La Monnaie’s production of Bernard Foccroulle’s Cassandra and its stage director Marie-Eve Signeyrole have been nominated at the International Opera Awards 2024. These prestigious awards recognise the best and most innovative projects programmed on the international stage.
This year’s International Opera Awards ceremony will be held on 2 October at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and will be broadcast live on OperaVision.
La Monnaie is delighted to learn that Bernard Foccroulle’s Cassandra, which opened our 2023-24 season, has been nominated for Best World Premiere. Marie-Eve Signeyrole, who brought this new creation to the stage, has been nominated for Best Director. We also rejoice in the nomination of soprano Elsa Dreisig, whom will welcome at La Monnaie for the recital Dichterliebe later on this season, in the Best Female Singer category. Finally, we would like to congratulate our colleagues of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège on their nomination as Best Opera Company.
La Monnaie has previously won awards for Best New Production for The Tale of Tsar Saltan and From the House of the Dead, Best World Premiere for The Time of Our Singing and the Equal Opportunities & Impact Award for our social programme A bridge between two worlds.
See the full list of nominees here.
As part of the worldwide Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the façade of La Monnaie was lit up in pink on Sunday, 19 October. Through this symbolic gesture, our house aims to highlight what is still insufficiently known about the disease.
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.
