The Copenhagen Opera Festival is a visionary, unifying and vibrant festival that every summer, enchants the city of Copenhagen with the most sumptuous menu of opera, concerts and music drama.
We are in constant dialogue with new, invigorating voices and we celebrate the eternal classics that can transcend time and place. We invest in story-telling that reflects our society here and now. And by imagining that the whole city of Copenhagen is our opera house, unique and unexpected spaces can suddenly play host to performances, creating the most magnificent musical memories as we go.
In short: the heart of the festival beats year round to bring us all together in the wild and wondrous world that is Opera.
Since 2009, Copenhagen Opera Festival has taken great pleasure in bringing the greatest artists to the capital, filling concert halls, theatres, streets and canals alike, with world-class music making. With an international outlook, combined with an eye for local and national talent, year after year we have created a diverse and sparkling programme of performances, concerts and events that welcome the aficionado, the culturally curious and families with children alike.
In 2021, we launched the Festival Stage, located at Den Røde Plads, Nørrebro, presenting opera in the highest league on street level, completely free of charge to the public. This open air stage attracts up to 10,000 visitors each year, presenting everything from community singing with the Audience Opera Choir, to Vocal Masterclass Concerts to full symphony orchestras, fully staged performances and the traditional Opening Concert.
At Copenhagen Opera Festival, you can experience reimagined Classics, side by side with newly written works and our productions range from ambitious international collaborations to small, experimental projects that can push and expand the boundaries of what opera is, and might be. In recent years, the Festival commissioned award winning and award nominated productions such as Nordkraft and Lisbon Floor as well as presenting bold and striking stagings of Puccini’s Il Trittico. Our family production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle for children is 60 minutes long and it will travel all around Denmark in the coming seasons. And behind the scenes, major works and new national and international collaborations are already taking shape for our future festivals.
Every year, we welcome an Opera Star to the city as Guest Artist of the Year, celebrate a new Danish voice with the Opera Talent of the Year Award and we facilitate meetings for independent creatives on the Danish and international circuit.
Through our workshops, insights and curious conversation series, we invite the audience behind the scenes and into the engine room of Opera – seeking to crack codes and unravel mysteries! We seek to investigate what happens if you present Opera in a prison, on tour in an open-sided bus or in new digital worlds.
Welcome to the Copenhagen Opera Festival 2025! We look forward to seeing you in the summer and to sharing Opera in all its forms with you.
Artistic Director
Amy Lane
al@operafestival.dk
Festival coordinator & Chief marketing and communication officer
Camilla van Norde
Teknisk producent: Christian Jensen
Produktionsleder, Festivalscenen: Jan Samuelsen
Produktionsassistent, Festivalscenen: Victoria Sjögren Elmas
Festival lysdesigner: Charlie Morgan Jones
Festivalassistent: Ida Buchart
Kommunikationsansvarlig (vikar): Anita Frank Goth
Kommunikationsassistent: Amalie Lindstrøm Gleerup
Frivilligkoordinatorer: Elvira Brøchner Helle og Trine Mulbjerg (barsel)
Projektledere: Julie Boelt, Dagmar Skovgaard Boas, Cille Viola Brandt Petersen, Jaqueline Lillevang og Marc Madsen.
Samtaleprogram: Mads Lind
Bogholderi: Regnskab i balance
Revisor: Jimmy Bergøe
Grafiker: Mads Sandholm
Fotografer: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen, Victoria Mørck Madsen
Tekst: Marie Ulrich Østergaard, Camilla van Norde, Anita Frank Goth med flere
Trykkeri: KLS Pureprint
Hands: Smartcrew
A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO
Our dedicated volunteers!
Fonden følger retningslinjerne for god fondsledelse, læs mere her.
CHAIRMAN: JEPPE BROGAARD CLAUSEN
Role: Lawyer (H), Partner
Date for joining the board: 2020
Reelected: 2022
Date of expiry of the current term: 2024
Skills: Law, Intellectual Copyright Law
Additional Roles: Honorary Member of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Member of the Association for Industrial Law Protection.
Role: Partner, Pluss Leadership A/S
Joined the Board: 2023
Reelected: No
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Bestyrelsesudvikling, rekruttering, strategi, ledelse.
Additional Roles: Bestyrelsesmedlem i IPU P/S, Bestyrelsesmedlem i Quorum Consulting A/S, Bestyrelsesformand Asserbo Vandværk a.m.b.a.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: No and yes
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: CHRISTIANE VEJLØ
Role: Direktor, Elektronista Media
Joined the Board: 2018
Reelected: 2020 og 2022
Date of expiry of the current term: 2024
Skills: Digital Strategy, Audience Development, Conceptualization and Social Media.
Additional Roles: Board Member for CBS Executive and Conferize A/S
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: MARIANNE WILLUMSEN
Role: CEO MW Search
Joined the Board: 2021
Reelected: 2023
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Executive Search, HR, Strategi, Markedsføring, Økonomi
Additional Roles: Bestyrelsesmedlem Åse Og Ejnar Danielsens Fond, Sanger - Jazzhouse Band.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: Nej og ja
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: ANNA PORSE NIELSEN
Role: Adm. direktør
Joined the Board: 2021
Reelected: 2023
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Strategi, innovation og forretningsudvikling i kultur- og oplevelsesøkonomien samt public affairs.
Additional Roles: CEO og partner i Seismonaut, Formand for Fonden Arsenalet. Formand for Fonden Filmtalent, medlem af bestyrelsen i Vision Denmark, medlem af bestyrelsen i Blindes Arbejde.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: No and yes
Artistic Director
Amy Lane
al@operafestival.dk
Festival coordinator & Chief marketing and communication officer
Camilla van Norde
Festival coordinator & Chief marketing and communication officer
Camilla van Norde
Fonden følger retningslinjerne for god fondsledelse, læs mere her.
CHAIRMAN: JEPPE BROGAARD CLAUSEN
Role: Lawyer (H), Partner
Date for joining the board: 2020
Reelected: 2022
Date of expiry of the current term: 2024
Skills: Law, Intellectual Copyright Law
Additional Roles: Honorary Member of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Member of the Association for Industrial Law Protection.
Role: Partner, Pluss Leadership A/S
Joined the Board: 2023
Reelected: No
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Bestyrelsesudvikling, rekruttering, strategi, ledelse.
Additional Roles: Bestyrelsesmedlem i IPU P/S, Bestyrelsesmedlem i Quorum Consulting A/S, Bestyrelsesformand Asserbo Vandværk a.m.b.a.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: No and yes
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: ANNA PORSE NIELSEN
Role: Adm. direktør
Joined the Board: 2021
Reelected: 2023
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Strategi, innovation og forretningsudvikling i kultur- og oplevelsesøkonomien samt public affairs.
Additional Roles: CEO og partner i Seismonaut, Formand for Fonden Arsenalet. Formand for Fonden Filmtalent, medlem af bestyrelsen i Vision Denmark, medlem af bestyrelsen i Blindes Arbejde.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: No and yes
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: CHRISTIANE VEJLØ
Role: Direktor, Elektronista Media
Joined the Board: 2018
Reelected: 2020 og 2022
Date of expiry of the current term: 2024
Skills: Digital Strategy, Audience Development, Conceptualization and Social Media.
Additional Roles: Board Member for CBS Executive and Conferize A/S
MEMBER OF THE BOARD: MARIANNE WILLUMSEN
Role: CEO MW Search
Joined the Board: 2021
Reelected: 2023
Date of expiry of the current term: 2025
Skills: Executive Search, HR, Strategi, Markedsføring, Økonomi
Additional Roles: Bestyrelsesmedlem Åse Og Ejnar Danielsens Fond, Sanger - Jazzhouse Band.
Are you appointed by an authority / grantor and are you considered an independent member: Nej og ja
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