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A vibrant stage, a space for the free expression of important themes, where artists explore musical worlds ranging from Schubert to Sinatra, from Brel to Brahms, and from medieval troubadours to contemporary folk: this is the new La Monnaie Songs programme. Each evening is designed to be an intense and intimate experience, where the audience is invited to draw inspiration from the performers’ stories, journeys, commitments and imaginations.
If you choose three productions (or more) from our offer below, you can bring along someone for free. Simply book two Songs season tickets, and the price will automatically be halved.
A Vagabond’s Daydream
Simon Keenlyside
2.10.2026 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
A symbol of freedom, imagination and independence, the figure of the wanderer has captured the imagination of artists, poets and philosophers for centuries. Through the works of Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Francis Poulenc, Gustave Fauré and Henri Duparc, Simon Keenlyside invites you to escape, letting the music show you the way.
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Vienna: A New Era
Alain Altinoglu
24 & 25.10.2026 • 20:00 & 17:00 • Salle Henry Le Bœuf (Bozar)
Vienna, early twentieth century. Under pressure from industrialization, the rise of psychoanalysis and growing social tensions, familiar world views are losing their footing and the refined styles of the fin de siècle their lustre. In music, literature and the visual arts, the boundaries of expression are being radically pushed back. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky each sought, in their own way, a new sound idiom, rooted in late Romanticism but unmistakably turned towards the future. During this concert, Alain Altinoglu will showcase three of their masterpieces, all written at this turning point in European cultural history.
Fly Me to the Moon
Lucio Gallo sings Sinatra
13.11.2026 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
Fly Me to the Moon, Strangers in the Night, My Way... Long before he took the major international opera stages by storm, Lucio Gallo paid tribute to Frank Sinatra’s legendary songs in the cosy atmosphere of bistros and smoke-filled bars. The Italian baritone is now returning to his first musical love, alongside the Claudio Chiara Jazz Quintet.
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About last Night
Marina Viotti
18.12.2026 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
A woman wakes up with a terrible hangover, a stranger in her bed and hazy memories of the previous night… This is the starting point for this delightful solo cabaret, in which mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti explores arias from Carmen and Samson and Delilah, melodies by Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie, as well as songs by Jacques Brel and the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Christmas Carols
Emmanuel Trenque & La Monnaie's Women Chorus
18 & 19.12.2026 • Fiocco Room (La Monnaie Workshops)
Kick off the winter by letting yourself be carried away by the La Monnaie Women’s Chorus, which, under the baton of Emmanuel Trenque, presents a full range of Christmas carols featuring traditional tunes, a Broadway medley, sacred works by Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, jazzy standards by Kirby Shaw, and Irving Berlin’s ever-popular White Christmas.
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Behind the Lines
Anna Prohaska
25.1.2027 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
War affects everyone. Together with pianist Eric Schneider, soprano Anna Prohaska gives voice to those who leave and those who stay behind, those who flee and those who die. Intimate lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf are interwoven with the trenchant modernism of composers such as Hanns Eisler and Charles Ives, forging soldier tales into a many-voiced whole.
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Pleasantly Haunted
Emily D’Angelo
4.2.2027 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
Named Opera Singer of the Year 2025 at the prestigious Opus Klassik awards, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo draws on this heritage to create an original recital, dedicated in particular to the works of Henry Purcell, John Dowland, the Countess of Dia and Adrian Ira. As she engages in dialogue with a piano and electric guitar, she is bound to leave you … pleasantly haunted.
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Our People
Freddie Ballentine
10, 12 & 13.2.2027 • 20:00 • Fiocco Room (La Monnaie Workshops)
Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine and pianist Kunal Lahiry share a commitment to amplifying Black and queer experiences through song. In collaboration with voguing artists from the Belgian ballroom community, they invite listeners on an intrepid musical journey through the works of Nina Simone, Franz Schubert, Ricky Ian Gordon, Margaret Bonds and more.
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Loved / Lost
Joshua Hopkins & Niamh O’Sullivan
20.03.2027 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
On 22 September 2015, Renfrew County (Ontario, Canada) was shocked by the murder of three women, all former partners of the perpetrator. Baritone Joshua Hopkins's sister, Nathalie Warmerdam, was one of the victims. In collaboration with composer Jake Heggie and author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale), he turned his grief into Songs for Murdered Sisters, a deeply moving indictment of all forms of gender-based violence.This cycle will be juxtaposed thematically with Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben , performed by mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan. Conceived as a wedding gift for his childhood sweetheart Clara Wieck, Schumann sketches a portrait of female devotion in eight scenes. But how does this nineteenth-century ideal sound in 2026?
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Thousands of Miles
Kate Lindsey
29.4.2027 • 20:00 • La Monnaie
Mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey uses the music of Kurt Weill to cross all boundaries between the Old and New Worlds in a moving recital. In her suitcases? Music brimming with homesickness and longing, not only by Weill, but also by Alma Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
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