This year’s summer open-air musical production staged on the banks of Lake Thun, is a love story depicting rural life in the Bernese Emmental with delightful characters taken from novels written by Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854). The colourful musical, sung in Swiss German dialect, is packed with Swiss tradition. It’s the first musical in Thun to have a happy end!
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At 1,600 metres the sun was shining and the spring air was fresh. But Thursday’s press reception was a lot less chilly than the atmosphere faced by the organisers two days earlier when they learned that the line-up had been leaked onto the internet. On arrival in Zermatt, it was clear the leak was not…
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Highlights this year included an octogenarian legend smacking the keys with his shoe and master classes on not only how to play “fast blues” but also how to dance along. “The players here are like a big boogie woogie family,” Silvan Zingg, one of the top boogie pianists in the world and the event’s organiser,…
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Tang, 61, looks back on the experience and tells swissinfo.ch about Swiss audiences, the transformative power of classical music – and cows. Although he’s spending Christmas in Shanghai, Tang will be back for the orchestra’s traditional New Year’s Eve concert in Lucerne and then a concert in Zurich on January 1, both featuring famous Finnish…
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