The Rockhal marked its 20th anniversary on Saturday evening with the Monumental Tour, following a more locally focused celebration on Wednesday.
For two decades, the venue has brought together industrial heritage with the energy of rock and pop culture.
When the Rockhal first opened in 2005, expectations were high: the building was ready, The Prodigy took the stage, and the Grand Ducal couple attended the launch. Looking back, director Olivier Toth recalls that this moment set the whole venture in motion.
Since then, productions have grown larger, more colourful, and increasingly designed for the digital age. Five years after opening, the Rockhal made major investments in sound and lighting technology. Today, it has become both a cultural hub for Belval and a powerful magnet for audiences.
The anniversary began on Wednesday with a strong local flavour, as leading Luxembourg musicians and bands from the past twenty years shared the stage. What stood out was their hallmark sense of unity, professionalism and live energy. Toth summed up the evening as an ambitious project that brought together highly motivated artists and an enthusiastic crowd, making it a memorable night.
From blast furnaces to a luminous canvas
The celebrations culminated on Saturday with an open-air event. French DJ and producer Michael Canitrot brought his Monumental Tour to Belval, transforming the blast furnaces into a vast illuminated canvas.
Light projections blended with electronic music, revisiting memories from the past two decades. Toth compared it to flipping through a photo album, where every so often people could point and say "I was there".
The logistics were immense, involving mapping, staging, and safety, but the Rockhal team had already gained valuable experience from previous projects such as the 2019 and 2022 Belval Open Airs. In Toth's words, the Rockhal is elegantly building bridges between past and future: collecting memories, creating new ones, and continuing the album. He added that the concert hall still has many ideas waiting to be realised.
