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New director of Aix-en-Provence outlines ambitious plans

Source: www.playbillarts.com. Posted on 19 April 2006.

Bernard Foccroulle, the newly appointed head of Aix-en-Provence's summer opera festival, told Bloomberg News that he plans to focus on Mozart as well as Baroque and contemporary music.

The 52-year-old Belgian hopes the festival will become a major international opera venue. He told Bloomberg that Aix will inaugurate its new 1,400-seat theater next year with Wagner's Die Walkure, staged by Stephane Braunschweig and conducted by Simon Rattle. The 2007 lineup, of which two-thirds is set, will also include Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Daniel Harding conducting.

Aix-en-Provence will continue to highlight Mozart operas, says Foccroulle. He also plans to add Baroque and contemporary works, and perhaps commission an opera by George Benjamin, according to Bloomberg.

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