75th anniversary

While the Théâtre de l’Archevêché and its open-air theatre have lost none of their charm over the past 75 years, in 1954 the Festival began expanding...

A festival has an entire life outside the public eye, before the theatre opens its doors and the last call rings out to announce the rise of the...

‘The true reason behind the significance and success of Aix was the fusion of opera and painting.’ — Gabriel Dussurget, First General Director of the...

For the 75th anniversary of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Musée des Tapisseries (“Museum of Tapestries”), in collaboration with the Festival d...

Over the course of its many editions, the Festival d’Aix has invited the greatest voices of each era onto its stages… and launched the careers of...

The spirit of the Ballets Russes — the epitome of interdisciplinarity and modernism — served as a guide for Gabriel Dussurget, the first director of...

The Festival d’Aix is renowned for its operatic productions, and especially for the many operas that have premiered there. But since its foundation...

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) will be in the spotlight in 2022, with two of his most famous operas: L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (1642), the culmination...

Rossini’s Moses and Pharaoh (1827) is being performed for the first time this summer at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. This rare work, and grand...

This year, the Festival is offering a new production of Mozart’s Idomeneo, Re di Creta (1781). It is being staged by Satoshi Miyagi — an...