Festival

Far from the glitz and glamour, the Nuits du Château de La Moutte in Saint-Tropez have been inviting us to poetry and romance for 50 years.

Set in the heart of a superb century-old palm grove, the Château de La Moutte estate was acquired and restored in 1860 by Émile Ollivier, Prime Minister of Napoleon III and husband of Blandine Liszt, daughter of Franz Liszt and sister of Cosima Wagner. A delightful little 18th-century château lost on the Saint-Tropez peninsula at the tip of La Moutte.

From then on, a prestigious musical tradition was established here, where artists and audiences were free to meet. In the château's courtyard, with its marvellous acoustics, in the palm grove or on the Canebiers beach, it's always in the moonlight and under the starry sky that concerts of classical, baroque, jazz or world music enchant Tropezian evenings.

Jean-Philippe Audoli and François Michiels have structured the festival over the years. It now welcomes the greatest international artists, including pianists Nelson Freire, François-René Duchâble, Boris Berezovsky, Nikolaï Lugansky, Khatia Buniatishvili, Alexandre Tharaud, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Bertrand Chamayou, Nelson Goerner, Alexandre Kantorow, singers Nadine Sierra, Joyce Di Donato, Karine Deshayes, Patricia Petibon, Véronique Gens, Julie Fuchs, China Moses, Dee Dee Bridgewater, flamenco dancer Eduardo Guerrero, drummer Manu Katché, bassist Richard Bona, fado singer Cristina Branco, violinists Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovich ...

Every summer, magical evenings that delight friends and acquaintances alike.