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Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Name: Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Start: 2026-08-13T19:30:00
Location: Lucerne Festival

Lucerne Festival

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A first for the Festival: our new Executive and Artistic Director, Sebastian Nordmann, kicks off the Summer Festival by inviting everyone to a big party – free of charge. In the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, Riccardo Chailly and the fabulous Lucerne Festival Orchestra will set the mood with Gershwin and Bernstein, rumba and mambo – the perfect prelude to an unforgettable Cuban Night. Afterward, you can head over directly to the open-air “Classi...

Program

George Gershwin - Cuban Overture

Composer

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Steve Reich - New York

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo from West Side Story

Participants

Riccardo Chailly

Conductor

Lucerne Festival

Producer

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1 dates (13 Aug - 13 Aug)

Aug

Thu

7:30 pm

Lucerne Festival

Lucerne, Switzerland

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