From Friday 21 February, 10 pm, a strike by the NMBS/SNCB is likely to disrupt public transport from and to Brussels. Please take this into account if you are attending the Oper! Awards gala.
This season, La Monnaie takes over the airwaves at Kiosk Radio with curated playlists that reflect our opera programme.
Kiosk Radio is an online community radio that broadcasts a variety of music from the wooden kiosk in the Parc Royal in the heart of Brussels.
To usher in this new collaboration, La Monnaie will curate two-hour playlists with works that reflect the opera currently on show. For this first playlist, called 'Chance Music', all numbers contain an element of coincidence, unpredictability and choice, in line with the theme of gambling and game of chance at the core of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades.
Playlist
Philip Glass - Violin Concerto No. 2 - The American Four Seasons - Song No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach - The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Version for String Quartet - Contrapunctus I
Rolf Borch - Par Iv, II Paysage
Earle Brown - Available Forms I
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Plus Minus, Page VI (Realized by Ming Tsao)
Morton Feldman - Atlantis
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Interpolation [Version 1]
Kaija Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - I. Tenju-an Garden of Nanzen-ji Temple
Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
Howard Shore - The Doors of Durin
Kaija Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - VI. Stone Bridges
Camille Saint-Saens - Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166
Burton Beerman - Dayscapes, II. Farmer's Dance
Charles Ives - String Quartet No.2, 2. Arguments
Marilyn Shrude - Evolution V III
Witold Lutosławski - Paroles Tissées, Second Tapestry
Give your opinion on the Queen Elizabeth competition and win tickets!
Are you a Belgian culture lover and fan of the Queen Elizabeth Competition? For an audience survey, UGent students are curious to know your opinion about this prestigious competition.
Embark on a Danube river cruise with the MM Academy
This autumn, sail through the cultural heartland of Middle-Europe. From 6 to 23 November 2025, Rivages du Monde and La Monnaie invite you to a musical cruise on the Danube to mark the 10th anniversary of the MM Academy.