The Lacoste Festival offers Gérard Depardieu and Andrea Bocelli

He too will not succumb to the coronavirus. Determined to blow out its twenty candles, the Lacoste Festival has maintained its 2020 edition. And to mark the anniversary of the event, postponed to August, its creator Pierre Cardin offers music lovers two unforgettable headliners: Gérard Depardieu and Andrea Bocelli.

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"Despite the circumstances, the sub-prefecture of Apt has accepted that the festival will go as planned ," said the fashion designer and patron who will celebrate his 98th birthday on July 2. It is a very good thing that culture can quickly regain its rights after what we have just experienced. Art is my passion and has accompanied my whole life. ”

"Of course, the festival will respect all the health regulations that would still be necessary in August, said Pierre Cardin, who said he had spent the past three months without leaving his home in Paris. We are lucky that the shows take place in an open-air theater with 1,000 seats in the middle of the old quarries of the Lacoste castle. In case of bad weather, there is a 1,800 m2 theater dug into the rock ”.

Crazy musicals

“The Lacoste Festival celebrates its twentieth anniversary. It's great to bring Gérard Depardieu, Andrea Bocelli and also Marie-Claude Pietragalla together. It seemed impossible to create a festival with such influence. We did it. I am very happy with it, ” he added. The sacred monster of the seventh art will interpret Barbara's repertoire while the tenor will take on great opera arias.

For the first time, the festival will offer from August 1 to 7 an outdoor cinema with a retrospective of the great musicals brought to the screen, presented by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, from West Side Story to La La Land , by the way by Mamma Mia! or Grease .

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Created in 2001, this festival chaired by Eve Ruggieri, brings together experienced artists and young talents from all walks of life. The sopranos Renée Fleming, Natalie Dessay and Teresa Berganza, the tenors Jonas Kaufmann and Roberto Alagna, but also Arielle Dombasle, Thomas Dutronc and Mireille Mathieu have performed in recent years in Lacoste.

Built in the 11th century, the Château de Lacoste was bequeathed in 1716 to Gaspard François de Sade, grandfather of the sulphurous Marquis renowned for his erotic writings, who lived there for several years.