Programme for the 2026 music festival

“Every concert, every stage production is an act of pure hermeneutics, an explanatory representation of meanings…” George Steiner

“It is not always easy to believe that a major music festival can thrive far from cities. Yet, by slipping in year after year among the faithful of Musicalta, one becomes convinced of the clear success of the organisers’ gamble. A flurry around programmes, the murmur of friends sharing benches—everything breathes and lives to the rhythm of a festival that also seeks to be a place of education, giving the region a kind of campus […] here intimacy is essential, and in this almost familial atmosphere, each person can let themselves be carried away by the performers’ artistry.”

Répertoire Hors Série – June–August 2001

Musicalta is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and 25 years in Rouffach and the Rouffach, Vineyards and Castles region.

It is an artistic and human adventure serving a simple yet demanding conviction: to bring to rural areas a cultural project of quality that is in no way inferior to that of major cities.

This choice, made 30 years ago under the motto—Dissemination, Creation, Education—remains more alive than ever.

Over these 30 years, there have been more than a thousand concerts featuring some of today’s finest performers, over 40 premieres and as many invited composers, but also an average of 400 students each year from all over the world coming together to celebrate culture and music in a festive spirit. Since 2016, this adventure has also continued throughout the year through artistic residencies in the schools, middle schools, and high schools of the Rouffach, Vineyards and Castles region, bringing music to the heart of the territory well beyond the festival period.

If such an anniversary is an opportunity to take stock of the path already travelled, it is also an opportunity to reflect on the future.

Music and its practices evolve every day, taking on the forms of their time. As a living art, it must remain as close as possible to its environment and its audiences.

For art can only be seen and perceived through a contemporary gaze; it is a presence.

We would like to express our deep gratitude to our institutional and private partners, volunteers, audiences, artists, and staff—everyone whose enthusiasm, commitment, and loyalty have made it possible for a chrysalis full of childhood dreams to become a shared treasure for all.

Florence Lab & Francis Duroy