The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT,

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: ') is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in

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. The theatre was founded in 1748, first serving as the theatre of the king, and then as the theatre of the country. The theatre presents

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, the Royal Danish Ballet, multi-genre concerts, and

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

in several locations. The Royal Danish Theatre organization is under the control of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Performing arts venues

* The Old Stage is the original Royal Danish Theatre built in 1874. * The

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''(Operaen)'', built in 2004. *

Stærekassen Stærekassen ( lit. "The Starling Nest Box"), also known as Ny Scene (English: New Stage) is a theatre building annexed to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen, Denmark. It opened in 1931 to serve a dual purpose as an additional ...

(New Stage) is an

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theatre adjacent to the main theatre. It was used for drama productions. It is no longer used by the Royal Theatre. * The

Royal Danish Playhouse The Royal Danish Playhouse ( da, Skuespilhuset) is a theatre building for the Royal Danish Theatre, situated on the harbour front in the Frederiksstaden neighbourhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was created as a purpose-built venue for dr ...

is a venue for "spoken theatre" with three stages, inaugurated in 2008.

Cultural references

* The Royal Theatre on Kongens Nytorv is a central location in the 1978 '' Olsen-banden'' film ''

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'' (from 1:16:58). * The Royal Theatre is the location of several important scenes in the 2015 drama film ''

The Danish Girl ''The Danish Girl'' is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by the Viking Press in the United States and Allen & Unwin in Australia. Summary The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the fir ...

'' where Einar (

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) begins to acknowledge his feminine side.

References

External links

Official Danish-language website of the Royal Danish Theatre

Official English-language page of the Royal Danish Theatre
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Performing arts venues

Cultural references

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