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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 [...]

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 [...]

On Tuesday 19 March the press conference which presented the first intercultural creation session of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2019 took place.

At the [...]

Last July, ARIADNE AUF NAXOS was given at the Théâtre de l'Archevêché to open the 70th edition of the Aix Festival in a staging by Katie Mitchell. It is with this most Mozartian and Molieresque of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For its second edition, the Festival's Workshop Open Days on 7 and 8 February welcomed over 400 participants from the Passerelles partner groups, mainly students, vocational secondary school students [...]

New album release by the HSBC Laureates of the Académie on 22 February: "Die Schöne Magelone", a love story told in 15 Brahms' lieder. The Académie du Festival d’Aix and the Alpha Classics label – [...]