A bus ticket and… an aria, please! Thanks to a collaboration between La Monnaie and the Brussels public transport company (STIB/MIVB), some Brussels bus stops will be announced in song during the weekend of 21–22 September by singers from the MM Academy.
To kick off the new opera season with flair, the usual digital voice on bus line 71 will sound a little different. This weekend, the stops De Brouckère, Troon, Naamsepoort, Flagey, Bozar, Delta, ULB and Buyl are getting a temporary operatic makeover. Picture this: “Flagey” sung as a cascade of vocalises from Delibes’ “Flower Duet”, “De Brouckère” set to the sultry tones of Bizet’s “Habanera”, or “Naamsepoort” transformed into Puccini’s tender “O mio babbino caro.”
The voices behind these melodic stop announcements? Two rising talents from our MM Academy: soprano Adelaïde Supiot and mezzo-soprano Blandine Coulon.
After a first run on 6–8 September, the musical bus stops will return for La Monnaie's Opening Weekend, 20–21 September. So hop on bus 71, ride towards Place de la Monnaie, and let the journey put you in the perfect opera mood!
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.
