Thu, 13.08.2026
Summer Festival: Overture
Concert title
Summer Festival: Overture
Date
Thu 13.08.2026
Start of the concert
19:30
Contributors
Name of the ensemble
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Line
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Soloists
Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
program
This is a first! To kick off the summer festival, the new artistic director, Sebastian Nordmann, invites you to a grand party – with free admission. In the concert hall of the KKL Luzern, Riccardo Chailly and the fabulous Lucerne Festival Orchestra will set the mood for an unforgettable Cuban Night with Gershwin and Bernstein, rumba and mambo. Afterwards, you can head straight to the open-air concert "Classics for All" on Europaplatz.
Program:
George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Cuban Overture;
Riccardo Chailly in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann;
Steve Reich (*1936)
New York Counterpoint, version for eleven clarinets
; Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Mambo from West Side Story.
The concert ends around 8:00 pm and has no intermission.
Program:
George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Cuban Overture;
Riccardo Chailly in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann;
Steve Reich (*1936)
New York Counterpoint, version for eleven clarinets
; Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Mambo from West Side Story.
The concert ends around 8:00 pm and has no intermission.
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