Long-awaited opera, Parsifal by Romeo Castellucci at the Royal Theatre La Monnaie in Brussels

Parsifal's Entrance
Act One

Italian Director Romeo Castellucci enters the arena of opera in 2011 presenting his first opera production - Wagner's Parsifal at La Monnaie in Brussels.

A new production of Parsifal will premiere at the Royal Theatre La Monnaie in Brussels 27 January 2011. Hartmut Haenchen, who conducted the infamous Paris production by Krysztof Warlikowski (the one using a clip from Rosselini's film ”Germany Year Zero”), will conduct a cast led by Swedish superstar Anna Larsson making her role debut as Kundry. According to some commentators, Haenchen's Parsifal reading in Paris was the fastest ever.



Stage director is Romeo Castellucci.

Principal singers


Amfortas Thomas Johannes Mayer
Titurel Victor von Halem
Gurnemanz Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Parsifal Andrew Richards
Klingsor Tómas Tómasson
Kundry Anna Larsson
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After studying plastic arts at the school of Fine Arts in Bologna, Romeo Castellucci founded the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in 1980 with his sister Claudia and his wife, theplaywright Chiara Guidi. He then developed an original stage art, bringing together a range of art forms – theatre, music, painting, opera, mechanics, the creation of images –in order to reach his audience. His shows rest as much on arts and crafts as on the latest and most sophisticated technologies.

During the 1990s, Romeo Castellucci took on classical texts as well as epics, notably “Gilgamesh” (1990), “Hamlet” (1992), “L’Orestie” (1997), “Le Voyage au bout de la nuit” (1998) and the Shakespeare-inspired “Giulio Cesare” (2001). He then embarked on a vast four-year-long project entitled “Tragedia Endogonidia”: a system of representations on the lyricism of suffering which, like a living organism, transforms itself in time and space depending on the path it takes from one creation to the next across European cities, from Berlin, Brussels, Bergen, Paris and Rome to Strasbourg, London, Marseille and Avignon.


Next he turned to on an ambitious trilogy developed around Dante’s “La Divina Commedia.” Characterized by an at times radical, yet always disciplined, aesthetics, his performances hardly compare to anything else, and they leave long-lasting impressions on the audience.