Accessibility

Zurzeit kommt es zu Einschränkungen bei der Tiefgarage am Leipziger Augustusplatz. Eine Zufahrt/Ausfahrt ist derzeit nur über die Gewandhausseite möglich. Ein direkter Zugang in das Opernhaus über die Tiefgarage ist leider nicht möglich!

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.

When traveling by car, the opera house is accessible barrier- free from the underground parking garage with the elevator. In the underground garage there are six wheelchair accessible parking spaces near the entrance. The stalls can be reached by elevator on the left side of the lobby. 

If you are using a car service for your visit, you will have access to the Opera House from the Goethestraße. You will be picked up from the entrance and escorted to your seat. 

Barrier-free toilets are located in the lobby. 

There are induction loops in the Opera House - on the ground floor and on the balcony. Please set your hearing aids to telephone or induction and keep this in mind when making your seat reservation.

New at the Opera House: Streaming for barrier-free listening for all seats. Visitors with hearing impairment will be able to access the additional sound tracks for hearing assistance via the free Sennheiser MobileConnect app. The transmission takes place in real time on the device of the visitor. The app is available for Android®and iOS® and the Personal Hearing Assistant allows speech intelligibility and sound quality to be adjusted.

In the reconstructed house on Dreilindenstrasse, access is possible via a stair lift at the main entrance or unassisted via the Dreilindenstrasse courtyard entrance and the newly designed outdoor area. Barrier-free toilets are available. In the Musikalische Komödie, the induction loop will be usable on all seats and in the Venus Hall.

Seeing with your ears: Musical theatre for all

After a guided tour or "feel" through the world of fabrics, costumes, wigs, props and set elements, there is opera with live audio description for blind and visually impaired people. Via a headset, visitors receive precise descriptions of the action on stage. Speaker Anke Nicolai says: "The art is to reproduce the events in the short gaps where no singer is singing, to fill the gaps precisely and with the essentials so that the production comes to new, colourful life." Travel to Rome with Floria Tosca, to Anataveka with Tevje: we look forward to seeing you !

For the first time in the history of the Oper Leipzig, there will be grand opera and rousing musical with live audio description.

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
07 April 2024, 17:00 - »Rigoletto«, Opera House