After its immense success online, Jean-Luc Fafchamps world creation Is this the end? will be screened at Cinéma Galeries on Thursday September 24 at 19h30.
The two performances of Is this the end? on the 12th and 13th of September were an overwhelming success. With more than 1500 people watching the streams and all press reviews in full agreement on the inventiveness of the score.
Following its success on the small screen, the pop-opera will receive a big screen premiere as well. This screening will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 19h30 in Cinéma Galeries. A unique occasion to wander through the limbo of life and death once more, and to discover the most remote corners of our Theatre from the comfort of a cinema seat. More information on their website.
As part of the worldwide Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the façade of La Monnaie was lit up in pink on Sunday, 19 October. Through this symbolic gesture, our house aims to highlight what is still insufficiently known about the disease.
During a literary encounter with J. M. Coetzee on the stage of La Monnaie, Christina Scheppelmann announced that the 2003 Nobel Prize winner in Literature is writing a libretto for a new La Monnaie opera, to be premiered in the 2027–2028 season: Elizabeth Costello in limbo.
Christina Scheppelmann, who became the first female General and Artistic Director of La Monnaie this season, has been nominated for the ELLE Woman of the Year 2025 award.
