The Verbier Festival is an annual international music festival that takes place for two weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland. The Verbier Festival is also nurturing young musicians with its Academy and three orchestras: the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (formerly known as the Verbier Festival Music Camp Orchestra). Activities of the Fest'Off, including jazz concerts and special walks in the environs of Verbier, are also available to the public for free during the 17 days of the festival.
Commemorating its 30th anniversary in 2023 and confirming its status as a world classical music festival, the Verbier Festival has finally announced its main stage program for 2022. The festival has always been a platform to unite big-name musicians with upcoming musicians. have a big name in the future.
The festival will take place from 15 to 31 July 2022. The event will take place at the 1,700-seat Salle des Combins, the more intimate glise de Verbier, and the Hameau Cultural Center. This festival will give you more than 60 Mainstage events. from large-scale orchestral concerts and opera in concert form to solo recitals, chamber concerts— gathering a new team of renowned soloists and chamber specialists in the series 'Rencontres Inédites'—and even dramatized readings.
The festival will open with the Verbier Festival Orchestra and hold two further concerts with soloist Mikhail Pletnev, featuring Piano Concerto No. 3 Beethoven, and Denis Matsuev in Piano Concerto No. 2, marking the composer's 90th birthday.
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Three operas will be performed in concert, with Takács-Nagy conducting the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra for Don Giovanni of Mozart and Gianandrea Noseda also performing a concert performance of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Singers from the Verbier Festival Academy Atelier Lyrique gave a concert performance of Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, hosted by Stanislav Kochanovsky.
Verbier Festival plans for its 2022 Academy, one of the music world's most admired training initiatives for rising extraordinary talent, and UNLTD, its extensive program of free events, will be announced in Spring 2022.
The 29th edition of the Verbier Festival was made possible thanks to the support of many philanthropists, companies, and public funders, notably Madame Aline Foriel-Destezet, The Friends of the Verbier Festival, the Festival's main donors, including the Chair of its Circle, Commune de Val de Bagnes, Loterie Romande, Canton du Valais, and the loyal Principal Sponsor of the Julius Baer Bank, Neva Foundation and SICPA.
For you music lovers, this is a music festival that you must attend. For ticket prices and reservations, you can click this link ( Verbier Festival Ticket Price). When you come to Verbier to enjoy the Verbier Festival music event, don't make it the only thing you do at Verbier. There are many things you can do to maximize your Verbier Switzerland summer holiday such as hiking, mountain bikes, paragliding, culinary tours, yoga, and much more.
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