Has William Tell’s homeland become the new land of ecology? While the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is committed to the subject of protecting nature by tackling the theme of global change (notably with Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s ‘Music for the Planet’ concert series), it is the Lucerne Festival that has just made headlines. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski was conducting […]

Serious challenger of the Salzburg Festival, the prestigious Lucerne Festival will be held from August 13 to September 20, 2020 with a central theme, “Joy”. This season, Rebecca Saunders is the composer-in-residence and the brilliant Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, the first female conductor artist to be named “Artiste étoile.” BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE. Bernard Haitink, Lucerne Festival […]