Tourist Calendar France Summer 1958
MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL FESTIVALS
STRASBOURG June 9-24. Annual International Music Festival, The oldest French festival.
NANCY June 9-29. Eighteenth-century Festival.
CHARTRES May 17-July 26. Musical Saturdays. Weekend chamber music concerts.
VICHY June 14-July 6. Eighth Music and Drama Festival, featuring performances by Jean Vilar’s Théâtre National Populaire (June 15) and ballets by Russian Bolshoi troupe (June 21-22).
PRADES July 3-21. Annual Chamber Music Festival, under the direction of Pablo Casals. Guest performers include Menuhin, Engel, Cortot, Kempff, Vegh, Horszowski.
CARCASSONNE July 10-20. Dramatic Art Festival under Jean Deschamps. Performances at openair theater, and floodlighting of the city.
AIX-IN-PROVENCE July 10-31. Annual Music Festival will feature the Paris Conservatory Orchestra: Mozart’s Don Giovanni, July 10, 17, 23, 29 Mozart’s Magic Flute, July 15, 19, 24, 27 Rossini’s Barber of Seville, July 21, 26, 30
The festival will feature many concerts, with guest soloists Wilhelm Kempff, Andrés Segovia, the famous Italian twelve-instrument group I Musici, the Paris Conservatory Choir, the young composer Pierre Boulez.
AVIGNON July 15-August 3. Annual Drama Festival put on by Jean Vilar’s Théâtre National Populaire in the court of the Palace of the Popes.
PARIS The International Drama Festival will feature the following programs at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris:
June 1 Troupe du Théâtre Marocain Molière’s Le Malade Imaginaire
2 A Moroccan play
4-7 Stuttgart Opera Werner Egk’s Le Revizor
9-12 Theater of Buenos Aires Mérimée’s Le Carrosse du St.-Sacrement and Alberto de Zavalia’s El Limite
13-14 Royal Stockholm Theater Strindberg’s The Creditors
15 Ibsen’s Wild Duck
18-20 Moscow Art Theater Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard
21-23 Three Sisters
25-27 Uncle Vanya
28-29 Rakhmanov’s Troubled Old Age
30 Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard
July 2-3 Zurich Schauspielhaus Max Frisch’s Biedermann und Hotz
4—5 National Dancers of Ceylon Ballets
7-10 Old Vic Theatre (London) Henry VIII (with John Gielgud)
11-13 Hamlet (with John Neville)
15-16 People’s Theater of Poland Gozzi’s Turandot
17 Werfel’s Jacobowsky and the Colonel
18 New Polish work (as yet unspecified)
ANNECY August 3-10. Theater performances, folklore events, and canal concerts in this charming old town on the edge of one of France’s loveliest lakes.
MENTON August 1-13. Chamber music concerts given in the square in front of the baroque façade of the Church of Saint Michel, overlooking the Mediterranean. Concerts are accompanied by night flower battles, carnival processions, and nautical events in the gay Riviera tradition.
LIGHT AND SOUND PROGRAMS
From the beginning of June, almost all important Loire châteaux (Amboise, Angers, Azay-le-Rideau, Blois, Chambord, Chenonceaux, Loches, Sully-surLoire, and Villandry) will have nightly son et lumière programs beginning at 9 P.M. In the vicinity of Paris, Grosbois and Chantilly will feature nightly programs.
VERSAILLES Program entitled “To All the Glories of France” prepared with the help of André Maurois and Jean Cocteau. June 20-September 28 (except for June 22, July 6. August 3, and September 7) on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. June 24-August 26 on Tuesdays as well. On the terrace of the château; 10:00 P.M. up to August 14, 9:30 P.M. beginning August 15.
Night festivals on Sundays, June 22, July 6, August 3, and September 7, beginning at nightfall. Includes playing of Neptune fountains and fireworks.
Fountain displays in the park on Sundays, June 1, 15, and 22; July 6 and 20; August 3 and 17; September 7 and 21; 4:45 P.M.
VINCENNES Night spectacle entitled “A Thousand Years of the History of France” in the old royal fortress on the eastern edge of Paris. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays on the esplanade of the château: June 1-July 34, 10:30 P.M. July 16-August 14, 10:00 P.M. August 15—September 28, 9:30 P.M.
MISCELLANEOUS
PARIS AND VICINITY June 8 Prix de Diane (horse race) at Chantilly, 2:00 P.M.
June 11, 12, 13 Celebration of fourteenth centenary of Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés.
June 22 Grand Steeplechase de Paris, at Auteuil, 2:00 P.M.
June 29 Grand Prix de Paris (horse race) at Longchamp, 2:00 P.M.
July 10-October 10 Exhibition of Lurçat paintings and tapestries at Musée de l’Art Moderne.
BRITTANYBreton Pardons: religious festivals celebrated with colorful Breton costumes in honor of Saint Anne, the patron saint of Brittany.
July 13 Locronan (Finistère). Pardon of the Troménie.
July 26 Auray (Morbihan). Pardon of Saint Anne.
August 23-24 La Palud (Finistère). Pardon of Saint Anne.
August 24 Concarneau (Finistère). Festival of the Blue Fishing Nets held for the benefit of sailors’ welfare fund, with display of fishing nets of safely returned fishermen. Accompanied by gay regional dances.
Travelers will be interested in the illustrated booklet, TOURIST EVENTS: FRANCE, 1958. For a free copy write to the Publisher of the ATLANTIC. 8 Arlington Street. Boston 16, Massachusetts.