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Switzerland Lucerne Summer Festival 2025 – Mahler: Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ute Feudel) from the Konzertsaal des KKL Luzern, 15.8.2024 and available free on ARTE Concert until 14.8.2025. (JPr)
Switzerland Lucerne Summer Festival 2024 – Mahler’s Seventh Symphony: Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ute Feudel) from the Konzertsaal des KKL Luzern, 16.8.2024 and available on ARTE Concert until 19.8.2025. (JPr)
United Kingdom Elgar, Wagner, Sibelius: Sol Gabetta (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL) Luzern, Lucerne, 28.10.2022. (JR)
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [4] – Sibelius, Bruckner: London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL), Lucerne, 3.9.2022. (JR)
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [3] – Schnittke, Bruckner: Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL), Lucerne, 1.9.2022. (JR)
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [2] – Gershwin, Porgy and Bess (concert performance): Soloists, NDR Vokalensemble, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester / Alan Gilbert (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL) Luzern, Lucerne, 25.8.2022. (JR)
Switzerland Lucerne Festival [1] – Wagner: Soloists, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KKL) Luzern, Lucerne, 23.8.2022. (JR)
‘Diversity’ is the theme of the Lucerne Summer Festival 2022
Lucerne Festival Orchestra to perform with Music Director Riccardo Chailly as well as Jakub Hrůša
The Chineke! Youth Orchestra and the Chineke! Orchestra, respectively, will appear at the beginning and end of the Festival
The Lucerne Festival Academy and the LFCO will focus on the work of composer-in-residence Thomas Adès and collaborate with ‘artiste étoile’ Tyshawn Sorey.
Both the composer and multifaceted instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey and the soprano Angel Blue will be ‘artistes étoiles.’
22 orchestras will make guest appearances in Lucerne over a single month; in addition to the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouworkest, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra are scheduled to appear.