Drottningholm Palace
He has been artistic director of the Vadstena Academy in 1986-91, Norrlandsoperan in 1977-78 and 1988–96 and the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in 1997-2006. He has been professor in the music-dramatic arts at the School of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg since 2002 and also teaches at Operahögskolan i Stockholm. Öhrn helped found the Fäviken Opera Festival in the summer of 2007 with the staging of Cimarosa's "The poor guy got married". During his time as head of the Drottningholm Palace Theatre, he ordered for the first time since the 1700s a newly written opera, by Jonas Forssell and Reine Jönsson.