The Cologne Opera is one of the great tra­di­tion­al opera houses in Ger­many. Artist­ic Dir­ect­or Hein Mulders has been in charge of the theatre since the 2022/23 sea­son. Grand opera, excit­ing music theatre, world premi­eres of inter­na­tion­al stand­ing and the cul­tiv­a­tion of clas­sic­al rep­er­toire works are at the heart of the rep­er­toire.

High­lights of recent years include the first Cologne reviv­al of Zim­mer­man­n’s Sol­diers in 2018, the unabridged per­form­ance of Hec­tor Ber­lioz’s Les Troy­ens in 2022, Zem­l­in­sky’s The Dwarf on the 100^th anniversary of its Cologne premiere in com­bin­a­tion with Strav­in­sky’s Pet­rushka in 1922, Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schat­ten in 2023 and the world premiere of Ondřej Adámek’s INES in 2024.

In the 2024/2025 sea­son, Opheli­as Cul­ture PR is man­aging the world premiere of The Last Days of Man­kind by Phil­ippe Man­oury, based on the work by Karl Kraus. This adapt­a­tion, com­mis­sioned by the Cologne Opera, was developed by com­poser Phil­ippe Man­oury in col­lab­or­a­tion with dir­ect­or Nic­olas Stem­ann and dram­at­urg Patrick Hahn. The res­ult­ing Think­spiel is com­posed of two major parts and fea­tures vocal soloists, act­ors, choir, orches­tra, and live elec­tron­ics. Opheli­as Cul­ture PR is provid­ing con­sult­ing ser­vices in press and pub­lic rela­tions for the pro­duc­tion.