La Monnaie has received two nominations at the prestigious 2025 International Opera Awards, honoring the most impressive artistic performances and most innovative projects of the past opera season. Music Director Alain Altinoglu is in the running in the category ‘Best Conductor’, Eugene Onegin may be crowned ‘Best Recording’.
This year, the International Opera Awards ceremony, the ‘Oscars’ of the opera world, will take place on November 13th at the Greek National Opera in Athens. It will be broadcast live on OperaVision.
La Monnaie is delighted to announce the nomination of its Music Director Alain Altinoglu in the Best Conductor category. “Alain is a fantastic conductor who not only possesses a unique artistic sensibility,” according to General director Christina Scheppelmann, “but also infectious enthusiasm and the increasingly important communication skills needed to promote opera to the musicians and audiences of tomorrow. This nomination is therefore more than deserved, and we consider ourselves very fortunate that he will remain our music director until 2031!”
La Monnaie also received a nomination in the ‘Best Recording of the Year’ category for the release on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming, by Naxos, of its production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. We would also like to congratulate Calixto Bieito, director of our upcoming production of Mozart's Idomeneo, re di Creta, for his nomination in the “Best Director” category; Véronique Gens, who returns to La Monnaie on 24 November with her recital Invitation au voyage, for her nomination in the “Best Female Singer” category; and finally, tenor Bogdan Volkov, our Fenton in Falstaff, nominated for the “Readers” Award'.
In the passed editions, La Monnaie / De Munt was proud to win the Award for Best New Production, with The Tale of Tsar Saltan and From the House of the Dead, for Best World Premiere with The Time of Our Singing, and last year for 'Equal Opportunities & Impact' with our social programme A bridge between two worlds.
See the full list of nominations here.
On 21 November, the International Opera Awards will recognise the artists, productions and most innovative projects that marked the international opera scene in 2026. La Monnaie has received two nominations: the first for the opera Medusa and the second for the Green Opera project.
The former General and Artistic Director of La Monnaie will succeed Markus Hinterhäuser and take up his new position in Salzburg on 1 October, following the 2027 Festival edition.
This year, Mobility Week coincides with the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Brussels metro network. La Monnaie, which promotes sustainable mobility, has joined in the STIB’s celebrations by organising a pop-up fashion show at De Brouckère station on 15 September.
