FREE CULTURAL EVENTS DURING THE SUMMER ENGLISH SELECTION
11.06 - 23.09.2016
Lausanne Estivale is much more than a festival. For 40 years, this event has been relaying and supporting a large number of cultural players and their artistic proposals. The result is a multidisciplinary offer (dance, music, theatre, cinema, walks, tours, activities, etc.) that reaches all audiences. Expressed in figures, it represents hundreds of cultural and free activities, all for free, over a duration of three months - June 11th to September 23rd 2016. Amongst the cultural events of the summer, here is a selection we offer our Englishspeaking guests. Enjoy your summer in Lausanne with Lausanne Estivale! Concerts and visits of Lausanne Cathedral Come and listen under the Cathedral’s vaults to the works of Bach, Debussy, Mesner, Liszt or Vivaldi, performed by the Société des Concerts de la Cathédrale de Lausanne, and attend the masses organised with the participation of the Petits Chanteurs de Lausanne accompanied by the unique sound of the organ, an instrument with 7,000 pipes. Details per date: June 17 , July 1 , July 8 , July 22nd, July 29th, September 2nd, September 9th, September 16th, September 23rd. th
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Gospel Air Festival: Oh Happy Day!
Mozart in the City - Requiem
Twenty-seven choirs will make the town centre reverberate by performing a capella gospel on five stages between the Riponne Square and Saint-François. The Gospel Festival’s final concert will take place in Lausanne Cathedral with over 700 choir singers and musicians, on Sunday.
Freeing Mozart from the temples of culture, giving a wide audience the opportunity to discover a masterpiece in a version for choir by the Pro Arte Choir of Lausanne. Soloists and four accordions that is both professional and fun, emotional and relaxed, demonstrating that ‘great’ music, as all music, is able to communicate emotions, tears, joy and hope, all of this in the magical and natural setting of the town of Lausanne’s most beautiful parks.
June 18th from 10 am to 5 pm June 19th at 3 pm Where: 5 stages, between the Riponne Square and Saint-François
June 25th at 11 am Where: Casino de Montbenon Open-Air Theatre In case of rain, fallback to Saint-François Church, Saint-François Square June 25th at 5 pm Where: Mon-Repos Park in the town centre In case of rain, concert cancelled