In 1999, the year of the last edition, tickets had nearly sold out by the end of January, but seats that year were limited to 280,000.
A small proportion of tickets will be available on the day of the shows but the evenings of July 19, 20 and 26 — dedicated to the cantons of Geneva, Freiburg and Valais respectively — are almost sold out already. July 25, the Swiss abroad day, is also doing well with tickets selling online mainly in France, Germany and the United States.
Festival organizers meanwhile warned the public to be cautious when buying tickets online, saying that unofficial sites had been selling them for inflated prices and for non-existent shows.
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“The dream is slowly taking shape,” Francois Margot, president of the Vevey Brotherhood of Winemakers, told reporters in the western Swiss town, located near the Lavaux wine region. The organisers of the traditional winemakers’ festivalExternal link, which began in its current form in 1797, presented their plans for the 2019 edition, which include a 20,000-seat…
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