IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA

From L’Orfeo to L’Incoronazione and via Monteverdi’s madrigals and religious music, the Festival has helped give the Italian composer his rightful place in the history of opera while still affirming his profound modernness.

Discover Pierre Audi’s work as stage director in this documentary produced by the Ammodo foundation. The film shows the general director of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as he prepares for a rendition of Simon Boccanegra at the New National Theatre Tokyo. For the 2024 Festival d’Aix, Pierre Audi is staging Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, which you can see from 17 to 23 July 2024 at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume. > Ammodo Docs is a series of artistic shorts about original minds. In fifteen-minute films, renowned Dutch filmmakers challenge you to see the world through the eyes of pioneers in the arts and science. The first seven films were released in 2023. By producing new films each year, Ammodo Docs works to build a growing, publicly accessible collection of documentaries about diverse contemporary challenges. Ammodo supports innovative and visionary contemporary artistic projects as well as fundamental and groundbreaking scientific research. The organisation offers highly regarded artists, arts organisations and scientists space and time to immerse themselves in their work and contributes to showcasing that work. In doing so, Ammodo stimulates the development of arts and science. Aware that artists open our horizons and revolutionise our world and our society, Ammodo supports the Festival d’Aix’s creative initiatives such as the world premiere Samson and Songs and Fragments show cases.