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From 3 to 23 July 2024 so many of you came to experience the 7 opera and music theatre productions, including 2 world premieres; the 14 concerts, including one opera in concert version; the 33 preludes to the productions; the 6 ‘Midis du Festival’; and the 17 ‘Tête-à-tête’ with the artists. The 2024 Festival d’Aix also included 4 days of Professional Meetings and the Aix en juin lead-up, with its 34 events.

We thank all those who made this 2024 edition possible: the artists, technicians, public and private partners, patrons, journalists, and professionals of all kinds. We thank you, the members of the audience, for your loyalty and enthusiasm! From 3 to 23 July 2024 so many of you came to experience the 7 opera and music theatre productions, including 2 world premieres; the 14 concerts, including one opera in concert version; the 33 preludes to the productions; the 6 ‘Midis du Festival’; and the 17 ‘Tête-à-tête’ with the artists. The 2024 Festival d’Aix also included 4 days of Professional Meetings and the Aix en juin lead-up, with its 34 events. We look forward to seeing you from 4 to 21 July 2025 for the next edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence!

Listen to the ‘tête-à-tête’ with the artists from the 2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

From 4 to 20 July, the ‘Midis du Festival’, a series of six panel discussions, have gathered artists and guests around the 2024 programme of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

Relive the best moments of the 2024 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with these photos! > VIEW ALSO ALL 2024 PICTURES 2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence © Monika Rittershaus / Ruth Walz / Jean-Louis Fernandez / Vincent Beaume

2024 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2024 © Vincent Beaume.

2024 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2024 © Vincent Beaume.

The Empowering Opera programme of the enoa network (European Network of Opera Academies) comes to an end on 31 August. Launched in November 2020 and implemented by a consortium of 12 European partners, coordinated by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the aim of the programme was to encourage, support and disseminate innovative opera projects that would tell new stories in tune with contemporary society. It also aimed to break down the artistic and financial barriers and unconscious biases that hinder the emergence of new artistic expressions at all levels of the opera sector: from training and artist recruitment to opera production and programming. The 12 enoa partners met in Aix-en-Provence on 8 and 9 July to look back over the four years of the programme: 9 opera commissions and 6 world premieres, 35 training workshops for artists, 29 creation laboratories, 25 training sessions on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and 600 artists took part in the programme’s activities. It's a real success, and we've more than achieved our objectives! This video offers a look back on the programme highlights and activities. — In 15 years of existence, enoa has provided support to over 2,000 artists, has developed and launched European tours for 22 operatic co-productions, 17 of which were world premieres. enoa is a European network of opera academies which supports and accompanies artists from the operatic sector – creative artists and performers – in developing their professional careers. Today it totals 6 partners and 14 associate partners, including Europe’s most important operatic institutions. The creation of enoa in 2009 and its first few years of activity (2011-2015) enabled its partners to pool and promote artistic training and development workshops. The launch and implementation of its Young Opera Makers (2016-2020) programme was the perfect springboard for partners to test innovative professional integration pathways and creative processes on a Europe-wide scale. With the Empowering Opera programme, the network has once again demonstrated its ability to innovate, thanks to ever greater cooperation between all the partners.

Discover the secrets behind the making of opera sets at the Festival d’Aix: take a fascinating tour of the creative and technical processes, and get a close-up look at the people working in the wings as they prepare the Festival.

2024 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2024 © Vincent Beaume

2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence © Vincent Beaume

IL RITORNO D'ULISSE IN PATRIA by Claudio Monteverdi, new production of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón — Stage director Pierre Audi From 17 to 23 July 2024, Théâtre du Jeu de Paume 2024 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence © Ruth Walz