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When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in 1791, at the age of just 35, he left his Requiem unfinished. The myth of the death mass's indirect contribution to the composer's death has become a core narrative, which Milos Forman made world-famous with his film Amadeus. And even if the myth is untrue, Mozart's Requiem is and remains one of history's strongest symbols of the fragility of life and the ability of music to reach beyond death. Mozart's melodic tone is emotionally bottomless: from doomsday terror to comfort, reconciliation and hope. Requiem is not just a funeral mass for the dead. It is life-giving music.

Mozart's Requiem

Roskilde Cathedral

Sorø Monastery Church

Church of Our Lady (Copenhagen Cathedral)

Sort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.

In a time when Europe is shaken by war, we melt together the icon Joan of Arc, our present time’s stories about the call of war, digital warfare, and radical power structures. On stage we find opera singers, modern dancers, and live music, in a deconstruction of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Giovanna D’Arco from 1845, by composer and sound artist Søs Gunver Ryberg. Staged by director Anja Behrens and scenographer Nathalie Mellbye, Jeanne d’arc becomes a musically carnal grip with an uncomfortable question, one which we all might have to answer in a near future: will you go to war for justice?

Jeanne D’arc

Sort/Hvid

Our new Principal Guest Conductor, Henrik Schaefer, will lead no less than four special evenings, when Mozart's Requiem from 1791, one of the most moving and dramatic works in music history, is on the program. It is Mozart's last composition but among his most famous works, even though it was only partly written by Mozart himself.

Mozart's Requiem with Schaefer

Alsion Concert Hall

German House

Harmony Cultural Center, Haderslev

Løgumkloster Church

The connection between Niels W. Gade, who became one of the most significant, if not powerful, composers in Denmark in the 19th century, and the fine Mendelssohn family in Germany is important. It was Felix Mendelssohn who premiered Gade's first symphony in Leipzig; and then Gade also became part of the very fertile environment of the city there. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel could not, as the time (and both father and brother) demanded, be a professional composer and musician – for her, music was simply "an extra piece of jewelery she could wear". But she both played and composed and was highly regarded; also by her brother, who for her 25th birthday composed Psalm 115 as a gift. Gade's probably best-loved work, Morgensang fra Elverskud, and the gift from her brother are respectively before and after her own cantata Lobgesang, which she composed a year after giving birth to her son, Sebastian. It is a work that has references to JS Bach, whose importance was enormous, and which the two Mendelssohn siblings

Mendelssohn, Gade & Kor72

Odense Concert Hall

Who will save humanity and love when the battle for the magic ring rages from the castle of the gods to the depths of the underworld?

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The Ring

Lille Sal Musikhuset

The artist’s all-consuming pursuit of perfection lies at the heart of Franz Schreker’s sumptuously orchestrated opera. We meet the young composer Fritz, driven by a desperate desire to recapture “the distant sound” he once heard so clearly. What begins as artistic longing becomes an obsession. He abandons everything – even his beloved Grete – and sets out into the world in search of the elusive sound, which seems only to fade the further he travels. Fritz fails to understand that the sound he seeks springs from the love of the woman he left behind. The question is whether he will realise this truth before it is too late.

Bass

Steffen Bruun

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 13 Jan, 2027

The Ring · Musikhuset Aarhus

7 - 24 Mar, 2027

The distant sound · Det Kongelige Teater

Past events

Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2026

Mozart's Requiem · Copenhagen Phil

Apr 24 - May 22, 2026

Jeanne D’arc · Sort/Hvid

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Requiem by Mozart

Copenhagen Phil

Old Graumann/A policeman in Der ferne Klang by Schreker

Det Kongelige Teater

Singer in Joan Of Arc by Ryberg

Sort/Hvid

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