Every Friday night this summer, La Trois television channel will whisk you off to the opera! The broadcasts include three performances from La Monnaie.
At 22.45 hrs every Friday evening in July and August, La Trois (operated by RTBF) will present the greatest opera classics of all times in productions bearing the made in Belgium label. The television channel has put together a programme of nine productions in all, including three from La Monnaie.
02.08 Farewell to living legend José Van Dam in the poetical Don Quichotte (Massenet) directed by Laurent Pelly.
09.08 Verdi’s spectacular Egyptian tragedy Aida, as conceived by Stathis Livathinos and conducted by Alain Altinoglu.
23.08 The wry laughter and high drama of Verdi’s Rigoletto, masterfully transported to the world of the circus by Robert Carsen.
During a literary encounter with J. M. Coetzee on the stage of La Monnaie, Christina Scheppelmann announced that the 2003 Nobel Prize winner in Literature is writing a libretto for a new La Monnaie opera, to be premiered in the 2027–2028 season: Elizabeth Costello in limbo.
Christina Scheppelmann, who became the first female General and Artistic Director of La Monnaie this season, has been nominated for the ELLE Woman of the Year 2025 award.
On 29 September 2025, the façade of La Monnaie will turn red for World Heart Day. With this symbolic gesture, our opera house joins a global movement raising awareness about cardiovascular diseases.
