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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 orchestra was a popular part of the acclaimed festival for decades when it performed under the name “Swiss Festival Orchestra”. But this orchestra was disbanded in 1993 and replaced by the ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland — Among the great summer classical musical festivals of Europe, the monthlong event in this scenic city surely has the most cause to feel smug. Every day, mid-August to ...

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This year’s Lucerne Festival has been exploring Night, that favourite topic of the romantics. Alongside Schubert’s moon-drenched nights and nightingales and Wagner’s nocturnal lovers, the festival has ...

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 ...

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For WQXR's fourth and final broadcast from the Lucerne Festival, veteran conductor Claudio Abbado leads Beethoven’s incidental music to Egmont and Mozart’s Requiem. Aug 23, 2012 In the third of four ...

From 1993 until last year the Lucerne Festival did without a resident orchestra. But last summer saw the birth of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, an ensemble specially created by and for Claudio ...