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2020–21 season
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New dates for the renewal and purchase of our season tickets 2020-21
Read moreAll dates for renewing and buying a new season ticket communicated in our recently published brochure are delayed by three weeks.
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La Monnaie suspends all activity until the fifth of April
Read moreFollowing new safety measures to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), La Monnaie closes its theatre, its offices and its box office and is suspending all service until the 5th of April. This implies the cancellation of all productions and events in this period. Our production of Pikovaya Dama is postponed until a later season.
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Prestigious Russian opera award for ‘The Tale of Tsar Saltan’
Read moreOur new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s magical opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan has won the Casta Diva Award for ‘best European opera event’.
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La Monnaie nominated for three International Opera Awards
Read moreNow that film awards season is well behind us, all eyes shift to the world of opera with the recently announced nominations for the International Opera Awards. La Monnaie in the running for a statuette in three categories: Best Opera Company, Best New Production with our Musical Director Alain Altinoglu among the nominees for Best Conductor.
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IntroductionOnce upon Now
Peter de Caluwe presents the 2020-21 season of La Monnaie
A new decade got under way just a little while ago. That sort of ten-year milestone may seem arbitrary, but it is already clear that we face major changes in the near future. If recent years are anything to go by, we can expect a turbulent period in both politics and society, in the context of an ultra-rapidly changing world. That kind of climate forces us to move with the times. We must not, we cannot, sidestep the burning issues in society today.
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OperaPreview 2020-21: ‘Die tote Stadt’
The artistic team on Korngold’s operatic smash hit
“The most interesting are the things that are hidden underneath.” Director Mariusz Treliński reads a psychological neo-noir drama in Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. We let director, stage designer, conductor and leading soprano Marlis Petersen guide us through this story about a man lost in his own past.
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OperaPreview 2020-21: ‘Falstaff’’
Alain Altinoglu and Laurent Pelly on Verdi’s guffawing goodbye
“After having relentlessly massacred so many heroes and heroines, I have at last the right to laugh a little," Verdi commented on his comical swan song. Chief-conductor Alain Altinoglu explains how the gags in Falstaff are not limited to what is seen on stage. Director Laurent Pelly, meanwhile, mixes bitter and sweet into a well-balanced Verdian cocktail. As if he himself were a bartender in the Osteria della Giarrettiera.
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OperaPreview 2020-21: ‘Parsifal’
The return of an iconic Wagner staging
“Each time I finish working on a Wagner opera, my first question is: ‘when can I start again?’” Our Music Director Alain Altinoglu has been entranced by the Meister von Bayreuth for several years. This time, he is getting ready to work on the composer’s final and most enigmatic opera. The musical mystery play Parsifal was the opera debut for Romeo Castellucci. Ten years later he is confronting his own electrifying production.