300 beginner auditions at La Monnaie and hope to be a part of the refrain of a future opera

The Théâtre de la Monnaie welcomed an amazing solid: much more than 300 amateurs confirmed up to consider to sign up for the chorus of the future opera Cassandra.

Comfortable new music resounded in the middle of Brussels this Saturday afternoon. It arrived from Mint Theateroa just one hundred enthusiasts of choir and opera singing participated in a workshop, led by Laurence Renson, well known choir director.

Members hope to take part in a new opera undertaking, the 1st by composer Bernard Foccroulle, entitled “Cassandra”. This piece highlights the whistleblowers on the local weather problem : “We definitely wanted to open up the doorways of the forex and get to all citizens who want to do a thing, primarily on the local weather issue, but who often experience helpless.“Explains Marie-Caroline Lefin, coordinator of general public functions for the coin. The undertaking aims to “mobilize the people all-around and join all this with art and music“, keep on.

For the project choir director, Laurence Renson, it is really a serious problem. Elle he will come out of his smaller sized courses of the Woluwe-Saint-Lambert academyto discover you in this terrific hall of the Mint: “I have to say it is very extraordinary when you are in front of all these persons. This is my 1st time, in front of so several folks, but what is stunning ample is that the group responds properly. We ponder if it will consider, and it does“Says Laurence Renson.

In close proximity to 300 people gathered to variety this beginner choir, and possibly be component of the opera, but only 80 individuals will be picked. In the meantime, workshops and other auditions will be organized so that the choir is last but not least shaped at the close of the thirty day period.

■ Reporting of Camille-Flora Damanet, Camille Dequeker et Timothy Semples

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