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MUSIC: Lucerne Festival in Summer

Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená (DG)

KKL, Lucerne, on now till September 19, 2009

The theme of this year’s summer festival is Nature, with Kaija Saariaho and Jörg Widmann as composers-in-residence and starring mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Yefim Bronfman. It goes without saying that maestro Claudio Abbado will open the season with his Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

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