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AT THE MOMENT
World premiere: Accabadora
Aix-en-Provence Festival, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 July
A new opera by Francesco Filidei, based on Michela Murgia’s novel centred on the figure of the Accabadora, an ancient Sardinian tradition of assisted dying.
Maria, the youngest child in an overcrowded family, is adopted by Tzia Bonaria, who has no children of her own. Both feared and respected, she is an accabadora: a seamstress by day, she weaves the thread of life; acting as a substitute for the Fates, she severs it by night – putting an end to agonies that have gone on for too long.
Musiques au Louvre recitals with Le Poème Harmonique
29 and 30 July at the Musicales de Normandie and in the Pays d’Auge
Spanning the French and Italian repertoires, from popular to royal music, from salon pieces to drinking songs once hummed in the streets of Paris, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique will be our guides on this tour of a living palace, focusing in particular on the early years of Louis XIV’s reign when Mazarin sought to establish Italian opera in France. This key ambition, however, was short-lived and would bring Francesco Cavalli, the greatest composer of his time, no end of disappointment during his stay in Paris.
Announcement in July
The 2026–2027 season will be unveiled next month!
See you very soon