19 November 2024

OPER! AWARDS 2025:

Brussels has “Best Opera House”

Award ceremony on 21 February 2025 at the Brussels Opera House

Berlin – The Brussels opera La Monnaie / De Munt will receive the OPER! AWARD 2025 for „Best Opera House“ of 2024, the jury of the OPER! AWARDS announced in Berlin today. The award will be presented on 21 February 2025 during a gala at the Brussels Opera House. The winners of the other 19 categories of the OPER! AWARDS will be named and honoured in person at the same event.

The OPER! AWARDS are Germany’s only publicly awarded international opera prize. It is awarded annually at a gala event to the world’s best artists and creatives of the international opera scene, working on or behind the stage. The awards are presented across 20 categories by a jury of music journalists. The assessment period is the calendar year 2024. Last year’s winner of „Best Opera House“ was the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam.

“The Brussels opera house La Monnaie / De Munt, under its general and artistic director Peter de Caluwe, radiates enormous appeal and inviting openness, encouraging artists to creative top performances and drawing in audiences. Its programming and the sophistication and aesthetics of its productions regularly set standards, while making opera accessible to younger generations as well. Its activities are, at the same time, embedded within in a comprehensive mission to be a modern opera house able to reach out to society, affirming the values of sustainability and a culture of welcome. For almost 20 years and now in his last season, Peter de Caluwe has been leading La Monnaie / De Munt at a consistently high level and with undiminished creativity – setting an exceptional record in the international opera business and worthy of an award,” according to Ulrich Ruhnke, Jury Chairman of the OPER! AWARDS. “We are delighted to be honouring the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie / De Munt with the OPER! AWARD as ‘Best Opera House’ under its own roof in Brussels on 21 February 2025.”

Ulrich Ruhnke
Jury Chairman of the OPER! AWARDS