Riccardo Chailly Cancels Lucerne Festival Performances Due to Illness

By Francisco Salazar

Riccardo Chailly has canceled his upcoming performances at the Lucerne Festival.

The company said that Chailly was taken ill and had to undergo a sudden operation. As a result, Paavo Järvi and Andrés Orozco-Estrada will take over.

Järvi will conduct the Festival’s Opening Concert on August 11 as well as the concert on August 12, and Orozco-Estrada will lead the concert on August 16.

Orozco-Estrada will conduct a concert that features Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” instead of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony in D minor. In the first half, as previously announced, Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” Op. 43, will be performed, with Beatrice Rana as the soloist.

Meanwhile, Järvi will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Wiebke Lehmkuhl as soloist.

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