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Debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence announced

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence has announced their 2025 season: Christopher Sokolowski will make his debut as Captain Vere in Britten's Billy Budd.

The work will be presented in a new version adapted by director Ted Huffman, and commissioned by the Britten Estate. “For Ted Huffman and Oliver Leith, condensing Britten’s opera by reinterpreting its narrative and sound content means re-focusing their attention on the essential: reconnecting with its folk roots, with the eternal sailor’s ballad; questioning the queer fog that floats down from Melville and Britten to us, turning into a political and metaphysical meditation on what constitutes humanity, on what cements or destroys a community.”

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