06 March 2025
OPERA2DAY organizes educational projects for secondary schools with almost every production. In fact, education and participation are an integral part of our artistic concept.
27 February 2025
150 years after its premiere, OPERA2DAY presents a revolutionary production of the most beloved opera of all time: Carmen. Bizet's music sounds in all its glory, performed by the beloved Flemish orchestra B'Rock. Mezzo-soprano Tania Kross takes centre stage as Carmen.
29 January 2025
In our new opera, The Opera Circus, OPERA2DAY once again joins forces with The Netherlands Bach Society. The Bach Society and OPERA2DAY previously toured together twice, playing to sold-out theaters.
16 January 2025
NOW WE ARE EARTH / An Orchestra is a musical and visual dance opera by theater maker Nicole Beutler. In every city on the tour, we invite enthusiastic singing lovers to help bring the performance to life!
04 December 2024
In our latest opera, La révolution de Carmen, we are inviting several students from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague to join the renowned B’Rock Orchestra from Ghent—a grand ensemble of more than 40 instrumentalists. The audition day took place on November 27.
01 November 2024
The four-part podcast series Jan van Leiden and the End of Times aired last November on the VPRO radio program OVT. Since then, it has been downloaded over 200,000 times.
07 August 2024
In September 2025, OPERA2DAY will perform Bizet’s famous opera Carmen at Amare in The Hague. For these performances, we are looking for children to join our children’s choir. Are you a singing enthusiast between the ages of 7 and 14 who loves music and acting? Then keep reading!
05 July 2024
After our most extensive season ever, with a magnificent finale in Leipzig, it was almost time to wish you a wonderful summer. But that summer could only truly begin after the announcements of the recommendations on our multi-year policy plan for 2025–2028 by the Municipality of The Hague and the Performing Arts Fund.
20 June 2024
Last season was our busiest ever. With our own production J.S. Bach - The Apocalypse, and the co-productions Song of the dark forest and Mozart's Zauberflöte - the next generation, we played 100 performances in 35 cities that attracted over 45,500 visitors.
12 June 2024
After 27 performances in the Netherlands and Germany, the tour of 'J.S. Bach – The Apocalypse' has come to an end. What started as an idea in 2019 has now reached its conclusion—a dream fulfilled. More than 14,000 visitors attended the production, which was met with enthusiasm from both press and audiences.
10 June 2024
On June 8 and 9, the ensemble Modelo62 visited our home base in The Hague, CC Concordia, with the performance Three Degrees from Reality. In this interdisciplinary production, the audience played a central role in shaping the course of the performance.
26 February 2024
After 39 performances in 31 cities, the tour of Song of the Dark Forest came to an end on Saturday, February 24. This production was a co-creation with Scapino Ballet and DoelenEnsemble, directed by our artistic leader Serge van Veggel.
04 December 2023
With three performances at the Goudse Schouwburg, the tour of Mozarts Zauberflöte – the Next Generation came to an end this weekend. This production, created in collaboration with the Theateralliantie, was performed a total of 49 times— from The Hague to Groningen and from Amsterdam to Heerlen.
23 August 2023
With the 2023/24 season approaching, we gave a preview of our opera 'J.S. Bach – The Apocalypse' at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague and the TAQA Theater De Vest in Alkmaar. In the first quarter of 2024, this production was performed in theaters across the Netherlands.
09 March 2023
After nearly three months and 23 performances, our tour of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha has come to an end. On Thursday 16, Friday 17, and Saturday 18 March, we gave our final performances at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague.
07 October 2022
On October 7, 2022, it was fifteen years since OPERA2DAY’s very first performance took place. In the Kees van Baaren Hall of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, we staged The Fairy Queen by Purcell—an energetic production and a surprise out of nowhere for the audience.
29 August 2022
From Friday, September 2 to Sunday, September 4, the annual UIT Festival Den Haag will take place. On Sunday, September 4, OPERA2DAY will present a preview of our new production 'The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'.
26 January 2022
At the beginning of 2022, OPERA2DAY and the 100-year-old Netherlands Bach Society were set to bring a unique opera production to the stage 26 times: J.S. Bach – The Apocalypse, or the opera Bach never wrote. However, due to government pandemic measures, we had to cancel the tour.
09 August 2021
From August 25 to 29, OPERA2DAY and O. Festival will present a special site-specific performance on Quarantine Island, just outside Rotterdam. Stories and songs about pandemics—past and present, from near and far—come to life in a gripping, moving, and hopeful experience.
31 May 2021
It is really happening! Finally, the theaters can once again receive audiences in the safe manner they have long been ready for.
05 May 2021
Starting on May 25, M31 Foundation and OPERA2DAY present a musical journey that allows us to let go of our feelings of isolation (the corona winter with all its restrictions) and turn our focus toward a new cultural beginning.
11 March 2021
A new educational project has begun: in the coming months, high school students across the country will create their own mini-operas! In workshops led by OPERA2DAY at their schools, students will compose pieces around the theme “This isolation drives me mad(?)”.
28 January 2021
What an exciting moment, and how thrilled we are with our very first livestream premiere! The Mad King was “attended” by full houses on the evening of Friday, January 22—only this time, everyone was watching from the comfort of their own couch at home.
06 June 2020
Together with LEKS Compagnie, we created this short concert film about loss and longing in The Hague’s Schilderswijk. Available from early June on OPERA2DAY’s YouTube channel.