2025 TÊTE-À-TÊTE WITH THE ARTISTS

FRIDAY 4 JULY — TRIBUTE TO PIERRE AUDI, with long-time collaborators – KLAUS BERTISCH, JESÚS IGLESIAS and TIMOTHÉE PICARD
SATURDAY 5 JULY — PETER SELLARS, stage director of The Nine Jewelled Deer
MONDAY 7 JULY — ELEANOR BURKE, staging assistant, and MADISON NONOA, Zerlina in Don Giovanni
TUESDAY 8 JULY — ELSA DREISIG, title role in Louise
WEDNESDAY 9 JULY — IAN RUCKER, Billy Budd, JOSHUA BLOOM, John Claggart, and CHRISTOPHER SOKOLOWSKI, Edward Fairfax Vere, soloists in The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor
THURSDAY 10 JULY — SOPHIE KOCH, La Mère, and NICOLAS COURJAL, Le Père in Louise
FRIDAY 11 JULY — TED HUFFMAN, stage director of The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor
SATURDAY 12 JULY — Quintet from the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée with FABRIZIO CASSOL, composer and mentor of the collective composition session, and young composer-musicians performing in concert on Monday 21 July
MONDAY 14 JULY — AMINA EDRIS, soloist in concert with the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée on Monday 21 July (and Thursday 17 July at the Chorégies d’Orange) and PENE PATI, Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles
TUESDAY 15 JULY — Artists from The Nine Jewelled Deer
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY — « Assisting the Conductor », with ROMAIN DUMAS, conductor assistant for Louise and Les Pêcheurs de perles, and DAVID ZOBEL, vocal coach for Don Giovanni and Les Pêcheurs de perles
THURSDAY 17 JULY — ANDRÈ SCHUEN, title role in Don Giovanni
FRIDAY 18 JULY — ANGÈLE MIGNOT, head of costumes, wigs, and makeup at the Festival
SATURDAY 19 JULY — PAUL-ANTOINE BÉNOS-DJIAN, Endimione, GIUSEPPINA BRIDELLI, Diana, and ZACHARY WILDER, Linfea in La Calisto

TÊTE-À-TÊTE INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED BY THE DRAMATURGES OF THE FESTIVAL D'AIX: TIMOTHÉE PICARD, ANNE LE BERRE AND FRANÇOIS DELÉCLUSE.