This year the edition of the Early Music Festival in Vianden will take place from 3 to 5 July. On Friday, 3 July at 7 p.m., there will be a baroque opera evening with soloists Sylvie Langehegermann, Isabelle Azzolin and Olivier Nilles, as well as the AD LIBITUM ensemble. On Saturday, a nocturne with medieval and early Renaissance music is on the programme. Weather permitting, the concert will take place outdoors. On Sunday at 4 p.m., soprano Valerie Stammet will be performing selected arias from the 17th and 18th centuries at the Trinitarian Church. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to take a shuttle bus up to the castle, where the traditional promenade concert will begin at 6 p.m. Admission prices remain unchanged.

Friday, 3 July, 7 p.m.

Opera evening with music from the Baroque period by candlelight

Saturday, 4 July, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Nocturne with music and dance from several centuries (Barbara Pierlot, vocals – Idoia Bengoa, shawm, pommer, dulcian – Raffaella Bortolini, flutes, shawm – Daniel Serafini, busine, sackbut, slide trumpet – Juan Ullibarri, wind instruments – Al Ginter, percussion

Sunday, 5 July at 4 p.m.

‘An Evening Hymn’ Sacred music from the 17th and 18th centuries (Valerie Stammet, soprano – Jehanne Strepenne, violin – Ria Lucas, recorder – Rosch Mirkes, organ

Sunday, 5 July at 6 p.m. Promenade concert

English music for recorders and gamba consort in the Knights’ room – Lute music with Manou Schreiner in the Charles Arendt room – Surprise concert in the Vic Abens room