Aix-en-Provence Music Festival, July Classical Music
Aix-en-Provence
  • Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art
These venues for the Music Festival event in July  are a
short walk from the mid point of the Cours Mirabeau and its
many benches and cafés.  
  • Sightseeing
Between events this can be pleasant place to people
watch.   The northern section of the city  in the area of the
Cathedral of St. Sauveur is given over to mostly pedestrian-
only streets and "Semi Pedestrian-Only Streets"     

Wade into the heart of Aix-en-Provence on its winding,
narrow streets and visit the 1665 Pavilion De Vendome and
its gardens or walk through the narrow opening at the
Passage Agard and visit the Deux Garcons Café, a haunt of
Cezanne and rated a top restaurant.

On other walks you will find the many plazas and fountains.
  • St. Sauveur Cathedral
You can walk to the hill from the Plaza Hotel de Ville towards
the first century edge of the city and pass the medieval
rampart and roman walls( Just a little wall remaining) and
visit the workshop of Cezanne. On the way, you will pass
Gothic St. Sauveur Cathedral and its medieval chapel and
the 1650s building housing the Museum of Tapestries,
  • Festival Sites
The Archbishops Palace, the Museum of Tapestries, is one
of Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art
important venues
On the south side of the Cours the streets have a grid pattern and there you
will find the  L'Eglise St. Jean De Malte, a 12 the century Gothic church of
the Knights of Malta.

On the north side of the Cours, the old town with its maze of narrow streets
is much larger and its older buildings make it a great place to walk.

Trolleys and public buses also tour the city.
Info is available at the tourist office. Follow the big i
The the program and
music venues change each
year as the festival evolves
Find information at the
tourist center  as you enter
the city.  Follow the big   i

Paid parking is available
with an automated system
of coin and receipt that you
place on your dashboard.

Public transportation is
available from the tourist
center.
The Cours Mirabeau.
  • International Festival of Lyric Art
Each summer in July  a music festival comes to
Aix-en-Provence and turns many halls, churches
and hotel courtyards into concert halls and stages
where the music of Ravel, Wagner, and Mozart
head the bill of performances of opera and
classical music.
  • Opera
Modern composers are also featured in the event
that started in 1948 and has grown steadily to
become Provence's largest concert series
devoted to classical music and opera.  
  • Venues
The main venues for performance are now the
Theatre de L'Archeveche, a theatre built at the
palace once the home of the Archbishop, a
restored 18th century theatre in the courtyard of
the   Hotel Maynier d'Oppede,   the Theatre Jeu de
Paumes, and a new theatre, the Grand Theatre de
Provence which opened in 2007.
You can walk to the
Theatre de
L'Archeveche from the
Cours Mirabeau in about
ten minutes.  It is north of
the Cours Mirabeau on
Rue Gaston de Sporta at
the Cathedral of Saint
Sauveur.
The Archbishops Palace
is now the Museum of
Tapestries and the
courtyard becomes a
stage for the July Music
Festival
Theatre du Jeu de
Paume is located two
blocks east of the cours
de Mirabeau beau, at
17 Rue de la Opera.
The 5th Century
Baptistery  ringed by
Roman columns in the
Cathedral of St Sauveur.
Hotel Maynier
d'Oppede is near the
Cathedral of Saint
Sauveur.

The hotel , now the
Institute of French
Studies opens its
courtyard for the
Aix-en-Provence
International Festival of
Lyric Art
The newest theatre venue in Aix is the modern ( 2007)  Grand Theatre de Provence, on Avenue Max
Juvenal, a five minute walk (six blocks west ) from the rotary at the west end of the Cours Mirabeau.  Parking
is available at the theatre which seats up to 1,366 and has capacity in the orchestra pit for 105 musicians.
With its curvilinear design and spacious patios, the thoroughly modern building stands as a great contrast to
the Gothic architecture of Aix-en-Provence.
Aix-en-Provence in July sees the Aix-en-Provence
International Festival of Lyric Art turn many halls,
churches and hotel courtyards into concert halls for the
music of Wagner, Mozart, Ravel and modern composers
of classical music during the month of July   
The Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art takes place in churches and hotel courtyards in July in Aix-en-Provence, the South of France.
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The Aix-en-Provence International
Festival of Lyric Art turns churches  of
Aix-en-Provence into concert stages  
during the month of July.  
Aix-en-Provence
International Festival of
Lyric Art
See dates and venues
below
  • Dates
The concerts start the second week of July and run
into the last week of July
2012,  July 05 to July 27   
The Cathedral of Saint
Sauveur area which
includes the
Archbishops Palace,
now the Museum of
Tapestries,   become
stages for the July
Aix-en-Provence
International Festival of
Lyric Art
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