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OperaLaurent Pelly & Alain Altinoglu
About 'Yevgeny Onegin'
"It's about nothing, and yet it's about everything. It's about life and death, it's about love and social hierarchy..." In the run-up to their fourth collaboration at La Monnaie, we sat down with Alain Altinoglu and Laurent Pelly — a conductor with a unique theatrical feeling, a director who knows how to "stage" music.
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OperaStéphane Degout
Yevgeny Onegin and Prince Gremin, two destinies entwined
With his debut in the role of the charming and reluctant anti-hero Yevgeny Onegin, the French baritone sets himself new challenges.
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OperaYevgeny Onegin
A musical synopsis with Alain Altinoglu
A love story that is not actually a love story, spleen and ennui, grand balls, passionate impulses, a duel in the mist and intoxicating melodies... All the ingredients of a real Tchaikovsky masterpiece. Read the synopsis of Yevgeny Onegin here, along with the opera's musical highlights provided and discussed by conductor Alain Altinoglu.
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ConcertA concerto for the left hand ... and for Ukraine
Illia Ovcharenko plays Bortkiewicz
In the very same year his homeland was dragged into the bloodiest conflict in its history, Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko (21) forced his artistic breakthrough. In this interview, he reflects on the often neglected yet stunningly beautiful music of Ukraine, the risks of a concerto for one hand and the presence of hundreds of his compatriots during his upcoming La Monnaie concert.
News
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La Monnaie presents Adamo, an on-demand taxi service
Read moreFacing 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.
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Apply now for the Gerard Mortier Next Generation Award
Read moreNext 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.
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GREEN OPERA: La Monnaie joins project to standardise set components
Read moreIn 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.
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La Monnaie on Kiosk Radio, part 2
Read moreSecond La Monnaie broadcast at Kiosk Radio, this time with a playlist focused on Belgian music.
