La Monnaie / De Munt has announced a number of live streams set to take place throughout the month of February. Per a press release, the company’s live streams are made possible with the support of the tax shelter of the Belgian federal government. First up will be a performance by tenors Christophe Prégardien and Julien Prégardien. The duo will {…}
(Credits: Simon Fowler / Frances Marshall / © Matthias Baus) Staatsoper Hamburg has announced that it will live stream its premiere of Massenet’s opera “Manon” on Jan. 24, 2021. Due to the German government COVID-19 regulations, the production will be performed without a live public. The opera will star Ioan Hotea as Chevalier Des Grieux, as Lescaut, Dimitry Ivashchenko as {…}
Credits: LA Opera official website / © Yiorgos Mavropoulos La Monnaie/de Munt has announced that it will stream four operas as its holiday streaming package. Among the streams on offer are Leoš Janáček’s “Jenůfa” starring Sally Matthews, Charles Workman, Nicky Spence, and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet. Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” features Danielle De Niese, Michele Pertusi, Joel Prieto and Lionel Lhote, while Korngold’s {…}
(Credits: Opéra National de Paris official website / © Fazil Berisha / Simon Pauly) La Monnaie has announced an updated 2020-21 season that is expected to begin in February. Here is the look. Opera A semi-staged version of Mozart’s Opera “Der Schauspieldirektor” will feature Mieke de Groote, Achille Ridolfi, Dietrich Henschel, Marie-Aurore D’Awans, Nadine Baboy, Hervé Loka Sombo, Lenneke Ruiten, {…}
La Monnaie / De Munt in Belgium has announced that it will be streaming its production of “Die Tote Stadt” through the end of the year. The opera was presented twice before the continued spread of COVID-19 forced the company to shut down its performances for the immediate future. “The coronavirus pandemic forced us to halt our production of Die {…}
The Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium has ordered the cancelation of all cultural events from Oct. 26 to Nov. 19 due to the spiking COVID-19 cases. As a result, La Monnaie du Munt has canceled all its performances from Oct. 26 until Nov. 22 when performances of Mozart’s “Der Schauspieldirektor” are set to begin. The company announced that it will contact {…}
(Credit: Julien Pohl) Belgian conductor Patrick Davin has died at the age of 58 on September 9, 2020, after suffering a heart attack before one of the rehearsals of the Jean-Luc Fafchamps’ pop-requiem “Is This the End?” at La Monnaie Opera House in Brussels. The former student of Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, Davin was frequently invited to perform works {…}
La Monnaie de Mont has announced that through generous donations it was able to collect 240,000 euros. The Belgium company said in a press statement that the donations were “an essential financial backing to bridge this period of crisis.” The statement continued, “Thanks to these donations, our future creative output will not come under pressure. We would like to express {…}
La Monnaie de Mont has announced alterations to its 2020-21 season. The Belgium company announced that the world premiere of “The Time of Our Singing” has been postponed until next season, while “The Sleeping Thousand” production has been canceled. As a result, the company will present a Corona-proof alternative, “Is this the end?” The new project is a pop requiem in {…}
OperaVision will showcase Mozart’s “Lucio Silla” from La Monnaie / De Munt starting on March 24, 2020. The opera stars Jeremy Ovenden, Lenneke Ruiten, Anna Bonitatibus, Simona Saturová, Ilse Eerens, and Carlo Allemano. Antonello Manacorda conducts the opera in a production by Tobias Krazer. The stream kicks off at 7 p.m. CET. That’s around 2 p.m. Eastern time and 11 {…}
La Monnaie de Mont is set to launch free streaming on March 21, 2020. The company will begin the series with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” from last June. That will be followed by Mark Grey’s “Frankenstein” starring Scott Hendricks. Verdi’s “Aida” and “Macbeth” follow with Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” after with Bryan Register and Ann Petersen. Ponchielli’s “La {…}