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alpine splendour: Verbier is set for another all-star festival
European summit Martha Argerich heads to Verbier; while Ole Bull is celebrated in Bergen
VERBIER FESTIVAL At Verbier, whether you’re in the newly-built Salle des Combins or the intimate Village Church, it doesn’t matter whether the lights are high or low; the stars are shining. It’s what Verbier does. Where else on a single night sharing a stage would you fi nd a chamber line-up including Joshua Bell, Gidon Kremer and Anne-Sophie Mutter on violins, Yuri Bashmet holding the viola fort, and Gautier Capuçon and Mischa Maisky occupying the cello stands – with Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin obliging at the piano? As opera gets its feet under the table, mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager sings Purcell’s Dido, while soprano Barbara Frittoli is suffering for her art as Floria Tosca (to Bryn Terfel’s Scarpia). But there’s more to Verbier than its galaxy of headliners. The
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festival orchestras and Academy ensure that the star-shine rubs off on young participants from all over the globe. With Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s Stravinsky Firebird and Rite of Spring adding dance to Verbier’s accomplishments, summertime Val de Bagnes adds movers to its musical shakers. WHEN 15-31 July WHERE Verbier, Switzerland TEL +41 (0)848 771 882 WEB
www.verbierfestival.com HIGHLIGHTS Nelson Freire, Verbier FO/Charles Dutoit: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, Stravinsky Petrushka (15 July); Angelika Kirchschlager, Verbier Festival CO/Gábor Tákacs- Nagy: Purcell Dido & Aeneas, Mozart (19 July); Bryn Terfel, Llyˇr Williams: Schubert, Schumann, Ibert, Quilter (20 July); Thomas Quasthoff, Verbier FO/Manfred Honeck: Mendelssohn Elijah (21 July); Evgeny Kissin: Liszt (23 July); Barbara Frittoli, Bryn Terfel, Verbier FO/Gianandrea Noseda: Puccini Tosca (24 July); Christian Gerhaher, Michael Schade, Verbier Festival CO/Karl Anton
Festival Special ALINE PALEY, MAGNUS SKREDE, HARALD HOFFMAN
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