Ted Huffman Succeeds Pierre Audi as Head of the Aix-en-Provence Festival

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Several times on the poster of the lyrical event, the American director will take the artistic reins from 1 January 2026.

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While he has just been awarded the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize, the Festival d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence has...

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American director Ted Huffman, 48, is a regular in Aix. He will succeed Pierre Audi, who died brutally last May at the age of 67.

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The lyrical event chose its new boss in the person of the American director Ted Huffman. His shows, whose poetic vigour is based on a strong sense of collective, have regularly marked the festival that he will now have to govern.

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Photo Lea Meienberg The American director Ted Huffman is appointed general manager of the Aix-en-Provence Festival for a five-year term beginning on January 1, 2026. He succeeds Pierre Audi, who suddenly disappeared in May 2025. Ted Huffman will implement the programming developed by the latter under the title of the 2026 edition and, in part, the 2027 edition. He will now initiate the artistic and strategic design of the 2028 and subsequent edi…

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With the approval of Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, Sophie Joissains, Mayor of the City of Aix-en-Provence, Martine Vassal, President of the Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence and of the Departmental Council of Bouches-du-Rhône and Renaud Muselier, President of the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, and on the proposal of President Paul Hermelin, the Board of Directors of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, [...]