'If you do not know your Shakespeare, you cannot be a politician': The curtain goes up at La Monnaie
Culture 17:17 As the director of La Monnaie gears up for the opera house’s first live performances since last autumn, he reflects on a year of burgeoning creativity and frustrating political decisions The curtain will raise at La Monnaie this month for the first time in eight months. The Brussels opera house is staging a new production of Tosca, the passionate and tragic tale of an opera singer doing everything she can to save her lover from the firing squad. “I’m looking forward to welcoming audiences again,” says Peter de Caluwe ( pictured), the general and artistic director of La ...
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