Riccardo Chailly has to undergo an operation
The first concerts of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2023 will see a change in the conductor's podium. Riccardo Chailly had to undergo an operation due to a sudden illness. Paavo Järvi and Andrés Orozco-Estrada stand in for him.
Paavo Järvi will conduct the opening concert of the Summer Festival on August 11 and the concert on August 12, his first time conducting the orchestra. Both concert programs remain unchanged. On August 16, Andrés Orozco-Estrada will conduct, and in the second half of the concert, the Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz will replace Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 1 in D minor. In the first half, as recently announced, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini op. 43 will be performed with soloist Beatrice Rana. According to the Lucerne Festival press release, tickets remain valid.
Riccardo Chailly has been Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2016. He conducts three to four concerts during each Festival summer, plus a three-day spring residency from 2022. Numerous performances are now available on DVD or CD; the most recent releases include orchestral works by Richard Strauss (2019) and the first part of Lucerne's Rachmaninov cycle (2020).
