A real feast for the eyes and ears in 2023, La Monnaie’s production of Tchaikovsky’s most intimate and celebrated opera, directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by Alain Altinoglu, is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming via Naxos.
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“Laurent Pelly’s stark new staging of Yevgeny Onegin, which opened at La Monnaie in February, is one of colossal elegance and power.” (Opera Now)
In 2023, La Monnaie made the headlines with a new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin. In these celebrated ‘lyrical scenes’, the music is wholly used to articulate the feelings of the characters while the orchestra seeks to unify the musical idiom by means of compulsive themes of great subtlety. We encounter frustrated human beings, the playthings of fate, and are confronted with their fantasies and inner torments. The production, directed by Laurent Pelly, conducted by Alain Altinoglu and with Stéphane Degout and Sally Matthews in the lead roles, is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and streaming via the Naxos label.
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.
