This event can not take place due to the restrictions regarding COVID-19. BOZAR is trying to find a new date for the event in mutual agreement with our partners. If you have already purchased a ticket...

BRUCKNER/BRAHMS #3 When Anton Bruckner met his great example Richard Wagner for the first time, it is said that he fell to his knees in admiration. And long after this first encounter he refused to...

SPRING RHAPSODY ​​​​​​​The violinist Renaud Capuçon will remain in Brussels to regale us with another concert. We will have another chance to enjoy Schumann’s Symphony no. 1 and Copland’s Appalachi...

MISSA SOLEMNIS The young Beethoven strongly believed in the ideals of the Enlightenment, a free brotherhood of equals. That is why he composed a symphony dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, who would ...

SISTERS IN CONCERT Like Wolfgang, his sister Maria Anna Mozart was a musical child prodigy. Their father Leopold took them everywhere to showcase their talent. Nannerl, as she was called by the fam...

ROADS TO A NEW BEGINNING In 1919, Edward Elgar underwent a tonsillectomy, which was quite a dangerous operation for such an elderly man. When he regained consciousness, he jotted down the melody th...

COSMOPOLITAN “Do you compose the music or does the music compose you?”, a southern Chinese monk once asked Tan Dun. And Tan only found the answer to this question when he composed his opera Marco P...

INEXTINGUISHABLE The further we travel northwards, the shorter the days become. In the Arctic Circle the sun never rises above the horizon for several weeks, shrouding everything in a mysterious da...

OTHER THAN THE OTHERS The Mighty Handful, a group of five prominent Russian composers, including Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakov, set out to create and preserve pure Russian music. So you can see how a tit...