She will succeed current director Peter de Caluwe from 1 July 2025 for a mandate of six years. Read the full press release by Minister Hadja Lahbib and the La Monnaie Board of Directors.
Are you between 16 and 80 years old and keen on being part of an opera performance like few others? Then join a team of 100 volunteers for a walk-on part in our new production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, directed by Romeo Castellucci. A unique opportunity to experience an unforgettable adventure on stage and behind the scenes of La Monnaie.
Your book at the opera! From May 3, La Monnaie is organising a major book collection at the occasion of the production of the opera Cassandra next September. The book you donate will have a strong symbolic presence in the staging of Marie-Eve Signeyrole and in the universe imagined by the scenographer, Fabien Teigné.
Our production of Mozart's Requiem, directed by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Raphaël Pichon, has been nominated for a visit.brussels Award 2023. With these awards, Brussels rewards cultural and touristic initiatives that have brought the city (inter)national fame in the past year. Will you help Requiem to victory in the "Brussels On Stage" category? Then cast your vote here before 18 April!
La Monnaie is participating in the Brussels Museums Nocturnes! Come to our Theatre on 20 April for a guided tour and learn all about our new production Henry VIII and its main character.
Three singers from our MM Academy have been selected for the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition, which this year will be dedicated on the voice.
From 23 to 26 march, the Passa Porta Festival will be bringing hundreds of leading writers together at various locations in Brussels. La Monnaie will also be hosting quite a few encounters with renowned writers, including winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Annie Ernaux.
February, the month of Valentine's Day. The perfect excuse to compile our monthly Kiosk Radio playlist with music full of love, longing and heartbreak.
Less is more. That goes for Laurent Pelly’s staging of Yevgeny Onegin as much as for our third playlist on Kiosk Radio.
Facing the challenges of mobility and our desire to reduce the carbon footprint of our activities, La Monnaie is launching Adamo, a pilot project for an on-demand transport service. From now on, you can book a first-rate shared taxi for your La Monnaie performances, which, through use of advanced algorithms, will group requests, optimise journeys and thus reduce the ecological impact of travel to our performances.
Next year, the non-profit association 'Mortier Awards' will present the Mortier Next Generation Award, worth € 30,000, for the third time and support a project in keeping with the spirit of Gerard Mortier, former La Monnaie director and great innovator of the art form opera.
In a move towards creating opera in a more sustainable way, La Monnaie together with four French opera houses and festivals is launching a research and development project designed to standardise set components.
