Eivind Gullberg Jensen takes over as conductor for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s upcoming production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. The production opens on 5 July for a run of five performances until 18 July.

Last season, Jensen conducted the Finnish National Opera’s new production of The Rake’s Progress. He recently made his debut at Opéra de Lille with Der fliegende Holländer and Wiener Staatsoper conducting Tosca, and will return to the latter this autumn to conduct La bohème.

The new production by Simon McBurney stars Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, Kyle Ketelsen and David Pittsinger. It is a co-production with the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam in collaboration with Complicite, London.