International tours
The Festival is internationally renowned: its celebrated artists, leading guest orchestras and choruses, international co-producers, and the circulation of its productions all contribute to its global reputation every year. Each year, the operas of the Festival d’Aix are traveling around the world via coproductions and tours.
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Elisabeth Hauptmann
Stage director: Thomas Ostermeier
2023 production
Comédie-Française (Paris)
From 23 September to 5 November 2023
Conductor: Maxime Pascal
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Picture a day like this by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp
Stage directors: Daniel Jeanneteau et Marie-Christine Soma
2023 production
Covent Garden – Royal Opera House (London)
From 22 September to 10 October 2023
Conductor: Sir George Benjamin
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Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage director: Dmitri Tcherniakov
2023 production
Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris)
From 2 to 22 February 2024
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
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Ballets russes — music by Igor Stravinski
Films: Rebecca Zlotowski (The Firebird), Evangelia Kranioti (The Rite of Spring)
2023 production
Philharmonie de Paris
28 and 29 February 2024
Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä
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Idomeneo, Re di Creta by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage director: Satoshi Miyagi
2022 production
Opéra du Capitole (Toulouse)
From 27 February to 3 March 2024
Conductor: Michele Spotti
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L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi
Stage director: Ted Huffman
2022 production
Opéra de Rennes
From 1st to 8 October 2023
Conductor: Damien Guillon
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Opéra de Toulon
10, 12 and 13 April 2024
Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón
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Oper Köln
From 5 May to 2 June 2024
Conductors: George Petrou, Alessandro Quarta
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Innocence by Kaija Saariaho
Stage director: Simon Stone
2021 production
Dutch National Opera & Ballet (Amsterdam)
From 7 to 22 October 2023
Conductor: Elena Schwarz
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San Francisco Opera
From 1st to 21 June 2024
Conductor: Clément Mao-Takacs
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The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Stage director: Barrie Kosky
2021 production
Komische Oper Berlin
From 28 January to 20 March 2024
Conductor: James Gaffigan
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Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stage director: Romeo Castellucci
2019 production
Theater Basel
From 20 April to 15 June 2024
Conductors: Ivor Bolton, Francesc Prat
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Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill
Stage director: Ivo Van Hove
2019 production
Dutch National Opera & Ballet (Amsterdam)
From 6 to 27 September 2023
Conductor: Markus Stenz
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Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
Stage director: Katie Mitchell
2018 production
The Royal Danish Opera (Copenhague)
From 13 March to 14 April 2024
Conductor: Giedre Šlekyte
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Elektra by Richard Strauss
Stage director: Patrice Chéreau
2013 production
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin)
From 7 to 20 October 2023
Conductor: Markus Poschner
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Written on Skin by George Benjamin
Stage director: Katie Mitchell
2012 production
Deutsche Oper Berlin
From 27 January to 15 February 2024
Conductor: Marc Albrecht
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