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 ...

The Lucerne festival could alienate some of its traditional audience this year with an intimidating mix of musical heavyweights and contemporary composers. But a glittering new festival orchestra and ...

This year's Lucerne Festival, featuring the musical luminary Daniel Barenboim and world-class orchestras, was inaugurated with a spectacular firework display this week. Over 30,000 spectators gathered ...

49057.jpeg Copyright: Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival Lucerne Festival Sommer 2025: Lucerne Festival Orchestra unter der Leitung von Sir Simon Rattle mit Clay ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In to an utterance, a new piano concerto by Rebecca Saunders, the soloist clamours to make his voice heard. Now ...

Hear live broadcasts from stages in New York and beyond, from major halls to intimate venues. This includes broadcasts and Webcasts in WQXR's own Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Part of WQXR at ...

This year, Jean Nouvel, the man who designed Lucerne's stunning lakeside concert hall, won architecture's top award, the Pritzker Prize. Go to a concert at the Lucerne Festival, and you can see how ...

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 ...