The Lucerne Festival is a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Founded in 1938, it currently produces three festivals per year, attracting some 110,000 visitors annually taking place since 2004 primarily at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) designed by Jean Nouvel. Each festival features resident orchestras and soloists alongside guest performances from international ensembles and artists, in 2017 including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Emanuel Ax, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov.
Welcome to the Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne, which is the nearest Hotel to the KKL Culture and Convention Centre (no taxi required), directly located at Lucerne Railway Station, in the city center, by the lake, at the world-famous Chapel Bridge and all sights.
Excerpt/citation from Wikipedia Lucerne Festival :
The festival started with the so-called “Concert de Gala” in the gardens of Richard Wagner‘s villa at Tribschen in 1938 conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who had formed an orchestra with members of different orchestras and soloists from around Europe. With the rise of the Nazi regime several major performers and conductors, including Toscanini, Fritz Busch and Bruno Walter decided not to perform in the traditional German and Austrian music festivals such as the Bayreuth Festival and Salzburg festival.
In the 1940s the Swiss Festival Orchestra (Schweizerische Festspielorchester) was founded from members of the elite Swiss orchestras, which became a central part of the festival known since 1943 as the Internationalen Musikfestwochen Luzern (IMF). In 2000 it was renamed as the Lucerne Festival and is currently part of the European Festivals Association.
The largest festival is the Summer Festival (Lucerne Festival im Sommer), taking place in August und September and featuring over 100 events. Since 2003 it has been launched by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado‘s “orchestra of friends” composed of internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, teachers, and members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, since 2016 directed by Riccardo Chailly. Also founded in 2003 was the Lucerne Festival Academy, created by the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez to bring together young musicians from around the world to perform music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, since 2016 led by Artistic Director Wolfgang Rihm and Principal Conductor Matthias Pintscher. International artists are also invited to be artistes étoiles and composers-in-residence, forming event around an annual theme, recent topics being “Humour”, “Identity” and “Psyche”.
The Easter Festival (Lucerne Festival zu Ostern) was founded in 1988 and takes place each spring two weeks before Easter and runs through Palm Sunday, with a special focus given to sacred music. Performances take place in churches throughout Lucerne, as well as a masterclass for young conductors at the KKL with Bernard Haitink and Lucerne Festival Strings and annual guest performances from Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
The Piano Festival (Lucerne Festival am Piano) has taken place every November since 1998, where keyboard virtuosos and emerging stars are invited to Lucerne for nine days to perform recitals, concerts, and chamber music. The “Piano Off-Stage!” programme forms a parallel series of jazz events found in bars around Lucerne.
Best of Hotel Lucerne – Hotels Lucerne in the Center
Visitors and guests of the Lucerne Festival enjoy the advantages of the Hotel **** MONOPOL Lucerne: It is the nearest located hotel to the KKL Culture and Convention Center Lucerne with the congress and concert halls.
The Hotel **** MONOPOL Lucerne is located directly at Railway Station, very convenient for visitors who arrive by train. Guests arriving by car can easily park at the Railway Station or the KKL parking garage.
Hotel **** MONOPOL Lucerne is the ONLY hotel in all of Lucerne from where you can reach the KKL Culture and Convention Centre of Lucerne without “getting wet” (underground past Lucerne Railway Station). Comfortable, convenient, quick and no need for a taxi.
The 4-star Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne is the most architecturally fascinating historic building of Lucerne, located directly at the Railway Station and in the heart of the city. The unique baroque façade featuring rococo elements made of Savonnière stone, the columns and capitals, the iron, gilded balcony balustrades and the beautiful copper cupola lend the hotel, which dates back to 1899, its majestic splendour and dignity. Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne looks like a Parisian or Viennese palace.
Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne Double Room
Relax in one of our spacious hotel rooms after a long trip, a strenuous day at work or a pleasant excursion. Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne has 74 hotel rooms in total, of which 17 are single rooms, 50 double rooms and triple rooms, 6 junior suites and a suite measuring 92 m² and containing 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a salon, dining room and 2 balconies.
All rooms have a bathroom/shower, toilet, hairdryer, telephone, minibar, safe, satellite TV and radio, a safety door lock with KeyCard and free wireless Internet throughout the hotel.
The charming reception staff and the entire Hotel MONOPOL Lucerne team are at your service at all times.
BEST PRICE GUARANTEE: If you book directly via our hotel website, you can benefit from the best price ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD: CHF 5.00 per person / per night cheaper than on all other booking portals. Further advantages: Depending on availability, we will offer you an upgrade to a higher room category free of Charge.
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