Programme Changes

The Verbier Festival announces the latest programme changes to its 28th edition. Two of the iconic Rencontres Inédites will move from Église de Verbier to Salle des Combins, opening up the performances to a larger public. The Festival’s July 23 presentation of Tristan & Isolde’s second act has been cancelled, but opera-lovers are invited to a newly programmed concert that same evening featuring rising stars of from the Academy Atelier Lyrique in a concert of arias at the Église. The Festival will now close with a performance of Puccini’s La Bohème, featuring the Academy singers in collaboration with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra (VFJO) and its Music Director, James Gaffigan on August 1.

Changes to the programme

Friday, July 23 | Salle des Combins | 19:00
RENCONTRES INÉDITES III

The performance of the second act of Tristan & Isolde is cancelled. The Rencontres Inédites III concert scheduled at Église de Verbier this evening moves to Salle des Combins, with a new start time of 19:00.  It features Marc Bouchkov, Janine Jansen, Mihaela Martin, Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Frans Helmerson, Anastasia Kobekina, Klaus Mäkelä, and Antonio Pappano.

Friday, July 23 | Église de Verbier | 20:00 new concert
ATELIER LYRIQUE / SOIRÉE LYRIQUE 

The cast of La Bohème come together with their fellow Academy singers for an evening of operatic favourites.

Monday, July 26 | Salle des Combins | 19:00
RENCONTRES INÉDITES IV 

The Verbier Festival Orchestra’s (VFO) all-Schoenberg evening at Salle des Combins is cancelled.  The Rencontres Inédites IV concert scheduled at Église de Verbier moves to Salle des Combins, with a new start time of 19:00. The performance features Janine Jansen, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Lawrence Power, Mischa Maisky, Kian Soltani, Nikolai Lugansky and Lahav Shani. There will be no concert at Église de Verbier this evening.

Thursday, July 29 | Salle des Combins | 18:00
VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / HARDING / BELL / ISSERLIS

The 20:15 concert this evening, featuring Mahler’s First Symphony is cancelled. The 18:00 concert will still take place at Salle des Combins with a modified programme. The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, which replaces the VFO, will perform with Daniel Harding. Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis perform Brahms’s Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra and the evening concludes with Beethoven’s First Symphony.

Saturday, July 31 | Salle des Combins | 18:00
VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / SHANI / GOERNE 

Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony and Wagner’s Siegfried-Idyll will no longer be performed on this programme.  Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony will now follow the Schubert Lied selection sung by Matthias Goerne.

Programme Cancellations

Sunday, August 1 | Salle des Combins | 19:00 
VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA / FISCHER / SCHIFF

This concert is cancelled.  Puccini’s La Bohème, performed by the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra and the Academy’s Atelier Lyrique singers, conducted by VFJO Music Director, James Gaffigan, will now conclude the Festival.  The start-time of this concert remains 14:30.

Ticket holders for the recital will receive a credit or refund for all or a portion of the value of tickets purchased. Ticket holders are requested to contact our Ticketing Office at ticketing@verbierfestival.com or visit our Ticket Outlet in Verbier, Parking de l’Ermitage, Route de Verbier Station 63.

The Ticket Office will process requests in order of arrival. You will be contacted by email or phone once your request has been registered. The Box Office and the phone lines will be very busy during this period, and we thank you in advance for your patience.