La Monnaie launches season with lashings of Kierkegaard

La Monnaie launches season with lashings of Kierkegaard

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norman lebrecht

March 11, 2016

We have a soft spot for the Brussels opera house. It has a fantastic record for talent, innovation and counter-intuitive presentation over the past quarter-century and it’s always pushing out the envelope.

So when intendant Peter de Caluwe launches his season with seven new productions couched in quotations from the gloomiest philosopher since the Biblical Jeremiah, well…. maybe he’s onto something.

Read Peter’s thoughtful speech here.

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