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Pene Pati follows in the footsteps of Jakub Józef Orliński and will be working with the young sponsors at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in their efforts to favour the opera of tomorrow. The young tenor from Samoa is an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera and will debut at the Festival d’Aix this summer. His career reflects a new generation of opera singers who strive for more diversity in the world of opera. Pene Pati and the young sponsors continue their philanthropic commitment to fostering emerging new talents.

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As a new partner of the Festival d’Aix, the ENGIE Foundation will be supporting the emblematic residencies of the Académie for a period of two years. Through these residencies, multiple formats and various content are reinvented each year to meet the challenges in the world of opera today and to foster equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity! This philosophy is at the core of the commitment made by the ENGIE Foundation, which, for over 30 years, has promoted access to culture for all, social inclusion, and support for young talent. The partnership will also help support musical events organised by the Festival throughout the region.

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The Cercle Incises unites over a dozen major individual donors or foundations who are passionate about contemporary creation. This year, three productions will be supported by the Cercle Incises, including Pascal Dusapin’s Il Viaggio, Dante. The Circle was founded in 2020 after INCISES — a component of the Festival’s programming focused on today’s music — had been launched. It offers philanthropists a unique opportunity to be associated with the process of artistic creation, like veritable coproducers. The Cercle Incises allows donors to provide support over several years and to follow the work of creative teams step by step.

This year 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the Lotte Lenya competition, an international theater singing competition founded by The Kurt Weill Foundation For Music to encourage idiomatic performances of a wide range of musical theater and opera. Thanks to the LLC, prizewinners become part of what is referred to as the « Lenya Family » where the Foundation continues to advocate for them and supports their projects such as Marie Oppert (2017, 2020), named Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist at the 2023 Festival d’Aix, where she will play the role of Polly in a new production of The Threepenny opera, directed by Thomas Ostermeier and co-produced by La Comédie-Française.