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Thomas Eitler-de Lint, Chorus Director at the Leipzig Opera, is also the new Director of the Bayreuth Festival Chorus. >>>

Oper Leipzig is the first German theatre to operate with certified sustainability management. >>>

Ivan Repušić, one of the most renowned conductors of his generation, has been appointed as the future General Music Director of Oper Leipzig from the 2025/26 season. >>>

Friederike Meinke, soprano at the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, has won the Johann Strauss Singing Competition  in Vienna  >>>

Leipzig Opera's website and magazine ‘Dreiklang’ won five prestigious awards in the advertising industry >>>

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The Leipzig Opera follows the tradition of over 330 years of musical theatre in Leipzig: in 1693, the first opera house on the Brühl was opened as the third civic music theatre in Europe after Venice and Hamburg. Since 1840, the world-renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra has played for all performances of the opera and the Leipzig ballet. In addition to today's opera house on Augustusplatz, built in 1960, Leipzig Opera includes the Musikalische Komödie, a special venue for operettas and musical. With over 720 employees, it is the city's largest in-house cultural institution and comprises five mainstays: the opera, Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig Ballet, their 360° outreach and educational programme, and the craft studios which work for all of the city's theatres.