Whoever said 'Rome wasn't built in a day' must have worked in the opera industry. Constructing the set for Les Huguenots is nothing less than a titanic work. Let our Head of Stage Marcel Maus treat you to a look behind the scenes, where his team not only puts up the set, but also makes it move in perfect unison with the music.

Fashion and costume designer Jan-Jan Van Essche’s work vibrates between poetry and simplicity. In this video portrait, he talks about what inspired him for Vlaemsch (chez moi).

"What is something of value, and what does not have value?" Set and costume designer Hans Op de Beeck about the new creation Vlaemsch (chez moi), an exploration of the Flemish identity by four contemporary Flemish artists.

A constant certainty for every French grand opéra: its impressive ballet scenes! Les Huguenots is - fortunately - no exception. Follow our dancers and choreographer Daniel Izzo as they prepare their contemporary choreography with a poetic-macabre touch.

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.

At opera performances, he comes to greet the audience only at the beginning and the end, but during our concerts, Alain Altinoglu is the man front and centre. What exactly does a chief conductor do? What is he looking for in his musicians? And where does he want to take the orchestra? In this video he explains it himself.

"In my career, this is one of the projects that I have learned the most from." Meet The Woman! Mezzo-soprano Albane Carrère is almost ready to transform into the enigmatic leading lady in Is this the End?#2.

These days he is a two-time winner of Opernwelt’s award for ‘Opera Director of the Year’, but for the longest time, it didn’t look like Romeo Castellucci would tackle the art form at all. Until 2011, when La Monnaie invited him to work on Richard Wagner’s Parsifal. What followed is operatic history. In this video portrait, the director reveals his artistic credo and returns to his previous stagings at La Monnaie.

This April, La Monnaie will present the world premiere of Here's the Woman!, the second part of the opera trilogy Is this the End?. In order to explore this new creation in depth, we invited its three creators to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Discover here what they have in store for you with this new production!

There’s the taste of America, and the taste of Scotland. There’s an almost tourist-board version of the green, pleasant land of Britain, and there’s the harsh war imagery of Britten’s Who are these children?. Stick with tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Dylan Perez, as they give some insights into their new recital programme, and the perils of not being able to wear wigs.

The set and costume designer Rainer Sellmaier gave each of the three operas in Il trittico its own aesthetic universe. In this video, he explains from the stage his specific approach to the neo-noir vibe in the first piece, Il tabarro.

In Il trittico, the poetic black-and-white imagery of video designer Manuel Braun offers the audience a unique glimpse behind the walls of the convent in Suor Angelica. As we follow him during the shoot at the La Cambre Abbey, he explains how he intends to enrich Puccini's opera with his video designs.