Aix tremendae, salva me
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence confronts the living and the dead — and its own future — through audacious productions and an intimate world premiere.
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
16 pieces since 2009.
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Les Vêpres siciliennes
Daniele Rustioni conducts Karine Deshayes, John Osborn, Insik Choi, and Michele Pertusi in a performance recorded at this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Streamed July 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Mozart Requiem
Raphaël Pichon conducts Mélissa Petit, Beth Taylor, Duke Kim, and Alex Rosen in a performance recorded the week before last at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Streamed July 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Bluebeard’s Castle
Klaus Mäkela conducts Gerald Finley and Irene Roberts in a performance recorded at this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Streamed July 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
Klaus Mäkelä conducts a performance recorded last week in Aix featuring Vida Miknevičiūtė, Michael Spyres, Brian Mulligan, Ambur Braid, and Nina Stemme
Streamed July 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Accabadora
A performance of Francesco Filidei's world-premiere opera based on a novel by Michela Murgia recorded at the Aix-en-Provence Festival last week.
Streamed July 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Die Zauberflöte
A performance recorded last week at the Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Leonardo García-Alarcón starring Ying Fang, Mauro Peter, and Sabine Devieilhe.
Streamed July 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Aix and you shall receive
Mesdames et Messieurs, this summer’s broadcasts from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence begin this weekend!
Extravagant minimalism
Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.
The Parterre Box Guide to Aix-en-Provence
The Festival d’Aix is second to none in Europe — and it happens in a Provençal town where the cars stay out and the cafés keep their own hours. A guide to making a week of it.
Sing out, Louise
Christof Loy‘s Louise in Aix-en-Provence scratches at the urban– and operatic– unconscious
The Aix factor
This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.
Les pêcheurs de perles
Marc Minkowski conducts a performance recorded last week at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Louise
A performance of Gustave Charpentier‘s opera recorded last week at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Don Giovanni
A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Unconscious coupling
Pelléas and Mélisande are not transparent to themselves. Which means: they each have an unconscious.
Anabaptism by fire
As revivals of the composer’s sprawling works represent a daunting expense for many opera houses, exceptionally cast recordings of such concert performances serve as valuable documents that foster appreciation for his achievements.
The men who rule Ramrod
It’s been eight decades since darling Aix-en-Provence was under attack—its last formal invasion, at least by non-operagoers, was in 1942 during the German occupation of southern France. But on Friday, the town was besieged once again by its annual festival, with two dazzling premieres that examined the cruel and constructive dimensions of war and revolution.
Festal joy triumphant
The July-August timeframe in the San Francisco Bay Area is always exciting time in terms of opera.
Tales as old as time
The Paris Opera continued their 350th anniversary celebration January 26 with a brand new production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s 1707 oratorio Il Primo Omicidio ovvero Caino.
Against the grain
I wondered if there truly is a future for opera other than as an overpriced museum piece for an aging audience who likes their sets lavish, their productions non-challenging, and their singers telegenic.
To each word a warbling note
“What fools these mortals be!”
Final chapter
None of my previous Elektra experiences prepared me for this stunning, overwhelming performance from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!
George Benjamin’s 2012 opera Written on Skin received great acclaim at its opening at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the Royal Opera quickly mounted it in March 2013.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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