Brussels. Luc Bondy adapted four operas for him and subsequently staged their world premieres. When his opera Reigen was premiered in 1993, a reviewer of Le Monde wrote: "Reigen is perhaps the most successful opera of the last seventy years." His opera Au monde won the International Opera Award 2015 in the category World Premiere. He was bilingual in German and French. Boesmans died after a short illness on 10 April 2022 in Brussels, at the age of 85. He was honoured in a tribute concert at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie/De Munt on 19 April 2022. Composition style Boesmans early works were strongly influenced by serialism. After that, clear structures, periodically recurring rhythms, consonances and melodic elements characterise his musical language. The aesthetics of his works has been called "trompe l'oreille" (trick the ear). His instrumentations are characterised by intense timbre constellations. He alluded to works of others not by exact quotations, but so-called "stylistic quotations" or "gestural quotations". Works Source: Operas La Passion de Gilles (1983), libretto by Pierre Mertens Reigen (1993); libretto by Luc Bondy based on Schnitzler's Der Reigen (La Ronde). Wintermärchen (1999), libretto by Bondy based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Julie (2005); libretto by Bondy based on Strindberg's Miss Julie. Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (2009), libretto by Bondy based on . Poppea e Nerone (2012), new orchestration for a modern chamber orchestra of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. First performed at Teatro Real in Madrid, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling and directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. Au monde (2014), libretto by after his own play. Pinocchio (2017), libretto by Pommerat after Collodi's 1883 The Adventures of Pinocchio. On Purge bébé (2022), libretto by after a play by Georges Feydeau, to be premiered posthumously in December 2022. Other compositions Violin Concerto (1980) String Quartet No. 1 (1988) Surfing for viola and orchestra (1990) Love and Dance Tunes for baritone and piano (1993); settings from Shakespeare's sonnets Summer Dreams, String Quartet No. 2 (1994) Discography Trakl Lieder; String Quartet [No. 1]; Surfing. Françoise Pollet (soprano), Orchestre du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling; Arditti String Quartet; Christophe Desjardins (viola), Ensemble Musique Nouvelle, conducted by Georges Elie Octors. Trakl Lieder recorded live, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 14 April 1990; String Quartet recorded at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, 24 March 1990; Surfing recorded at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 4 June 1990. CD recording, 1 audio