The Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival takes place from July 06 to 19, 2025!
This year, the Festival celebrates 40 years of music and shared emotions with an audacious program combining prestigious performers, emerging talents, great works of the repertoire and musical discoveries.
Every July since 1985, the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival has been a major event in French cultural and musical life. Numerous prestigious artists have performed here, from Yehudi Menuhin to Michel Petrucciani, from Claudio Abbado to Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mstilav Rostropovitch? alongside "young soloists" who went on to become such: Fazil Say, Hélène Grimaud?
Now directed by Michel Orier, Director of Music and Creation at Radio France, the festival?s project has been rethought, heir to a tradition of excellence that it intends to continue and amplifythrough its links with the major Radio France ensembles (Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Choeur et Maîtrise), and the special support of France Musique and France Culture; through its collaborations with local cultural players (Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse), its network of media libraries, the Musée Fabre and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional.
The festival is committed to openness and musical diversity, with a focus on youth, transmission and the future. It strongly reaffirms its position as one of the summer?s must-see cultural and musical destinations, following in the footsteps of Aix-en-Provence, Avignon and Orange.
The festival is also investing more heavily in Montpellier, its historic heart, reaffirming its unity of time and place, so as to be more in tune with the life of the city and forge meaningful partnerships. Promoting the festival and its 90 events of the highest musical quality, accessible to the widest possible audience, also means promoting Montpellier as a destination, a city of art and culture just 10 km from the sea.
See you on March 13 for the opening of online ticketing
This year, the Festival celebrates 40 years of music and shared emotions with an audacious program combining prestigious performers, emerging talents, great works of the repertoire and musical discoveries.
Every July since 1985, the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival has been a major event in French cultural and musical life. Numerous prestigious artists have performed here, from Yehudi Menuhin to Michel Petrucciani, from Claudio Abbado to Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mstilav Rostropovitch? alongside "young soloists" who went on to become such: Fazil Say, Hélène Grimaud?
Now directed by Michel Orier, Director of Music and Creation at Radio France, the festival?s project has been rethought, heir to a tradition of excellence that it intends to continue and amplifythrough its links with the major Radio France ensembles (Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Choeur et Maîtrise), and the special support of France Musique and France Culture; through its collaborations with local cultural players (Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse), its network of media libraries, the Musée Fabre and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional.
The festival is committed to openness and musical diversity, with a focus on youth, transmission and the future. It strongly reaffirms its position as one of the summer?s must-see cultural and musical destinations, following in the footsteps of Aix-en-Provence, Avignon and Orange.
The festival is also investing more heavily in Montpellier, its historic heart, reaffirming its unity of time and place, so as to be more in tune with the life of the city and forge meaningful partnerships. Promoting the festival and its 90 events of the highest musical quality, accessible to the widest possible audience, also means promoting Montpellier as a destination, a city of art and culture just 10 km from the sea.
See you on March 13 for the opening of online ticketing
