Royal Opera

The Royal Orchestra

Music Director Alan Gilbert is seeking

HORN SECTION LEADER

with obligation to Wagner tuba

Permanent position 100% with probationary period as agreed.

The audition will take place by personal invitation on September 2 and 3, 2025.

at the Royal Opera, Jacobs Torg 4, 105 69 Stockholm.

Mandatory pieces

- W. A. Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 E flat major KV 495, Movement 1 with cadenza
- Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 E flat major op. 11, Movements 1 and 2, and the last page of Movement 3.

Orchestral Excerpts

Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Movements 1 and 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Movement 3 and the finale
Mozart: Così fan tutte Act 2, No. 25
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (beginning)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Act 2 Prügelszene
Wagner: Das Rheingold (beginning)
Wagner: Siegfried (long version)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Act 2, Scene 2 Sunrise

Orchestral excerpts are available at Muvac.com

For questions regarding the audition, please send an email to: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Union representative SYMF, Fredrik Söhngen +46 70 742 19 53, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Application for the audition with CV, no later than August 10, 2025.

For nearly 500 years, the Royal Orchestra has played a central role in Swedish musical life; since 1526 as the royal family's orchestra and since 1773 also as the orchestra of the Royal Opera. Today, the orchestra consists of 105 musicians. As a member of the Royal Orchestra, you will be part of a unique, living orchestral tradition and work in one of the world's most beautiful workplaces.