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Jun 4, 2026

La Monnaie 2025-26 Review: Medusa

(Photo: Simon von Rompay) Anyone fortunate enough to have been present at La Monnaie for the world premiere of Iain Bell and Lydia Steier’s “Medusa” would have left the theater with little doubt that communing with the gods of Ancient Greece is something that should be avoided at all costs. To say that they are an egotistical, self-serving bunch of hedonists that {…}

May 8, 2026

Artist of the Week: Claudia Boyle

(Credit: Simon van Rompay) This week La Monnaie opened the world premiere of Iain Bell’s new opera “Medusa.” The work explores the human dimension of the Medusa myth, headlined by soprano Claudia Boyle, who showcases Medusa as reborn as a complex and deeply moving woman, alone amid the stone statues of those who, in their thirst for glory, tried to {…}

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