Name: Giant Steps
Start: 2026-06-05T20:00:00
Location: Royal Danish Opera

Astrid Elbo

Mathieu Rouaux

Hannaë Miquel

Sebastian Pico Haynes

Stephanie Chen Gundorph

Ji Min Hong

Andreas Kaas

Silvia Selvini

Holly Dorger

Emma Steele

Phillip Katsnelson

Caroline Baldwin

Philip Duclos

Jon Axel Fransson

Petra Lamia Love

Jonathan Chmelensky

Schonan Greve

Joscelyn Reneé Dolson

Meirambek Nazargozhaev

Emma Rice-Cofoed

Ludwig of Rosenborg

Daniela De Pompei

Lania Atkins

Yuval Herz

Joseph Aumeer

Christopher Wheeldon

Ronald Bates

Mark Stanley

Erdem Moralioglu

George Balanchine

Peter Mumford

Det Kongelige Teater

Welcome to outdoor dancing at Ofelia Plads. Here, there is ample opportunity to let sensations and moods guide our movements. A magnificent setting surrounded by culture and nature to inspire both body and soul. Through mindfulness, free movement, dance, and silence, we connect with our bodies, each other, and our surroundings.

Morning dance

Ofelia Plads

In Manhattan, a generation after the height of the AIDS epidemic, Eric, a sensitive soul, and a talented yet self-destructive writer, Toby, share a turbulent love affair that tears everyone around them apart. While the United States, where Trump wins the presidency, is becoming more and more polarised, the world around them seems to be collapsing.

The Inheritance (2026)

The Royal Danish Theatre

The Royal Danish Ballet is inseparably bound to the legacy of August Bournonville. Experience four of his classical ballets in one evening as we open the season in tribute to the master and his enduring art.

To Joy

One of Italy’s greatest composers embraces one of Shakespeare’s most iconic tragedies. Dark, blood-soaked and unrelenting – and essential viewing for any opera lover.

Macbeth

The Royal Danish Playhouse

The Royal Danish Orchestra’s chamber concerts bring together celebrated masterpieces and rare gems of the chamber repertoire. Meet the musicians at close quarters in the foyer at Takkelloftet, with views across Copenhagen Harbour.

Chamber Music by Three Great Masters

Royal Danish Opera

Greenland’s great voice is turning 75. To mark the occasion, Rasmus Lyberth wishes to give his audience a unique gift: an extraordinary concert at the Royal Danish Theatre featuring songs from his 60-year career.

Rasmus Lyberth 75 years old

When Goethe published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in the latter half of the 18th century, an entire generation discovered a new image of manhood – one that embraced vulnerability, powerlessness and the anguish of love. Men were no longer merely soldiers or statesmen; they were permitted to dream, to write poetry, to reveal weakness – and to suffer for love.

Werther

A powerful drama of sibling love, rootlessness and inherited trauma – and of the void left by a poet whose voice, written in unflinching capital letters, shook a nation: Yahya Hassan.

Familien Hassan

Alison Moyet’s 2026 tour will consist exclusively of songs from the Yazoo catalog as well as selected tracks from her solo electronica albums the minutes and Other. While a few Yazoo hits are regularly included in Alison’s live sets, a large part of the duo’s material has rarely been performed since their two brief tours (the 1982 breakthrough and their 2008 reunion tour, Reconnected). This is therefore a unique opportunity to experience live performances of the songs that drove their phenomenal but short-lived career – including the landmark album Upstairs at Eric's (platinum in both the UK and US) and their final release You and Me Both, which went to number 1 in the UK. The tour will also feature selected songs from Alison’s critically acclaimed solo albums the minutes (2013) and Other (2017). Both albums were produced and primarily co-written with Guy Sigsworth and were received as triumphant creative returns to electronica – making them the perfect match for this tour. Alison states: “Many years touring the same pool of songs and I am keen for a palate refresher. Specifying which years I will be fishing from too, I think is a grand way to serve pot luck for specific tastes. No bones…”

Alison Moyet

In Denmark, August Bournonville’s name is woven into the very fabric of ballet history. In the United States, no single figure has shaped the art form more profoundly than George Balanchine. The Russian-American dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the renowned New York City Ballet not only created some of the 20th century’s most enduring works; he also forged a distinctive choreographic language that has travelled the world for nearly a century, shaping generations of dancers and captivating audiences – from first-time theatre-goers to devoted ballet lovers.

Jewels

Step right into the engine room as a dream team of actors roll up their sleeves in search of the very soul of theatre.

Theater Machine

We celebrate the centenary of Carl Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra as DR P2 Artist of the Year Joachim Becerra Thomsen interprets one of the composer’s final masterpieces.

Metzmacher, Nielsen and Shostakovich

This season, Giant Steps presents two of George Balanchine’s most famous works, Apollo and The Four Temperaments. And then Christopher Wheeldon takes up the baton with the ballet Corybantic Games.