"I would like to write you a violin concerto," wrote the composer Felix Mendelssohn to his friend, the star violinist Ferdinand David. "I have one in E minor in my head, and the beginning will not leave me alone." And the opening of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is among classical music's most iconic, stormy and passionate, with the solo violin in the role of the ultimate romantic hero. Here, it is the DR Symphony Orchestra's 1st concertmaster Soo-Jin Hong who is allowed to be the soloist with his own orchestra.

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Eun Sun Kim & Dvorak's 8th.

DR Koncerthuset

The story of Pelléas and Melisande is one of literature's greatest love stories, along with Romeo and Juliet and Tristan and Isolde .

Luisi & Pelléas and Mélisande

The key of C minor represented something particularly dramatic in Beethoven, and this evening the key runs like a stormy, red thread through the program. In Symphony No. 5, fate itself knocks on the door, and the entire work seethes with energy and intensity, before the darkness is finally overcome and it all ends in bright triumph.

Manacorda, Andsnes & Beethoven

A festive and delightful opera in a critically acclaimed and vividly staged production from Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

The old should not meddle in the affairs of the young—this is the moral of Don Pasquale, Donizetti’s witty and exuberant comedy, which satirises arranged marriages and celebrates youthful, genuine love.

Don Pasquale

Royal Danish Opera

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The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

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

Artistic Director Elisabeth Linton and Principal Conductor Marie Jacquot lead a new production of Richard Strauss’s lavish opera.

In Der Rosenkavalier, satire, comedy, melancholy, and romance merge with dazzling music. The Royal Danish Opera’s Artistic Director, Elisabeth Linton, stages the production, with Principal Conductor Marie Jacquot leading the orchestra.

Der Rosenkavalier

Theatre icon Christoph Marthaler presents one of the world’s earliest operas as a ruthless, strikingly relevant tale of power and intrigue.

L’incoronazione di Poppea recounts a bloody chapter of Roman history, teeming with corruption and immorality.

L’incoronazione di Poppea

Heartbreaking Ballet of Love, Betrayal, and Vengeance.

What happens when you love so deeply that it feels impossible to exist within your own body? Giselle is the ultimate romantic ballet—a tale of forsaken love, a broken heart, and devotion that transcends death.

Giselle

Star Choreographer Akram Khan Creates Lady Macbeth for the Royal Danish Ballet.

The Royal Danish Ballet celebrates a major feat as renowned choreographer Akram Khan comes to Denmark to create an entirely new work. Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s psychological thriller, Khan turns his focus to the formidable Lady Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth

Experience Nicolas Bro as Uncle Vanya in Chekhov’s classic, reimagined in contemporary rural Denmark—where change is hard to accept.

'Life in the countryside is wonderful,' or so they say—but not for Sonja and her Uncle Vanya. For 25 years, they have worked tirelessly to keep the family farm afloat, in part to support Sonja’s father, a professor living in the city. Now, having retired and fallen on hard times, he has moved to the farm with his much younger wife, Jelena—whose beauty proves a dangerous distraction for both Vanya and the doctor, Astrov.

Uncle Vanya

Karl-Aage’s life begins and ends with Regitze. Who is he without her? Experience Olaf Johannessen and Maria Rossing in an intimate production about love and grief.

'It would be a beautiful evening. One of those rare, still, warm summer nights, where everything seems to pause and hold its breath for a moment. Regitze could not have chosen a better evening for her party.'

Karl-Aage has been married to Regitze for over 40 years. Now, as she faces an incurable illness, they prepare for what will be their final gathering at their allotment garden. As he reflects on a lifetime with the fearless, strong-willed, and life-affirming Regitze, his own story unfolds—one in which he has always been the passive, hesitant, and reserved one.

Memories of a Marriage

Josephine Park stars as Yerma in a gripping drama about a modern woman’s all-consuming desire for a child—and the lengths she will go to in pursuit of her dream.

What do you do when you have every opportunity in life, yet your greatest wish remains unfulfilled?

Yerma is a successful city woman in full control of her life. She has never considered having children—until the day she moves into her new townhouse. Suddenly, the desire arises: there is plenty of space, after all. She persuades her partner, and together they try for years to conceive.

As their efforts prove unsuccessful, she restructures their work and private lives around her ovulation cycles. She shares intimate details of their struggle with infertility and family pressures on social media, while her partner gradually loses interest in fertility treatments—and in their relationship. Once, she had never defined her body by its biological function. Now, the deep longing for motherhood consumes her entirely, turning into an obsession.

Yerma

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

'Life in the countryside is wonderful,' or so they say—but not for Sonja and her Uncle Vanya. For 25 years, they have worked tirelessly to keep the family farm afloat, in part to support Sonja’s father, a professor living in the city. Now, having retired and fallen on hard times, he has moved to the farm with his much younger wife, Jelena—whose beauty proves a dangerous distraction for both Vanya and the doctor, Astrov.

The Royal Danish Theatre

Yerma is a successful city woman in full control of her life. She has never considered having children—until the day she moves into her new townhouse. Suddenly, the desire arises: there is plenty of space, after all. She persuades her partner, and together they try for years to conceive.

Late Night is an exclusive show with room for the unpredictable.
The program is continuously revealed on this page, so when you buy a ticket, you don't always know who or what you're going to experience. Your ticket is an open invitation to surprises, humor and music.

Signe Lindkvist and Huxi Bach are alternating hosts and control the flow of the battle with the house orchestra Guldholdet behind them.

Late Night

Nørrebro Teater

Do you love to sing, but rarely do you do it with others? Or do you dream of a musical respite in your everyday life? Join us for a sing-along with pianist Mads Strandgaard and conductor Jakob Høgsbro.

Fourteenth Night Song

20 years ago, the three renowned actors Trine Dyrholm, Louise Mieritz and Tammi Øst met to write and compose songs about the place they were in life at the time. Songs that became the performance BODY

After two sold-out concerts atNørrebro TheatreIn August 2025, the three women will meet again and perform the songs as a concert accompanied by musicians Emil de Waal and Gustaf Ljunggren. Songs that are about love, existence, alcohol and death. And about the attempt to hold together when life and body are shattered and must be put back together.

The songs are performed as they were, so with the concert the women let the songs flow through their now slightly older bodies in the hope of being able to bring together an audience across generations. As a tribute to life and the body that carries it all.

K.r.o.p.

Language professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering. Can he lift flower girl Eliza Doolittle from the big city gutter to high society by teaching her to speak correctly? He molds her into his ideal of a sophisticated woman. But who is really transforming whom?

My Fair Lady

Det Ny Teater

Ghita Nørby, Hella Joof, Sofie Gråbøl, Annisette and Preben Kristensen – and many more. They are among the first names to take the stage whenThe New TheatreFrom December 1st, the doors will open for the new live talk show ONE STAR, ONE EVENING: WITH CLEMENT KJERSGAARD.

One star, One evening - with Clement Kjersgaard and Ghita Nørby

“To be faithful to only one woman is the same as being unfaithful to all the others!” So ​​sings Don Juan. All other things being equal, it is a statement that one can mull over a bit, and has been doing so since 1787, when Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte premiered Don Juan . The opera tells the myth of one of the most debated men in the history of music and literature; is he the ultimate man of action or an outdated charlatan? Is it a cheerful comedy, as Mozart himself called it? Or has it become a tragedy about human decadence, sin and penance, with the view of posterity on the work?

In addition to the opera's fantastic music, it is a work that has taken a firm hold on society's view of humanity and our self-understanding. Don Juan was an unequivocal success when it premiered in Prague, and for almost 240 years has been one of the most beloved and performed operas worldwide.

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Den Jyske Opera