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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2023 Review: Ballets Russes

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(Photo Credit: Jean-Louis Fernandez) On the website of Aix-en-Provence Festival, the “Ballets Russes” is sold as a fully staged opera. Listing it that way, the festival director Pierre Audi is provoking the audience to see what opera can actually be beyond the screaming divas. Most times, Aix’s provocations pay off. In fact, it is part of the festival’s brand. In {…}
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Festival d’Aix-En-Provence Announces Cast Change for ‘Le Prophète’

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(credit: Kristin Hoebermann) The Festival d’Aix-En-Provence has announced a cast change for its concert performance of Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophète.” The company said that Elizabeth DeShong will sing the role of Fidès replacing Anita Rachvelishvili, who was originally announced. DeShong performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, and Royal Opera House. She has also performed with the {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Lisette Oropesa & Anita Rachvelishvili Lead Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s 2023 Season

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Today, Pierre Audi announced the program for the seventieth-fifth Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The festival will take place between the 4 th and 24th of July, 2023, staging six works, three operas in concert, and many recitals. The full program is below: The season opens with “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Elisabeth Hauptmann. Maxime Pascal conducts the production {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: L’Incoronazione di Poppea

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(Photo: Ruth Walz) It never ceases to surprise how Monteverdi’s operas prove themselves time and again to be not just supreme examples of how the art form succeeds as a dramatic medium, able to communicate directly with present day audiences, with characters who resonate so clearly with the modern mind, even over a distance of 400 years, but also the {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Moïse et Pharaon

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(Photo: Monika Ritttershaus) The initial impressions of the Aix-en-Provence festival’s production of Rossini’s “Moïse et Pharaon” did not bode well. Hearsay reports spoke of a modern day reinterpretation in which the focus was on refugees, and their life in the camps and the perils they face when crossing the Mediterranean. Productions which seek to politicize an opera, beyond that which {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Il Viaggio, Dante

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Aligheri’s death in September 1321, the Aix-en-Provence festival staged the world premier of French composer Pascal Dusapin’s opera “Il Viaggio, Dante,” based upon the poet’s iconic narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.” To say that this is an ambitious undertaking is an understatement, especially as the work has been compressed into {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Salome

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Photo: Bernd Uhlig Ingo Metzmacher, the conductor for this year’s Aix-en-Provence festival’s production of Strauss’ “Salome” stressed time and again throughout his program notes the need for a cool head, for orchestral restraint and calm, for sobriety and balance. His stated aim was to ensure the orchestra does not predominate, does not get carried away, is not too loud, but {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Idomeneo

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(Photo: Jean-Louis Fernandez) As a rule of thumb, you know that if you have to rely on the director’s program notes to make sense of what is happening on stage, then the production is likely to disappoint. Of course, even in such circumstances it is sometimes possible to develop an intuitive understanding, even where the explicit meaning remains elusive, which {…}
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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Announces Cast Changes for ‘Norma’ & ‘Idomeneo’

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The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has announced cast changes for “Idomeneo” and “Norma.” The festival noted that Anna Bonitatibus will replace Anna Stéphany as Idamante in the production of “Idomeneo.” Meanwhile, Amina Edris will sing the role of Adalgisa, replacing Nina Minasyan in a concert performance of “Norma.” Bonitatibus is known for her work in Handel and Rossini while Edris has performed {…}

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