Das schlaue Füchslein
In 2015 Coppens was appointed head of a new Master Program at the , Amsterdam. That same year he designed the costumes for Pascal Dusapin's opera "To Be Sung" at De Munt, Brussels. and also designed 15 new masks for Róisín Murphy's world tour. In March 2017 Coppens returned to the theatre and directed his first opera at De Munt/La Monnaie in Brussels, Janáček's "Foxie! The Cunning Little Vixen".