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From 11 to 30 June 2019, before the opening of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the streets of Aix will already be resonating with music for Aix en juin : preamble, full of contrasts and prelude [...]

In 1887, year of the first performance of the play by Victorien Sardou entitled La Tosca , the character of the singer had already become a myth. With the great singers of the XIXth [...]

From 7 to 19 July, the new concert programme of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence will bring together the greatest international orchestras and conductors: the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa [...]

Passerelles, is in fact two departments – educational and socio-artistic – which from year to year work together to open wider the doors of the Festival. Passerelles works with schools and [...]

Initiated last July at the Académie du Festival d’Aix, the residency The art of recital continues to resonate at the member institutions of enoa, the European network of opera academies piloted by [...]

“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 [...]

Drawing on the experience gained during their time at the Festival, the HSBC Laureates of the Académie du Festival d'Aix are performing recitals and concerts throughout the year in France and abroad [...]

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 Mediterranean, a new opening for the Festival d’Aix and its Académie? More of an essential and federating adventure, which digs into the very identity of the Festival. And goes across all of its [...]