The evening begins with a rare treat: the Prelude from Glazunov’s 1902 orchestral suite From the Middle Ages. Evoking medieval Europe through orchestral music reminiscent of opera, the suite portrays a passionate young couple, blissfully ignorant of…

The third and final operatic event of the 2017 festival was Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Stanislav Kochanovsky leads the young musicians and singers of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Academy in Timothy Carroll’s semi…

Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (VFCO) since 2007, Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts three masterpieces of the classical orchestral repertoire: Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor with Mikhail Pletnev as…

What a strange idea Mondonville had! Based on a cruel fable by La Fontaine with a tragic ending, he wrote a charming opera libretto with a happy ending, and composed a delightful pastoral. In the prologue, Dame Clémence Isaure, the mythical founder…

Radiant heroes, eerie forests: The Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor Andris Nelsons end the season at the Waldbühne with romantic opera. They are joined by star tenor Klaus Florian Vogt, who is a regular guest at the world’s great stages – from…

Orchestras once played Bach as well as Bruckner. Only specialised ensembles showed that note and performance signs have changed their meaning quite a bit over the centuries. So far, so theoretical: in practice, Handel's "Il Trionfo" awaits us, a…

Located between the sea and the mountains, right in the centre of the city of Barcelona, stands the Sagrada Família. It has been an emblematic building from the very beginning; an expiatory temple created by thousands of people and the work of…

The Verbier Festival Orchestra, under the baton of one of the greatest Mahlerians of our time, Michael Tilson Thomas, perform the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, an ode to nature. This concert, the climax of the 2016 Verbier Festival…

Hungarian pianist András Schiff, one of the titans in the contemporary piano scene, returns as both soloist and conductor to Verbier, performing music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The programme culminates in Beethoven’s masterpiece…

After a long absence from the stage, violin legend Kyung Wha Chung made a sensational return to the concert stage, when opening the 2016 Verbier Festival with a powerful performance of Brahms‘ Violin Concerto in D Major, one of the crowns of the…