FESTIVAL OF AIX EN PROVENCE
from July 05, to July 27, 2012

The five operas in the limelight of the 2012 Edition of the Festival d’Aix offer a great variety of musical styles, vocal gems, orchestral coulourings, and dramatic compositions. While La Clemenza di Tito stands as the archetypal classical opera, nurtured by the traditions of both opera seria and the Enlightenment, La Traviata explores the tragic life of a demimondaine on the fringes of polite society with brand new realism – which explains the scandal following the premiere. The pastoral elegy enfolding Acis and Galatea is worlds away from the pungent irony illustrated by Gogol and Shostakovich in The Nose. For the first time, Joël Pommerat's strange and elusive characters will find their expression in music with a score by Oscar Bianchi.