Thursday 20 June 2013
The Aix Festival
It is also in June!
Prelude to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, it takes place in Aix and in its surroundings. The Aix Festival offers the public to attend free performances or at a low price (Pass or at 16€). This event will be reaching a peak with PARADE[S], a free big concert with extracts issued from Rigoletto on the cours Mirabeau ! BOOKING : 08 20 922 923
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Elektra
Grand Théâtre de Provence
Richard Strauss transforms this tragedy into a shock opera, with an explosive score, a single act of expectation crowned by irrepressible violence, a superb orchestral score, as refined as it is unrestrained, and women singing the distress of a dysfunctional family.
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Rigoletto
Théâtre de l'Archevêché
Colourful melodrama by Victor Hugo adapted by Giuseppe Verdi on a libretto by Francesco Maria-Piave, after The Prince’s Play by Victor Hugo. Masterpiece Created on 11 March 1851 at the Teatro La Fenice
Movie of the production backstage on screen from 24 October on
Traviata et nous
Spring 2011, Jean-François Sivadier stages La Traviata à Aix, Louis Langrée conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, Natalie Dessay is Violetta. For two months, from the rehearsals studios to the Archevêché Theater backstage, a movie set unit has been following their work. Film-making: Philippe Béziat.
Enjoy an exceptional Festival evening in Aix!
The Festival d'Aix offers companies and individuals a range of evening receptions made-to-mesure: 3 offers, 6 performances, 15 dates, chose the most appropriate programme suiting your needs.
> Offers for individuals
> Offers for companies
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Booking contact
La Boutique du Festival
Palais de l'Ancien Archevêché
13100 Aix-en-Provence
Tel: (0)820 922 923 (12 cts € / min)
+33 (0)4 34 08 02 17 (from abroad)
The festival-goer's booklet is now online!
This is a must-have for any festival-goer: day after day, you will find in this short booklet all the events organized by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Click here to consult the online version (in French), and start to prepare your summer timetable!
Elektra, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni available within the packages offers!
From Mozart to Richard Strauss, or to Britten and Shostakovich, and via Verdi, travel through the Festival d'Aix opera programme with these three new packages offers and benefit from a special rate!
booking
Lyrical holiday
The Festival d'Aix and Euridice Opéra suggest lyrical art lovers several holiday offers to experience opera under the clear sky of Provence.
> from 16 to 19 July : Elektra, Don Giovanni and a symphonic concert
> from 16 to 19 July : Elektra, Don Giovanni and The House Taken Over
> from 16 to 19 July : Rigoletto, Don Giovanni and a symphonic concert
> from 20 to 23 July : Don Giovanni, Elektra and Elena
> from 22 to 25 July : Don Giovanni and Rigoletto
Tickets platform of the Festival d'Aix
You cannot find any ticket for the opera or concert of your choice? You would like to sell 2013 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence tickets you have already bought? The exchange platform zePASS is here for you!
