Get out the napkins because La Monnaie is participating in The Biggest Spaghetti Fest in the World! On Saturday, November 23, at 12:30 p.m., we are offering 75 vegetarian meals, accompanied by a visit to our Workshops, in support of non-profit organisation Accolage.
Once again this year, Brussel Helpt is organizing a food festival that stretches all over the capital. All proceeds will go to Accolage, a Brussels-based non-profit organization that sets up neighborhood aid networks in the fight against loneliness and is a long-standing partner of our social programme A bridge between two worlds. La Monnaie is happy to support this initiative, offering 75 plates of vegetarian spaghetti for €10. They will be served by the culinary talents of our caterer Groot Eiland, who works with local, seasonal products.
Nice bonus: we offer every person who orders a spaghetti at La Monnaie a free tour of our Workshops, in Dutch, French or English.
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.
On 29 September 2025, the façade of La Monnaie will turn red for World Heart Day. With this symbolic gesture, our opera house joins a global movement raising awareness about cardiovascular diseases.
