Among the participants of the 2018 Opera Creation Workshop is a young author named Frank Siera who has just written his first opera libretto. Composed by Willem Jeths and directed by Marcel Sijm, the opera is entitled Ritratto. Its premiere will take place at the Dutch National Opera in [...]

Friday 13 July 2018, 6pm, 1h30 before the performance of The Fiery Angel at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, I came into the dressing room of the Polish bass Krzysztof Bączyk who I found dressed from head to toe in white for the role of The Inquisitor, or even representing a [...]

For the seventieth edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the twentieth anniversary of its Académie, French song is to be given pride of place!

Very regular partners of recital evenings, the [...]

After her astonishing public masterclass, I could not resist the temptation of putting a few questions to Roberta Ferrari, pianist, continuo player and Italian vocal coach who, as part of the Mozart residency of the Académie du Festival, also wears the “language advisor” cap. From the [...]

On Monday 11 June the musicians of the Trio Sōra, Pauline Chenais (piano), Magdalēna Geka (violin) et Angèle Legasa (cello) were invited onto the morning programme of France Musique. Interviewed by Saskia de Ville, they spoke about the creation of their trio, their cultural mix and [...]

Prelude to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Aix en juin is proposing, for its sixth edition, a creative and bountiful programme marked by a triple anniversary: the 70 years of the Festival , the 20 years of its Academie and the 10 years of Passerelles, the [...]

For 20 years, the Académie has been developing precious links with businesses and institutions wishing to support artistic training and creation. A rapid inventory of those partners who have been supporting the Académie now for a number of years: the group [...]

Diametrically opposed, the vocal portraits of Zerbinetta and of Ariadne are but a musical illustration of the moral value that Strauss and Hofmannsthal attribute to them. Whereas the coloratura soprano Zerbinetta belongs in a comic register and praises the [...]

Named Best up-and-coming opera singer at the Victoires de la Musique Classique ceremony in 2013 and Best Opera Singer in 2015, the astonishing coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe, former artist of the Académie, has again been named Best Opera Singer 2018. [...]

Engineer, visual artist and stage director, Aliénor Dauchez trained with Giuseppe Penone, Gregor Schneider, Sacha Waltz, Anna Viebrock and Heiner Goebbles. In July 2017, she was part of the Opera Creation Workshop of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by the British staged director [...]