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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and the rest of the international musical canon have their Danish home in a lavish 1908 playhouse tucked into a courtyard off Gammel Kongevej. Det Ny Teater ("the New Theatre") opened on 19 September 1908 with a Napoleon comedy whose cast included the soon-to-be silent film icon Asta Nielsen and Poul Reumert; the building was drawn by architects L.P. Gudme and Ludvig Andersen, a collaboration so fraught it ended in arbitration and Andersen's expulsion fro...