Berlin-based, Danish-born composer Agnes Obel announces her long-awaited return to Australia and Aotearoa this September, marking her first shows in the region since her sold-out 2022 tour. For audiences who know her music as something half-heard in the dark, half-felt in the chest, these dates promise a rare recalibration of scale: chamber-pop intimacy set inside some of the most revered rooms in the region.
After a five-year step back from the foreground, Obel re-emerged in 2025 with a European tour that sold out almost on impact, including a hushed, high-water-mark performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Those shows threaded songs from across her catalogue, Philharmonics, Aventine, Citizen of Glass and Myopia, alongside new material that suggested evolution rather than reinvention: familiar atmospheres subtly re-wired, tension stretched and released with surgical calm.
That same sensibility underpins her upcoming run: QPAC Concert Hall in Brisbane (Thursday 24 September 2026), Hamer Hall in Melbourne (Saturday 26 September 2026), and the Sydney Opera House (Sunday 27 September 2026), before crossing to Auckland’s Te Paepae Theatre NZICC on Tuesday 29 September for only her second ever New Zealand performance. These are spaces built for resonance, and Obel’s poised, melancholic chamber pop has always thrived where silence matters as much as sound.
Since the platinum success of Philharmonics and Aventine—both almost entirely written, performed and produced by Obel herself—she has steadily expanded her palette. Citizen of Glass folded ghostly electronics, voice modulation and the uncanny wheeze of a Trautonium into her world, while Myopia, crafted alone in her Berlin home studio, sharpened her fascination with proximity and perception. Across it all runs a rare consistency: music that feels self-contained yet porous, classical discipline quietly absorbing pop, jazz and electronic forms.
Obel’s compositions have since become fixtures across film, television, gaming and fashion, from The Last of Us to True Detective and Big Little Lies, their emotional gravity lending itself to stories that live in moral grey zones. This return, then, feels less like a comeback than a re-opening of a door that was never fully closed—an invitation back into a body of work that continues to move on its own terms.
Go HERE for Australian tour information and HERE for NZ.
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