Krútňava is a dramatic and psychological story set in Slovakia, featuring an original theme of sin and forgiveness, comprised of six scenes.

The opera by Bedřich Smetana, which premiered in Prague in 1868, returns to the well-known folk legend in the libretto by the German author Josef Wenzig, inspired by events from the reign of the Czech and Hungarian King Vladislav II Jagiellon (1456-1516) in the libretto by the German author Josef Wenzig. It is a romantic tragedy considered a landmark work in Czech opera heritage. 

The Opera NDKE will present the world-famous operetta by Emmerich Kálmán Die Csárdásfürstin with an exceptional cast. The guest of the evening, Yvonne Sylva Marica Kálmán, will reminisce about her conversations with her father, Emmerich Kálmán, highlighting the greatest successes of the world-renowned operetta composer and his work, as well as the period of the Jewish family's escape from the Nazis to America and their new life in New York.

Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera are a dark drama of power, tyranny, violence, the paranoia of rulers, but also of unfulfilled marriage. The transience of power and the injustice of autocracy lead to the decay of society, to the madness of tyrants, and to their downfall.

After nearly 65 years, the romantic opera by Richard Wagner is returning to the stage of the NDKE Opera, whose full title is "Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg". Wagner composed this opera during his Dresden period, where he worked as a conductor, and it premiered in 1845. He was inspired by the folk ballad of Tannhäuser, the mythical Venusberg, and the goddess Venus, who sometimes appeared as Frau Holda in medieval legend, a Nordic goddess of the underworld Hel.

After the successful performance of the Roberto Devereux opera with the main character of Queen Elizabeth I., the Opera of the State Theatre Košice continues Gaetano Donizetti´s Tudor Trilogy with the story about her mother Anne Boleyn. We will present the opera Anne Boleyn in semi-staged form.