The queen of belcanto Edita Gruberová (foto: MUPA/Posztós János) will  retire from stage after a glorious  career spanning five decades with a stage appearance in her native country of Slovakia. In two performances - the premiere on November 27 and the first reprise on December 1 - she will sing the title role of Queen Elisabeth I. in Donizetti´s final installment of the Tudor Trilogy.

As a student of the Academy of Performing Arts, Borodáč was condemned, in the preparation of the stagings of Borodáč or Three Sisters, gradually revealed the ingratitude of the position to be the first, to be a teacher, to be a founder, to be a director in a given political and social…

In two weeks, on Friday, September 25, the unique drama production Borodáč or Tri sestry will have its world premiere in the Historical Building of the State Theater in Košice. The theater prepared it as its contribution to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of…

In the first opera performance of the new theater season you will see two interesting guests from Austria on Wednesday 9 September at 19:00 on the stage of the Historical Building of the Košice State Theater. Austrian tenors Eugene Amesmannin Florestan and Alexander Kaimbacher in Jaquin for the first time in Košice will perform in…

The sad news came from Prague over the weekend. On Saturday, September 5, in the evening, the Czech Oscar-winning director Jiří Menzel passed away at the age of 82. It was at the State Theater in Košice that he created his last directorial theatrical "work" three years ago, when he prepared a production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff with the opera ensemble, which is one of the most…

Last week, the ballet ensemble of the State Theater in Košice completed an exceptional “workshop” with the exceptional dancer and choreographer Jiří Bubeníček. It was Jiří Bubeníček who might stage ballet production Franz Kafka on the stage of our theater in 2023. We are looking forward to future cooperation.