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‘Don Pasquale’
‘Don Pasquale’ is the ideal opera for the holiday season. Let our dramaturge Marie Mergeay convince you to come see the show.
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OperaLaurent Pelly at La Monnaie
A video portrait
French director Laurent Pelly is celebrated internationally for his dream-like perspective on the bittersweet opera repertoire. With his unique theatrical vision, he has enchanted La Monnaie audiences on multiple occasions : with Don Quichotte (2010), Cendrillon (2011), The Golden Cockerel (2016) and with Don Pasquale (2018). Before tackling Verdi’s swan song Falstaff in December 2020, the director returns to his previous La Monnaie stagings in this video portrait.
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OperaThe economy of means employed to tell a story that gets straight to the point
Director Laurent Pelly on ‘Don Pasquale’
The director Laurent Pelly returns to La Monnaie this December with Don Pasquale. We were able to interview him at the end of the summer, a few days before he left for Philadelphia where he presented a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor in September. A conversation devoted to Donizetti.
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OperaOlivier Py at La Monnaie
A video portrait
“If a piece is long, arduous, violent, sombre and hasn’t been performed for at least one-and-a-half years, they call up Olivier Py.” The French stage director surely sees the humour in it all. Truth is, his intense, timeless productions have been a major contribution to the reappraisal of the French ‘grand opéra’. In this video portrait, Py reveals his artistic credo and looks back on his previous stagings at La Monnaie.
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OperaThe La Monnaie Women's Chorus
Prepares for 'Parsifal'
From the scene with the seductive flower girls in the garden of the sorcerer Klingsor to the heavenly voices in the mighty finale: Parsifal offers the ladies of our Chorus music that is as beautiful as it is difficult to sing. We followed soprano Annelies Kerstens and guest chorus master Johannes Knecht during the preparations.
