Accessibility

Wir von der Oper Leipzig möchten alle Menschen ansprechen. Von daher sind wir aktuell dabei, Barrieren abzubauen und Zugänglichkeit zu fördern. Im Folgenden können Sie sich über einzelne Maßnahmen informieren.

The Opera House provides six available wheelchair spaces per performance on the ground floor. Please order your tickets via our telephone service T + 49 (0) 341 - 12 61 261.

Access to the opera house from Augustusplatz is barrier-free via a stair lift on the right-hand outside staircase or via the wheelchair entrance (to the right of the stage entrance; Goethestraße). To use the wheelchair entrance, please press the bell on the door.

If you arrive by car, the Opera House can be reached barrier-free by lift from the underground car park. There are six wheelchair-accessible parking spaces in the underground car park near the entrance. The lift on the left-hand side of the cloakroom hall takes you to the stalls. Barrier-free toilets are available in the cloakroom hall.

The Musikalische Komödie offers four wheelchair spaces per performance. Please order your tickets via our telephone service + 49 (0)341 - 12 61 261. Access is via a stair lift at the main entrance and the lift to the tiered area. There you will also find barrier-free toilets. The Komödien-Garten is also accessible during the theatre interval.

In the opera house, there are induction loops in the stalls and tiers; ask for the corresponding seats when you book your seat. Users of hearing aids and hearing implants with induction or telecoils can hear directly and understand speech better. Please activate the induction or telecoil of your hearing system during the performance.

We also offer a streaming service for barrier-free hearing in all seats in the opera house. Visitors with hearing impairments can access the additional audio tracks for hearing assistance directly on their smartphone via the Sennheiser Mobile Connect app. From there, the audio tracks can be received via headphones or a connected hearing system. The transmission takes place in real time on the smartphone. The free app is available for Android and iOS® and must be installed on the smartphone before the performance. Speech intelligibility and sound quality can be adjusted in the app.

In the Musikalische Komödie, the induction loop can be used in all seats and in the Venussaal.

Seeing with your ears: Musical theatre for all

We welcome you in the stalls foyer (for performances in the opera) or in the entrance foyer (for performances in the Musikalische Komödie), and then we go on stage together for a tactile tour: costumes, wigs, props and stage design elements are felt and explained to you in more detail before the curtain rises on grand opera or a rousing musical. Precise live descriptions of the action on stage are provided via a headset.

Dates
04. Mai 2025 – »Evita«, Musikalische Komödie

In the past, people dined, chatted, booed and even played roulette in the foyers of opera houses by candlelight ! It certainly wasn't quiet. Today we can concentrate better on the music and the stage - the auditorium is dark and the audience quiet as mice. That's great! But some people are not quiet. So that they don't feel uncomfortable because the person sitting next to them looks grim or the lady in the front row hisses "Shh!", we have introduced the loud performance. So that fidgeters of all ages, people with growling stomachs, tics or disabilities and, above all, their relatives 
and, above all, their relatives, can enjoy a relaxed evening at the opera.

Of course, quiet people are also allowed to come to this performance. But please don't be surprised if there is a squeak, a gurgle, a hum or a whisper next to you.

Dates
13. Jun 2025 – »Die Mondprinzessin«, Opernhaus

In the opera house, most works are performed in the original language and surtitled in German. Operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss will be surtitled simultaneously in German and English. We would like to point out that due to the architecture of the auditorium in rows 19 and 20, the surtitles are only partially legible or not legible at all. Operettas and musicals are performed in German in the Musikalische Komödie.

In the foyer of the Musikalische Komödie is a tactile model specially designed for blind and visually impaired people. With the help of this model, the building complex of the Musikalische Komödie can be felt both from the inside and the outside. Important structures and routes can thus be experienced. Additional information in Braille provides further insights and supports barrier-free orientation.

Would you like to book tickets for a performance but need assistance? No problem! With our webshop advice, our service team will guide you step by step through the entire booking process - regardless of whether you are using a smartphone or a PC.

We will also be happy to help you with any other questions about our digital services.

How to reach us:Simply arrange a personal consultation appointment - directly at our box office or by telephone via our service hotline.

The Oper Leipzig is committed to making its digital offerings accessible to everyone, regardless of any limitations they may have. We adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA and the requirements of the Barrier-Free Accessibility Act (BFSG).

Measures for accessibility include:

• Contrast selection
• Font, font size and font styles
• Hover effects for links and buttons
• ARIA labels, use of H tags
• Editorial measures: Alt texts, no text in images, video transcriptions (e.g. YouTube)

Feedback on accessibility / Report barriers

Do you have questions about the implementation of accessibility or would you like to point out existing barriers? Are you unable to adequately perceive, use or understand the content of our website? Do you need specific information in an accessible format?

Then please get in touch with us.