Monte Carlo/Monaco is easily accessible from Nice (Take bus #100 at the J.C. Bermond station), and this summer’s concert lineup makes it extra enticing! For a late night return to Nice, reserve ahead with my personal taxi recommendation, “Friend in France” (honest, English-speaking, fair price — and no, I don’t get paid to say this!)
Enjoy the concert in a beautiful setting!
INFORMATION:
What: Concerts princiers
Where: Prince’s Palace of Monaco
When: 12 July and 5 August, 9.30pm
Admission: from €19
Dress: Jacket and tie
Reservations: Tue-Sat 10am to 5.30pm, Tel : +377 98 06 28 28
Further information: +377 93 25 17 38 from 7pm
It’s hard to imagine a more enchanting scene, or a more perfect location. Warm summer evenings spent on the beautiful Rocher, ancestral home of the Grimaldi family, in the company of Monaco’s top-class orchestra and the world’s finest soloists, including, this year, the exceptional violinist Pinchas Zukerman, the cellist Gautier Capuçon, and the singer Ute Lemper.
This is the 53rd annual season of outdoor concerts, which by long tradition have taken place at the palace at this time of year. Begun by the Prince’s father, Rainier III, these jacket-and-tie gala evenings are certainly the place to see and be seen, with all the concerts taking place in the colonnaded courtyard that was the setting for the
wedding of TSH Prince Albert and Princess Charlene in 2011.
The gates to the palace close at 9.30pm, so please make sure you have taken your place by then. In case of rain, concerts will take place at 10pm the same evening at the Auditorium Rainier III, boulevard Louis II (parking Louis II or parking du Grimaldi Forum).
Full programme for 2012
Thursday 12 July at 9.30pm
Bernstein: Candide, overture
Gershwin: Piano concerto in in F
Antonín Dvořák: Symphonie no 7 in d minor, op. 70
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; conducted by Krzysztof Urbanski
Sunday 15 July at 9.30pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 3 in G, K 216 (Strasbourg)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in e minor, op. 64
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Wednesday 18 July at 9.30pm
Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre, op. 80
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a rococo theme for cello and orchestra, op. 33
Brahms: String quartet in g minor, op. 25
Gautier Capuçon, cello; conducted by Kristjan Järvi
Sunday 29 July at 9.30pm
Prince’s Palace
Massenet: Le Cid, extracts
Rodrigo: Aranjuez harp concerto
Franck: Symphony in d minor
Xavier de Maistre, harp; conducted by Jésus López-Cobos
Thursday 2 August at 9.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 1 in C, op.15
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 in F, op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Conducted from the piano by Christian Zacharias
Sunday 5 August at 9.30pm
Cabaret of European song: Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel
Ute Lemper, contralto; conducted by Lawrence Foster
Source: CityOutMonaco.com
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