Recent Summer Festivals
Concerts in 2007 & 2008 took place in the towns (and lovely Provençal "villes perchées") of Bargemon, Seillans, Bagnols-en-Foret and Mons. The 2008 International Musique-Cordiale Festival ran from 3–17 August 2008, the 2009 the festival dates were 6–14 August 2009.
In 2010, the festival dates were 3–14 August 2010. That festival's directors, conductors, singers and instrumentalists included several of Europe's future musical stars. It featured an outdoor staging of Cosi fan tutte, directed by Andrew Staples, (music director Graham Ross and starring Mary Bevan, Rhona McKail, Martha Jones, Sam Evans, Tyler Clarke & Richard Latham). The Fauré Requiem and Haydn's Nelson Mass were conducted by Tom Seligman. Other works, performed as part of the festival in the Provence towns of Aups, Bagnols-en-foret, Mons and Seillans, include music by Massenet, Bizet, Vivaldi, Mozart, Verdi, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Rossini, Donizetti, Gluck, Lalo, Wagner, Walter, Grieg, Corelli, Poulenc, Tippett & Bach as well as a jazz evening with singer Krestine Havemann, drummer Tristan Fry and pianist Jean-Marie Reboul. Other soloists included Melinda Stocker, Ciaran McCabe, Christopher Hoyle, Michel Tirabosco, Suzy Ruffles, Rosie Bel and Kate Howden. In 2011, La Boheme was performed.
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