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In THE YEARS, we follow a series of personal memories and a societal development at the same time. Clinically sharp and without sentimentality, the story takes us on a story of desire that ranges from the discovery of the ego's clitoris, a sexual assault, an illegal abortion, motherhood and an affair in adulthood.

THE YEARS Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's masterpiece

Republique

Within the Walls is the story of what it means to belong and to be forced to surrender everything that binds one’s world together.

Within the Walls

The Royal Playhouse and The Old Stage

Experience one of Danish theatre’s greatest classics in a critically acclaimed, star-studded production at the Old Stage.

Within the Walls is a powerful story about belonging—and the struggle of breaking free from the traditions that define one’s world.

Royal Danish Opera

King Henry I, “the Fowler”, is in Brabant to hold the Assizes and assert the nobles’ duty to provide militias to assist in military campaigns. Since the death of the Duke of Brabant, however, the succession has been a source of conflict. His children, Gottfried and Elsa, are wards of Count Telramund, but Gottfried has vanished and Telramund suspects Elsa of having killed him. A duel between her accuser and Elsa’s champion is organised to decide the issue. At the last moment a knight appears in a boat drawn by a swan, ready to defend Elsa’s honour. He is also prepared to take her as his wife on condition that she never ask him his name or where he hails from. Elsa agrees and the knight defeats Telramund.

Lohengrin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Lehár's operetta Die lustige Witwe features timeless hits reimagined in a modern and humorous style by Adam Price, with dazzling staging by Kasper Holten.

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Die lustige Witwe 2.0

Copenhagen Opera House

Don Quixote stands as one of the great, undying classics in ballet history. It portrays the unmatched duo of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, crusading for pure love and true justice.

Don Quixote

Thomas Korsgaard's children's ballet, Too Loud, Too Wild and Too Much! is an ode to the arts. It's a declaration of love for the worlds of dance, music and song, and to the dedicated beings who inhabit them.

Too Loud, Too Wild and Too Much!

A bloody orgy of vengeance has unfolded. Orest has slain his mother and her lover. Manfred Trojahn's opera Orest picks up precisely where Richard Strauss' Elektra concludes – at the very moment when the awareness of guilt emerges ...

Orest

In times when the world seems complicated and the economic situation is dire, the longing for someone who supposedly offers simple solutions to difficult problems becomes overwhelming. The 20th century provides ample evidence of this, and the present day offers similar examples. In Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, it is a mysterious knight who promises to fight for Elsa of Brabant; in doing so, he becomes a projection screen for the yearning of a fractured people for a charismatic leader. Wagner, himself a revolutionary in the mid-19th century, artistically expressed his political utopia of a different world order in Lohengrin – a utopia of saving the world through art, but here doomed to failure. Eric Cutler, a youthful heroic tenor trained in bel canto, sings the title role, while the Finnish soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä provides the necessary counterweight as Ortrud. Her compatriot, conductor Susanna Mälkki, is making her debut with both the Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and the work itself.

Costume Designer, Set Designer

Steffen Aarfing

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 14 - Mar 7, 2027

Lohengrin · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Past events

Feb 18 - Mar 28, 2026

THE YEARS Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's masterpiece · Republique / Revolver

14 - 28 Jan, 2026

Within the Walls · Det Kongelige Teater

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