AROUND THE ACADÉMIE’S LIBRETTO RESIDENCY
WITH PIERSANDRA DI MATTEO, DAVID LEVIN, ANTONIO CUENCA RUIZ, A LIBRETTIST IN RESIDENCE AND FRANCESCO FILIDEI
- Moderator Guillaume Picard, dramaturge at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
- Langues In French and English
- Video available for replay until Wednesday, June 30, 2027
- Photo © Martina Ruggeri / DR / DR
The Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence seeks to encourage the emergence of new operas. Its 2026 Libretto Residency welcomes artists wishing to create a text that will serve as the basis for music, performance and staging. This roundtable explores the challenges facing librettists today, whether adapting literary traditions, constructing new narratives, or inventing forms of dramaturgy suited to our own time. Alongside the residency’s mentors and the composer Francesco Filidei, a new generation reflects on this vital aspect of the operatic creative process.
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF : Piersandra Di Matteo (dramaturge), David Levin (dramaturge), Antonio Cuenca Ruiz (dramaturge inrésidence), a librettist in residence and Francesco Filidei (composer of Accabadora)