demonstrate the sound making devices or moving sets.

You cannot go on the stage, in the pit or backstage at all.

It's an active theater, so you can only enter the actual theater for a minute or two. You can't take pictures if there are workers present, which there will be. The guide can't even speak in the theater.

Our guide was good but couldn't answer any of the 6 questions I asked.

You cannot peek into any of the box seats.

The only good thing about our tour is that we got to see some rooms they normally don't show, so you won't see some of the stuff in these pictures. The only reason I got the backstage pic is because I snuck...

The Drottningholm Court Theatre allows for an experience of 18th century theatre that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. With first class musicians, playing with instruments of the period, singers and dancers, you can litterally feel the old, mostly wooden built, theatre house come to life, with outstanding acoustics. Incidentally the opera currently showing, Il Giustino, is the most brilliant production in decades, possibly ever, that has been staged since the theatre's rediscovery in 1922. Utterly,...