The Opéra royal de Wallonie is an opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. Together with La Monnaie and the Vlaamse Opera, the Opéra royal, as it is colloquially known, is one of the three major opera houses in Belgium. From the beginning, the institution occupied the Théâtre royal in Liège, a building loaned by the city.
The Opéra royal de Wallonie in Liège
The Théâtre royal de Liège in 1827
The Opéra royal de Wallonie in 2013, after renovation
The orchestra and choir
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of this theatre in which it is housed—La Monnaie in French or De Munt in Dutch—referring both to the building as well as the opera company. As Belgium's leading opera house, it is one of the few cultural institutions to receive financial support from the Federal Government of Belgium. Other opera houses in Belgium, such as the Vlaamse Opera and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, are funded by regional governments.
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie seen from the Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein
The first Theatre of La Monnaie (then spelled La Monnoye), c. 1700
Painting of the second Theatre of La Monnaie, c. 1825–1855
Contemporary illustration of the 1855 fire at La Monnaie, published in L'Illustration