News

3 Dec 2022 Second La Monnaie broadcast at Kiosk Radio, this time with a playlist focused on Belgian music.

29 Nov 2022 Yesterday, the Teatro Real de Madrid hosted the prestigious International Opera Awards. La Monnaie proudly won the Award for 'Best World Premiere' with Kris Defoort's magnum opus.

25 Oct 2022 On this World Opera Day, Opera Europa – a collective of 222 European opera companies, including La Monnaie – and OperaVision are launching a charity campaign in support of Ukrainian opera artists.

24 Oct 2022 Our house and our productions have a chance to win the coveted and renowned Opera Awards in the categories ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Best World Premiere’ (for The Time of Our Singing). The artistic team behind Il trittico is also in the running for an award.

12 Oct 2022 On the blog House of Creations, dedicated to La Monnaie's upcoming world premieres, Director Peter de Caluwe today revealed the cast of Fanny och Alexander. The opera adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's magnum opus is scheduled for December 2024.

11 Oct 2022 In the 2022-23 season, 11 new European opera productions will be released for free online on Arte Opera. This year’s selection includes our Donizetti dyptich Bastarda, on the life of Elizabeth I, which will be staged at La Monnaie in the spring of 2023.

29 Sept 2022 Until the end of this year, La Monnaie is providing a free, guarded bicycle parking with fifty stands, in partnership with Cycloparking.

27 Sept 2022 The European Network of Opera Academies (enoa) invites mid-career artists with no significant experience in the field of opera for a one-year immersive residency, from February 2023 to March 2024.

27 Sept 2022 This season, La Monnaie takes over the airwaves at Kiosk Radio with curated playlists that reflect our opera programme.

19 Sept 2022 After two seasons without a permanent chorus master, La Monnaie has pleasure in announcing the appointment of Emmanuel Trenque as the new artistic director of the La Monnaie Chorus, starting in the 2023-24 season.

9 Sept 2022 On Saturday 3 September, 300 people from various backgrounds responded enthusiastically to La Monnaie's call to form an amateur choir, which will perform alongside the creation of Bernard Foccroulle's first opera, Cassandra, in September 2023.

26 Aug 2022 On 16 August 2022, a new circulation plan was introduced in the Pentagon, the city centre of Brussels. Are you coming to our theatre by car? Make sure to check how to reach La Monnaie (and the car parks Schildknaap / Ecuyer and Munt / Monnaie) in advance.