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Opening of the Verbier Festival

Name: Opening of the Verbier Festival
Start: 2022-07-15T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-07-15T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Verbier

15 July 2022

Alain Berset attends the opening of the Verbier Festival for the first time, its 29th edition, with a concert dedicated to peace in Ukraine, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. On the programme: Valentin Silvestrov’s “Prayer for Ukraine” and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony.

From the stage, he speaks about music in the face of arbitrary power, from Hendrix at Woodstock to Shostakovich under Stalin, at a time when Switzerland is preparing to take its seat on the UN Security Council.

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