ALAIN ALTINOGLU

Grétry, Benoit, Debussy, Bizet

SU 9.1 – 20:00

We will be opening this festive year with the very first overture that ever sounded in our theatre at the Place de la Monnaie! Music Director Alain Altinoglu will also be conducting a suite that he personally compiled from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, two discoveries from Benoit's oeuvre and the second Arlesienne Suite by Carmen composer Bizet.

SYLVAIN CAMBRELING

Chabrier, Boesmans, Chausson

SU 20.2 – 20:00

In 1981, a young French conductor became the Music Director of La Monnaie and in the decade that followed, became the face of a younger, more dynamic and more accomplished La Monnaie orchestra. Now, forty years later, he is finally returning, with music by three composers who have marked the history of our house with the operas they created here.

ALAIN ALTINOGLU

Grétry, Van Maldere, Mozart

FR 15.4 – 20:00

Our symphony orchestra will be delving into both the forgotten and cherished treasures of its rich early years. An evening shrouded in 18^th century charm, with Grétry's immensely popular opéra-comiques, a sinfonia by then music director Pieter van Maldere and Mozart's glorious Jupiter Symphony – a pinnacle performance.

ALAIN ALTINOGLU

Noben, Strauss, Franck

SU 25.9 – 20:00

No festive year would be complete without a new creation! And so Belgian composer Harold Noben is writing a 'concerto for orchestra', completely tailored to our soloists. Music Director Alain Altinoglu is conducting the world premiere and will be demonstrating how Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche and the Vier letzte Lieder clearly show that Richard Strauss was adept at more than one register.

KAZUSHI ONO

Massenet, Strauss, Prokofiev

SU 9.10 – 20:00

The Music Director who gave our orchestra a boost from 2002 to 2008 is now returning, twenty years from his appointment. His programme does full justice to the prestigious era around the turn of the last century: music from Massenet's Hérodiade (created at La Monnaie), Strauss' Salome (comme à l'époque, in French!) and Prokofiev's Fifth symphony (once a personal guest at La Monnaie).

SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO & IAN BOSTRIDGE

WINTERREISE

MO 19.12 – 20:00

The illustrious British pianist and conductor Sir Antonio Pappano - Music Director of La Monnaie from 1992 to 2002 - returns to Brussels to accompany the distinguished tenor Ian Bostridge in one of the most moving Lied cycles in the history of music: Schubert's Winterreise, performed in an orchestrated version by the La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra.

ALAIN ALTINOGLU

Reyer, Franck, Berlioz

FR 30.12 – 20:00

A festive year should come to an end with a bang! Celebrate with us one last time and come listen to Berlioz' beloved Symphonie fantastique, the Variations symphoniques from our ‘very own’ César Franck and once again, music from one of the great opera moments in the history of La Monnaie: the overture from Ernest Reyer’s Sigurd.