With a strong record of past successes, the Festival of Aix welcomes a public that is not only local, but also national and international, with many spectators and journalists coming from around the world. The spectators who come to take part in the Festival of Aix leave each year with memories of a festival experience that is unique in its own way and during which they attended musical performances of a high quality in the unique context of an open-air festival under the sky of Provence. Furthermore, each year the international press travels to Aix to attend the festival performances. Thus, journalists from the Financial Times, the New York Times, Opera Today and even Radio Canada made the journey to Aix-en-Provence to discover the new productions and creations of the Festival of Aix 2015. The exceptional quality of the performances at the festival is based on the presence, refreshed each year, of famous artists and great orchestras and choirs.