4 Best Performing Arts Venues in Cologne (Köln), The Rhineland

Organ recitals, chamber music, and jazz concerts are regularly presented in the Gothic Antoniterkirche.

Cologne's opera company is known for exciting classical and contemporary productions. The opera house on Offenbachplatz, originally scheduled to reopen in the fall of 2015 after a major multiyear renovation, remains delayed. Their interim location is the StaatenHaus am Rheinpark in Cologne-Deutz.

Cologne's WDR Sinfonieorchester performs regularly in the city's excellent concert hall.

The Schauspielhaus is home to the 20 or so private theater companies in the city. Until its main space on Offenbachplatz reopens after a major renovation, productions take place at an industrial space ( Carlswerk, Schanzenstrasse 6–20) in the Mülheim neighborhood. There are occasional productions with English supertitles.