What to do this week

Le Printemps des Arts - "Dalbavie - Manoury - Hurel - Debussy - Grisey"

Thursday 3 April 2025, at 7.30 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Gérard Grisey, Philippe Manoury, Philippe Hurel, Marc-André Dalbavie: a quartet of composers that illustrates the wealth of French musical creativity in the wake of Pierre Boulez. Their works are performed here by the Ensemble Court-circuit in a concert bestrode by the great Claude Debussy, a true spiritual father to all.

Thursday 3 April 2025, at 7:30 pm

Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo

Place du Casino

Exhibition - "The Butterfly Effect"

Until Londay 1 December 2025, from 9 am to 6 pm, Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique
The Monaco Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology is delighted to invite you to discover its new temporary exhibition: The Butterfly Effect: The Pre-History of Animals, organised under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. Explore whole rooms themed to the animal kingdom and biodiversity, and take a fascinating journey through archaeology and our natural history!

From Sunday 1 December 2024 to Monday 1 December 2025, from 9 am to 6 pm

Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology

56 bis, boulevard du Jardin Exotique

+377 98 98 80 06

map@gouv.mc

Exhibition - "Francisco Tropa - Paesine"

From Friday 6 December 2024 to Monday 21 April 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma
The exhibition takes its name from "pietre paesine", ruined marble, whose geological markings are reminiscent of painted landscapes, on the boundary between figuration and abstraction. This analogy of nature and technique is a central theme in the work of Francisco Tropa, which focuses on the way in which an image appears and is perceived.

From Friday 6 December 2024 to Monday 21 April 2025, from 10 am to 6 pm

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma

56, boulevard du Jardin Exotique

+377 98 98 48 60

contact@nmnm.mc

Exhibition - "Agora, the Place of the Museum"

From Friday 24 January to Sunday 4 May 2025, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Sauber
Back in 2015, the NMNM debited its first ever LAB giving visitors a glimpse "behind the scenes of the museum". Then in 2018, five guest artists were invited to produce their own musings on the very meaning of the museum itself. In 2025, as the Villa Sauber prepares to undergo a radical transformation, the NMNM is giving pride of place to its public-facing programmes, where the focus is on artists and promoting a wider sharing of art appreciation.

From Friday 24 January to Sunday 4 May 2025

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Sauber

17, avenue Princesse Grace

+377 98 98 91 26

contact@nmnm.mc

Festival - "Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo"

From Sunday 2 March to Sunday 27 April 2025, Principality of Monaco
The Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo 2025 Festival will celebrate the centenary of Pierre Boulez, a leading figure in the world of contemporary music, who pioneering work and worldwide influence will be explored through a series of concerts, screenings, and performances. The Festival will also showcase the artistic connections between Boulez and painter Francis Bacon. Six of Bacon's paintings, created around the time the two men met in Paris, illustrate the themes of human fragility and time and reflect on the ways in which music and painting each inspire the other. The dialogue between two of the 20th century's great cultural geniuses is a unique immersion in their artistic world.

From Sunday 2 March to Sunday 27 April 2025

Principality of Monaco

Exhibition - "CINÉAM, the Monaco independent film-makers club"

From Monday 17 March 2025 to Friday 30 January 2026, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm, Institut Audiovisuel de Monaco
This exhibition looks at the cinematographic work of Cinéam, from its beginnings in the 1950s to the advent of video and the end of the 1980s, giving visitors a unique insight into the amateur filmmakers' club and its artisanal - even family-centric - approach to the cinematic arts, and showcasing its finest productions, which illustrate their own account of the Principality and its history.

From Monday 17 March 2025 to Friday 30 January 2026, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Audiovisual Institute of Monaco

L'Engelin, 83-85, boulevard du Jardin Exotique

Exhibition - "Mediterranean 2050"

From Saturday 29 March, Musée Océanographique de Monaco
The Oceanographic Institute of Monaco is proud to present "Mediterranean 2050", an immersive and interactive exhibition at the Oceanographic Museum. With some 1,000 square metres of exhibits to explore, museum visitors can get a glimpse of the Mediterranean from a new perspective, and commit to protecting our local Sea with a journey through time and space that will take them forward to the year 2050.

From Saturday 29 March to Wednesday 31 December 2025

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Avenue Saint-Martin

musee@oceano.org

Le Printemps des Arts - "Organ"

Friday 4 April 2025, at 8 pm, Eglise du Sacré-Cœur
Organist Éric Lebrun opens the gate to a secret Boulez garden: 17th and 18th century English music. From the first golden age of the 1620s with all its rich diversity, leaping forward a century to the effervescent art of Georg Friedrich Haendel, one of only a very few Baroque composers to have been the subject of a Boulez recording.

Friday 4 April 2025, at 8 pm

Eglise du Sacré-Cœur

14, chemin de la Turbie

Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters

From Saturday 5 to Sunday 13 April 2025, Monte-Carlo Country Club
The 2025 ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo: the Principality will once again host one of the world's oldest and most prestigious clay court tournaments, the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, in the stunning setting of Monte-Carlo Country Club.

From Saturday 5 to Sunday 13 April 2025

Monte-Carlo Country Club

155, avenue Princesse Grace

+377 97 98 70 00

info@smett.mc

Betclic Élite Basketball - "AS Monaco - Nanterre 92"

Saturday 5 April 2025, Salle Gaston Médecin
Betclic Élite French Basketball Championship: AS Monaco Roca Team - Nanterre 92

Saturday 5 April 2025

Salle Gaston Médecin

Stade Louis II

+377 92 05 40 10

Le Printemps des Arts - "Family Concert"

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
This musical tale follows a boy named Noah as he embarks on a quest to find Santa Claus. Featuring music by composers including Rossini and Ligeti, the concert for all the family will keep children entertained even as it inspires them to dream and learn, accompanied by the five wind instruments of the Altra Quintet, narrator Marion Fontana, and beautiful illustrations by Emma Bertin.

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 3 pm

Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo

Place du Casino

OPMC - "Printemps des Arts"

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 7.30 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, 2024/2025 season, under the Presidency of H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover - "Printemps des Arts". Elias GRANDY, Conductor, Valeriy SOKOLOV, Violin. Programme: EÖTVÖS, BARTÓK, SCRIABIN.

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 7:30 pm

Auditorium Rainier III

Boulevard Louis II

+377 92 00 13 70

Theatre - "Le Dîner de Cons"

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 8 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
On Saturday 5 April at 8.30 pm, the Théâtre des Variétés will be the venue for a performance of Francis Veber's cult comedy "Le Dîner de Cons" by La Compagnie du Théâtre des Oiseaux de Nice, directed by Benoît Tessier. The evening will be in aid of the charity Ecoute Cancer Réconfort.

Saturday 5 April 2025, at 8 pm

Theatre Variétés

1, boulevard Albert Ier

+33 6 80 86 04 33

Le Printemps des Arts - "Opera on Film"

Sunday 6 April 2025, at 11 am, Cinéma des Beaux-Arts
This recording made at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2007 features an iconic staging of the Leós Janáček masterpiece by Patrice Chéreau, with music conducted by the one and only Pierre Boulez. The result is a unique example of music and theatre's ability to complement one another to powerful effect, demonstrated by two giants of the operatic art.

Sunday 6 April 2025, at 11 am

Cinéma des Beaux-Arts

12, avenue d'Ostende

Le Printemps des Arts - "Ravel & Messiaen"

Sunday 6 April 2025, at 5 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
The 2025 Printemps des Arts will conclude - but not end - with two works that aspire to timelessness, Maurice Ravel's Trio and the dizzying Quatuor pour la fin du Temps by Olivier Messiaen. For this climax of a Festival dedicated to Pierre Boulez, the youthful talents of the Trio Pantoum and Ann Lepage will remind the audience that the conductor and composer's greatest wish was to pass on the flame to the next generation.

Sunday 6 April 2025, at 5 pm

Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo

Place du Casino

Film - "Max et Jérémie"

Tuesday 8 April 2025, at 7 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
Monaco on Film - A female director's interpretation of the classic crime thriller with hints of Jean-Pierre Melville, and a mostly male line-up of characters.

Tuesday 8 April 2025, at 7 pm

Theatre Variétés

1, boulevard Albert Ier

Theatre - "Passeport"

Tuesday 8 April 2025, at 8 pm, Théâtre Princesse Grace
Issa, a young Eritrean left for dead in the Calais "jungle", has lost his memory. The only tangible trace of his past is his passport. He embarks on a long and pitfall-ridden quest to secure a residence permit, surrounded by others who have found themselves in equally desperate circumstances.

Tuesday 8 April 2025, at 8 pm

Théâtre Princesse Grace

12, avenue d'Ostende

+377 93 25 32 27

spectateurs@tpgmonaco.mc

Gastronomy - "Festival des Etoilés Monte-Carlo 2025"

Thursday 10 April 2025, at 7.15 pm, Le Grill
Dominique Lory hosts chef Pierre Gagnaire of Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire***, Paris. In the five years since its creation, the Festival des Étoilés Monte-Carlo has sealed a reputation as one of Monaco's most prestigious gastronomical events. After last year's edition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Cellars at the Hôtel de Paris, the Festival returns in 2025 for a fifth edition that will feature truly exceptional menus prepared by illustrious duos from the culinary world. The Michelin-starred chefs of the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer Group are once more preparing to host some of the biggest names in French and international gastronomy. The climax of the event will be the traditional gala dinner, prepared by a team of top chefs boasting an incredible seven Micheline stars between them.

Thursday 10 April 2025, at 7:15 pm

Le Grill

Place du Casino

Concert - "Thursday Live Session - Lidiop"

Thursday 10 April 2025, at 8.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Multi-talented Senegalese artist Lidiop's spellbinding sound is a mix of reggae, dancehall, RnB, afrobeat, and pop. The singer-songwriter is known for his euphoric concerts, bringing audiences together in a celebratory atmosphere charged with positive energy. His slogan, "Humility and simplicity are the way of life" perfectly encapsulates his philosophy, both on stage and in life generally.

Thursday 10 April 2025, at 8:30 pm

Grimaldi Forum Monaco

10, avenue Princesse Grace

+377 99 99 20 00