François-René Martin

Romeo Castellucci interpretation of Mozart's final work.

Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the Paris Opera, Bel air Media and Arte, with support from the CNC.

For years, *The Magic Flute* has been one of the most frequently performed operas at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. After an eight-year absence, Mozart’s work is now back on the programme. Clément Cogitore interprets the plot as a modern coming-of-age story: Tamino and Pamina leave the world of childhood behind and enter a reality in which beauty is fragile and truth is uncertain.

Opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hector Berlioz's version (1859)

A musical and visual account of the life and exceptional and immortal work of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑American relations. John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, begun by the invitation of the American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential visit. A mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic lines of great lyricism. For its entry into the Paris Opera repertoire, this work has been entrusted to the director Valentina Carrasco, who underlines the importance and the mediating power of Chinese national sport in history.

Live from Nantes, a dazzling musical journey between Paris and Vienna. On the program: works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schubert, Johann Strauss II (transcribed by Schoenberg), and Saint-Saëns.

The grand closing concert of the 2024 edition of the Nantes classical music festival. The programme includes Dvorak's ‘Slavonic Dance’, Pablo de Sarasate's ‘Bohemian Airs’ and the first movement of Tchaikovsky's ‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1’. Also excerpts from works by Chopin, Albéniz, Mascagni, Puccini and Sibelius.