Festival of Radio France and Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon

The Festival of Radio France and Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon is a annual Festival which is held in July in the town of Montpellier.

History

The festival is created in 1985 on the initiative of Radio France and the Town of Montpellier and is entrusted to the direction of Rene Koering, for:

to reconcile traditional and unexpected, large interpreters and young hopes, old accents and sonorities of tomorrow… in the great tradition of the public service… which, only, can offer if great choice|Jean-Christmas Jeanneney, general President-director of Radio France - 1985

The taste of discovered of its director led the Festival to many lyric re-creations (of Henri VIII of Saint-Saëns to Cyrano of Bergerac of Alfano, and in 2006 Fiesque of Lalo), but also to propose uncommon forms in concerts (itinerant piano, concert match) and the discovery of musics of today (young type-setters, electroacoustic music).

Six demonstrations per day on average are proposed representing more than one hundred demonstrations on the whole each year (in 2006, 17 paying concerts for 112 demonstrations with free entry). Since 2002, the public of the Festival accommodates more than 100.000 spectators.

Source

Official site

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