Lucerne Festival

The Lucerne Festival is one of the world's premier classical music festivals, held each summer in the lakeside city of Lucerne, Switzerland. Founded in 1938 with a concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the festival now centers on the Jean Nouvel-designed KKL Luzern concert hall, celebrated for its superb acoustics. The festival draws the world's greatest orchestras, conductors, and soloists for three weeks of orchestral, chamber, and contemporary music.