From the owner: Renaissance après les cendres Après l'incendie de 1903, il ne reste rien de l'ancien théâtre…read moreconstruit en 1788. C'est l'architecte Louis-Marie Cordonnier qui est choisi pour le nouvel édifice, qui profitera essentiellement, dans un premier temps, à l'armée allemande qui s'y installe et organise des spectacles pendant la guerre. La première véritable représentation française a lieu en 1923. La façade rappelle celle du Palais Garnier dans sa composition, mais la réalisation du motif est elle locale puisque c'est un artiste de la région lilloise, Hippolyte-Jules Lefebvre, qui s'en charge. En mai 1998, la Ville de Lille est obligée de fermer précipitamment l'Opéra, en pleine saison, suite à une analyse des dispositifs de sécurité qui révèle de gros problèmes et la nécessité d'une mise en conformité de l'édifice face au feu. Les architectes Patrice Neirinck, mandataire, et Pierre-Louis Carlier (juin 2003) prennent en main les améliorations qui iront bien au-delà de simples modifications de

Book your tickets online! Most performances are sold out immediately. But it's worth a try. To…read moreenjoy a classical or modern piece of opera. Or to discover the golden piecework and the marble interior.

Watched the show Penthesilea in it. The acting was in German…read more(cause it's created by Germans), there are subtitles in French and Dutch on the screen. Love it, the music, the performance. A good combination of high tech and tradition performance. Pity that since we were sitting in the middle front of the stage, have to lift head to see the subtitles. Other than that, everything is great. Love the stage settings.

Theatre de la Monnaie (mis spelt title!) is one of Brussels' most central theatres, and puts on…read moreproductions of modern and traditional plays, ballets and operas. I saw a fabulous La Traviata done with modern staging, which worked perfectly. The theatre is large and the seats are famously plush and comfortable at all price levels. The best thing for young people under the age of 26 is the Orfeo card. Designed to encourage a new demographic group to the theatre, the card for a small annual fee gives you big discounts and early booking priority, which is handy as many productions are rapid sell-outs.