THE GUIDE FESTIVALS 2022


DOMAIN OF CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE CHÂTEAU PARK AND STABLES INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL CENTRE FOR ARTS AND NATURE


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this excellent music festival. This year there are 16 concerts spread out across the fortnight, featuring string trios and quartets, violinists, pianists, cellists and viola players. (Don’t miss the internationally renowned Ébène Quartet from Paris and Zemlinsky Quartet from the Czech Republic.) Featured composers this year include Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, Ravel, Dvorak, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov and Prokofi ev. It’s a real treat. www.wissembourg-festival.com


Festival International de Musique de Dinard July 13–20, 2022 France’s Belle Époque was a period of history from the late 1800s up until World War I. This music festival, staged at various venues across the Brittany town of Dinard, celebrates the Belle Époque with classical concerts linked to that period. It is now in its 33rd year. www.festival-music-dinard.com


Chorégies d’Orange June 20 – August 6, 2022 This mega-celebration of opera and other classical music in the


Provençal town of Orange has been going since 1869 – that’s an impressive 153 years. The venues include the city’s Roman theatre which dates from the 1st Century. This year the live performances (some free of charge) include works by Beethoven, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Ponchielli and Donizetti. www.choregies.fr


FILM & ARTS FESTIVALS Angoulême International Comics Festival Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême January 2023


Every year (normally in January although it took place in March this year) the Poitou-Charentes city of Angoulême is transformed into a huge celebration of comic-book culture with pretty much everyone who’s anyone in the European comic-book industry in attendance. At many venues all over town there are exhibitions, lectures, shows, workshops, book signings and innumerable book stalls selling every type of comic book in styles ranging from the classics such as Tintin and Asterix and


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