Festival d`Aix-en-Provence 2020
Festival d`Aix-en-Provence 2020
Du 30 juin au 18 juillet 2020 avec le Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, vous assisterez à des opéras qui réuniront les chefs et metteurs en scène parmi les plus éminents et demandés sur les scènes internationales. Vous entendrez également des concerts tout aussi éblouissants et magistraux. Les séries INCISES, rendez-vous de la création et de la musique d'aujourd'hui, traverseront l'ensemble de la programmation d'opéras et de concerts et conduiront les festivaliers jusqu'aux contrées de l'installation sonore et video.
Le program d'AIX EN JUIN ne sera pas en reste avec un mois de musique partagée, accessible a tous et, nouveauté 2020, entièrement gratuit: concerts, master classes, mini-opéras, répétitions publiques, grand concert Parades en plein air sur le Cours Mirabeau. Un cycle cinéma complétera ce program en partenariat avec les cinémas aixois et l'Institut de l'image.
About the Festival d`Aix-en-Provence
International Opera and Classical Festival in Aix-en-Provence is one of the most significant musical events in Europe. It was first held in July 1948 and since then every summer has passed. He founded the festival Gabriel Dussiurges with the participation of Countess Lily Pastre, wanting to encourage the development of musical life in Marseille and the surrounding area. Dussurge himself led the festival until 1973.
Initially, all the performances took place in the open air, on the territory of the former Archbishop's Palace. Today, the festival occupies several venues, the main of which - the Grand Provence Theater (Grand Théâtre de Provence), the Jeu de Paume Theater and the Hotel Meunier (Maynier d’Oppède).
The festival traditionally pays special attention to Mozart’s operas, starting with the staging of the opera “Everybody Does It”, which opened the very first festival in Aix-en-Provence in 1948. Mozart’s works made up the bulk
festival programs until the early 1970s, when his repertoire replenished the operas of V. Bellini, G. Donizetti, J. Rossini. Since the early 1980s more and more baroque comes to Aix-en-Provence: the emphasis shifts towards the operas of K. Monteverdi, G. Purcell, J. B. Lully, A. Campra, F. Cavalli, J. F. Rameau, G. F. Handel and other composers.
In the XXI century, a significant part of the programs of the Aix-en-Provence festival is reserved for concerts of cantata-oratorio, orchestral, chamber instrumental and vocal music. In addition, since the late 1990s, sometimes
appearing operas by contemporary composers. So, in 2002, in Aix-en-Provence, P. Etvoche's opera Le Balcon was first presented to the public.
Among the directors of opera performances in Aix-en-Provence are Peter Brook, Peter Sellars, Luke Bondi, Dmitry Chernyakov. As the musical leaders of the festival in Claudio Abbado (since 1998), Daniel Harding, Simon Rattle, Esa Pekka Salonen have performed at various times.
Today, the festival is annually visited by tens of thousands of connoisseurs of opera and classical music. According to the official website, in 2009 the number of viewers almost reached 65 thousand. In 2014, the Aix-en-Provence Festival received the International Operas Awards in the nomination for Best Opera Festival. Every year festival events covered by several media at once: operas and concerts are broadcast by Arte, Mezzo, France 3 and NHK.
