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.…
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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
43 total · showing 21–30
Ludovic Morlot Titan
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 Paul. Although Mahler later removed any programmatic references, the work makes up a musical reflection on the human condition...
Christianne Stotijn
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 is drawing on a rarely performed repertoire of arias and songs with piano and obbligato double bass, an unexpected but...
Les Mamelles de Tirésias
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 name by Guillaume Apollinaire. The musical world of this opera is irresistible, referencing as it does not only music hall but also...
Drumming Live
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 enriched with multiple textures. The same principle underlies the enthralling choreography of the same name created by Anne...
Hamlet
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 of his father, Hamlet opposes the marriage of his mother and his uncle, at the expense of his beloved and himself. When Ambroise Thomas...
Ludovic Morlot
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 the space of one evening! Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major, rediscovered in the middle of the 20th century, shows him...
The Pyre
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 installations shift the frontiers between appearance and reality and play with the illusions of representation to...
Mark Padmore
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 to Benjamin Britten on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, with a recital which reflects the many...
Valery Gergiev
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 his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District he too had lost favour with the regime and feared for his life. He nevertheless...
Vortex temporum
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 in the last decade. Rigorously constructed and refined in timbre, this mature work by the French composer Gérard...
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Laura Tesoro in Koor Trixxo Theater Hasselt (9/19-9/19) |
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Bohemian Rhapsody Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (3/24-3/24) |
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Vrienden voor het Leven Trixxo Theater Hasselt (4/25-4/25) |
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Lords of the Sound - Hogwarts Magic Symphony Capitole Gent (11/30-11/30) |
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Le Seigneur des Anneaux et Le Hobbit en concert Palais des Congrès - Europe (3/04-3/04) |
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Jérôme de Warzée Theatre Du Parc (10/18-10/18) |
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La Musique du Roi Lion en concert Palais des Congrès - Europe (3/05-3/05) |
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De Kleine Zeemeermin, de Musical Capitole Gent (5/30-5/30) |
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Cinderella, de musical Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen (3/20-3/29) |
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Bart Peeters & De Ideale Mannen Capitole Gent (2/10-2/10) |
