New Year's Concert at the Opera 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 almost 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 been guests at both the Old Stage and the Opera's Main Stage, and prominent figures such as Carl Nielsen have been associated with the orchestra. That heritage 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 inseparably 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 cracking New Year's concert and a lofty atmosphere as we say farewell to the old year in the company of some of the greatest composers in history.

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