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
Place de la Monnaie1000 Bruxelles
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
27 total · showing 11–20
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 punctuated by the opening of castle doors, each opening on another world, allowing Bartók to write layered and...
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 the two concerts devoted to the music of Liszt and Bartók, Alain Altinoglu...
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 of renowned singers, teachers and opera directors will search for the voices of tomorrow. In the finale, participants may rely on the...
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 music theatre, completed in 1848, the year of revolutions. Although it is reckoned among his ‘romantic...
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 well as the seeds of what was to follow. It was for this 1990 production that De Keersmaeker first wrote specific dance material...
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 short operas, obsessive love and jealousy give rise to explosive emotions and passionate outbursts in the music. In both Cavalleria rusticana and...
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 the new, the unusual.’ The audaciousness that Bartók appreciated in the music of his compatriot is equally...
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 him an afterlife. The Requiem, the mythical final point of Mozart’s life, is the starting point today for this new work...
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 new work will be created in collaboration with the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen – whose talents are also on...
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 the first night. However, his wife Scheherazade succeeded in avoiding this fate by telling him a different story every night for a thousand...
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La Musique du Roi Lion en concert Palais des Congrès - Europe (3/05-3/05) |
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Cinderella, de musical Trixxo Theater Hasselt (4/10-4/11) |
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The Music of Hans Zimmer & Williams Capitole Gent (11/21-11/21) |
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The Music of Hans Zimmer & Alan Silvestri Capitole Gent (11/21-11/21) |
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Bohemian Rhapsody Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (3/24-3/24) |
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Night Fever a tribute to the BEE GEES - Nights on Broadway Trixxo Theater Hasselt (2/28-2/28) |
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Sofia Belabbes Cirque Royal (4/07-4/07) |
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Piaf ! Le Spectacle Theatre Du Parc (2/03-2/03) |
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Michael Jackson Celebration Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (2/07-2/07) |
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Michael Jackson Celebration Capitole Gent (2/06-2/06) |
