Festival d'Aix-en-Provence presents 2016 programme

With six major vocal productions, festival director Bernard Foccroulle hopes that the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence will have something for everyone.

A leader in the world of opera, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence's 2016 season will host events in some outstanding historical venues, including a wonderful open-air theatre, and of course the relatively new Grand Theatre de Provence. The festival is well known for it's devotion to the operatic classics, and also for inspiring the creation of new works by contemporary composers.

The 2016 Festival will present two world premiers. The first, from a young Czech composer, Ondřej Adámek, called Seven Stones, combines 16 singers and a surrealistic libretto (text) from Icelandic author Sjón in stories about the symbolism of the stone. The second production, Kalîla wa Dimna by Palestinian composer Moneim Adwan, is based on a collection of 8th century stories and fables and is in fact the first opera ever written in Arabic.

For more information on the full line-up and to purchase tickets visit their website.