"In the course of the years, and for eleven seasons, Musicalta Festival has been standing out as one of the big classical music festival in Alsace, distinguishing itself by the choice of a programm without taboo: Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy intertwine with some of the most important contemporary composers, but also with composers to rediscover."

Pierre Chevreau - July 21st, 2007

"...CLASSICA says yes.... to MUSICALTA. In Alsace this summer, take your time and pay attention to Rouffach and its surrounding areas. From July 21st to August 10th, there will be the festival Musicalta, which will delight your ears."

Classica Répertoire n°84 July - August 2006

"For the territory of proximity, Musicalta's festival constitutes an economic impact and an "advertising" window of quality - evaluated by advertising executives around several tens of thousand euros - due to the reputation and the international influence of the academy."

Bernard Fruinholtz - August 12th, 2006

"In the heart of the Alsatian vineyards, Musicalta, for now more than ten years, has not appeared to be an ordinary festival. Musicalta succeeds in being rare, each year a little more, due to an elaborated programming thanks to the artistic director Francis Duroy, who bets with happiness on the interior intensity of the musical event."

The chronicle of Bernard Andrès - L'Ami du peuple - August 13th, 2006

"A room with a... romantic view. Why does Musicalta attract each and every year thousands and thousands of spectators? Is it because it declines with eloquence the chamber music under all its aspects? Or is it because all concerts take place in the churches of Rouffach Country, allowing each spectator to discover the Rhenish Romantic style miracles? Or maybe because it welcomes more than 60 famous musicians and 350 students? Because the programming is rare? Because concerts are doubled by an international summer academy? Without a doubt, it is all at the same time."

June - August 2005

"To express the pleasure which a listener can feel after a concert, words are difficult to find: Saturday, the very long standing ovation will stay durably in many memories..."

Bernard Fruhinholtz - August 8th, 2004

"The originality of Musicalta is its anchoring in an international summer academy. Coming from France, Europe, Emirates, Asia, Canada or from Norway, more than two hundred and fifty students take advantage of an unusual meeting with great musicians"

June 20th, 2003

"It can be difficult to believe that an important music festival has taken its place so far from cities. All that you have to do is to sneak in year by year, among Musicalta's regular public to convince yourself of the obvious success of the bet of the organizers. Madness around the programs companions' rustles of benches, everything breathes and lives at the rythm of a festival which is also a place of formation (...) the area there is looking like a small campus. This close link between academy and festival gives to the concert a particular tonality: here intimacy is obvious and, in this almost family atmosphere, everyone can be invaded by the interpreters' playing"

Hors Série - June-August 2001

"...It's a crazy bet thrown by some passionate people which win up there on the Vosges mountains. In this enchanting place, Musicalta's festival has taken its marks around a musical academy... And while the whole world celebrate Bach, Musicalta, which seems having chosen the productives margins, honours Charles Koechlin..."

Corinne Ibram - July 2000

"...Musicalta's reason of being resides in the union of many rare qualities, where curiosity rests on a view's coherence, voluntarism of the programs and the interpreters' commitment. Musicalta's most remarkable originality is its anchoring, during 15 days, in a summer academy which enable 140 students of all ages to benefit from the teaching given by twenty famous soloists."

Christian Fruchart - July 25th, 2000