AIX-EN-PROVENCE 〓 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has announced its schedule for summer 2023

2022/11/25

The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France’s leading summer music festival, has announced its schedule for summer 2023. The festival will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2023 and will run from July 4-24.

In 2023, there will be six stage productions, including operas, plus three operas in concert style.

In addition to the world premiere of the opera “Picture a Day Like This” conducted by George Benjamin himself, the European premiere of Philip Venables’ opera “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions” will be staged. The lineup of operas and other performances is as follows

July 4-24, 2023
Weill “The Threepenny Opera”
[PRODUCTION]Thomas Ostermeier
[CONDUCTOR]Maxime Pascal(Le Balcon)
[CAST] Véronique Vella / Elsa Lepoivre / Christian Hecq / Nicolas Lormeau / Benjamin Lavernhe / Noam Morgensztern / Gaël Kamilindi / Birane Ba / Claïna Clavaron / Nicolas Chupin

July 5-23. 2023
George Benjamin “Picture a Day Like This” = World Premiere
[PRODUCTION]Daniel Jeanneteau / Marie-Christine Soma
[CONDUCTOR]George Benjamin(Mahler Chamber Orchestra)
[CAST] Marianne Crebassa / Cameron Shahbazi / Fatma Said / John Brancy / Anna Prohaska

July 6-21, 2023
Mozart “Così Fan Tutte”
[PRODUCTION]Dmitri Tcherniakov
[CONDUCTOR]Thomas Hengelbrock(Balthasar Neumann Ensemble)
[CAST]Agneta Eichenholz / Claudia Mahnke / Rainer Trost / Russell Braun / Georg Nigl / Nicole Chevalier

July 7-21 2023
Berg “Wozzeck”
[PRODUCTION]Simon McBurney
[CONDUCTOR]Simon Rattle(London Symphony Orchestra)
[CAST]Christian Gerhaher / Malin Byström / Thomas Blondelle / Brindley Sherratt / Peter Hoare

July 8-12, 2023
“Russian Ballets” by Stravinsky’s Three Ballets
[PRODUCTION]Rebecca Zlotowski
[CONDUCTOR]Klaus Mäkelä(Orchestre de Paris)
[CAST]Bertrand Mandico / Evangelia Kranioti

July 8 & 9, 2023
Philip Venables “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions”
[PRODUCTION]Ted Huffman
[CONDUCTOR]Yshani Perinpanayagam(TBD)
[CAST]TBD

July 15, 2023
Meyerbeer “Le Prophète” = Concert performance
[CONDUCTOR]Mark Elder(London Symphony Orchestra)
[CAST]John Osborn / Anita Rachvelishvili / Mané Galoyan / James Platt

July 17, 2023
Verdi “Otello” = Concert performance
[CONDUCTOR]Michele Mariotti(Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo)
[CAST]Maria Agresta / Ludovic Tézier

July 24, 2023
Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” = Concert performance
[CONDUCTOR]Daniele Rustioni(Orchestra of Opéra national de Lyon)
[CAST]Lisette Oropesa / Pene Pati / Florian Sempey / Nicolas Courjal

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