Programme

Thursday

18.07

mainstage
Friday

19.07

mainstage
symphonic
VFO / RATTLE
Opening concert – Mahler Symphony No. 3
More than ‘simply’ a symphony, Mahler’s vast and mighty Third was his optimistic musical depiction of the meaning of life as he saw it. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the VFO, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble and Cantiamo Oberwallis.

Friday 19 July 2024 18:30 to 20:15  —  salle des combins

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Saturday

20.07

mainstage
opera
VFCO / TAKÁCS-NAGY – LES NOCES DE FIGARO
Mozart / Mattei – Schultz – Barea – El-Khashem – Wallroth – Whately – Zhang – Bell – Kurmanbayev – Sanders – Catangui – Brusova – Seongeun Park – Fisher
Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the VFCO and Academy members in Mozart’s greatest opera, with a cast headed by Peter Mattei, Golda Schultz, Tommaso Barea and Anna El-Khashem.

Saturday 20 July 2024 18:00 to 21:30  —  salle des combins

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Sunday

21.07

mainstage
symphonic
vfjo / gaffigan / Zedginidze
Bartók, Mussorgsky
The outstandingly gifted young Georgian pianist Tsotne Zedginidze joins James Gaffigan and the VFJO for Bartók’s fierce First Piano Concerto, followed by Ravel’s orchestral transcription of the Mussorgsky masterpiece which began life as a virtuoso piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition.

Sunday 21 July 2024 14:30 to 15:45  —  salle des combins

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Monday

22.07

mainstage
Tuesday

23.07

mainstage
symphonic
VFCO / RATTLE / KAVAKOS / MÄKELÄ / SHANI
Beethoven
Sir Simon Rattle will conduct the VFCO in a memorable Beethoven triple feature with three of his fellow conductors, Klaus Mäkelä, Lahav Shani and Leonidas Kavakos respectively as the cello, piano and violin soloists. The Triple Concerto will be followed by the ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3.

Tuesday 23 July 2024 18:30 to 20:30  —  salle des combins

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Wednesday

24.07

mainstage
world Music
KIDJO / NAMEKAWA / ORCHESTRE APPASSIONATO / HERZOG
‘Petite Fleur’
Mathieu Herzog and string players from his critically acclaimed chamber orchestra, Appassionato Orchestra, join forces with pianist Maki Namekawa and five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, Angélique Kidjo for an exceptional evening at the Combins stage. Together, they present a selection of songs from Africa to the Chanson Française of Brel and Piaf, most of them in new arrangements by Herzog.

Wednesday 24 July 2024 18:30 to 20:00  —  salle des combins

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Thursday

25.07

mainstage
Friday

26.07

mainstage
Saturday

27.07

mainstage
Sunday

28.07

mainstage
chamber music
RENCONTRES INÉDITES VI
Shostakovich, Dvořák, Brahms / Conunova –Barenboim – Kim – Soltani – Liu – Shishkin
Drawn from his film scores, Shostakovich’s 5 Pieces for Two Violins and Piano were arranged by his film director friend, Lev Atovmyan, to keep him financially afloat, and are worlds away from his usual acerbic complexity. By contrast, Dvořák’s 4 miniatures and Smetana’s Piano Trio were labours of love.

Sunday 28 July 2024 11:00 to 12:30  —  Église de Verbier Station

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Monday

29.07

mainstage
symphonic
VFO / SHANI / BARENBOIM / WEILERSTEIN / KANTOROW
Brahms, Strauss
Lahav Shani conducts the VFO in a multi-soloist night, Alexandre Kantorow joining them for Brahms’s mighty Second Piano Concerto, before cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violist Michael Barenboim play the lead roles in Strauss’s ‘Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character,’ Don Quixotte.

Monday 29 July 2024 18:30 to 20:30  —  salle des combins

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Tuesday

30.07

mainstage
chamber music
QUATUOR ÉBÈNE / MAO FUJITA
Mozart, Schnittke, Dvořák
Quatuor Ébène won a 2023 Gramophone Award® for its Mozart String Quintets. Here it performs the first of his brightly melodic ‘Prussian’ quartets, before joining forces with Mao Fujita for Dvořák's similarly brightly songful Piano Quintet No. 2 – punctuated by Schnittke’s dark Third String Quartet.

Tuesday 30 July 2024 11:00 to 12:30  —  Église de Verbier Station

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recital piano
BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV
Franck, Prokofiev, Price, Mussorgsky
Behzod Abduraimov presents a programme of works which all, in their own way, ran deep with their four keyboardist-composers, from the piano suite Prokofiev distilled from his ballet masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, to Florence Price’s Fantasie nègre No. 1 fusing post-Romantic style with the melodies and harmonies of African American folksong via Franck’s Prelude, Fugue et variations Op. 18 and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tuesday 30 July 2024 18:30 to 20:15  —  salle des combins

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Wednesday

31.07

mainstage
lyric
ACADEMY PRESENTS III
Chamber song recital
Accomplished singers and instrumentalists of the Verbier Academy's Atelier Lyrique and Soloists & Ensembles programme join forces in a captivating vocal chamber recital. This popular concert not only presents the remarkable talents of these performers but also shines a spotlight on some of the most captivating yet often underappreciated chamber music repertoire.

Wednesday 31 July 2024 15:00 to 16:00  —  Église de Verbier Station

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Thursday

01.08

mainstage
symphonic
VFO / MÄKELÄ / FRAY
Bach, Mahler
Klaus Mäkelä and the VFO present a pair of works by two of classical music’s most toweringly influential figures, French pianist David Fray joining them for JS Bach’s powerful D minor Keyboard Concerto, after which they jump to the dawn of the 20th century for Mahler’s much-loved Fifth Symphony.

Thursday 01 August 2024 18:30 to 20:45  —  salle des combins

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Friday

02.08

mainstage
chamber music
ACADEMY PRESENTS IV
Verbier Festival Academy Ensembles
The Verbier Festival Academy has discovered some of today’s leading chamber music ensembles: the Calidore, Arod, and Ébène Quartets among them. Musicians of the 2024 edition of the Academy’s Ensembles programme look to carry on this legacy. They take to the stage in this hour-long recital to showcase their talent.

Friday 02 August 2024 15:00 to 16:00  —  Église de Verbier Station

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Saturday

03.08

mainstage
symphonic
VFCO / TAKÁCS-NAGY / DOVGAN
Haydn, Grieg, Brahms
From the symphony’s grandfather to symphonic grandeur, Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the VFCO in Haydn’s and Brahms’s first symphonies, between which rising star pianist Alexandra Dovgan performs as soloist in Grieg’s thrilling Piano Concerto in A minor.

Saturday 03 August 2024 18:30 to 20:30  —  salle des combins

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Sunday

04.08

mainstage
chamber music
ACADEMY PRESENTS VI
Soloists in chamber formations
A time to celebrate the young talents of the Verbier Festival Academy. This second of two concerts performed by Academy soloists features chamber music collaborations by the programme’s pianists, violinists, violists, and cellists. The recital is followed by the presentation of Academy awards.

Sunday 04 August 2024 11:00 to 12:30  —  Église de Verbier Station

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symphonic
VFO / DUTOIT / FUJITA
Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel
Charles Dutoit conducts the VFO in a programme guaranteed to play the Festival out with a bang, Mao Fujita joining them as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s dramatic Second Piano Concerto, before an orchestral fireworks show in the shape of Respighi’s three Rome-themed tone poems.

Sunday 04 August 2024 18:30 to 20:30  —  salle des combins

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