BOZAR Presents Keith Haring Retrospective Exhibit by BWW News Desk
- November 12, 2018 Keith Haring (1958-1990) was a unique presence in 1980s New York, playing a key role in his generation's counterculture and creating an immediately recognisable style. Best known for his iconic motifs, such as barking dogs, crawling babies and flying saucers, Haring's work was politically charged and motivated by activism. As an openly gay man, Haring's work as an AIDS activist and educator remains his most essential legacy. Elsewhere, he responded to equally critical and relevant issues, contributing to nuclear disarmament campaigns, creating a famed Crack is Wack mural, and designing anti-apartheid posters.
E N'AI PAS ENCORE COMMENCE À VIVRE Comes To Bozar Today by BWW News Desk
- October 12, 2018 The Center of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, otherwise known as BOZAR, presents JE N'AI PAS ENCORE COMMENCE À VIVRE, translated as I Have Not Started Living Yet. Dates include Today, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 8:00pm
Z MRTVEHO DOMU Comes to La Monnaie by BWW News Desk
- October 11, 2018 After Kat'a Kabanova (2010), Jen?fa (2014) and recently Foxie! The Cunning Little Vixen, there is still more Leoš Jana?ek to come at La Monnaie. In November 2018 the opera house is presenting Z mrtveho domu (From the House of the Dead), the Czech composer's last and perhaps most powerful opera. It is based on Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel Memoirs from the House of the Dead (1862), an account of the Russian writer's own experiences as a political prisoner in a Siberian gulag. It is a mosaic of loosely-knit episodes about the inhumane conditions in a labour camp, punctuated with the stories and life histories of his fellow prisoners.
E N'AI PAS ENCORE COMMENCE À VIVRE Comes To Bozar 10/12 by BWW News Desk
- October 10, 2018 The Center of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, otherwise known as BOZAR, presents JE N'AI PAS ENCORE COMMENCE À VIVRE, translated as I Have Not Started Living Yet. Dates include Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 8:00pm
Jacques Brel herrijst 40 jaar na overlijden in Gent en Antwerpen met 'Je m'appelle Jacques Brel' by BWW News Desk
- October 04, 2018 Op 9 oktober 1978 overleed de, zoals hij zichzelf noemde, 'Franstalige Vlaming' Jacques Brel aan de gevolgen van longkanker. 40 jaar na zijn dood, brengen Music Hall, regisseur Dirk Decloedt en gelauwerd Brel-vertolker Filip Jordens met 'Je m'appelle Jacques Brel' gepast hulde aan de legendarische en uiterst begenadigde chansonnier, componist en tekstschrijver.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt to Perform in MADAME PYLINSKA ET LE SECRET DE CHOPIN by BWW News Desk
- September 14, 2018 After the successful tour of Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, the play that he performed on stage for 4 years, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is back with a show that combines music and the dramatic arts, his two great passions. Both educational and intimate, this show confirms the author's close bond with the virtuoso Nicolas Stavy, with whom he had already created "The Bizet Mystery" at the Paris Opera.
United Music Of Brussels Announces Programme by BWW News Desk
- September 08, 2018 On 8 September, La Monnaie/De Munt, the Belgian National Orchestra and BOZAR will join forces for the third iteration of United Music of Brussels. This year's theme is wonderment as a trigger for curiosity and creativity: the wonderment people will experience as they discover both new locations and enjoy unique musical experiences that challenge the boundaries of classical music. From 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., the public and passers-by can walk from Place de la Monnaie to the Centre for Fine Arts, with multiple different and unexpected stops along the way, in fifteen iconic locations in the city centre. These mini-concerts will combine classical music and dynamic DJ sets, or jazz beats and dance. They will turn a great opera into a light-hearted musical, and a historic concert hall into a film set. We like to present to you the complete festive program where performers and visitors can share their sense of wonderment, during this congenial musical end to the summer, which also kicks off another exciting musical season!
Alejo Pérez Appointed New Music Director Opera Vlaanderen Royal Ballet Flanders by BWW News Desk
- September 06, 2018 Starting from the 2019-2020 season, Alejo Perez will become the new music director at Opera Vlaanderen Royal Ballet Flanders. He has been appointed by Jan Vandenhouwe, who will take over as artistic director for the opera, starting in the same season.
Music Hall Classics brengt prachtige balletten op de planken in seizoen 2018 - 2019 by BWW News Desk
- September 04, 2018 Geen nieuw seizoen zonder een keur aan prachtige balletten op het programma van Music Hall Classics. Met een grootse en vernieuwende opvoering van 'De Notenkraker', een spectaculaire en moderne interpretatie van de tijdloze klassieker 'Romeo & Julia', het gerenommeerde Malandain Ballet Biarritz dat terugkeert met hun nieuwe productie 'Marie-Antoinette', en het klassieke meesterwerk 'Sleeping Beauty' in een sprookjesachtige enscenering, worden alleszins de balletliefhebbers op hun wenken bediend.
VIDEO: Music Hall Classics Pakt Uit Met Tot De Verbeelding Sprekende Opera's by BWW News Desk
- August 28, 2018 Operaliefhebbers mogen op beide oren slapen, want ook tijdens het seizoen 2018 - 2019 zullen ze meer dan hun gading vinden in het rijkelijke aanbod van tot de verbeelding sprekende producties, dat Music Hall Classics presenteert. Een boeiend en gevarieerd opera-aanbod, metaangrijpende theaterproducties, majestueuze arenaspektakels, ja zelfs een amusante operette mag niet ontbreken op het indrukwekkende programma.
United Music Of Brussels Announces Programme by BWW News Desk
- August 28, 2018 On 8 September, La Monnaie/De Munt, the Belgian National Orchestra and BOZAR will join forces for the third iteration of United Music of Brussels. This year's theme is wonderment as a trigger for curiosity and creativity: the wonderment people will experience as they discover both new locations and enjoy unique musical experiences that challenge the boundaries of classical music. From 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., the public and passers-by can walk from Place de la Monnaie to the Centre for Fine Arts, with multiple different and unexpected stops along the way, in fifteen iconic locations in the city centre. These mini-concerts will combine classical music and dynamic DJ sets, or jazz beats and dance. They will turn a great opera into a light-hearted musical, and a historic concert hall into a film set. We like to present to you the complete festive program where performers and visitors can share their sense of wonderment, during this congenial musical end to the summer, which also kicks off another exciting musical season!
Music Hall lanceert eerste single én clip van gloednieuwe sprookjesmusical 'Hans en Grietje' by BWW News Desk
- August 24, 2018 Vanaf 28 oktober kan je in Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen, Ethias Theater Hasselt, Capitole Gent en Kursaal Oostende gaan kijken naar 'Hans en Grietje, de sprookjesmusical'. Het alom geliefde sprookje over broer en zus die in het peperkoekenhuisje ten prooi vallen aan de boze heks, wordt in een modern jasje gestoken met originele liedjes, coole dansjes, verrassende personages en een gezonde dosis humor.
BWW Review: SUNSET BOULEVARD at Festival Bruxellons! by Patrick Honoré
- August 08, 2018 Innovatively set in the unique Chateau de Karreveld, the greatest attraction of the Bruexellons! Summer Festival is proving to be the very first French version of Sunset Boulevard, flawlessly translated and adapted by Jack Cooper and Simon Paco, and resourcefully supervised by Stephane Laporte, who gave us the French adaptation of The Lion King, Titanic, I Do! I Do!, and Fiddler on the Roof!, among others.
BWW Review: FLASHDANCE at Kursaal Oostend by Donovan Wilde
- July 31, 2018 The Broadway version of Flashdance has hit the stage! Be ready to take a trip back to memory lane where you get the storyline of a young girl who is a welder at a steel mill during the day and an exotic dancer by night.