Copenhagen Opera Festival 2025

With 9 newly written works, 60 locations, and 173 individual events, it’s safe to say that Copenhagen overflowed with opera in 2025. And that’s why more than 31,000 people flocked to the festival. Here you can read a bit more about what made this year’s festival so special.

August 15–24 2025

See the full 2025 programme here.

'Songs Old and New' skabt af komponist James Black og ensemblet NJYD. Foto: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Copenhagen Opera Festival 2024

New and old, popular and experimental, talent and experience, local and international. Copenhagen Opera Festival 2024 has now come to an end, and this year the festival has demonstrated that the mainstream and the niche not only can coexist, but can actually strengthen one another.

August 15–26 2024

See the full 2024 programme here.

Copenhagen Opera Festival 2023

10 days with more than 110 opera events across Copenhagen. The programme included newly composed operas, concerts with international artists, pop-ups and festival favourites, as well as a Festival Stage at Den Røde Plads offering five days of concerts, Sing Out Loud, and Morning Song.

August 11–20 2023

See the full 2023 programme here.

Copenhagen Opera Festival 2022

Festival Stage at Den Røde Plads, Nørrebro. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

The durational operaperformance 'Ride! Sing! Repeat!' played 29 mini-operas all over Copenhagen in only six days. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

'Lisbon Floor'. Photo: Søren Meisner

Hight lights from 'Roméo & Juliette' by Malmö Opera. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Vocale Masterclass at the Festivalstage. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Opera Talent of the Year soprano Yana Kleyn. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Operabingo with soprano Simone Victor, baryton Palle Knudsen, pianist Ulrick Stærk and hosts Keld og Hilda Heick. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Guest Artist of the Year tenor Nicky Spence in Børsen with pianist Dylan Perez. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Morningsong at the Festival Stage. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Soprano Kseniia Proshina as Juliette in the Malmö Operas high lights concert. Photo. Victoria Mørck Madsen

Tenor Nicky Spence and soprano Frederikke Kampmann at the Mesterclass Concert. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee at the dress rehearsal with Copenhagen Phill in Tivolis Concert Hall. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

'Ride! Sing! Repeat!'. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

'The Last Rite' in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink. Photo: Tom Ingvardsen

'Il Tabarro' at the Festival Stage. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Goldschmidts Music Academi and the Ukrainian Refugee choir performed at the Festival Stage. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Goldschmidts Music Academi. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

The puppet opera 'Aske og prinsessen på den hvide hest' at BLOX. Photo: Emil Hougaard

'Die Oper #3' at Glostrup Stadium. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen

'Die a Happy Man' at Volume, Vesterbro. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen

Showbåden 2022 by Johanne Holten. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen

Mezzosoprano Catriona Morison and pianist Malcolm Martineau. Photo: Ida Guldbæk Arentsen

Artist talk with the creative team behind 'Alan Turing'. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Sunday ended with a lecture in gaga at the Festival Stage. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Festival Stage at Den Røde Plads, Nørrebro. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

The Red Square World Music Rescuers with mezzosoprano Idil Alpsoy. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Festival Stage at Den Røde Plads, Nørrebro. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

København Danser presented a new perfomance 'Antidote' by the Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Photo: Victoria Mørck Madsen

Copenhagen Opera Festival 2021

100 Opera Moments (2020)

Lisbon Floor (2020)

Tryllefløjten (2020)

Tryllefløjten på Det Kongelige Teater 2020

The Juliet Letters (2020)

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2018

Silent Zone 2018 - Foto af: Olafur Gestsson