Festival d`Aix 2017 - Festival d`Aix en Provence

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
69 th Edition
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JULY 3 rd - 22 nd 2017
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Opera • Concerts • TOURs • Académie du Festival d’Aix
MEDITERRANEAN YOUTH OR CHESTRA • ENOA • MEDINEA
Press OFFICE
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Rémy Tartanac
summary
operapages 4 - 7
concerts
pages 8 - 9
académie du festival d’aix
pages 10 - 14
tourspages 15 - 17
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OPERA
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PHILIPPE BOESMANS
PINOCCHIO
WORLD PREMIERE
Adapted from the play by Joël Pommerat
conductorEmilio Pomarico
director Joël Pommerat
set and lighting designer
Eric Soyer
costume designer Isabelle Deffin
le pantin
Chloé Briot*
Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix
le mauvais élève /la chanteuse
Julie Boulianne
Co-production: La Monnaie / De Munt,
la féeMarie-Eve Munger*
Opéra de Dijon
le directeur de la troupe Stéphane Degout*
un escroc / un meurtrier
Yann Beuron
GRAND THÉÂTRE DE PROVENCE
le père / un meurtrier Vincent Le Texier
From 3rd to 16th July 2017
orchestra
Klangforum
*Former artists of the Académie du Festival d’Aix
GEORGES BIZET
Carmen
New production
conductor
Pablo Heras-Casado
director and set design Dmitri Tcherniakov
lighting designer
Gleb Filshtinsky
costume designer Elena Zaitseva
carmenStéphanie d’Oustrac*
don joséMichael Fabiano
micaëla Elsa Dreisig*
escamillo Teddy Tahu Rhodes
frasquita
Gabrielle Philiponet
mercédès Virginie Verrez
le dancaïreMarc Mauillon
le remendadoMathias Vidal*
zuniga
Christian Helmer
moralès Guillaume Andrieux*
chorus
Chœur Aedes
Maîtrise des
Bouches-du-Rhône
orchestra
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Orchestre de Paris
GRAND THÉÂTRE DE PROVENCE
From 4th to 20 th July 2017
*Former artists of the Académie du Festival d’Aix
IGOR STRAVINSKY
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
STRAVINSKY CYCLE
NEW PRODUCTION
conductorDaniel Harding
directorSimon McBurney
set designer Michael Levine
lighting designerPaul Anderson
costume designer
Christina Cunningham
tom rakewell Paul Appleby
nick shadow Kyle Ketelsen
ann trulove Julia Bullock
baba the turk Andrew Watts
mother goose Hilary Summers
truloveNN
sellem Alan Oke
chorusEnglish Voices
orchestra
Orchestre de Paris
Co-production: Dutch National Opera
THÉÂTRE DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ
From 5th to 18 th July 2017
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
DON GIOVANNI
NEW PRODUCTION
conductor
Jérémie Rhorer
director Jean-François Sivadier
set designer Alexandre de Dardel
lighting designerPhilippe Berthomé
costume designer Virginie Gervaise
don giovanniPhilippe Sly
leporello Nahuel di Pierro
dona anna Eleonora Buratto
don ottavioPavol Breslik
donna elvira Isabel Leonard
zerlina
Julie Fuchs*
masetto Krzysztof Bączyk*
il commendatore NN
chorus English Voices
orchestraLe Cercle de l’Harmonie
Co-production: Opéra national de
Lorraine, Les Théâtres de la Ville de
Luxembourg, Teatro Communale di
Bologna
THÉÂTRE DE L’ARCHEVÊCHÉ
From 6th to 21th July 2017
*Former artists of the Académie du Festival d’Aix
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FRANCESCO CAVALLI
ERISMENA
NEW PRODUCTION OF THE L’ACADÉMIE DU FESTIVAL D’AIX
conductor Leonardo García Alarcon
director
& set and lighting designer Jean Bellorini
costume designer Macha Makeieff
erismena Francesca Aspromonte*
idraspe
Carlo Vistoli*
clerio moroTai Honey
aldimiraSusanna Hurrell
alcestaStuart Jackson*
orimenoNN
argippoAndrea Vincenzo Bonsignore *
fleridaLea Desandre*
erimanteAlexander Miminoshvili*
diarte Jonathan Abernethy
orchestra
Cappella Mediterranea
Co-production: Innsbrucker Festwochen
der Alten Musik, Les Théâtres de la Ville
de Luxembourg
THÉÂTRE DU JEU DE PAUME
From 7th to 21st July
*Former artists of the Académie du Festival d’Aix
PIOTR ILITCH TCHAIKOVSKY
EUGENE ONEGIN
CONCERT VERSION
conductorTugan Sokhiev
With soloists, chorus and orchestra from the
State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
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GRAND THÉÂTRE DE PROVENCE
Mercredi 19 juillet 2017
Concerts
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The detailled programme will be annouced in January 2017
Aix en juin
Prélude to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Master classes, concerts and performances of the Académie
Concerts of the HSBC Laureates of the Académie
Les Voix de Silvacane
Festival Choral Académique
Parade[s]
Concerts
of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
Concerts and OUTREACH projects
with the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton
As a musician who loves venturing off the beaten track, Sonia Wieder-Atherton has filled her journey as an
international soloist with experiences and Odyssées [Odysseys] to use the title of her decade-long musical
adventure. Her cello improvises dialogues with “imaginary choruses” using vocals from around the world that are
mixed and transcribed on magnetic tape.
In partnership with the Festival Choral Académique de l’Académie Aix-Marseille and in association with the
Conservatoire Darius Milhaud d’Aix-en-Provence, the Festival d’Aix is launching a project going back to where the
journey began for 2017. Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Philippe Franceschi will prepare and train students throughout
the 2016/17 season with the involvement of choirs from in and around the city. The first series of performances will
be held in June 2017 at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud as part of Aix en Juin followed by a series in Manosque
where the cellist will improvise live with the choruses joining her on stage directed by Philippe Franceschi. In July
2017, the idea of this concert will be covered by the Festival d’Aix with magnetic tape as the chorus’ work will be
subject to an audio and spatialisation creation.
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20 Académie
du Festival d’Aix
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The Académie du Festival d’Aix is a centre of excellence for vocal and instrumental training, a platform for reflecting,
experimenting and creating opera and innovative forms, and a place that caters for the professional development
of young artists. It offers them the opportunity to take part in residencies and perform in concerts and opera
productions at the Festival d’Aix as well as on tours across France and abroad throughout the year.
Through its four main training areas, which are voice, chamber music, creation and orchestra, the Académie upholds
the values of exchange, development and cultural enrichment in the form of multidisciplinary and intercultural
activities, creation and outreach for all of its programmes.
Last but not least, through its networks, enoa (European Network of Opera Academies) and Médinea (Mediterranean
Incubator of Emerging Artists), the Académie promotes mobility for young artists within the Euro-Mediterranean
area all year round, in order to encourage artistic and cultural meetings.
2017 TRAINING PROGRAMME
These workshops and residences provide practice sessions for selected young artists around the world followed
by public performances in the form of concerts, masterclasses and encounters with the public.
From 12th to 24th June 2017
Mozart RESIDENCY – as part of the enoa
Ever since the curtain was first raised on the Festival d’Aix, it has always featured Mozart. It’s no surprise then that
the Académie has become a key training and professional development venue for vocal coach pianists and singers
wanting to develop and refine their interpretation of the Mozartian repertoire.
This singers’ residency will be dedicated to the Austrian master and features stage and musical work directed by
talented vocal coach pianists and a choreographer. Ten singers and three pianists will have the opportunity to
benefit from a rewarding experience with Susanna Eken, vocal professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
As a specialist in the Mozart repertoire and a familiar face at the Festival d’Aix, this peerless tutor will engage with
Mozart’s work by adopting a combined technical and physiological approach to the voice.
From 13th June to 16th July 2017
Pinocchio residency
The Académie is greatly concerned about supporting modern music and promoting future artists. For several years
now, it has offered a residency for singers seeking to develop their skills in a contemporary repertoire. Spurred
on by this desire, and at the request of composer, Philippe Boesmans, the 2017 Festival d’Aix is recruiting six
understudies (two sopranos, one mezzo-sopranos, one tenor, one baritone, one bass-baritone) to stage the
Pinocchio opera. The singers will play a key part in this production, follow all the steps in its creative process and
make the most of their time in Aix-en-Provence to broaden their understanding of the contemporary repertoire and
contribute to new forms of writing through this residency reserved just for them.
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From 21st June 21 to 21st July 2017
Erismena residency
To stage the Erismena opera by Francesco Cavalli for the 2017 Festival d’Aix, young understudy singers will be
recruited from the very first rehearsal to the last performance. These singers will be prepared for all eventualities,
even replacing a singer who, for various reasons, could not perform or take part in the tours as planned. After
being actively involved in rehearsals, the understudies will take part in a residency to supplement and broaden
their knowledge of the baroque repertoire in its entirety. The understudy singers will be supervised by renowned
musicians and have the chance to explore drama as well as expressive and stylistic trends of a multi-faceted
repertoire through the prism of the Venetian School.
From 26th June to 5th July 2017
Opera Creation Workshop – as part of the enoa
The Opera Creation Workshop is open each year to young creators from all disciplines and is a place for reflection
and discussion on artistic opera-related issues. This workshop seeks to define current values of opera and the
tasks it will assume in the future. The British stage director, Katie Mitchell, and composer, Philippe Boesmans, will
open the debate on current opera creation together with its multi-disciplinary guise and enlighten it with their own
experiences.
From 3rd to 15th July 2017
Chamber Music Residency
Violinists, András Keller (member of the Keller Quartet) and David Alberman (member of the London Symphony
Orchestra) are combining their talents as artists and tutors for the benefit of young ensembles (string quartets and
piano trios) wanting to refine their approach to all repertoires, from classic to contemporary music. This residency
will be the ideal opportunity to open up to contemporary creation and get to grips with new languages by working
alongside current composers.
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
FROM 7th to 28th July 2017
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra symphonic session
The symphonic session by the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra is a pivotal experience in the training and burgeoning
career of young Mediterranean artists who get the chance to practise under the guidance of renowned conductors
and alongside experienced musicians from world-famous orchestras.
Young musicians from twenty Mediterranean countries will have the opportunity to perform the repertoire for a
large-scale orchestra and experience their first concert and tour together.
FROM 10th TO 21st July 2017
intercultural creation session
Twelve Mediterranean musicians will join saxophonist and jazzman Fabrizio Cassol for a unique composition
experience. This is the opportunity to unearth and put the spotlight on young, bold, talented and passionate
improvisers from the worlds of jazz and traditional Mediterranean music. An original encounter with different
musical styles orchestrated with generosity and a sense of togetherness.
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2017 CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES OF THE ACADÉMIE
These events see some of the best young artists from previous Académie events return to the stage.
June 2017
musical performance
La Fondation La Poste has an original and eclectic sponsorship programme for written expression. Since 2004, La
Fondation La Poste has sponsored the Académie du Festival d’Aix. It focuses on encouraging the creation of shows
based on musicians’ texts and letters.
It has seen letters by Erik Satie, Benjamin Britten, Pauline Viardot, Reynaldo Hahn and Claude Debussy in the hands
of young directors such as Bellorini, Olivier Balazuc, Côme de Bellescize, Vincent Huguet, Marc Lainé and more.
In 2017, the director Matthieu Cruciani will explore letters by Stravinsky in a musical performance for a piano, two
singers and an actor as part of Aix en Juin.
From 12th to 15th June July 2017
Creation & Innovation Workshop
The Académie is a professional development venue for young artists and offers various training programmes to
help them launch their careers in the best possible conditions. By making the new generation of creators aware of
audience development, the Académie seeks to foster contemporary debate on creation and its economic realities,
while inciting the renewal of artistic and musical practices through an interdisciplinary, intercultural and innovative
approach.
This training programme will provide an advantageous setting for study, experimentation and creation during the
festival period. It gives young creators and performers the opportunity to develop their innovative artistic and
musical projects (musical theatre, recitals, dance, performance, educational and participatory projects, etc.) and
benefit from professional tools and expertise through tailored artistic and technical guidance. Selected projects
will participate in training sessions, followed by a public performance to be arranged in Aix-en-Provence.
June-July 2017
Concerts by HSBC Laureates of the Académie du Festival d’Aix
Committed to sponsoring young talents, HSBC France has been joining with the Académie du Festival d’Aix since
2006. The artistic direction of the Festival selects each year a new set of singers, pianists vocal coaches and
chamber music ensembles. The HSBC France group supports these young artists, the HSBC Laureates, chosen
among the Académie’s most promising talents and give them the chance to perform in recitals and concerts both
in France and abroad.
The Festival d’Aix is proud of the HSBC Laureates award and these laureate artists take pride of place in the festival
schedule every summer. Exceptional recitals will be staged in June and July 2017 by HSBC Laureates from different
years who are now experienced artists and performing in the Festival’s operas among others.
July 2017
Intercultural creations – Medinea sessions
These musical projects resulting from the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra’s intercultural creation session bring
together young artists in the Medinea network. As part of the network, the Académie helps the groups to create
intercultural music projects and build their career.
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2016/2017 HSBC LAUREATES OF THE ACADÉMIE TOUR
September 17th 2016 – Festival Classique au Vert (Vincennes)
Van Kuijk Quartet (2014 Laureate)
Programme: Mozart quartets
October 13th 2016 – Art’Scènes (Nantes)
Chloé Briot, soprano (2015 Laureate), Michalis Boliakis, piano (2011 Laureate)
Programme: "Gypsy Melodies" (Brahms, Debussy, De Falla, Rachmaninov, Ravel etc.)
November 9th 2016 – Opéra de Lille (Lille)
Quartet Berlin-Tokyo (2015 Laureate)
Programme: Haydn, Beethoven
November 16th 2016 – Philharmonie de Paris (Paris)
Rupert Charlesworth, tenor (2011 Laureate), Edwige Herchenroder, piano (2013 Laureate)
Programme: “Nocturnes” (Schubert, Brahms, Britten, Duparc, Finzi etc.)
April 6th 2017 – Opéra de Lille (Lille)
Andri Björn Róbertsson, bass-baritone (2014 Laureate), Edwige Herchenroder, piano (2013 Laureate)
Programme: “Love and Death” (Schubert, Loewe, Schumann, Liszt, Wolf, Brahms etc.)
April 26th 2017 – Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo)
Van Kuijk Quartet (2014 Laureate)
Programme: Mozart quartets
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Website of the Académie: http://academie.festival-aix.com/en
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Tours
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THE FESTIVAL D’AIX IN CHINA, RUSSIA
AND AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN
2017 sees the Festival d’Aix’s international growth rise to the next level with the launch of several partnerships
formed in recent years.
Beijing Music Festival partnership launch
The performance of Robert Carsen’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Beijing in October 15th and 16th 2016 marks the
beginning of the 5-year partnership starting this year between the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Beijing Music
Festival. The collaboration will continue in years to come with the performance of Written on Skin, Pelléas et Mélisande in China and the commissioning of two new operas.
A closer bond with the Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi has been one of the Festival d’Aix’s partners for years. It has co-produced Don Giovanni, Rigoletto and
Alcina (repertoire productions). Next season, it will exceptionally present two shows by Katie Mitchell created for
the Festival d’Aix: Written on Skin (2012) and Trauernacht (2014). This rendezvous in Moscow will be renewed
every two years, with other productions from the Festival d’Aix. The Festival d’Aix will also welcome in July 2017
the solists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoï for a concert version of Eugene Onegin (see page 7).
The Mediterranean: intercultural projects, tours and training
The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has had an open policy for artists and music from the Mediterranean region since
2008. This part of the world deals with tension of all kinds and needs to build a fertile intercultural dialogue to
overcome language, social and political barriers now more than ever. In 2017, the Festival d’Aix plans to continue
to contribute to the cultural dialogue between Europe and the Mediterranean with a series of activities and artistic
projects:
Kalîla wa Dimna opera tour
The production of Kalîla wa Dimna was created in July 2016 and will go on an international tour visiting in
particular the Lebanon during the 2016/2017 season.
Mediterranean Youth Orchestra concerts and training sessions
The Mediterranean Youth Orchestra will host almost a hundred young instrument players from the ProvenceAlpes-Côte d’Azur and Mediterranean regions in July 2017 for training sessions and a series of concerts.
Medinea projects – Intercultural and interdisciplinary creations
Two artistic projects supported by the Medinea network in 2016 will continue the international tour they
began in 2016: Cairo Jazz Station (Festival Internazionale Nuoro Jazz, Italy – August 25th 2016) and Ziryâb
et nous (Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques, Morocco – October 2016). New projects will also be explored
as part of the artistic residences organised by network members.
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Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (2016)
Winterreise (2014)
Lille, France – Opéra de Lille (co-production)
12, 14, 17, 19, 21 January 2017
Caen , France – Théâtre de Caen (co-production)
3, 5 February 2017
Berlin, Germany – Berliner Festspiele
15,16 July 2016
SEoul, South Korea – Lotte Concert Hall
22 November 2016
Così fan Tutte (2016)
Daejeon, South Korea – Daejeon Arts Center
24 November 2016
New York, USA – Mostly Mozart Festival
(Alice Tully Hall)
15 August 2016 (concert version)
Ariodante (2014)
Edimbourg, UK – Edinburgh international Festival
(co-production)
25, 27, 28 August 2016
Kalila wa Dimna (2016)
BeIrut, Lebanon – Baalbeck international Festival
18 November 2016
Lille , France – Opéra de Lille (co-production)
11, 12, 13, 14 December 2016
Toronto, Canada – Canadian Opera Company
(co-production)
16, 19, 22, 25, 27, 29 October and 4 Novembre 2016
Trauernacht (2014)
Moscow, Russia – Bolshoi Theatre
25, 26 April 2017
Il Turco in Italia(2014)
Le Mans , France – Les Quinconces
13, 14 January 2017
Warsaw, Poland – Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
(co-production)
17, 19, 21, 23, 25 March 2017
Dijon, France – Opéra de Dijon (co-production)
11, 13, 14 May 2017
Elektra (2013)
Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris
19 May 2017
Helsinki, Finland – Finnish National Opera (coproduction)
2, 6, 9, 12,15 September 2016
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2015)
Berlin, Germany – Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Unter
den Linden (co-production)
23, 26, 29 October and 1, 4 November 2016
Bologna, Italy – Teatro Comunale di Bologna
(co-production) 20, 22, 24, 26, 29 January 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015)
Beijing, China – Beijing Music Festival
15, 16 October 2016
Manama, Bahrain – Bahrain National Theater
21, 22 December 2016
Svadba (2015)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Les Théâtres de la Ville
Luxembourg (co-production)
14, 15 February 2017
Le Monstre du labyrinthe (2015)
Montpellier, France – Opéra de Montpellier
(co-production)
21, 22 April 2017
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BarcelonA , Spain – Gran Teatre del Liceu
(co-production)
7, 11, 15, 19, 23 December 2016
Written on Skin(2012)
London, UK – Covent Garden (co-production)
13, 18, 23, 27, 30 January 2017
Moscow, Russia – Bolshoi Theatre
22, 23 April 2017
La Traviata (2011)
Vienna, Austria – Wiener Staatsoper (co-production)
Repertoire production of the Wiener Staatsoper
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