The festival that lost its coverage

It’s August.

There are daily review and reports from Salzburg, Bayreuth, the BBC Proms, Edinburgh…. even Schleswig-Holstein.

What’s missing?

Verbier.

Despite attracting big-name performers and high-worth audiences, the Swiss mountain-tent festival has lost almost all of the attention it used to get. Even its cancellations hardly get noticed.

Why is that?

Clearly, the festival decided at some point that it’s not worth paying travel and accommodation for low-worth arts journalists. That may not be altogether a wrong calculation.

But there are other reasons to maintain discretion on top of the Alps. Verbier has become involved in sub-festivals in distant places where independent reporting is suppressed – Georgia, and now China. Right now, what goes on in Verbier stays in Verbier.

And there is a third reasons for the silence.

Nothing much happens up there.

(Or have we missed a rockfall?)

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