Lucerne Festival 2023: A new piano festival for Lucerne

from 18.05.2023 to 21.05.2023

In May 2023, Lucerne will see the premiere of the new Piano Festival curated by pianist Igor Levit. For the four-day festival, Levit is bringing together a number of top-class musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds at the KKL Luzern: Alexei Volodin, Anna Vinnitskaya, Fred Hersch and Johanna Summer. Igor Levit's overall concept for the seven concerts is based on the principle of interaction - not [...]

Lucerne Festival Summer 2023: Paradise

from 08.08.2023 to 10.09.2023

The festival celebrates 20 years of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - with concerts under the direction of chief conductor Riccardo Chailly and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In addition to the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, guests include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Dresden Staatskapelle. Opening week with youth orchestras, the [...]

Worldband Festival Lucerne 2023

from 23.09.2023 to 01.10.2023

The World Band Festival Lucerne is a music festival for wind music making, which takes place every year at the end of September in Lucerne. During nine festival days, about 1000 artists from all over the world meet in the KKL Luzern to compete in music competitions or to create concert evenings. Here is an excerpt of this year's festival program: Openair concert "WBFL ONAIR" The openair concert on the Europaplatz [...]

Theater Luzern: "Alcina" by George Frideric Handel

from 19.03.2023 to 27.05.2023

Set designer and all-round artist Barbara Ehnes makes her opera directing debut with "Alcina". Longstanding collaborations have so far taken her to the Zurich Schauspielhaus, the Theater Basel and other international theaters - now she approaches Handel's "Magic Opera" in a very special way: Reflecting on a paradisiacal, enchanted place, a utopia of theater and a dissection of feelings [...]

Kleintheater Lucerne: Theater Aeternam

from 11.01.2023 to 14.01.2023

Two cosmonauts drift around the Earth in a space capsule forgotten by the ground station. They are still receiving human signals, but a tragicomic technical glitch prevents them from sending messages of their own back to the planet. Theater Aeternam ("Herniated Disc") presents David Greig's moving parable about the weightless lostness of humans as a hybrid between digital stream and [...]