Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Magdalena Kožená Headline 2020 Aix-en-Provence Festival

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(Credit: Sasha Vasiljev / Mathias Bothor, Deutsche Grammophon) The Festival Aix-en-Provence has just announced the program for 2020 season, which will include a total of six works. The season will open with Berg’s opera “Wozzeck,” starring Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Daniel Brenna, Peter Hoare, Brindley Sherratt, Evan LeRoy Johnson, J’Nai Bridges, Alexander Kiechle, Tomasz Kumięga, and Graham Clark. Sir Simon {…}

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Arte To Stream ‘Rise & Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny’ From Festival D’Aix-En-Provence

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(Credit: Festival D’aix-En-Provence) On July 11, 2019, Arte is set to stream to Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” from the Festival D’Aix-En-Provence. The new production by Ivo van Hove, which is set to make its way to the Metropolitan Opera, stars Karita Mattila, Alan Oke, Sir Willard White, Annette Dasch, Nikolai Schukoff, Sean Panikkar, Thomas Oliemans, and Peixin Chen. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the {…}

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Aix-en-Provence Festival Announces Its 2019 Festival

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The Aix-en-Provence Festival has announced its 2019 festival. The season will be the first under the leadership of Pierre Audi and is set to take place from July 3 to 22, 2018. The season will be made up of five works, all of which will appear in the program of the Aix-en-Provence Festival for the first time. The Productions Mozart’s “Requiem” will {…}

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Operavision 2018 Live Stream: ‘Orfeo & Majnun’ From Festival d’Aix-En-Provence Gets Worldwide Audience

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OperaVision will start streaming the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s production of “Orfeo & Majnun” starting on July 8, 2018. The work, which is sung in English, French, and Arabic, will feature Judith Fa, Nai Barghouti, Loay Srouji, Yoann Dubruque, and Schli Gholamalizad. The music by Adwan, van der Harst, and Moody will be conducted by Bassem Akiki, leading the Intercultural Ensemble of {…}

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Festival d’Aix-En-Provence Announce 2018 Season

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The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has announced its 70th anniversary season. This season the company will present six full-scale opera productions with a number of international artists from July 4 to July 24, 2018. Among those productions are two new world premieres. The first “Orfeo & Majnun,” which opens on June 24. The opera will be sung in English, French, and Arabic by {…}

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Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – Carmen: Tcherniakov’s Production Will Change the Way You See Bizet’s Masterpiece

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“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s Spanish-inspired masterpiece, was performed at the Festival d’arLyriqueue d’Aix-en-Provence’s 2017 season in an unconventional production. Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov’s has consigned the traditional Sevillan mantillas, toreros, and abrigos de luz to distant memory and, for the hugely popular opera’s return to Aix for the first time in 60 years, has fully reviewed the story to give it {…}

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Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – Eugene Onegin: A Showcase of Great Russian Talent in Tchaikovsky Great Masterpiece

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Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera “Eugene Onegin” was on the program of the Festival international d’art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence’s 69th season in a concert performance. It was masterfully presented by Moscow’s Bolshoi’s choir and orchestra, under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev. The Theatre’s leading soloists included Igor Golovatenko in the title role, Anna Nechaeva as Tatiana, Bogdan Volkov as Lensky, soloist Svetlana {…}

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Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – The Rake’s Progress: An Imaginative Production & Solid Cast Lend Insightful Reading of Stravinsky’s Neo-Classic Masterwork

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“The Rake’s Progress,” an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky, was one of the six operas performed at this year’s Festival International d’art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence. Although relatively modern, compared to the classical opera repertoire (it premiered on 11 April 1951), Simon McBurney’s visually striking and infinitely creative staging gives it an additional innovative edge. English actor, {…}

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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2018 to Feature Mozart, Purcell, Strauss

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Le Figaro has revealed the 2018 season for the famed Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. It will feature a grand total of six operas to celebrate the festivals’ 70th anniversary. Mozart’s “Di Zauberflöte” will get a showcase in a production by Raphaël Pichon. There will also be a production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” which will be performed by the young artists of {…}

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Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Magdalena Kožená Headline 2020 Aix-en-Provence Festival

Arte To Stream ‘Rise & Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny’ From Festival D’Aix-En-Provence

Aix-en-Provence Festival Announces Its 2019 Festival

Operavision 2018 Live Stream: ‘Orfeo & Majnun’ From Festival d’Aix-En-Provence Gets Worldwide Audience

Festival d’Aix-En-Provence Announce 2018 Season

Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – Carmen: Tcherniakov’s Production Will Change the Way You See Bizet’s Masterpiece

Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – Eugene Onegin: A Showcase of Great Russian Talent in Tchaikovsky Great Masterpiece

Festival d’Aix-En-Provence 2017 Review – The Rake’s Progress: An Imaginative Production & Solid Cast Lend Insightful Reading of Stravinsky’s Neo-Classic Masterwork

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2018 to Feature Mozart, Purcell, Strauss