New Year's Concert at Operaen 2026

Bubbles in the glass. Musicians in full gala dress. And some of the most beautiful music in history. End the year in festive company with Det Kongelige Kapel. For nearly 600 years Det Kongelige Kapel has enriched Danish cultural life at the highest artistic level. Over time a long line of prominent musicians, conductors, composers and singers have guested both Gamle Scene and the Operaen's Store Scene, and notable figures such as Carl Nielsen have been associated with the orchestra. That legacy is celebrated when the German-American conductor Evan Rogister, together with a festively dressed Kapel, interprets some of the absolute highlights of classical music history - from Mozart via Strauss and Stravinsky to Bernstein and Thomas Adès - as well as Nordic masters such as Sibelius, Grieg, Lumbye and Carl Nielsen, all of whom are inextricably linked with the world's oldest orchestra. The actor Ellen Hillingsø is the host, and Den Kongelige Opera's soprano Sofie Elkjær Jensen is the soloist together with a festively dressed Det Kongelige Kapel. At the last of the New Year's concerts on 31 December, bubbles will be served in the interval, and His Majesty King Frederik X's New Year's address will be shown live on a big screen Look forward to a bang of a New Year's concert and an elevated atmosphere as we say goodbye to the old year in the company of some of history's greatest composers.

• Dirigent: Evan Rogister
• Sofie Elkjær Jensen (Sopran)
• Ellen Hillingsø (Konferencier)