Live Performances

Live performance in Amsterdam happens across more venue types than most visitors expect — not just the concert halls and theatres, but brown cafés running a Sunday-evening jazz set, distilleries hosting genever tastings as guided demonstrations, museums staging performance art, and restaurants where an opera singer drops in between courses (Pasta e Basta in the Spiegelkwartier, where Conservatory-trained singers perform throughout the evening, is a longstanding example). This archive collects the venues programming live performance as part of the experience. Each listing notes what kind of performance, how regularly it happens, and whether it’s part of the cover charge or a separate ticket.