Aix Festival | News Music & Opera https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/tag/aix-festival Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:24:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Marianne Crebassa’s Defining Role at the Comique https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/marianne-crebassas Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:00:15 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15143 She made a sensation at the 2023 Aix Festival (once again!), Marianne Crebassa is returning to the defining role in Picture a Day Like This, in Paris from October 25 to 31, 2024. George Benjamin‘s opera is being revived at the Opéra-Comique after the critical success it garnered during its Aix premiere. In this new […]

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]]> She made a sensation at the 2023 Aix Festival (once again!), Marianne Crebassa is returning to the defining role in Picture a Day Like This, in Paris from October 25 to 31, 2024. George Benjamin‘s opera is being revived at the Opéra-Comique after the critical success it garnered during its Aix premiere. In this new work by the composer of the masterpiece Written on Skin, she portrays a woman searching for a miracle following a tragic event—the death of her infant. The power of her performance and the poetic direction by Marie-Christine Soma and Daniel Jeanneteau make it one of the must-see events of the season!

Discover Marianne Crebassa in Picture a day like this

Marianne Crebassa © Simon Fowler

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]]> 75 years old and still attractive! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/75-years-old-and-still-attractive Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:17:08 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=11660 The Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, which will be held from 4 to 24 July 2023, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Since the first performance of Così fan tutte in 1948, the Festival created by Gabriel Dussurget has become one of the great summer events. As a tribute to the first edition, a […]

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]]> The Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, which will be held from 4 to 24 July 2023, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

Since the first performance of Così fan tutte in 1948, the Festival created by Gabriel Dussurget has become one of the great summer events. As a tribute to the first edition, a new Così fan tutte has been announced, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, who sees in this work the drama of mature couples.

Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), the opening production, is an event because for the very first time in its history, the Comédie-Française troupe is performing in Aix. On this occasion, Thomas Ostermeier makes his debut in a staging of an opera. In another event, after the worldwide success of Written on Skin, the composer Georges Benjamin returns with a new world premiere opera entitled “Picture a day like this“.

With a superb Berg’s Wozzeck conducted by Simon Rattle, fifty-six curtain raisers are expected this summer with many highlights such as the three operas in concert version and grandiose casts. Jonas Kaufmann is Otello (opposite Ludovic Tézier‘s Iago and Maria Agresta‘s Desdemona), Lisette Oropesa is Lucie de Lammermoor in French (with Pene Patti and Florian Sempey) and John Osborn is Meyerbeer’s The Prophet opposite Anita Rachvelishvili. Not forgetting the recitals by Asmik Grigorian, Pretty Yende or Christian Gerhaher, and the concerts conducted by Simon Rattle, Thomas Hengelbrock, Susanna Mälkki or Klaus Mäkelä, this 75th edition promises to be a most attractive one!

 

Booking opening on February 1st 2023

 

(c) Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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]]> The Festival d’Aix is 10 years old https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-festival-daix-is-10-years-old Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:36:48 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=11397 Aix-en-Provence, the beautiful city of culture, will be in the spotlights in 2023. In July, the International Festival international d’art lyrique will celebrate its 75th summer, but before that, from 31 March to 16 April 2023, the 10-year anniversary edition of the Easter Festival will take place. Dominique Bluzet and Renaud Capuçon, respectively Executive Director […]

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]]> Aix-en-Provence, the beautiful city of culture, will be in the spotlights in 2023. In July, the International Festival international d’art lyrique will celebrate its 75th summer, but before that, from 31 March to 16 April 2023, the 10-year anniversary edition of the Easter Festival will take place.

Dominique Bluzet and Renaud Capuçon, respectively Executive Director and Artistic Director, have invited the crème de la crème for the occasion (Martha Argerich, Igor Levit, Iván Fischer, René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, François-Xavier Roth, Daniele Gatti, Klaus Mäkelä…) and are planning special events such as concerts with all the musicians revealed by Generation @ Aix since 2013.

 

Find your tickets here

 

(c) Caroline Doutre

 

 

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]]> Sol Gabetta performs at Aix en Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/sol-gabetta-performs-at-aix-provences-grand-theatre-de-provence Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:51:21 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=5716 While waiting for the Easter Festival, The Aix en Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence still presents a beautiful season. On December 1st, talented cellist Sol Gabetta performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Giovanni Antonini.

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]]> While waiting for the Easter Festival, The Aix en Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence still presents a beautiful season. On December 1st, talented cellist Sol Gabetta performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Giovanni Antonini.

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