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On the 4 March 2019, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Adelaide Festival (Australia) signed an exclusive triennial coproduction and co-commission partnership starting from 2020. This partnership [...]

“With The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny , Brecht reappropriates and distorts the classic theme of the « ideal city » in order to criticise the moral values of unrestrained [...]

WITH MAHAGONNY, HOLLYWOOD AND THE OPERA HAVE NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE The 9 March 1930, the first performance of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Leipzig caused a controversy. The [...]

The Aix Festival is to publish the first METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE TO THE ECO-DESIGN OF SETS. Pre-empting the recommendations of the ministerial strategy for sustainable development of the Ministry of [...]

With this report, (re)discover the 2018 edition of the Festival d'Aix, the international success of its past programme, the key figures of the year but also the teams that compose the Festival and [...]

For over ten years now, the Festival’s productions have been exported all around the world, to the delight of opera-lovers. In 2018, ten or so productions have travelled the world, putting on [...]

By bringing together 22 opera houses and prestigious European opera festivals from 12 countries, including the Festival d’Aix, ARTE Opera is inviting the public to ( [...]

Festival d’Aix, summer of 1980. Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé triumphs in the title role of Rossini’s Semiramide in a cast that unites the cream of bel canto , including [...]

A huge thank you to all spectators, artists, technicians, partners and journalists! We are delighted to have shared with you this 70th anniversary of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, which [...]

Interview with Nicolas Simeha

There is something magnetic in the eyes of Nicolas Simeha. His Olympian calm contrasts with the obsession and folly of the Stone [...]