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Lucerne Festival achieves encouraging final figures for the Summer Festival

Source:Lucerne Festival 2024.12.06

   At the end of this year’s Summer Festival in Lucerne, which has been devoted to the theme of “Curiosity,” Lucerne Festival reports excellent final results with 90% capacity for the 26 major symphony concerts and an overall figure of 84% seats filled. Some 81,000 concertgoers attended the total of 158 events presented over a period of 34 days at Switzerland’s largest festival of classical music. The venues included the KKL Luzern, Lukaskirche, Luzerner Theatre, and Hochschule Luzern – Musik, as well as public places across the city.

  

 

  A total of 13 of the 65 paid-admission events were sold out, including the concerts of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Klaus Mäkelä, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. In total, 18,600 concertgoers took advantage of the extensive offering of free events featuring a wide variety of formats intended to expand access to music, including a series of short concerts.

  

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