Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone The Lucerne Festival in Switzerland is trying to ...

Star turns by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lisa Batiashvili and more delight, but much of this month-long festival’s power lies behind the scenes… A lone horn call, then a brief, mighty ...

Time: 2009/9/20-2009/9/25 Venue: NCPA-Concert Hall Price: 100/180/280/380/480/580/680/980/1280/1580 Presenter: Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra ...

The incomparable violinist, activist and Kennedy Center Honoree Midori embarks on a nine-city U.S. tour in November with the distinguished Swiss chamber orchestra Festival Strings Lucerne, under the ...

If you stand on Lucerne's covered bridge, blinking out at the ultimate in lake-and-mountains landscape, you're in good company. This rarified corner of Switzerland has long been a magnet for musical ...

Plastered all over town, the Lucerne Festival’s 75th-anniversary slogan of “Viva la Revolución!” may have looked a little incongruous in such a conservative Swiss setting, home to the world’s most ...

The Lucerne Piano Festival attracts an influx of pianophiles every November to the town's state-of-the-art lakeside hall. It has just been welcoming some of the piano world's greatest artists ...

Visitors look at a lighting installation in the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2019. The 1st Light Festival Lucerne was held in Lucerne from Jan. 10 to 20, 2019. (Xinhua/Michele Limina) ...

Claudio Abbado remains the world’s finest conductor, but his public appearances have become so rare – partly the result of frail health, partly because he is so choosy about whom he works with – that ...

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone The Lucerne Festival in Switzerland is trying to ...

What makes a person or a culture unique? This year's Lucerne Summer Festival will broach this question and others on the theme of "identity" through the medium of classical music. The programme, which ...