With its operatic ending immortalized by Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav III of Sweden made an – indirect – contribution to universal music, though the truth is that this enlightened monarch also supported in life the art of Euterpe, promoting the foundation of its own academy and the first conservatory in the country. This marked the beginning of a formal music education that has since always had the monarchy’s favor: Queen Silvia of Sweden has been the latest in promoting a school for young instrumentalists; one which now has its own auditorium in the 19th-century orphanage where it was installed in 1994. Designed to harbor public performances as well as smaller lessons and rehearsals, two facing grandstands break the usual unidirectional arrangement of concert halls and with sinuous curves they link scherzando the orchestra level with upper galleries that can enlarge the theater’s capacity if necessary and finally wrap the space in the same bronzed aura of the lustered string and polished winds of the tutti.