Ballets russes - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
You come out fully won over, and delighted to have seen how creations of the past can inspire those of today.
— LA PROVENCE
BALLETS RUSSES
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Picture a day like this, Benjamin © Jean-Louis Fernandez
An exquisitely crafted fable of loss and hapiness.
— THE TELEGRAPH
PICTURE A DAY LIKE THIS
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Ballets russes - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
By combining music and cinema, the Festival offers a visual mise en abyme of the dazzling scores written by the Russian composer between 1910 and 1913. It is a venture worth discovering.
— LA CROIX
BALLETS RUSSES
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Ballets russes - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
The concert by the Orchestre de Paris will not be forgotten.
— LES ÉCHOS
BALLETS RUSSES
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The Faggots and Their Friends, Venables, Huffman © Tristram Kenton
What a delight and surprise to emerge after 100 minutes feeling exhilarated and entertained.
— THE TIMES
THE FAGGOTS AND THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
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Così fan tutte Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Monika Rittershaus
Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov adapts Mozart’s extraordinary work with frank realism.
— LIBÉRATION
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
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The Faggots and Their Friends, Venables, Huffman © Tristram Kenton
Taken as a whole, the show is at times both baffling and chaotic – but served up with such raw energy and panache, it’s also irresistibly, unforgettably compelling.
— THE GUARDIAN
THE FAGGOTS AND THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
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L’opéra de quat'sous Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Flamboyant actors from the Comédie-Française.
— DIAPASON
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
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Picture a day like this, Benjamin © Jean-Louis Fernandez
The new operatic opus by British composer George Benjamin shines like a jewel that is rare yet familiar, and light yet poignant. Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is deeply moving in the production.
— LA CROIX
PICTURE A DAY LIKE THIS
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Wozzeck, Berg © Monika Rittershaus
The British artist Simon McBurney reveals the dark side of Alban Berg’s opera through his astounding staging. It is a highlight of the Festival.
— LE TEMPS
WOZZECK
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L’opéra de quat'sous Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
An intense commitment by the artists.
— LA CROIX
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
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Picture a day like this © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Five stars for “Picture a day like this”, George Benjamin’s beguiling, unsettling new opera.
— FINANCIAL TIMES
PICTURE A DAY LIKE THIS
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Così fan tutte Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Monika Rittershaus
The balanced and seasoned singing cast demonstrate great vocal and technical prowess that remains unmarred by the patina of age.
— RESMUSICA
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
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The Faggots and Their Friends, Venables, Huffman © Tristram Kenton
An astonishing feat of controlled chaos in which an ensemble of 15 does it all: sings, narrates, dances, plays instruments.
— THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE FAGGOTS AND THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
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Wozzeck, Berg © Monika Rittershaus
At the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, a ‘Wozzeck’ that is triply enchanting.
— TÉLÉRAMA
WOZZECK
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Così fan tutte Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Monika Rittershaus
In the pit, Thomas Hengelbrock’s baton glides on velvet.
— LE MONDE
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
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Wozzeck © Monika Rittershaus
Conducted by Simon Rattle and staged by Simon McBurney, Alban Berg’s work is conjugated in the plus-que-parfait.
— LE FIGARO
WOZZECK
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L’opéra de quat'sous Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 © Jean-Louis Fernandez
A unique interpretation of Brecht and Weill’s play.
— LE FIGARO
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
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THE THREEPENNY OPERA

BERTOLT BRECHT (1898–1956) — KURT WEILL (1900–1950) — ELISABETH HAUPTMANN (1897–1973)

PICTURE A DAY LIKE THIS

GEORGE BENJAMIN (1960) — MARTIN CRIMP (1956)

COSÌ FAN TUTTE

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)

WOZZECK

ALBAN BERG (1885–1935)

BALLETS RUSSES

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)

THE FAGGOTS AND THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

PHILIP VENABLES (1979) — TED HUFFMAN (1977)

LE PROPHÈTE

GIACOMO MEYERBEER (1791–1864) — CONCERT VERSION

OTELLO

GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901) — CONCERT VERSION

LUCIE DE LAMMERMOOR

GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848) — CONCERT VERSION
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