© Vincent PontetOn April 15, the director of the festival in ex-en-Provence Pierre Odus announced that this year the festival, which was supposed to open in June, would not take place.
Pierre Odor’s appeal to the audience is published on the festival website in the ex-en-provence . It states that the decision to cancel the festival was made in connection with the ban on holding public events in France, which was introduced on April 13, President Emmanuel Macron due to Pandemia of Coronavirus Covid-19 .
According to the director of the festival in the ex-en-provence, this decision was not easy, but the main thing is to guarantee safety to the audience, artists and the festival team.
“We will continue to monitor the development of events and, if circumstances allow, we will offer our viewers the opportunity to virtually attend the festival and its production of 2020 through online broadcasts,” added Pierre Oda.
He expressed gratitude to everyone who participated in the preparation of the festival and assured that his team would do everything possible so that in the future the festival would not deceive the expectations of 2020.
The festival in the ex-en-province has been held since 1948. This year in his program there were five opera performances, including “this is what all” Mozart in the production of Dmitry Chernyakov. Among the artists engaged in these performances, Christian Gerhar, Sabin Devel, Anya Kampe, Georg Nigl, Veronica Jans, Sandrin Pio, Anna Prokhazka, Magdalena Kozhenya, Claudia Manka, Richard Croft, Russell Brown, Nicole Shevalier, Dmitry Ulyanov.