The opera season opens with Puccini’s masterful work in a new staging by Kasper Holten.

Directing a Puccini opera for the first time, Kasper Holten explores the relationship between art and politics in this gripping political thriller—tense, powerful, and filled with dramatic music.

Tosca

Royal Danish Opera

Danish Dance Theatre For Kids invites all young adventurers aged 5–9 on a playful journey inspired by our performances. Together with our world-class dancers, we go on dreamy explorations through sensory landscapes and playful challenges. We’ll choreograph superhero duels and slow-motion flower battles, transform into imaginative dreamcatchers, and so much more – always inspired by the choreography, music, costumes, props, or scenography from Danish Dance Theatre’s productions. Each session is different, ensuring there’s always something new, surprising, and fun on the program!

Danish Dance Theatre For Kids

“Imagine the whole universe bursting into song!” said Gustav Mahler about his great Symphony No. 8, which the DR Symphony Orchestra is performing on the occasion of its 100th anniversary together with three choirs: the DR Concert Choir, the BBC Singers and the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir.

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Luisi & Mahler's 8th.

DR Koncerthuset

In the fall of 2025, for the first time ever, you can experience Anne Linnet in symphonic collaboration, when she unfolds her entire repertoire of beloved Danish songs in magnificent musical settings with the entire Danish Entertainment Orchestra.

For more than 50 years, she has written lyrics and melodies for our shared songbook. Anne Linnet is the voice that contains the greatest joy and the deepest sorrow – a versatile, embracing artist who has followed her own path throughout her career, which has time and again led her to the top of the charts, into our hearts and out in common singing on and in front of stages throughout Denmark.

Anne Linnet

Culture Center Skive

Music Theatre Albertslund

Aalborg Central Waterfront

Aarhus Music Hall

Arena Nord, Frederikshavn

Royal Stage, Hillerød

Odeon

Ringsted Kongrescenter

Vejle Musikteater

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

Wednesday Concert

Frelsens Hær på Vesterbro - Ungdomsafdelingen

Sankt Petri Kirke

The Library at Rentemestervej

Every season, DR Big Band performs with a wide range of prominent guest artists from home and abroad.

DR Big Band - Close

Brazilian songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim took the world by storm when he introduced bossa nova ('new wave') and what later became known as MPB – Musica Popular Brasileira in the 1960s.

DR Big Band loves Jobim

They have all collaborated with the American multi-talented Donny McCaslin, who has left his mark on the international music scene for several decades as both a musician and composer.

DR Big Band meets Donny McCaslin

Make yourself comfortable. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Let the busy world outside disappear and feel the large church space of Roskilde Cathedral envelop you as you immerse yourself in meditative sounds with the DR Vocal Ensemble and the virtuoso saxophonist Jeanette Balland.

Meditation concert

Roskilde Cathedral

Church of Our Lady Copenhagen

Hailed by international critics as “a musical masterpiece” and “one of the finest operas of the 21st century,” this acclaimed work now comes to Denmark.

Written on Skin

Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are two classic Italian operas, rich in passion, drama, and musical brilliance.

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci – Two Italian Opera Classics

The DR Girls' Choir's dark concerts have become a strong tradition in the DR Concert Hall. Here, the choir marks the transition to autumn with a concert experience where darkness and calm are allowed to descend, so that everyone on stage and in the audience can give themselves completely to the darkness and the power of music. 

This year, one of Denmark's greatest jazz artists will be participating in the concert. The young jazz musician Mathias Heise has been named the world's best harmonica player and has previously collaborated with both the DR Girls' Choir and the DR Big Band. Earlier this year, Politiken awarded six hearts with words like "sublime" and "indescribably beautiful" after his concert in the Concert Hall.

DR Pigekoret i mørke

Grace and Drama Set to Tchaikovsky’s Iconic Music.

Nothing surpasses the grandeur of Swan Lake. The poignant story of the impossible love between a melancholic prince and the most beautiful of birds continues to resonate deeply with audiences.

The swan, one of nature’s most captivating creatures, embodies grace and feminine beauty, yet also possesses a majestic presence as it glides across the water. The late 19th-century inspiration to have ballerinas, with their inherent elegance, portray swans in Swan Lake was a stroke of genius. The young, introspective Prince Siegfried falls in love with the delicate Swan Princess, Odette, but is also drawn to her double, Odile. One represents purity and poetry; the other, seduction and deceit.

Swan Lake

The Princess and the Pea - A Pixi Ballet

Can love survive despair and shattered dreams? A melancholic classic about egoism, love, jealousy, and longing in a time of crisis.

The stage is transformed into a carnival wonderland, with a towering Ferris wheel at its heart. Led by the Royal Danish Playhouse’s resident director, Anna Balslev, the artistic collective Regimentet explores whether good people still exist—or if crisis and the ruthless nature of the economic system reduce us to selfish individuals who use one another for personal gain.

Kasimir and Karoline

A brand new comedy by bestselling author Thomas Korsgaard—on friendship, new beginnings, loneliness, and finding your place as a single person in a world of couples.

Morning traffic is in chaos. A giant pepper mill, made from oil drums, is blocking Frederikssundsvej, one of Copenhagen’s main arteries. Florist Tobias is convinced it must be for him—it is, after all, his 30th birthday today, and in Denmark, a giant pepper mill is a traditional gift for those who reach that age unmarried. But neither his employer nor any of his three closest friends have arranged for a pepper mill in his honour. In fact, they had almost forgotten his birthday altogether. Because friends grow up

Put on Earth

Experience Jakob Martin Strid’s grand masterpiece in a new musical and poetic production for children.

Following the phenomenal success of The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear, we are proud to invite children and adults alike to yet another Strid adventure as The Fantastic Bus takes over the Main Stage at the Royal Danish Playhouse.

Life in Ahnstarr City is not easy for Taku, Spir, and their friends. Their small wooden houses by the harbour are being torn down, and little Timo is seriously ill. Only the rare saffron lily, which grows in the dreamland of Balanka, can cure him. When two old Phantom-8 jet engines from a failed expedition 25 years ago are rediscovered, and a plasma generator is brought back to life, Spir has an idea: let’s build a bus and travel to Balanka!

The Fantastic Bus 

The stage is transformed into Oktoberfest, a carnival wonderland, with a towering Ferris wheel at its heart. Led by the Royal Danish Playhouse’s resident director, Anna Balslev, the artistic collective Regimentet explores whether good people still exist—or if crisis and the ruthless nature of the economic system reduce us to selfish individuals who use one another for personal gain.

The Royal Danish Theatre

Following the phenomenal success of The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear, we are proud to invite children and adults alike to yet another Strid adventure as The Fantastic Bus takes over the Main Stage at the Royal Danish Playhouse.

The Fantastic Bus

The program begins with Mozart's Quartet No. 15, from the collection of 6 quartets opus 10, dedicated to his friend and mentor, Joseph Haydn. While Haydn is often referred to as the father of the string quartet, Mozart can be seen as the one who, under the influence of Haydn's quartets, developed the genre towards Beethoven's groundbreaking string quartets in particular.

Events in Copenhagen

Tosca

Royal Danish Opera

Danish Dance Theatre For ...

Dansk Danseteater

Luisi & Mahler's 8th.

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Anne Linnet

Danish Chamber Orchestra

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Artelize

The Artelize Podcast - A ...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast: A l...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast and ...

Artelize

Wednesday Concert

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

DR Big Band - Close

DR Big Band

DR Big Band loves Jobim

DR Big Band

DR Big Band meets Donny M...

DR Big Band

Meditation concert

DR Vocal Ensemble

Written on Skin

Royal Danish Opera

Cavalleria rusticana & Pa...

Royal Danish Opera

DR Pigekoret i mørke

DR Girls Choir

Swan Lake

Det Kongelige Teater

The Princess and the Pea ...

Det Kongelige Teater

Kasimir and Karoline

Royal Danish Opera

Put on Earth

Royal Danish Opera

The Fantastic Bus

Royal Danish Opera

Kasimir and Karoline

Det Kongelige Teater

The Fantastic Bus

Det Kongelige Teater

Ebony Quartet

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal