Aix-en-Provence

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Voltaire and Rameau Lose Their Hair at the Comique!

Since this summer, music lovers have known that Voltaire aspired to provide Rameau with an opera libretto about Samson, the well-known biblical figure famous for his complicated history with the temptress Delilah, who cut his hair. Unfortunately, royal censorship refused to allow this sacred story to be staged in an opera (something Saint-Saëns would achieve […]

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Jérémie Rhorer Announces the Festivities Program

On January 10, 2025, celebrations will take place at the Grand Théâtre de Provence with a New Year’s concert, whose program has just been unveiled. Jérémie Rhorer, leading the Cercle de l’Harmonie—an ensemble in residence in Aix-en-Provence for eight years—will perform works by the two composers being honored in 2025. Johann Strauss II, the king […]

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Everyone in love with Marina Viotti?

What better gift than to spend Valentine’s Day in the company of Marina Viotti? In Aix-en-Provence, the Grand Théâtre de Provence has invited the mezzo to perform with the Cercle de l’Harmonie conducted by Jérémie Rhorer on 14 February 2024 in a recital entitled ‘Amor, Furor‘. The special Valentine’s Day programme features arias from Verdi […]

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The Cercle de l’Harmonie stays in Aix-en-Provence

In keeping with its desire to involve an orchestra in its programming, the Grand Théâtre de Provence is welcoming the Cercle de l’Harmonie and its conductor Jérémie Rhorer to take up residence in Aix-en-Provence. A number of projects have been developed, including immersion courses in the orchestra, backstage tours, discoveries of the different professions involved […]

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Sacred Easter Festival in Aix

The line-up for the 11th Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence has been unveiled by Dominique Bluzet, the Festival’s Executive Director, and Renaud Capuçon, its Artistic Director, with, as usual, events featuring major international stars such as conductors Tugan Sokhiev, Daniele Gatti, François-Xavier Roth, Christoph Eschenbach and Jean-Claude Casadesus, pianists Alexandre Kantorow and Elisabeth Leonskaja and, violinists […]

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Karine de Aix and her Norma

As the programme for the next 2022 Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence is unveiled, the music lovers’ party seems to be confirmed on all floors and in all halls with Mozart’s Idomeneo and Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon at the l’Archevêché theater, Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Strauss’s Salome, concert […]

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The 2020 program of the Aix-en-Provence International Lyric Art Festival has been announced!

The 2020 program of the Aix-en-Provence International Lyric Art Festival has just been officially announced. Five staged operas are scheduled: Berg’s Wozzeck conducted by Simon Rattle, a traditional Mozart masterpiece with Così fan tutte directed by the unconventional Dmitri Tcherniakov, the brilliant Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel directed by the great Barrie Kosky, a great baroque masterpiece […]