Iain Bell - Medusa, at La Monnaie in Brussels
La Monnaie, Brussels, Sunday May 17 2026 Conductor: Michiel Delanghe. Libretto and production: Lydia Steier. Sets: Flurin Borg Madsen. Costumes: Katharina Schlipf. Lighting: Elana Siberski. Medusa: Claudia Boyle. Euryale: Paula Murrihy. Stheno: Angela Denoke. Perseus: Josh Lovell. Poseidon: Konstantin Gorny. Athena: Mary Elizabeth Williams. High Priestess: Anu Komsi. Danaë: Marie-Juliette Ghazarian. Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie. Photos: © Simon Van Rompay I’m going to waffle a bit at the start of this post. If you just want to know about the production or the singing and playing, skip or scroll down…’ I remember once, when I was a kid in England, there was some Beethoven on the radio; piano music, probably a concerto, and at one point, perhaps during a cadenza, Beethoven stripped the score right down to single notes played with one finger. ‘That’s not very hard,’ said my mother, drying a dish. Clearly, Beethoven needed to pull his socks up. A friend of mine, an amateu...
