Avenches Opéra Festival

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The Festival Avenches Opera (formerly Festival d'Opéra Avenches) or Avenches Opera Festival was an opera - Festival , every summer in the Roman amphitheater since its inception in 1995 Avenches in Switzerland has taken place.

The 2020 event was canceled for financial reasons. Whether it will continue after that is still in the stars.

history

Avenches amphitheater

Since its first edition, the Avenches Opera Festival has drawn tens of thousands of spectators every July. Numerous works from the operatic repertoire were performed in Avenches, including Aida , Carmen , Nabucco , Die Zauberflöte , La traviata , Il trovatore , Don Giovanni and Lucia di Lammermoor .

The Avenches Opera Festival has continued to develop since its inception, adapting its structures and making it more professional. Nothing has changed in its most important goals, however: it wants to maintain its importance among the major Swiss classical music events in the open air and make opera accessible to every audience, from lovers and connoisseurs to opera novices.

The Fondation Avenches Opéra, chaired by Edouard Ryser, is responsible for organizing the festival. Eric Vigié, the artistic director of the Opéra de Lausanne, has been artistic director since 2011.

In 2019 the festival only had 9,000 spectators.

Notes and references

  1. a b Festival Avenches Opéra after red numbers before the end. In: bielertagblatt.ch =. September 24, 2019, archived from the original on September 25, 2019 .;
  2. Avenches.ch - Opera Festival ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.avenches.ch
  3. Festival d'Opéra - myswitzerland.com
  4. ^ Program retrospective , accessed on February 12, 2016.
  5. Eric Vigié on the Opera Festival website , accessed on February 12, 2016.

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