(Credit: Festival d’Aix en Provence) On July 9, 2019, Mezzo TV is set to present Puccini’s “Tosca’ from the Festival D’Aix-En-Provence. The new production by Christophe Honore is set to star Angel Blue in the title role and her role debut and Catherine Malfitano as La Prima Donna. The cast is rounded out by Joseph Calleja as Cavaradossi and Alexey {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
The non-profit organization FEDORA has announced the nominees for its prizes in 2018. The aim of the organization is to support ballet and opera projects, which are able to obtain funding using the platform, which is supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe funding programme. The nominees will run a crowdfunding campaign on the platform and the winners will be {…}
“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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
