The classical world's most anticipated, highest-altitude festival of the year returned in summer 2022. The Verbier Festival came back on July 15 – 31, 2022. It brought the biggest and brightest stars in classical music, revisiting favorite works and taking on brand-new repertoire in the storied Salle des Combins and Verbier Église. Beloved performers of Verbiers past are once again on the docket—alongside some exciting Verbier debuts—in this blockbuster event from the gorgeous Swiss Alps, where the only thing more breathtaking than the view is the music.

The 29th edition of the Festival featured a host of classical music legends returned to the Swiss Alps alongside future talent.

Approaching its 30th anniversary in 2023 and affirming its position in the topflight of the world’s classical music festivals, the Verbier Festival performed its mainstage programme for 2022. As ever, in a distinctive and exhilarating spirit of community and exchange, the Festival brought together established and emerging musicians of the highest calibre—the major names of today and the major names of the future.

Running from July 15 to 31 2022, the Festival offered more than 60 Mainstage events, ranging from large-scale orchestral concerts and opera in concert form to solo recitals, chamber concerts— assembling new teams of renowned soloists and chamber specialists in its ‘Rencontres Inédites’ series—and even a dramatised reading. The events took place in the Festival’s regular venues, the 1,700-seat Salle des Combins the more intimate Église de Verbier and the Hameau Cultural Centre.

The Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gábor Takács-Nagy, conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the orchestra. This was the final instalment of the cycle, which was released in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon in conjunction with the Festival’s 30th edition. This significant ‘time capsule’ of recordings allows audiences to join in celebrating such powerful musical masterpieces.

Three operas was performed in concert, with Takács-Nagy leading the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra for Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Gianandrea Noseda also conducted a concert performance of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Singers from the Verbier Festival Academy Atelier Lyrique gave a concert performance of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, conducted by Stanislav Kochanovsky. 

World famous Stars such as Gautier Capuçon, Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos, Kirill Gerstein, Yefim Bronfman, Mischa Maisky, Mikhail Pletnev, Marc Bouchkov, Daniil Trifonov and many others performed at the Verbier Festival 2022.