News
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A free guarded bicycle parking space at La Monnaie
Read moreIn September, La Monnaie is providing a free, guarded bicycle parking with fifty stands, in partnership with Cycloparking.
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La Monnaie participates in the 2021 Heritage Days
Read moreIn the weekend of September 18, La Monnaie will open its doors to the public. You can discover our theatre during guided tours on the occasion of the 33rd edition of the Heritage Days.
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A prestigious season start for our music director Alain Altinoglu
Read moreFinally, Alain Altinoglu can stand before an audience again, and our Music Director grabs this opportunity with both hands. From the Salzburger Festspiele to Vienna, Frankfurt and, of course, Brussels, he has the opportunity to conduct several prestigious orchestras at the beginning of the 2021-22 season.
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La Monnaie presents its MM AMBASSADORS
Read moreTen personalities in support of our opera house.
MMM Online
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OperaBarbara Hannigan
Back to 'Lulu' (part I)
Living the life of a monk, dealing with bruises and a daily trial of strength with an intimidating score: it takes a lot to climb the Everest of soprano roles. In this video portrait, we follow Barbara Hannigan during the first weeks of her preparations for Lulu. "I don't want to think about opening night, much less about closing night."
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OperaKrzysztof Warlikowski at La Monnaie
A video portrait
One of the leading lights in the European theatre, Krzysztof Warlikowski is celebrated for his psychological precision, the non-conformism of his dramaturgical readings and his contemporary visual language. In this video portrait, he walks us through his previous La Monnaie productions.
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RecitalOft fühl’ ich um Mitternacht…
Georg Nigl sings ‘Jakob Lenz’
Romantic vocal lines, atonal sprechgesang or even just spoken word – give Georg Nigl a text and he imprints expression and meaning on each and every syllable. In honour of his literary recital, we delved deep into our archives and found this – equally literary – fragment: his heartfelt interpretation of the poet Jakob Lenz in the eponymous opera by Wolfgang Rihm, which earned him the title of ‘Singer of the Year’ in 2015.
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OperaNotes on words, words on notes
A conversation with Richard Powers
The bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner behind The Time of Our Singing would have loved to attend the world premiere of this opera adaptation. The promotional obligations surrounding his latest novel Bewilderment decided otherwise. A planned encounter with the author thus became an extended Zoom conversation that deserves to be shared here in its entirety - despite the occasional internet glitch and subpar pixel quality.