The Opera House provides six available wheelchair spaces per performance on the ground floor. Please order your tickets via our telephone service T + 49 (0) 341 - 12 61 261.
Access to the opera house from Augustusplatz is barrier-free via a stair lift on the right-hand outside staircase or via the wheelchair entrance (to the right of the stage entrance; Goethestraße). To use the wheelchair entrance, please press the bell on the door.
If you arrive by car, the Opera House can be reached barrier-free by lift from the underground car park. There are six wheelchair-accessible parking spaces in the underground car park near the entrance. The lift on the left-hand side of the cloakroom hall takes you to the stalls. Barrier-free toilets are available in the cloakroom hall.
The Musikalische Komödie offers four wheelchair spaces per performance. Please order your tickets via our telephone service + 49 (0)341 - 12 61 261. Access is via a stair lift at the main entrance and the lift to the tiered area. There you will also find barrier-free toilets. The Komödien-Garten is also accessible during the theatre interval.
In the reconstructed house on Dreilindenstrasse, access is possible via a stair lift at the main entrance or unassisted via the Dreilindenstrasse courtyard entrance and the newly designed outdoor area. Barrier-free toilets are available. In the Musikalische Komödie, the induction loop will be usable on all seats and in the Venus Hall.
Seeing with your ears: Musical theatre for all
After a guided tour or "feel" through the world of fabrics, costumes, wigs, props and set elements, there is opera with live audio description for blind and visually impaired people. Via a headset, visitors receive precise descriptions of the action on stage. Speaker Anke Nicolai says: "The art is to reproduce the events in the short gaps where no singer is singing, to fill the gaps precisely and with the essentials so that the production comes to new, colourful life." Travel to Rome with Floria Tosca, to Anataveka with Tevje: we look forward to seeing you !
For the first time in the history of the Oper Leipzig, there will be grand opera and rousing musical with live audio description.
In the past, people dined, chatted, booed and even played roulette in the foyers of opera houses by candlelight ! It certainly wasn't quiet. Today we can concentrate better on the music and the stage - the auditorium is dark and the audience quiet as mice. That's great! But some people are not quiet. So that they don't feel uncomfortable because the person sitting next to them looks grim or the lady in the front row hisses "Shh!", we have introduced the loud performance. So that fidgeters of all ages, people with growling stomachs, tics or disabilities and, above all, their relatives
and, above all, their relatives, can enjoy a relaxed evening at the opera.
Of course, quiet people are also allowed to come to this performance. But please don't be surprised if there is a squeak, a gurgle, a hum or a whisper next to you.
In the opera house, most works are performed in the original language and subtitled in German. Operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss will be subtitled simultaneously in German and English. We would like to point out that due to the architecture of the auditorium in rows 19 and 20, the surtitles are only partially legible or not legible at all. Operettas and musicals are performed in German in the Musikalische Komödie.
In the foyer of the Musikalische Komödie is a tactile model specially designed for blind and visually impaired people. With the help of this model, the building complex of the Musikalische Komödie can be felt both from the inside and the outside. Important structures and routes can thus be experienced. Additional information in Braille provides further insights and supports barrier-free orientation.
