Review: KINKY BOOTS at Château du Karreveld
Vincent Heden's bold, controversial Lola anchors a Kinky Boots that stumbles early and dances late — but Bruxellons' craft makes it sing regardless.…
La Monnaie De Munt
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Review: KINKY BOOTS at CHATEAU DE KARREVELD
What did our critic think of KINKY BOOTS at CHATEAU DE KARREVELD?…
Review: LA PéRICHOLE at European Theatre Club - Comédie Royale Claude Volter
Operettas are difficult to put on in today’s modern world. Their theatrical language asks for lightness, rhythm, caricature, and elegance, all at the same time. Put too much weight on them and they collapse. Treat them too casually and they become empty.…
Review: TOSCA at La Monnaie
Before the curtain rises, a Pasolini quote appears. It’s a clear warning this TOSCA won’t simply walk through Puccini’s Rome. It’ll filter it through Italian cinema, religion, power, desire, and violence.…
Review: THE ZOO at Brussels Light Opera Company
BLOC’s spring double bill brings together two short comic operas, THE ZOO and TRIAL BY JURY, and it’s the kind of evening that reminds you how satisfying light opera can be when it’s played with genuine skill. It’s colourful, musically confident, and consistently fun. You can feel the compan…
Review: BARTLEBY / LA VOIX HUMAINE at Opéra Royal De Wallonie Liège
BARTLEBY begins with a tease. The curtain only rises a little, just enough to show feet. Expressive. Unexpected and intriguing from the first second. When it finally lifts, Vincent Lemaire’s set reveals itself in clean, minimal lines, white bricks, a black table, black chairs, and a bust. It’s a…
Review: LA PETITE ANNONCE FAITE À MARIE at Théâtre Royal Du Parc
What did our critic think of LA PETITE ANNONCE FAITE À MARIE AT THÉÂTRE ROYAL DU PARC at Theatre Du Parc?…
Review: MEDUSA AT LA MONNAIE at La Monnaie
MEDUSA at La Monnaie opens with a sound that feels like it’s coming from somewhere far away, then closer, then right at your throat. An eerie choral orchestration approaches in waves, growing louder and heavier, until the stage itself seems to answer it. A black set begins to move, pivot, and brea…
Review: LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opera Royal De Wallonie Liège
Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that feels fully aligned with what opera stands for, vocal mastery, ritual, and a visual world built to carry myth sized emotion.…
Review: ALICE ET LA PIERRE D'OPAZE at La Sucrerie de Wavre
Art Fantesies has built its reputation in Belgium on family friendly musical theatre with big heart and big visuals, and ALICE ET LA PIERRE D’OPAZE fits that identity perfectly. Conceived for the company's 20th anniversary, as an original sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the story follows Alice as s…
Past Shows
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
‘I bring light and joy to many on earth, sorrow becomes sweet in a song; in a tale, fear becomes endearing.’ Years after Tsar Saltan had cast out his wife and son as a result of false accusations, the Swan Princess restores harmony and marries the tsarevich. This fairy tale by...
Tristan und Isolde
'As I have never truly experienced the happiness of love in my life,' Richard Wagner wrote to Franz Liszt in December 1854, 'I would like to erect a monument to this most beautiful of all dreams, a work in which this love can be expressed to the full.' At the time, he was...
Robert le Diable
Robert le Diable, the first opera in French by Giacomo Meyerbeer, was inspired by the medieval legend of the Norman duke Robert, with at its heart the eternal struggle between good and evil. With its supernatural subject matter, the libretto by Scribe and Delavigne brings...
The Rake's Progress
In his Poetics of Music, Igor Stravinsky wondered how, for a composer, past and present, and tradition and renewal relate to each other. He came to the conclusion that we renew a tradition in order to make something new. And that is what he achieved in The Rake's Progress, when...
Frankenstein
Unlike what was later made of it by Hollywood, Mary Shelley's original novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the profoundly sad tale of a creature - the result of a scientific experiment - that strives to do good, but nevertheless does evil and is consequently...
La Gioconda
In his day, Amilcare Ponchielli was considered the most important Italian composer of the generation after Verdi, but today we know him primarily for La Gioconda, and in particular its famous ballet, 'La danza delle ore'. The story is set in 17th-century Venice, where...
Don Pasquale
'I like to shine; I love joking'. The words of the coquettish Norina, the female character at the heart of Don Pasquale, Donizetti's 64th opera, whose success has remained uninterrupted ever since it was premiered in 1843. Donizetti, an experienced man of the theatre, adapted an...
From the House of the Dead
'There is a divine spark in every being!' It was under this humanist motto that Leos Janecek composed his final opera, Z mrtveho domu (From the House of the Dead), for whose libretto he drew on Dostoyevsky's 1862 work The House of the Dead. In 1928, Janacek composed one of his...
Die Zauberflote
'Strength has triumphed, rewarding beauty and wisdom with an everlasting crown!' Culminating in praise of those virtues, Die Zauberflote has since become an emblem of European culture. Following classic productions for La Monnaie of Parsifal and Orphee et Eurydice, director...
An Die Freude
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.’ If there is one work that can claim to illustrate these words of Beethoven’s, it is his own Ninth Symphony, with its renowned setting of Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy. According to Friedrich Nietzsche, this work is...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert - #1 Vorst Nationaal/Forest National (12/19-12/20) |
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Bohemian Rhapsody Capitole Gent (3/21-3/21) |
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Scala 30 Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (4/11-4/11) |
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Natalia, the Christmas Experience Capitole Gent (12/11-12/11) |
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Night Fever a tribute to the BEE GEES - Nights on Broadway Capitole Gent (2/26-2/26) |
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Krezip Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (10/23-10/23) |
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Jeanne d''Arc by the Glen Lambrecht Ballet Capitole Gent (12/01-12/01) |
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Laura Tesoro in Koor Trixxo Theater Hasselt (9/19-9/19) |
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The Music of Hans Zimmer & Alan Silvestri Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (11/18-11/18) |
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Michael Jackson Celebration Trixxo Theater Hasselt (10/31-10/31) |
