Visby Festival

This annual five-week festival features 15 performances of quality operas in the St Nicholas Ruins. The festival was founded in 1929 by Friedrich Mehler as a showcase for his opera Petrus da Dacia, a story of Sweden's first author. The festival still holds annual performances of the work, along with a historical exhibit in the Visby Museum detailing the author's life and death.

Other operas are also performed by acclaimed companies including the Royal Stockholm Opera.