Alain Altinoglu Extends Contract at La Monnaie until 2031

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(Credit: © Simon Van Rompay) Alain Altinoglu has renewed his contract with La Monnaie until 2031. He will remain Music Director throughout Christina Scheppelmann’s tenure. She and the French conductor have known each other for many years and have already had the opportunity to work together. With this renewed appointment as music director, Altinoglu wishes to continue his educational role {…}

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Alain Altinoglu Extends His Contract At La Monnaie

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Alain Altinoglu has extended his contract with La Monnaie De Munt opera house in Brussels until 2025. Alongside his commitment with La Monnaie, Altinoglu will also become the Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony starting from the 2021-22 season. Altinoglu began his tenure at La Monnaie in 2015 and noted, “I look forward to continuing the innovative programming in {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa, Pretty Yende, Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Luca Salsi, Marina Rebeka, Xabier Anduaga & Piotr Beczała Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s 2026-27 Season

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2026-27 season. Premiere Zemlinsky’s “Eine Florentinische Tragödie” and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” will be performed in a new production with Dmitry Golovnin, Christopher Maltman, Florian Boesch, and Asmik Grigorian. Alain Altinoglu conducts the new production by Vasily Barkhatov. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-12, 2026 Barrie Kosky directs a new production of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” with {…}

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Jeanine De Bique, Asmik Grigorian, Kangmin Justin Kim, Gaëlle Arquez, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Susan Bullock, Clémentine Margaine & Kate Lindsey Lead La Monnaie/De Munt’s 2026-27 Season

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La Monnaie/De Munt has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Jeanine de Bique, Kseniia Proshina, Ismael Jordi and Airam Hernandez star in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Florence Losseau, Travon D. Walker, and Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev. Valentina Peleggi conducts the production by Julia Burbach. Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 17,, 2026 Alain Altinoglu conducts Berg’s “Wozzeck” in a production by Christophe Coppens. Scott {…}

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Lise Davidsen, Gerald Finley, Sabine Devieilhe, Camilla Nylund, Golda Schultz & Charles Castronovo Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2026-27 Season

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The Musikverein Wien has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Serafina Starke and Rebeka Stojkoska lead an evening of works from Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Fanny Hensel. Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2026 Julia Kleiter, Julian Prégardien, and Sir András Schiff perform in recital of music by Johannes Brahms. Performance Date: {…}

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Q & A: Alexander Marev on Performing at the Opéra de Liège, the Challenges of Being a Young Artists & Dream Roles

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Bulgarian tenor Alexander Marev is one of the rising stars of the opera world who has won numerous national singing competitions in his native Poland. He has also been a young talent program of the Opera La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels and made his stage debut in March 2022 in a production of “Rigoletto.” Since then he has appeared at {…}

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Cast Change: Adèle Charvet to Join ‘Werther’ at Salzburg Festival

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(Photo: Marco Borggreve) Mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet is set to take on the role of Charlotte in “Werther” at the Salzburg Festival this summer. She takes over for Marianne Crebassa who withdrew from the two concert performances for “personal reasons.” Charvet, who made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2023 as Ascagne in the concert performance of Berlioz’s “Les Troyens,” joins a {…}

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Natalie Dessay, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sofia Nesje Enger, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin Star in Colmar International Festival 2026 Season

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(Photo credits: Vacek, Kondra, Zimmerlin) The Colmar International Festival has announced its 2026 season. This article only features opera-related events. Sopranos Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and Sofia Nesje Enger present a concert with La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra. Alain Altinoglu conducts. Performance Date: July 6, 2026 Mezzo-soprano Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin and pianist Louis Dechambre perform works by Faure, Schumann, Enesco, Mendelssohn, and Tchaïkovski. {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

La Monnaie 2025-26 Review: Benvenuto Cellini

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Though “Benvenuto Cellini” (1838) was Berlioz’s first opera, premiering five years before Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” (1843), thirteen years before Verdi’s “Rigoletto” (1851), and two decades before Gounod’s “Faust” (1859), the work sounds positively avant-garde compared to contemporaneous works and even compared to those written long after it. The most astounding innovation was Berlioz’s use of syncopation, especially in his {…}

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Alain Altinoglu Extends Contract at La Monnaie until 2031

Alain Altinoglu Extends His Contract At La Monnaie

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa, Pretty Yende, Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Luca Salsi, Marina Rebeka, Xabier Anduaga & Piotr Beczała Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s 2026-27 Season

Jeanine De Bique, Asmik Grigorian, Kangmin Justin Kim, Gaëlle Arquez, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Susan Bullock, Clémentine Margaine & Kate Lindsey Lead La Monnaie/De Munt’s 2026-27 Season

Lise Davidsen, Gerald Finley, Sabine Devieilhe, Camilla Nylund, Golda Schultz & Charles Castronovo Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2026-27 Season

Q & A: Alexander Marev on Performing at the Opéra de Liège, the Challenges of Being a Young Artists & Dream Roles

Cast Change: Adèle Charvet to Join ‘Werther’ at Salzburg Festival

Natalie Dessay, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sofia Nesje Enger, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin Star in Colmar International Festival 2026 Season

La Monnaie 2025-26 Review: Benvenuto Cellini