One possible translation of the city name "Avignon" would be "The Windy City." Avignon earned this name through an aggressive wind tunnel that begins in the Alps, shoots along the Rhone valley, and ...
Currently onstage at the Festival d’Avignon’s restored Opéra Grand Avignon is, much to my astonishment, an opera. Les Incrédules, directed by Samuel Achache, with compositions by Florent Hubert and ...