
Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Magdalena Kožená, Peter Mattei & Rebecka Wallroth Lead Verbier Festival’s 2026 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Verbier Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances.
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Final Scene from “Götterdämmerung” with Michelle DeYoung. The program also includes Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphoni” with Cécile Lartigau and Lucas Debargue.
Performance Date: July 17, 2026
Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” with Johanna Wallroth, Rebecka Wallroth, Anna El-Khashem, Giovanni Sala, Konstantin Krimmel, and Sir Bryn Terfel.
Performance Date: July 18, 2026
Anna El-Khashem, Johanna Wallroth, Rebecka Wallroth, Giovanni Sala, Konstantin Krimmel, James Baillieu, and Caroline Dowdle lead a Schumann and Brahms program.
Performance Date: July 21, 2026
Magdalena Kožená performs Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” Op. 48 with Martha Argerich. There will also be piano music performed by Alexandre Kantorow.
Performance Date: July 21, 2026
Daniel Harding conducts music by Hartmann, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and Rachmaninoff. Joshua Bell and Bryn Terfel are the soloists.
Performance Date: July 23, 2026
“Bluebeard’s Castle” Sz. 48 will star Magdalena Kožená and Gerald Finley. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the program, which also includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D major K. 504 “Prague.”
Performance Date: July 23, 2026
James Gaffigan conducts “Carmina Burana” with Sunnyboy Dladla and Oberwalliser Vokalensemble.
Bruce Liu performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26.
Performance Date: July 25, 2026
Peter Mattei and Daniel Heide perform Schubert’s “Winterreise.”
Performance Date: July 25, 2026
Thomas Quasthoff and Kirill Gerstein perform Ullmann’s “The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke.”
Performance Date: July 28, 2026
Renée Fleming performs “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene” with Lahav Shani.
Performance Date: August 1, 2026
James Gaffigan conducts Verdi’s “La Traviata” with VF Academy Atelier Lyrique
Performance Date: July 17, 2026


