Three singers from our MM Academy have been selected for the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition, which this year will be dedicated on the voice.
From 23 to 26 march, the Passa Porta Festival will be bringing hundreds of leading writers together at various locations in Brussels. La Monnaie will also be hosting quite a few encounters with renowned writers, including winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Annie Ernaux.
February, the month of Valentine's Day. The perfect excuse to compile our monthly Kiosk Radio playlist with music full of love, longing and heartbreak.
Less is more. That goes for Laurent Pelly’s staging of Yevgeny Onegin as much as for our third playlist on Kiosk Radio.
Facing the challenges of mobility and our desire to reduce the carbon footprint of our activities, La Monnaie is launching Adamo, a pilot project for an on-demand transport service. From now on, you can book a first-rate shared taxi for your La Monnaie performances, which, through use of advanced algorithms, will group requests, optimise journeys and thus reduce the ecological impact of travel to our performances.
Next year, the non-profit association 'Mortier Awards' will present the Mortier Next Generation Award, worth € 30,000, for the third time and support a project in keeping with the spirit of Gerard Mortier, former La Monnaie director and great innovator of the art form opera.
In a move towards creating opera in a more sustainable way, La Monnaie together with four French opera houses and festivals is launching a research and development project designed to standardise set components.
Second La Monnaie broadcast at Kiosk Radio, this time with a playlist focused on Belgian music.
Yesterday, the Teatro Real de Madrid hosted the prestigious International Opera Awards. La Monnaie proudly won the Award for 'Best World Premiere' with Kris Defoort's magnum opus.
On this World Opera Day, Opera Europa – a collective of 222 European opera companies, including La Monnaie – and OperaVision are launching a charity campaign in support of Ukrainian opera artists.
Our house and our productions have a chance to win the coveted and renowned Opera Awards in the categories ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Best World Premiere’ (for The Time of Our Singing). The artistic team behind Il trittico is also in the running for an award.
On the blog House of Creations, dedicated to La Monnaie's upcoming world premieres, Director Peter de Caluwe today revealed the cast of Fanny och Alexander. The opera adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's magnum opus is scheduled for December 2024.
