What to do this week
Week of20 March 2023

Betclic Elite Basketball - "AS Monaco - Le Portel"
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 PM, Salle Gaston Médecin
Betclic Élite: AS Monaco Roca Team - Le Portel
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle Gaston Médecin
Stade Louis II
+377 92 05 40 10
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Theatre - "Une Situation Délicate"
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Nicolas is deeply in love with Julie and wants to marry her. Touched by his earnest love for her, she decides to break things off with her lover, Philippe, twenty years her senior and married to Marianne. She must meet him one last time at his home, and tells Nicolas she is going to her parents'. He secretly follows her. A series of misunderstandings and mistakes ensues! Based on the play "Relatively Speaking' by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Ladislas Chollat, adapted in French by Gérald Sibleyras, and starring Gérard Darmon, Clotilde Courau, Max Boublil and Élodie Navarre.
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm
Grimaldi Forum Monaco
10, avenue Princesse Grace
+377 93 25 32 27
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The Art of the Cinema - "Anatomy of a Relationship"
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
Movie Tuesdays - Anatomy of a Relationship by Luc Moullet (1976). Funny yet tragic, banal yet extraordinary, this docu-fiction is a refreshingly liberated look at sexuality. Organised by the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco.
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm
Theatre Variétés
1, boulevard Albert Ier
+377 97 98 43 26
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Opéra de Monte-Carlo - "La traviata"
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm, Opéra de Monte-Carlo - Salle Garnier
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2023 Season - La traviata by Verdi. Opera, musical direction by Massimo Zanetti, stage direction by Jean-Louis Grinda.
Tuesday 21 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle Garnier de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino
+377 92 00 13 70
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Exhibition - "Polar Mission"
From Saturday 4 June 2022 to Sunday 31 December 2023, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Discover an immersive and interactive experience! Take on the role of a roving reporter and set off on a mission to explore the polar regions! This new exhibition includes five thematic areas spread over two levels. Learn about the poles and their wildlife, and the men and women who populate and explore them. Fascinating objects and documents, digital content and immersive devices come together to create a 360° experience. The great voyage can begin!
From Saturday 4 June 2022 to Sunday 31 December 2023
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Avenue Saint-Martin
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Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival
From Wednesday 8 March to Sunday 2 April 2023, Principauté de Monaco
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, presided by H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover
From Wednesday 8 March to Sunday 2 April 2023
Principauté de Monaco
+377 98 06 28 28
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Call for participation - Open mic event at Fort Antoine
From Friday 17 March to Monday 15 May 2023, Principality of Monaco
As part of efforts to promote the Principality's young talent and strengthen ties between culture and youth, an open mic event will be organised for and by young people on Tuesday 18 2023 at Fort Antoine. The event is aimed mainly at younger people, allowing those aged 18 to 30 to reveal their musical, acting, or dancing talents on the magical stage of Fort Antoine. If you would like to take part, simply complete the online form before 15 May to sign up. The event is also being organised mainly by young people, specifically a committee of five 18 to 30 year-olds, who are working with teams from the Department of Cultural Affairs. From the technical side to communication, via logistics and artistic policy, they will be overseeing every aspect of the staging of what will hopefully be a hugely successful cultural event.
From Friday 17 March to Monday 15 May 2023
Principauté de Monaco
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Event - "Monaco Ocean Week"
From Monday 20 to Sunday 26 March 2023, Principauté de Monaco
5th Monaco Ocean Week - press conferences, workshops, symposiums, colloquiums, awards ceremonies, exhibitions, screenings of documentary films and awareness-raising workshops, to promote the preservation of the oceans.
From Monday 20 to Sunday 26 March 2023
Principauté de Monaco
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Theatre - "Dedans moi"
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm, Théâtre des Muses
A rollercoaster journey of emotions, in which we tremble in fear, cry out in anger, dance with love and sing for joy! A blend of living performance, painting, animated film, and original music, "Dedans Moi" ("Inside Me") is a fascinating depiction of our every emotion, from the smallest to the most powerful. These thirty minutes of colourful poetry make for the perfect introduction to the theatre.
Wednesday 22 March 2023
Théâtre des Muses
45, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
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Concert - "Carte Blanche for Conservatoires"
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 3 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: Concert of Conservatoires. The stage is open to young musicians from the Rainier III Academy of Monaco and music schools across the region.
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 3 pm
Auditorium Rainier III
Boulevard Louis II
+377 92 00 13 70
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Screening - "Music and Cinema"
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 4.30 pm, Institut Audiovisuel de Monaco
A mix of concert and film screening created for a young audience (ages 3 and over), but adults are welcome too! Whether the images are drawn, painted, or made on computer, the films match the rhythm of the music for a wonderful initiation into the world of music. The first part will feature the brass band accompanying the fables of Jean de la Fontaine, in partnership with the Rainier III Academy. Organised by the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco.
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 4:30 pm
Audiovisual Institute of Monaco
L'Engelin
+377 97 98 43 26
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Concert - "Educational pieces for non-musical children, quartet and electronics"
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 7 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: Fabrice Jünger’s creation for educational purposes, Remember, combines a quartet of professional musicians with primary and secondary school classes. Poetry and music, instrumental writing and electronic diffusion respond to each other, to make us better listen to the world around us.
Wednesday 22 March 2023, at 7 pm
Auditorium Rainier III
Boulevard Louis II
+377 92 00 13 70
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Theatre - "La contrebasse"
From Thursday 23 to Saturday 25, at 8.30 pm, and Sunday 26 March 2023, at 4.30 pm Théâtre des Muses
Shortly before his novel "Le Parfum" became a worldwide hit, Patrick Süskind wrote this play with universal appeal. In it, a nameless musician, who plays double bass in an orchestra, awaits the next performance, alone with his instrument, his dreams, his bad faith, his artistic and romantic frustrations, amplified by his music. A darkly humorous masterpiece, "La Contrebasse" ("The Double Bass") is a striking portrait of a human in all his greatness and mediocrity, battling the social machinery represented by the hierarchy of the orchestra, bound to his instrument in a love-hate relationship.
From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 March 2023
Théâtre des Muses
45, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
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Opéra de Monte-Carlo - "La traviata"
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm, Opéra de Monte-Carlo - Salle Garnier
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2023 Season - La traviata by Verdi. Opera, musical direction by Massimo Zanetti, stage direction by Jean-Louis Grinda.
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle Garnier de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino
+377 92 00 13 70
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Concert - "Reading of poems by Anna Akhmatova"
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm, Hauser & Wirth Gallery
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: In a double recital punctuated by readings of Anna Akhmatova’s poems by Jean-Yves Clément, Peter Laul presents the complete Ten Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin, a vast journey leading to the exalted climax of the Tenth Sonata.
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm
Hauser & Wirth Gallery
One Monte-Carlo
+377 92 00 13 70
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Play - "Mercier's Dream by Alain Pastor"
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
Paris, July 1794, during the Terror. Françoise-Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville, a young French aristocrat who has become a princess of Monaco by marriage, has been in prison for months awaiting trial before the Revolutionary Court - which could see her condemned to the guillotine. Could the sudden arrival in her cell of writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier, who had dreamed of "the most peaceful and happy" revolution, be a sign that she is to escape that cruel fate? Especially as, in the shadows, dark moves are afoot against Robespierre, suspected of harbouring dictatorial ambitions. An unlikely meeting in a tragic setting. Presented by the Diocese of Monaco.
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8 pm
Theatre Variétés
1, boulevard Albert Ier
+377 99 99 15 15
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Concert - "Yarol Poupaud"
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Thursday Live Session with Yarol Poupaud
Thursday 23 March 2023, at 8:30 pm
Grimaldi Forum Monaco
10, avenue Princesse Grace
+377 99 99 30 00
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Turkish Airlines EuroLeague - "AS Monaco - Valencia Basket"
Friday 24 March 2023, at 7 pm, Salle Omnisports Gaston Médecin - Stade Louis II
Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Basketball: AS Monaco Roca Team - Valencia Basket
Friday 24 March 2023, at 7 pm
Salle Gaston Médecin
Stade Louis II
+377 92 05 43 06
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Musical Theatre - "A Corps Perdus"
Friday 24 March 2023, at 7 pm, Théâtre Princesse Grace
From 20 March 2023, several 2nd year students from the École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques - Pavillon Bosio (ESAP) will take up residence at the Théâtre Princesse Grace for a week to work on a new musical theatre project. At the end of the week, the ESAP students, in collaboration with musicians from the Conservatoire de Nice, will put on a musical and theatrical performance entitled "A corps perdus". Coordinated by Damien Sorrentino and Dominique Drillot, the performance will depict three explorers travelling through different worlds and attempting to talk to the creatures that inhabit them. Their quest? To find a form of transcendence and achieve eternal life… Free admission.
Friday 24 March 2023, at 7 pm
Théâtre Princesse Grace
12, avenue d'Ostende
+377 93 15 28 73
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Concert - "Nicolas Hodges, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen"
Friday 24 March 2023, at 8 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: This year’s special guests, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Eva Ollikainen, combine Samuel Barber’s First Symphony with its model, Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7. Piano soloist Nicolas Hodges performs a suite by Betsy Jolas with a retrospective feel.
Friday 24 March 2023, at 8 pm
Auditorium Rainier III
Boulevard Louis II
+377 92 00 13 70
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Theatre - "Dedans moi"
From Saturday 25, at 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm, to Sunday 26 March 2023, at 11 am and 3.15 pm, Théâtre des Muses
A rollercoaster journey of emotions, in which we tremble in fear, cry out in anger, dance with love and sing for joy! A blend of living performance, painting, animated film, and original music, "Dedans Moi" ("Inside Me") is a fascinating depiction of our every emotion, from the smallest to the most powerful. These thirty minutes of colourful poetry make for the perfect introduction to the theatre.
From Saturday 25 to Sunday 26 March 2023
Théâtre des Muses
45, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
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Lecture - "Cerebral Man"
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 2 PM, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
This lecture takes place every two years on the theme of the human brain. The organ is the literal nerve-centre of all our behaviour, our actions, our emotions, but also sadly many diseases. The theme of the 2023 edition will focus on innovations in the field of neuro-technology, under the title "Fiction or Reality", looking at how the advances will impact the lives of people with diseases in the very near future. The programme of the congress is determined by the scientific panel of the FESN, chaired by Prof Pierre Magistretti, and organised with the support of Magnoglia, a Monegasque company that looks to develop innovative pharmaceutical products in the field.
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 2 pm
Grimaldi Forum Monaco
10, avenue Princesse Grace
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Concert - "Jory Vinikour"
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 3 pm, One Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: The famous American harpsichordist Jory Vinikour pays tribute to a founding father of the art of the keyboard, Johann Jakob Froberger, and to one of his distant “disciples”, Christophe Maudot, in a set of ancient and modern pieces that combine stylistic richness and exacerbated expressiveness.
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 3 pm
One Monte-Carlo
Allées des boulingrins
+377 92 00 13 70
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Concert - "Recital of poems by Anna Akhmatova"
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 8 pm, Opéra de Monte-Carlo - Salle Garnier
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: interspersed with readings of Anna Akhmatova's poetry by Jean-Yves Clément, Peter Laul will perform all ten of Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas, an epic cycle climaxing with the visionary Tenth Sonata.
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle Garnier de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino
+377 92 00 13 70
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Event - "Rose Ball"
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 8 pm, Salle des Etoiles
The Rose Ball is held in aid of the Princess Grace Foundation. The creative mind behind the staging of this year's star-studded event is the celebrated designer best known for his iconic red shoes, Christian Louboutin, who will be decorating the prestigious Salle des Etoiles with a Bollywood theme.
Saturday 25 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle des Etoiles
26, avenue Princesse Grace
+377 98 06 63 41
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Concert - "Tribute to Chet Baker"
Sunday 26 March 2023, at 3 pm, Opéra de Monte-Carlo - Salle Garnier
Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival: Chet Baker’s regular bassist for many years, Riccardo del Fra celebrates the legendary American trumpeter in an original tribute programme performed by his quintet and the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie (My Chet My Song). With Mystery Galaxy in the second part, he then opens a door to his own abundant inspirations.
Sunday 26 March 2023, at 3 pm
Salle Garnier de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino
+377 92 00 13 70
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Betclic Elite Basketball - "AS Monaco - Strasbourg"
Tuesday 28 March 2023, at 8 pm, Salle Omnisports Gaston Médecin - Stade Louis II
Betclic Élite: AS Monaco Roca Team - Strasbourg
Tuesday 28 March 2023, at 8 pm
Salle Gaston Médecin
Stade Louis II
+377 92 05 40 10
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The Art of the Cinema - "The Dam"
Tuesday 28 March 2023, at 8 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
Artistic film - The Dam by Ali Cherri (2022). Travel to Sudan, and the banks of the Nile, through its millennia-old landscapes, that man seeks to upheave with the power of the imagination. Organised by the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco in partnership with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.
Tuesday 28 March 2023, at 8 pm
Theatre Variétés
1, boulevard Albert Ier
+377 97 98 43 26
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