Ted Huffman, an American director with a collaborative and exploratory spirit, has taken over the Aix-en-Provence Festival in ...

Launching the Aix Festival, this staging of Brecht’s famed musical satire copes well with the ever-pungent score but doesn’t quite take off Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

A fascinating aspect of Samson—the lost opera from the 1730s with music by Jean Philippe Rameau and words by Voltaire that inspired the creation of a new opera at the Aix-en-Provence Festival this ...

It seems that everything good in Aix-en-Provence, France, and the surrounding region, comes in rows. Outside the Sénanque Abbey near the village of Gordes, rows of lavender fill the air with their ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera From July 5 to 25, 2012, under the leadership of General Manager Bernard Foccroulle, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, in its 64th season, will ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE—One of the improbabilities of music in Toronto last season was the sight of Barbara Hannigan on the stage of Roy Thomson Hall, conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra while singing ...

The creative team led by director Julien Fišera (with outstretched hand) in the first week of workshops The choice of operatic arias and ensembles has been fluctuating even before the singers ...

After the unseasonal “summer” chill of London, where I live, the scene – and accompanying cicada chorus – conjures nostalgia for the mind-bending, road-shimmering summer heat of an Australian ...