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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 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.

Costume Designer, Set Designer

Steffen Aarfing

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 13 - Feb 19, 2026

Within the Walls · Royal Danish Opera

Feb 18 - Mar 28, 2026

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

Past events

14 - 28 Jan, 2026

Within the Walls · Det Kongelige Teater

Jan 13 - Feb 19, 2026

Within the Walls · Royal Danish Opera

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