There are festivals with first-rate programming, but where you have the impression of doing turnkey concerts like at the factory.
There are some whose posters are more modest but have a unique personality.
And then there are those who manage to reconcile prestigious performers and a highly thought-out program, while having a soul.
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This is the case of the Berlioz Festival, which radiates from the small Dauphinoise locality of La Côte-Saint-André, the composer's birthplace, in this department of Isère which does so much for culture.
We owe it perhaps to the spirit of Berlioz, which still blows on the plain of the Bièvre.
We owe it more surely to the human warmth, the force of persuasion and the musical intelligence of its director, Bruno Messina.
If he manages to attract top chefs to original programs and create a festive atmosphere with local roots, it may be because, when he talks to Valery Gergiev or John Eliot Gardiner,
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