Review: KINKY BOOTS at CHATEAU DE KARREVELD
What did our critic think of KINKY BOOTS at CHATEAU DE KARREVELD?…
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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…
Review: GRICEL - A TANGO STORY at Espace Lumen
What did our critic think of GRICEL - A TANGO STORY AT ESPACE LUMEN at Espace Lumen?…
Past Shows
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Miraculous Mandarin & Bluebeard’s Castle
‘Hopes, chimeras, distant mysteries... What does this story tell us?’ The Prologue to Bluebeard’s Castle invites us to consider the work as a mysterious adventure...
Háry János
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct...these are all echoes...of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche’: words attributed to Béla Bartók. Following...
Queen Elisabeth Competition
In 2018, for the ninth time in its history, the Queen Elisabeth Competition will focus on singing. From 1 to 12 May, an international jury...
Lohengrin
‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wagner himself understood the innovative character of his sixth piece of...
Achterland
Achterland is a seminal choreography in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s highly individual body of work, as it contains the fruit of what preceded it as...
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
One of the most popular opera double-headers is once again on the bill at La Monnaie after an absence of 15 years. In these two...
Journey to Bluebeard
Béla Bartók, speaking of Franz Liszt, described ‘... an astonishing audaciousness, in both form and content. This boldness is quite simply the fanatical tendency towards...
Requiem
‘I wrote this requiem for myself...’, bemoaned Mozart, worn-out but conscious that his Mass for the Dead would become his musical testament and would guarantee...
Kreatur
New choreographic works by Sasha Waltz invariably surprise us with their grouping, the depth of their subjects and styles, and their stunning aesthetics. Her next...
Sheherazade
Sultan Shahryar was of the opinion that all women were unfaithful and he had therefore decided that all his wives had to be killed after...
Il Prigioniero & Das Gehege
‘Hope: the final torture...’ Ever since a jailer called him ‘brother’, a prisoner has hope that he will be freed. The door of his cell,...
Dialogues des Carmélites
‘We are not afraid: we imagine we are afraid. Fear is a delusion sent by the devil.’ In his screenplay Dialogues des Carmélites, later adapted...
Zeitung
In 2008, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Alain Franco created Zeitung. In Zeitung, they focused on choreographic and musical material that dealt with composition, improvisation,...
Lucio Silla
‘I now realise that innocence and a good heart are far more precious to the soul than false glory.’ ‘La Clemenza di Silla’? In Mozart’s...
Leonore
‘Love has guided all my endeavours; true love knows no fear.’ Dressed as a man and under the name of Fidelio, Leonore takes a job...
Tancredi
Against the backdrop of the power struggle between the Byzantines and the Saracens, the city state of Syracuse is divided by internal conflicts. The hoped-for...
Pinocchio
‘It’s natural to think that Pinocchio has always existed; it is impossible to imagine the world without him.’ Italo Calvino put it well: we all...
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De Draaischijf Capitole Gent (4/23-4/27) |
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The Music of Hans Zimmer & Williams Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (11/18-11/18) |
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Mathieu Stepson Cirque Royal (1/20-1/20) |
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My Hero Academia Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (9/25-9/25) |
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The Music of Hans Zimmer & Alan Silvestri Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (11/18-11/18) |
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Michael Jackson Celebration Capitole Gent (2/06-2/06) |
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Cinderella, de musical Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (3/20-3/29) |
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Bulent Ersoy Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (11/06-11/06) |
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Chris Rea Experience Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (9/22-9/22) |
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Natalia, the Christmas Experience Capitole Gent (12/11-12/11) |