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Classical music, opera, ballet and dance in Lucerne, Switzerland

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LucerneClassical Music for All: Open Air

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Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Thu 13 Aug at 21:00
Various, Mozart, Davis, Oliva, Campo, Simons
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Sarah Willis; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
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LucerneOverture

© Priska Ketterer | Lucerne Festival
Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Thu 13 Aug at 19:30
Gershwin, Reich, Bernstein
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
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LucerneLucerne Festival Orchestra 1 - Opening Concert

© Manuela Jans | LucerneFestival
Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Fri 14 Aug at 18:30
Reich, Gershwin, Ives
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly; Frank Dupree; Unknown; Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
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TanzLuzern in HOPE: outstanding double bill of new works

Tanaka Roki in Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer © Ingo Hoehn
Graham Watts, 08 Nov
Two complementary new works for TanzLuzern, Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer and Phoebe Jewitt's White Rabbit, are striking and memorable additions to the repertoire.
*****
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Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

Liv Redpath, Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra © Patrick Hürlimann | Lucerne Festival
Elodie Olson-Coons, 27 Aug
Liv Redpath and Bertrand Chamayou shine at the Lucerne Festival in this celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy. 
****1
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Shimmering, disjointed: Poppe and Ligeti in Lucerne

Sarah Maria Sun © Manuela Jans | Lucerne Festival
Elodie Olson-Coons, 07 Sep
Les Siècles make their Lucerne Festival debut with a slightly uneven Poppe-Ligeti programme, at the heart of which Isabelle Faust nevertheless shines
***11
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Music for the people: Migros Culture Percentage Classics

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra © Andy Paradise
Bachtrack, 05 Sep
Migros, one of Switzerland’s largest retailers, has been running a classical music concert series for more than 70 years, with low ticket prices designed to make music widely accessible.
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The river knows itself: the music of Liza Lim

Liza Lim in Lucerne © Lucerne Festival
Tim Rutherford-Johnson, 05 Mar
The singular Australian composer talks about her interest in musical personhood and sentience – and how she collaborated with a Swiss river in a recent ensemble work.
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