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Modern opera usurps Mozart in Aix-en-Provence

Source: www.lepaysdefayence.com. Posted on 23 July 2005.

Patrice Chéreau is one of a handful of stage directors whose name is automatically attached to the work he is directing. Thus, a landmark Wagner production at the 1976 Bayreuth Festival is remembered as Patrice Chéreau's 'Ring' cycle. And again, before this month's Aix-en-Provence Festival, the buzz centered on Chéreau's 'Così Fan Tutte' his first venture into opera in 11 years.

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