Jan Raes Nominated as CEO of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen by BWW News Desk
- June 25, 2020 In mid-February, Jan Raes became the head of the largest cultural institution in Flanders for an initial period of eight months. He is now nominated as CEO from 1st July for five years.
Kaaitheater Presents the Contours of the 2020-2021 Season by BWW News Desk
- June 23, 2020 Over the past spring, we have all learned what it feels like suddenly to have no plans, while an uncertain future demands insight, empathy and imagination. Artists offer us that - and so much more! Kaaitheater joins forces with them to explore (new) possibilities to breathe new life into their projects.
Don't Miss La Monnaie / De Munt's Virtual Season by BWW News Desk
- June 22, 2020 La Monnaie / De Munt, the federal opera house in Brussels, is currently offering streamable shows on their site until June 30, according to La Monnaie / De Munt.
The STARTS Prize 2020 Goes To Andrea Ling and Olga Kisselevu by BWW News Desk
- June 08, 2020 STARTS stands for Science, Technology, and Arts. The European Commission's initiative aims to promote innovative cooperation between science, technology, and the arts and to bring it to the wider public's attention in the form of the annually awarded STARTS Prize.
Could Installation of Disinfecting UV Lamps Help Relaunch Activities? by BWW News Desk
- May 13, 2020 Brussels Expo, a major event venue, has plans to install disinfecting UV lamps to allow activities to reopen after the global health crisis shutdown, The Brussels Times reports
Alain Altinoglu Will Be Musical Director Of La Monnaie Until 2025 by BWW News Desk
- December 05, 2019 Alain Altinoglu's contract as Musical Director of la Monnaie has just been extended until 2025, a commitment he will combine with his new position as new Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony starting from the 2021-2022 season.
Speranza Scappucci Dirige MADAMA BUTTERFLY En Ouverture de Saison de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège by BWW News Desk
- September 02, 2019 C'est un ouvrage qui n'avait plus été joué à Liège depuis 2001 qui ouvre la saison 2019.20 de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. Sous la baguette de notre Directrice Musicale Speranza Scappucci et mis en scène par Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera, Madama Butterfly de Giacomo Puccini nous emportera au Japon pour vivre l'intense drame de Cio-Cio-San. Avec Svetlana Aksenova, Alexey Dolgov, Yasko Sato et Dominick Chenes en alternance dans les rôles de Cio-Cio-San et de Pinkerton, se dessinera un formidable et tragique portrait de femme, magnifiquement servi par la musique et la dramaturgie de Puccini.
BWW Preview: 'InTeam-Productions' Presents The Belgian Première Of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN by M. Alain
- August 27, 2019 On 1 September 2019, the first Dutch-language production of Kander and Ebb's Tony award-winning musical 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' will open in Antwerp. InTeam-Productions gathered a talented young cast for this Belgian premiere, most of whom recently graduated from drama school.
United Music Of Brussels Announces Programme by BWW News Desk
- August 22, 2019 On 7 September, La Monnaie, the Belgian National Orchestra and BOZAR join forces once again for United Music of Brussels, the traditional musical journey that kicks off the season. The fourth edition is all about encounters: between musicians from different ensembles and of different genres, genres and places, city locations and music, and of course with the public. From 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., from the Horta Hall at the Centre for Fine Arts to Ancienne Belgique, the public and passers-by can enjoy novel musical experiences, old melodies, surprising arrangements, unexpected venues, and, above all, marvel at how music brings us together.
MACBETH UNDERWORLD to Play at The Mint by BWW News Desk
- August 13, 2019 The new opera, Macbeth Underworld, will play at The Mint Sept. 20 through Oct. 5.
BWW Review: MY FAIR LADY at Festival Bruxellons by Patrick Honoré
- July 29, 2019 After successful productions of The Sound of Music, Evita, and Sunset Boulevard the three past summers, Festival Bruxellons! is this year presenting Frederick Loewe's and Alan Jay Lerner's musical masterpiece My Fair Lady in a new brilliant French adaptation by Stéphane Laporte, in collaboration with Jack Cooper and Simon Paco, both of whom, as they did Evita and Sunset, directed.
La Monnaie Presents World Premiere LE SILENCE DES OMBRES by BWW News Desk
- July 04, 2019 La Monnaie opens the 2019-20 season not by one, but by two world premieres. In September 2019, at the same time as Pascal Dusapin's Macbeth Underworld at La Monnaie, Le Silence des ombres premieres at KVS. It is an opera adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's Trois Petits Drames pour Marionnettes, commissioned to the young French composer Benjamin Attahir and produced in close collaboration with the author and director Olivier Lexa, a team of novice creators of the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre and a cast of young singers supported by ENOA, the European Network of Opera Academies.
MACBETH UNDERWORLD Comes to La Monnaie by BWW News Desk
- June 27, 2019 When he created his terrifying Penthesilea at La Monnaie in 2015, the French composer Pascal Dusapin was already thinking about the next opera. With a dilemma: should he continue in a dark vein or distance himself from it in favour of a lighter work? His artistic instinct directed him to the first solution and the most dangerous recesses of the human soul, towards the worst, inevitably, towards Macbeth.