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The Max Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ceramicist Max van der Linden, founder of the classical music festival in Tourinnes-la-Grosse, aimed to share beauty, building a bridge between the rural world and art. In 2015, in this vein, his nephew Michel van der Linden and pianist Irina Lankova created a classical music festival with a central theme for each edition. The Saint-Martin Church in Tourinnes-la-Grosse, a beautiful 10th-century Romanesque building listed as a Belgian heritage site and renowned for its acoustics, hosts it every year during the third weekend of September. Clarinetist Ronald Van Spaendonck and the orchestra, conducted by his concertmaster, Jean-Frédéric Molard, will join forces to offer a concert for the occasion. Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major K622 (25 min) Franz Schubert, Five German Dances D. 90 (15 min) Astor Piazzolla, Grand Tango for Solo Violin and Strings (arranged by J.F. Molard) (12 min) Béla Bartók, Six Romanian Dances Sz56 (25 min)

A musical journey through time with Mozart as its anchor. Program : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Pianoconcerto no. 21 Obe Vermeulen (°2001) SOV Composers’ Academy / creation Thomas Adès (°1971) Three studies from Couperin Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin conductor : Jakob Lehmann piano : Jonathan Fournel orchestra : Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen

A musical journey through time with Mozart as its anchor. Program : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Pianoconcerto no. 21 Obe Vermeulen (°2001) SOV Composers’ Academy / creation Thomas Adès (°1971) Three studies from Couperin Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin conductor : Jakob Lehmann piano : Jonathan Fournel orchestra : Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen

A musical journey through time with Mozart as its anchor. Program : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Pianoconcerto no. 21 Obe Vermeulen (°2001) SOV Composers’ Academy / creation Thomas Adès (°1971) Three studies from Couperin Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin conductor : Jakob Lehmann piano : Jonathan Fournel orchestra : Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen

A musical journey through time with Mozart as its anchor. Program : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Pianoconcerto no. 21 Obe Vermeulen (°2001) SOV Composers’ Academy / creation Thomas Adès (°1971) Three studies from Couperin Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin conductor : Jakob Lehmann piano : Jonathan Fournel orchestra : Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen

(NL with EN subtitles) After two captivating and sold-out concert series for the first two installments, we will conclude this iconic trilogy in December with a spectacular finale: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in Concert. An ensemble of over 200 professional musicians from the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Brabant Choir, the Souvenir Youth Choir, and the Breda Choir Academy will come together to bring Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning soundtrack to life. Experience the finale of Peter Jackson's epic film adaptation like never before. Be transported across the fields of Gondor, feel the threat of Mordor, and stand alongside Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in their final battle for Middle-earth. Follow Frodo and Sam on the final, decisive leg of their journey: with the Ring, to the flames of Mount Doom. The Return of the King is a cinematic triumph, awarded 11 Academy Awards, and a fitting conclusion to one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. This holiday season, the time has come: experience the epic conclusion to the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy like never before. The Return of the King will be projected on a giant screen, while a symphony orchestra and choir will perform live the masterful music of composer Howard Shore. Don't miss this spectacular finale; the end of the year promises to be magical! “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”

(NL with EN subtitles) After two captivating and sold-out concert series for the first two installments, we will conclude this iconic trilogy in December with a spectacular finale: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in Concert. An ensemble of over 200 professional musicians from the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Brabant Choir, the Souvenir Youth Choir, and the Breda Choir Academy will come together to bring Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning soundtrack to life. Experience the finale of Peter Jackson's epic film adaptation like never before. Be transported across the fields of Gondor, feel the threat of Mordor, and stand alongside Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in their final battle for Middle-earth. Follow Frodo and Sam on the final, decisive leg of their journey: with the Ring, to the flames of Mount Doom. The Return of the King is a cinematic triumph, awarded 11 Academy Awards, and a fitting conclusion to one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. This holiday season, the time has come: experience the epic conclusion to the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy like never before. The Return of the King will be projected on a giant screen, while a symphony orchestra and choir will perform live the masterful music of composer Howard Shore. Don't miss this spectacular finale; the end of the year promises to be magical! “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”

(NL with EN subtitles) After two captivating and sold-out concert series for the first two installments, we will conclude this iconic trilogy in December with a spectacular finale: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in Concert. An ensemble of over 200 professional musicians from the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Brabant Choir, the Souvenir Youth Choir, and the Breda Choir Academy will come together to bring Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning soundtrack to life. Experience the finale of Peter Jackson's epic film adaptation like never before. Be transported across the fields of Gondor, feel the threat of Mordor, and stand alongside Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in their final battle for Middle-earth. Follow Frodo and Sam on the final, decisive leg of their journey: with the Ring, to the flames of Mount Doom. The Return of the King is a cinematic triumph, awarded 11 Academy Awards, and a fitting conclusion to one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. This holiday season, the time has come: experience the epic conclusion to the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy like never before. The Return of the King will be projected on a giant screen, while a symphony orchestra and choir will perform live the masterful music of composer Howard Shore. Don't miss this spectacular finale; the end of the year promises to be magical! “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”

In 1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travelled to Prague with his family. In his luggage he carried the manuscript of a new symphony – grand in scope, harmonically daring and with a flair that was a match for any of his operas. One of these, Le nozze di Figaro, was enjoying such a success in the city at the time that expectations were running high for the planned benefit concert by the new superstar. Mozart fully rose to the occasion with the premiere of this Symphony No. 38, which has been linked to the Golden City ever since. Touring can be tiring, as Felix Mendelssohn realized some fifty years later. In 1829, as he sought to unwind after a concert tour in London, he travelled to Scotland. Impressed by the rugged highlands and the ruins of Holyrood Chapel, he scribbled down the first musical idea of what years later would become his Symphony No. 3. In a letter to his family, he even called it his ‘Scottish’: an ambitious work that, with its imitations of bagpipes and Scottish folk music, sums up his travel impressions in a single movement. With Schubert’s overture to Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus also on the programme, conductor Clelia Cafiero and the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra will take you on a Grand Tour of the royal cities and external borders of classical symphony.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning… Giacomo Puccini’s hit opera is a thriller that has you by the throat from the first note to the last. In this electrifying La Monnaie production, director Rafael R. Villalobos addresses a theme that could hardly be more topical: the instrumentalization of religion as a means to political oppression. With parallels drawn between Cavaradossi and the figure of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Villalobos puts the spotlight on the pressure the Vatican exerted on society in Rome at the time. In the orchestra pit, Jordan de Souza unleashes all the power and intensity of Puccini’s compelling score, whose expressive vocal lines and cinematic orchestrations have made it one of the world’s favourite operas.

The Musica Mundi festival returns this summer to the Château de Genval. It's a chance to (re)discover these young talents with Gershwin, Bruch, Tchaikovsky... and Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice! The concert will be streamed live on the festival's YouTube channel.

The OPRL travels to Reims to participate in the Flâneries Musicales, a festival founded in 1990, renowned for its rich and eclectic programming. Under the direction of Pierre Bleuse, the Orchestra will perform the famous Symphony "of the New World", a score that creates a skilful blend of Czech music and melodies inspired by the musical folklore of the Amerindians. Joined by Florian Noack, the OPRL tackles Richard Strauss's Burlesque, a technically formidable concerto movement, marked by the influence of Liszt and Brahms.

Imaginez un concert où vous devenez les stars ! Dans ce concerto pas comme les autres, signé Nicola Campogrande, vos enfants et vous êtes invités à chanter, à souffler dans des kazoos (petits instruments de musique) et même à manipuler des bonbons depuis votre siège ! Pas besoin d’être un expert en musique : le chef d’orchestre Christophe Mangou vous guide à chaque étape pour participer aux côtés des musiciens de l’OPRL. Ce concert est l’occasion rêvée pour faire vos premiers pas de musiciennes et de musiciens tout en rejoignant une aventure musicale collective, ludique et pleine de fun.