Verbier – Seen and Heard International

Freddie De Tommaso’s confident role debut and Bryn Terfel’s masterclass in Verbier’s Puccini double bill

30/08/202525/07/2025 by Jim Pritchard

Switzerland Verbier Festival 2025 – Puccini, Gianni Schicchi, Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana (concert performances): Soloists, Oberwalliser Vokalensemble choir, Verbier Festival Orchestra / Andrea Battistoni (conductor), Johanna Vaude (video art). Broadcast live from Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland, 24.7.2025 and available on medici.tv. (JPr) Updated review.

Sungho Kim (Rinuccio), Ying Fang (Lauretta) and Sir Bryn Terfel (Gianni Schicchi)

A quartet of conductors celebrate Beethoven at Verbier

03/08/202425/07/2024 by Laurence Vittes

Switzerland Verbier Festival 2024 – Beethoven: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello), Lahav Shani (piano), Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland, 23.7.2024. (LV)

Sir Simon Rattle conducting Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony © Nicolas Brodard

Verbier Festival 2021: a showcase for young soloists reveals a multicoloured quilt of intense talent

14/09/202106/08/2021 by Chris Petitt

Switzerland Verbier Festival 2021 [2]: Academy Showcase III: Soloists: Artists shown below. Église de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland, 11am, 1.8.2021. (CC)

Verbier Festival 2021: Matthias Goerne brings joy to Schubert and Lahav Shani’s Mozart is terrifically exciting

14/09/202104/08/2021 by Colin Clarke

Switzerland Verbier Festival 2021 [1] – Schubert (arr. Schmalcz, Reger, Webern), Mozart: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Verbier Festival Orchestra / Lahav Shani (conductor). Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland, 31.7.2021. (CC)

Matthias Goerne (baritone) at the Verbier Festival

Impeccable Verdi and Terfel’s Wotan at Verbier (Rebroadcast)

30/12/202026/08/2013 by Stan

Switzerland Verdi, Wagner: Soloists, Verbier Festival Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland. Film director: Anaïs Spiro. Production: Idéale Audience. Broadcast on www.medici.tv. 25.7.2013 (RDA)

Tremendous Verdi Requiem from Noseda at Verbier (Rebroadcast)

30/12/202026/08/2013 by Stan

Switzerland Verdi, Messa da Requiem: Soloists, Verbier Festival Orchestra and Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Maria Agresta (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass). Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland. Movie director: Corentin Leconte. Production: Idéale Audience, – MUSEEC/medici.tv. 1.8.2013 (RDA)