This second guide starts where the first one left off. Stockholm’s first opera house was called Gustavianska Operahuset, named after Gustav III. The king commissioned it and then, tragically, was assassinated there in 1792. When the Gustavian Opera House was torn down about 100 years later, the current and very ornate Kungliga Operan replaced it in 1898. The Royal Opera House’s Neoclassical façade features Corinthian and Tuscan columns plus four statues symbolizing the arts.
