A major event of the season, a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen is on the cards, with the first episode of Wagner’s tetralogy on show from 24 October to 9 November 2023. La Monnaie de Bruxelles is decked out in gold with Das Rheingold, conducted as it should be by its musical director […]
The Saint-Saëns centenary of 2021 continues to bear fruit. Postponed due to the pandemic, La Monnaie in Brussels is offering a new production of a rare gem with Henry VIII. The opera is one of its many little-known masterpieces and will benefit from the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu and the staging of Olivier Py […]
While Covid prevented him from making his debut in the role at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Stéphane Degout will be Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin, at last! at La Monnaie in Brussels from 29 January to 14 February 2023. In Laurent Pelly‘s production, the baritone recently crowned ‘Singer of the Year’ at the International Opera […]
The Colmar International Festival is undergoing a revolution. Directed for more than thirty years by the Russian conductor Vladimir Spivakov, the Alsatian institution has just named its new artistic director. From conductor to artistic director, Alain Altinoglu is wearing a new hat. The artist in place at the Monnaie de Bruxelles and the Hr-Sinfonieorchester will […]
Italian director Damiano Michieletto is a very busy man especially this autumn. On 18 October 2022, Handel’s Alcina will be premiered at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The title role will be performed by the diva Cecilia Bartoli, who has already performed in Salzburg in 2019. On 28 October, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier conducted […]
Not to be missed at Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts. On November 25, great conductor Alain Altinoglu conducts the Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie-De Munt. The Artistic Director of the famous Brussels Opera conduts opera and symphonic concert as well. On Nov. 25, he conducts a symphonic concert with Beethoven’s Symphonies 1 & 3.
Conductor Alain Altinoglu who signed the 2017-2018 M&O book, conducts the prestigious Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin on 21-23 September, great programme includes works by Ravel, Bartók, Debussy and Roussel.
