Culture
Our pick of Brussels’ best activities – online and off – for the coming week
La Monnaie continues to livestream concerts and operas scheduled for this season. Up this week, it’s young Paris versus old Vienna as the house’s symphony orchestra offers both Mozart’s Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra and Symphony Nr 39. Carrying on the Mozart series is
Der Schauspieldirector (
The Impresario), his wonderfully amusing take on the vanity within the opera world itself. La Monnaie’s very reasonably priced tickets give access to the recordings for a week.
Concert 21 February, Opera 19 February
French photographer Antoine Agoudjian spent three months in Nagorno-Karabakh, the centre of last year’s war between Azerbaijan and the Armenian ethnic majority. You’ll see the astounding results of his work during his talk The Armenians: An Abandoned People? sponsored by Boghossian Foundation (in French)
Culture
Our pick of Belgium’s best activities – online and off – for the coming week
The Triforium Art Gallery at the Solvay Library hosts the sublime work of Belgian fashion and fine art photographer Geert De Taeye. His highly stylised photographs look like paintings, sometimes recalling a 17th-century Pieta, other times a 1940s Edward Hopper. This exhibition,
Staring Into the Middle Distance: The Sound of Silence, groups images that were either made specifically in response to the coronavirus crisis or that reflect its effect on certain themes close to De Taeye: The death of arts, the abandonment of the feast.