Copenhagen: The Opera House Guided Tour

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Experience the Opera House in Copenhagen on a guided tour, one of the world's most high-tech opera houses. See the foyer, Olafur Eliasson's light sculptures, the auditorium, and the backstage area.

Highlights

Experience the impressive foyer of the Opera House with its overwhelming light
See Olafur Eliasson's world-renowned light sculptures and the glossy maple shell
Enter the impressive auditorium and see the gilded ceiling and glowing woodwork
Go behind the scenes and see how gigantic and complex sets can be moved
Learn about how to work with staging performances, costumes, and scenography

Description

Experience one of the world's most high-tech opera houses on a guided tour that takes you behind the scenes and reveals spectacular performances. Discover the Royal Danish Opera House, a gift to the Danish people from shipowner Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Meet your guide in the large foyer by the main entrance. Enter the Opera House and be amazed by the impressive foyer with its overwhelming light, Olafur Eliasson's world-renowned light sculptures, and the glossy maple shell around the Main Stage. Follow your guide into the hall's unique atmosphere, where the gilded ceiling and glowing woodwork are at the center. Get behind the scenes where movable stage fields make it possible to move gigantic and complex scenography’s that together with high-tech solutions enable theatrical magic and illusions that cannot be achieved anywhere else in the country. At the tour you will also learn a lot more about how to work with staging performances, costumes, and scenography. Please note that this guided tour will be in English. For a guided tour in Danish please visit The Royal Theatres website.

Includes

Entrance to the Opera Guided tour

Important Information

The meeting spot is just around the corner from the official address, Ekvipagemestervej 10, in the lobby at the main entrance out to the habour. Please arrive 15 minutes early.