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This summer, the Académie will host two up-and-coming string quartets who, under the mentorship of the Diotima quartet and composer Unsuk Chin.

Each year, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is the backdrop for national and international meetings aimed at fostering exchanges between professionals from the worlds of music and opera. In 2025, the final concert of the Instrumental Residency - spotlighting the work of living artists - will serve as a kick-off event for the Professional Days that will take place on 8 and 9 July.    

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This summer, a masterpiece by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) will enter the Festival d’Aix repertoire: La Calisto (1651), in a production staged by Jetske Mijnssen, under the musical direction of Sébastien Daucé conducting the ensemble Correspondances. The Festival, which has previously showcased two rare and forgotten operas by Cavalli (Elena in 2013 and Erismena in 2017) followed by a cycle of three works dedicated to Monteverdi’s oeuvre (between 2021 and 2024), continues its celebration of Venetian opera by revisiting the prolific work of Francesco Cavalli.

For its 27th edition, the Académie has selected 16 artists for the 2025 Voice Residency — twelve singers, three pianists/vocal coaches, and one conductor — for this programme focused on improvement and openness.

Adami, a long-standing partner of the Festival d’Aix, supports the women-conductors–in–residence programme, which the Académie du Festival has offered since 2021 to showcase female orchestra conductors on the operatic stage.

Ground-breaking for its naturalistic subject matter, its evocation of Parisian life and its story of female emancipation, Gustave Charpentier’s Louise was a resounding success when it premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1900. In the radio programme Musicopolis, hosted by Anne-Charlotte Rémond, our media partner France Musique highlights one of the most popular French operas in the repertoire, with excerpts of the work’s captivating music.

The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is delighted to announce that George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This (Nimbus Records), a critically acclaimed world premiere at the 2023 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, received the prize for Best Recording at the 32nd Victoires de la musique classique awards.

The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is especially proud to announce that several artists and ensembles who participated in the 2024 Festival were among the winners at the 2025 Oper! Awards ceremony, held on Friday, 21 February at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Mentorship open to a mid-career woman conductor intending to become opera conductor.

It is with great sadness that the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has learned of the death of one of its most loyal patrons and friends, Marie Nugent-Head Marlas, who passed away on Sunday, 29 December 2024. As a member of the Board of the International Friends of the Festival in the United States since its creation, her immeasurable contribution, unwavering support, and wise counsel have made a deep and lasting impression on the Festival d'Aix.