LA MONNAIE

After the success of his Parsifal, Romeo Castellucci is returning to Brussels with an ambitious project, initiated by La Monnaie, which he will be staging ...

Hector Berlioz was undoubtedly one of the pioneers among the great reformers of music of the 19th century. He was better able than anyone to ...

The soprano Véronique Gens is a specialist in the Baroque period and Mozart, whose performance in Iphige?nie en Aulide and as Vitellia in La Clemenza ...

In the various standard ensembles and in a variety of other groupings, our musicians play well-known chamber music gems. You do not have to be ...

Love inspires my endeavours, true love fears nothing.’ Leonora dresses up as a man and under the name of Fidelio, finds work in the prison ...

For her new recital at La Monnaie, Anna Caterina Antonacci is performing a programme of baroque music chosen to suit and show off her tragic ...

A substantial part of Messiaen’s oeuvre took shape under the influence of his faith. The Trois Petites Liturgies de la Pre?sence Divine were composed shortly ...

For this world premier the composer Philippe Boesmans, a prominent figure in the opera history of the last thirty years with Reigen, Wintermärchen, Julie and ...

It was at the age of 22, at the start of his stay in Italy, that Handel composed his second oratorio, La Resurrezione, whose subject ...

How far are we prepared to go in accepting the vices of someone close to us? For the hunchback Rigoletto, court jester to the Duke ...

To mix cinema and music in a novel and impressive way is the challenge for this very special evening, which will take place in the ...

King Arthur, the famous semi-opera in five acts by Henry Purcell, brings together theatre, dance and opera to give pride of place to love and ...

In Guillaume Tell, his thirty-ninth and last opera, Rossini took a completely new direction compared to his previous works, and in 1829 presented one of ...

The baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is invited by the most prestigious opera houses, showing his talent for Mozart and Verdi and playing the great roles of ...

When Jean-Philippe Rameau died in 1764 – 250 years ago – the world lost not only a great musicologist, but also a great opera composer ...

Following the success of The Brussels Requiem, British composer Howard Moody has been inspired by Sindbad, the adventurer and wise master, present in some of ...

Gerd Albrecht returns to direct the Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie with a superb selection of Czech music from the late 19th and early 20th ...

The story of Jen?fa and her stepmother, the verger’s wife, is set within the confines of a closed community. Rivalry, jealousy and social control degenerate ...

In a huge apartment in a twilight atmosphere, an old man, rich and powerful through the large international companies he has developed, yet in a ...

Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony was initially conceived as a symphonic poem and was called ‘Titan’, in reference to the novel by the German author Jean ...

Just as in her two previous recitals at La Monnaie, the Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is again performing a highly original programme of Lieder. She ...

Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Francis Poulenc’s first opera, was composed during the Second World War and was based on a surrealist play of the same ...

A work without equal in musical writing, Steve Reich’s Drumming unfurls its powerful score for percussion from a single obsessive rhythm which grows and is ...

The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder ...

A very interesting and eclectic programme is being offered by Ludovic Morlot. In fact he is bringing together classical, neo-classical and modern works all in ...

By mixing theatre, dance, puppetry and the visual arts, the Franco- Austrian Gisèle Vienne develops a polymorphic work of spellbinding strangeness. Her shows and her ...

Three top-ranking British soloists, including Mark Padmore, who has already been acclaimed at La Monnaie for his rendering of Schumann’s Heine-Lieder, give pride of place ...

Shostakovich composed his Fourth Symphony at a turning point in Soviet history – the start of Stalin’s ‘Great Terror’ in 1936. After the appearance of ...

For Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who delights in the complexity of contemporary music, Vortex Temporum has been the piece around which her attention has centred ...

«I am the enemy you killed, my friend...» (Je suis l’ennemi que vous avez tue?, mon ami). Les vers du poe?te britannique Wilfred Owen, te?moin ...

Rome, 79 AD. The emperor Titus narrowly escapes the attack his best friend Sextus has plotted against him under pressure from his beloved Vitellia. Titus ...

In the latter days of Romanticism, German Lieder once again enjoyed tremendous popularity. At the end of the 19th century, such composers as Hugo Wolf ...

In 2008 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created Zeitung with the pianist Alain Franco, based on compositions by Bach, Webern and Schoenberg. A fascinating show, which ...

Even now, thirty years after its creation, the mythical Rosas danst Rosas continues to surprise us with its modernity and move us with the determined ...

Thanks to passionate experts of baroque like Andrea Marcon, the last decades we have rediscovered many previously unknown works by the prolific Antonio Vivaldi, including ...

In a single evening, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui brings together four special duets whose variations – couples, doubles, opposites or complementary – already constitute a full ...

The two main works in this concert, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, were written during a dark and difficult period. In 1809 the composition of ...

SACRE On 29th May, 1913, Le Sacre du printemps, composed by Igor Stravinsky for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and choreographed by Nijinsky, caused a scandal at ...

All four of them have highly acclaimed careers as soloists but they come together to form an exceptional quartet of singers who set out to ...

As he did with Mozart (Wolf), Monteverdi (Vsprs) and Bach (Iets op Bach and Pitié!), Alain Platel immerses us in an extraordinary musical, choreographic and ...

Dmitry Shostakovich composed his Ninth Symphony in 1945, glorifying the Russian victory over Nazi Germany. In contrast to the dark drama of his earlier symphonies, ...

Gaspard de la Nuit Christianne Stotijn – alto Inon Barnatan - piano Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit Alban Berg, Vier Lieder, op. 2 Franz ...