La Monnaie-De Munt has announced the extension of its Music Director Alain Altinoglu’s mandate. The French conductor, who has led the Brussels institution since 2016, will continue his mission alongside the new General and Artistic Director Christina Scheppelmann, who recently took office. According to Scheppelmann—who has long known the artist—renewing his contract was a top […]
On February 4, 2025, the beginning of the end will unfold at La Monnaie-De Munt in Brussels. Indeed, Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner, the final episode of the tetralogy, will be on stage till March 2, heralding the twilight of the gods. Ingela Brimberg and Bryan Register perform as Brünnhilde and as Siegfried, while Alain Altinoglu […]
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 […]
While La Monnaie has been forced to cancel the performances of Bizet’s Carmen, the famous Brussels institution will reopen its doors in March 2022 with the new production of Puccini’s Il trittico. Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, the three operas that make up this triptych will be conducted by Alain Altinoglu and directed […]
The famous Brussels Opera just announced it, everything is ready to welcome the public again with just some adjustments. One of the highlights of the season (from October 22, 2020), Korngold’s Die tote Stadt starring Marlis Petersen, Roberto Saccà and Georg Nigl has been shortened to a version of less than two hours to allow […]
Great conductor Alain Altinoglu is twice in the News because he has just been appointed chief conductor of the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt (from season 2021-2022) and his contract as music director of Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels has just extended till 2025. This is great news! Photo : Alain Altinoglu © Marco Borggreve
