The Église de Verbier hosts morning, afternoon and evening concerts. It is the Verbier Festival’s primary venue for solo, chamber music and vocal recitals.
Thomas Quasthoff and Kirill Gerstein
Eglise de Verbier,
Verbier, Switzerland
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3:30 PM
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Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2026
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 15:30
Duration: 1h
E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.
You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).
Festival
Verbier Festival 2026
The Verbier Festival 2026 invites you to experience classical music at its most vibrant, set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss Alps. Each summer, this unique gathering transforms the alpine village of Verbier into a global meeting point for the world’s finest musicians and the next generation of rising stars — a place where tradition meets discovery, and every performance feels alive with possibility.
Programme
Viktor Ullmann: The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, a melodrama for narrator and piano, based on the prose poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Overview
Both Thomas Quasthoff and Kirill Gerstein have a resolutely modern vision of their art, putting their considerable renown at the service of powerful messages. They perform Viktor Ullmann's Melodrama, composed in July 1944 shortly before his deportation.
July 1944. In the Theresienstadt camp, the antechamber to Auschwitz where he was waiting with his family, Viktor Ullmann wrote a work for piano inspired by the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Three months later, he was murdered on arrival at the most notorious of the death camps. A close friend of Schoenberg and a pupil of Zemlinsky, Ullmann was a rare talent, taking an interest in dodecaphony, micro-tonality and the Bohemian musical heritage during a stay in Prague. Paradoxically, much of his work was composed in the Theresienstadt camp, when he was in charge of organising the “cultural life” of the camp in preparation for a meticulously staged Red Cross visit. The Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke, based on a poem by Rilke, dates from this period, and celebrates the spirit of the Roaring Twenties with all the tragedy befitting the circumstances of its composition. Quasthoff’s gravity and facetiousness, Gerstein’s flamboyant and tragic touch: such artists were needed to convey the emotional force of this work.
Venue Info
Eglise de Verbier - Verbier
Chemin de l’Église
Chemin de l’Église
Important Info
Festival: Verbier Festival 2026
Type: Classical Concert
City: Verbier, Switzerland
Starts at: 15:30
Duration: 1h