June at La Monnaie

June at La Monnaie

OPERA
Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Last Tickets Whether it be Moscow or Paris, Madrid or Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, Berlin or Munich, in recent years the young Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov has been amazing audiences with his surprising, stimulating and unexpected approach to the opera repertoire. With his astonishing talent he is able to persuade even the greatest sceptics that opera still remains a relevant art form in the present day. He has dreamt of staging Il Trovatore for a long time. La Monnaie is now offering him the chance to give shape to this dark chronicle of tragic love, jealousy and revenge. We cannot escape our oppressive memories and nightmares. After Last season’s Les Huguenots, Marc Minkowksi will once again be conducting our orchestra in this very promising production. 10, 12, 15, 19, 22, 24, 26 & 29 June, 01, 04 & 06 July 2012 - La Monnaie > Read more
		Meet the Artist - Dmitri Tcherniakov   Don’t miss this meeting with the director Dmitri Tcherniakov, who continues to amaze with his original interpretations of works, which he presents in the greatest opera houses. This is an exceptional occasion to hear this Russian artist speak, in a conversation with Peter de Caluwe about his career, his artistic world and his recent productions. In russian, with live translation into French 09 June 2012 at 3 pm - La Monnaie, Grand Foyer > Read more
		A Stage with a View - Anna Enquist   In connection with Il Trovatore, Anna Enquist is coming to Brussels for a conversation about her recent work and themes that play a major part in both her novels and Verdi’s opera: parental love, passion and abandonment. In 1994 the Dutch novelist, psychoanalyst and poet published her successful first novel Het Meesterstuk (The Masterpiece), a passionate novel of artists and families inspired by Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In collaboration with Het beschrijf 24 June 2012 at 11 am - La Monnaie, Grand Foyer > Read more
		A Night at the Opera with Kiss & drive   And what happens when jealousy is inseparably linked to passion, revenge and betrayal? Together with Elisabetta from Kiss & Drive, witness the terrible tragedy in the family of the Count di Luna. All this takes place in three stages: a ‘before’ as an introduction to this Verdi masterpiece and to get to know Tcherniakov’s world, the opera performance itself, and a lively ‘after’ with Kiss & Drive and one of the singers from the production. An evening reserved for under-30s, at only €20! Kiss & Drive on Myspace 26 June 2012 at 6 pm - La Monnaie > Read more
OPERA IS EVERYWHERE!
		IL TROVATORE ON THE SCREEN Under the heading ‘Viva l’Opera’, at 8 pm on 6 July the UGC will be showing a live broadcast of Il Trovatore in the UGC cinemas at De Brouckère and Toison d'Or. This opera production can also be seen live on the Mezzo television channel on 15 June. Il Trovatore can be watched in full for free on our website from 7 to 27 July. Also make a note of this date: at 9 pm on 24 August Il Trovatore will be broadcast on the beach at Knokke-Heist. More info will be available soon on our website!
DANCE
		Continu Sasha Waltz Tickets For its last dance performance of the season, La Monnaie has programmed an ambitious piece of choreography by Sasha Waltz, to music by three great twentieth-century composers: Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis and Claude Vivier. She has adapted them into an impressive study of the relationships between the individual and the group, between the two individuals that make up a couple, between the couple and the group and between the individuals in the group. The contrast between black and white, with a few traces of red, dominates the stage setting. Watch the trailer here! 19, 20 & 21 June 2012 - Théâtre National > Read more
RECITAL
		Gerald Finley Winterreise Tickets A winter trip at the start of summer? Winterreise is a unique cycle of 24 songs that Schubert created from poems by Wilhelm Müller. Its indisputable quality makes this cycle a lasting reference for all the composers who came after him and set poetry to music. Müller’s cycle evokes solitude, a snow-covered landscape, an impossible love, and also death, a dangerous travelling companion. Several months before his death, Schubert composed some truly irresistible melodies that give these poems an apt and uncomfortable perspective. The baritone Gerald Finley and the pianist Julius Drake will perform this moving cycle. 20 June 2012 at 8 pm - La Monnaie > Read more
START OF TICKET SALES
		SEASON 2012-2013 TICKETS ON SALE FROM 2 JUNE The tickets for the first productions of the new season – Pascal Dusapin’s Passion and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Cesena and En Atendant – are on sale from Saturday 2 June, on the internet, by telephone or at the box office.
CONCERTINI
		Concertini Come and listen to the laureats of the Queen Elizabeth Competition (violin) in our sumptuous Grand Foyer. 1, 6, 7 & 8 June 2012 at 12.30 pm - La Monnaie, Grand Foyer > Read more

 

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June at La Monnaie