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Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

Queen Elisabeth competition 2026 - cello Semi-finals At each session, which consists of two parts, the public hears four different semi-finalists. Each of the 24 semi-finalists will perform a recital with piano accompaniment and on another day a concerto by Michael Haydn, Leopold Hofmann or Anton Kraft, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.

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.

In his first four symphonies, Gustav Mahler explores the human condition marked by powerlessness and injustice, expressing this through music tinged with sarcasm, mirroring the cultural tensions of fin-de-siècle Vienna. His Fifth Symphony, entirely instrumental, represents a stylistic and conceptual break: more virtuosic, polyphonic, introspective, and free from any explicit programme. Composed during a decisive summer in which he met Alma Schindler — believed to be the inspiration for the Adagietto — this five-movement work evolves from a funeral march to a triumphant finale. Following a Beethovenian model, Mahler crafts an inner narrative where man transcends earthly suffering to find spiritual redemption — a true musical ascent toward the light.

Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, a song cycle set to poems by Théophile Gautier, is renowned as the first fully orchestrated French mélodie cycle. A master of orchestration and author of the Treatise on Instrumentation, Berlioz was one of the most influential figures in French orchestral writing. In this cycle, he employs a refined and restrained instrumentation, using each instrument sparingly to achieve maximum expressive effect. Mahler, in his own way, also revolutionized the orchestra. In his Fifth Symphony, there is no restraint or understatement—the orchestra expands on a grand scale, delivering one of the most poignant and tragic works in the repertoire.

Ce midi, juste pour vous, un ensemble original d’une vingtaine de flûtes traversières se produira au Congrès pour une expérience hors du commun. De la flûte contrebasse au piccolo, en passant par la flûte traversière en ut, la flûte alto, la flûte basse… la flûte sous toutes ses formes ! Découvrez l’ensemble dans un répertoire français et allemand plutôt romantique et dansant, avec Cassandre Soupart-Louryan, professeure de la région de Charleroi, en soliste. Un concert aux sonorités exceptionnelles ! Programme Georges Bizet, Ouverture de l’opéra Carmen Felix Mendelssohn Ouverture « Les Hébrides » Benjamin Godard, Valse Op.116 Johannes Brahms, Danses hongroises n°11 et n°16 Camille Saint-Saëns Bacchanale, ballet extrait de l’opéra Samson et Dalila