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The Verbier Cultural Centre: Interview with Hervé Boissière, President of the Verbier Cultural Centre’s Development Committee and Co-General Director of the Verbier Festival

A Meeting with Mireille Fulpius: When Sculpture Dialogues with the Mountain

Interview with Blythe Teh Engstroem: The Incredible Journey of 20 Years of the VFCO

Mahler’s rightful place is among the heirs of the First Viennese School (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert) and the early German Romantics, with Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bruckner, Wagner. Like them, he found his natural terrain in the orchestral lied and, above all, the symphony. Across ten monumental works, the last of them left unfinished, this son of […]

“Bluebeard’s Castle”, between reinvented folklore and a reflection on the couple Béla Bartók, father of modern ethnomusicology? The label is justified: in the early years of the 20th century, Bartók and his compatriot Zoltán Kodály travelled through the Hungarian and Romanian countryside to collect and transcribe popular melodies passed down by word of mouth for […]

1789. Three years after the runaway success of Le nozze di Figaro — and two years after the darker, more tragic Don Giovanni — Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte were ready to complete what would become one of opera’s greatest trilogies. The spark came from an unlikely source: Emperor Joseph II himself, a devoted fan of Le nozze, […]

Press Release NEW VF GOLD ALBUM HECTOR BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (ZUBIN MEHTA)

Twenty years ago, a bold vision took shape: to create a professional chamber orchestra formed entirely of Verbier Festival Orchestra alumni. Today, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (VFCO) has become one of the world’s finest ensembles, carrying the Verbier spirit across concert halls on every continent. To mark this anniversary year, this special series gives […]

The Verbier Festival presents its first virtual reality experience, in partnership with Cybel’Art (Virtual Hall®, an initiative of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande)   Immerse yourself in a universe where classical music is reinvented through virtual reality.  

Though Carl Orff (1895–1982) composed prolifically and made his mark as an educator (his influential system of active music pedagogy remains widely taught today) history remembers him above all as the man behind a single work: the mighty, monumental Carmina Burana, or Poems of Beuren.