A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…

A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…

A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…

A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…

The German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff performs J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites Nos. 4 and 5 amid natural surroundings devastated by climate change. Beauty confronts its own destruction. Do we really want to watch without lifting a finger? Melting glaciers…

The French Baroque opera Hippolyte et Aricie carries its audience away into a realm of wonders with magnificent dance and choir scenes and the greatest possible multitude of musical forms. Philippe Rameau, a French contemporary of Bach and Handel…

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) died before he could complete his final opera Turandot. Fortunately, his lesser-known colleague Franco Alfano managed to use the maestro's notes to complete the opera in time for its April 26, 1926…

The poet E. T. A. Hoffmann as the protagonist of his own fantastic tales: In his encounter with three women - Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta - he searches in vain for love and for himself. Will he draw the strength for art from his failure in life…

Giacomo Puccini honours his own code by bringing all those elements together in a single work, Il trittico, which is made up of three one-act operas. Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his…

When painter Gustav Klimt coated his famous paintings with gold leaf, Richard Strauss musically reveled in the opulence that was so typical of Vienna at the time. No fewer than five powerful Wagnerian voices are needed for his "Die Frau ohne Schatten…