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Michael Spyres, Benjamin Bernheim, Nina Stemme, Sonya Yoncheva, Ailyn Pérez & Ying Fang’s Festival Aix-En-Provence’s 2026 season

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The Festival Aix-En-Provence has announced its 2026 season. Opera Leonardo García-Alarcón conducts Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Clément Cogitore directing. The production will star Ying Fang, Mauro Peter, Sabine Devieilhe, Sean Michael Plumb, Brindley Sherratt, and Edwin Crossley-Mercer. Performance Dates: July 2-21, 2026 Klaus Mäkelä conducts Strauss’ “Die Frau one Schatten” in Barrie Kosky’s production. The cast will include Michael Spyres, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Nina {…}
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A Legacy in Harmony: The 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize Honors Aix-en-Provence & Pierre Audi

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The sudden death of Pierre Audi in May this year lent a moving note to the presentation of the Birgit Nilsson Prize in Stockholm on October 21. The prize, which has been awarded every three years since 2009, now went to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where Audi had been artistic director since 2018 – a deeply fitting tribute to a man {…}
Business, News

Festival Aix-en-Provence Announces New General Director

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(Ctedit: © Lea Meienberg, 2023) Ted Huffman has been appointed General Director of the Festival Aix-en-Provence, effective Jan. 1, 2026. The news was announced after it was approved by Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, Sophie Joissains, Mayor of the City of Aix-en-Provence, Martine Vassal, President of the Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence and the Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône and Renaud Muselier, President of {…}
Business, News

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Releases 2025 Report

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A final report has been released covering the 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. This article only features opera-specific information. Attendance Over 64,000 spectators Over 37,000 seats filled in operas and at concerts in July Over 27,000 attendees at free Festival event  2,970 seats sold to people under 30 Six percent increase from 2024 Performances Five operas staged, including two {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: La Calisto

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) By the middle of the second act, a third of the audience had already gone home. They were not necessarily bored—some complained that the seats were too harsh on their spines; others that, because the opera started so late, they were unwilling to return home well after midnight. The fact is, this production of “La Calisto” did {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: The Nine Jewelled Deer

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One of the legacies of Pierre Audi’s tenure as director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival is the festival’s commitment to a continuous challenging of what opera can mean. His provocations extended from calling filmic versions of Stravinsky’s ballets operas, to a rendition of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 directed by Romeo Castellucci, or even, last season, a musical of William Kentridge’s “The Great {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor

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It is official: Britten is in now. It is not as if the Master of Snape was ever ‘out,’ but Aix’s adaptation of “Billy Budd” — along with Deborah Warner’s “Peter Grimes” from a couple of years ago — reiterates the timeliness of his work and theater. Watching Britten today, it feels like his works have just been waiting for {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: Louise

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Full disclosure: my definition of purgatory is a Christof Loy opera staging. They are not infernal—there is always some redemption—and they used to be good. But now, they are definitely not for me. That mono-scenario, that preference for milk-aisle lighting and the somewhat surreal stagings. I get it, some people might like it. I am even friends with some of {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: Don Giovanni

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The new Robert Icke staging of “Don Giovanni” might upset more than a few spirits. The scenic proposal is certainly disruptive, and its insistence on intervening digitally in the opera’s soundscape is the most acute symptom of “directivitis” (the terrible disease that has afflicted opera directors for the last seven decades). However, I really had a great time watching “Don {…}

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