Fête des Vignerons
fête de vignerons winegrowers festival traditional festival take place vevey switzerland organised confrérie de vignerons brotherhood winegrowers vevey since organising committee free choose often festival take place idea held generation interval two festival varied year recent festival took place july august year preceding one festival feature show celebrating world winemaking performance take place vevey marketplace shore lake geneva festivity organised around town since fête de vignerons included unesco intangible cultural heritage edition festival recommended one national geographics world exciting destination one new york times place go listed guardian go list origin fête de vignerons lie procession vevey confrérie de vignerons procession believed started middle age time confrérie de vignerons called abbaye de lagriculture abbaye de lagriculture small association grew th century almost quarter veveys male population become member never gathering vineyard worker current name would suggest landholder entrusted care vineyard worker small group expert confrérie visited vine different time year judge classify quality work winegrowers activity continues day abbotpresidents president council confrérie still often member city council lawyer notary judge around confrérie de vignerons decided aim encouraging improvement winegrowing rewarding vineyard worker good result instead concentrating possible failing best vineyard worker paraded town vevey together member confrérie archive confrérie de vignerons first record parade probable parade started date parade followed general meeting vineyard worker result commented criticised followed banquet parade took form pageant musician singer parade included small boy top wine barrel playing role bacchus parade held every three year second theatrical character added parade young apprentice playing role cere goddess wheat harvest character become traditional element fête de vignerons appeared following year noah first winegrower people carrying grape canaan priest priestess greek mythology basketbearers kanephoros group faun bacchant parade included silenus riding donkey coronation ceremony added end parade honour best vineyard worker six year later august coronation ceremony combined staged spectacle costumed participant parade entered vevey marketplace platform two thousand seat erected dance song performed marketplace participant headed town repeating song dance along parade spectacle parade divided four season first spring god pale summer cere autumn silenus finally winter noah village wedding celebration origin elaborate celebration continue day due unrest vaudoise revolution napoleonic war following year allow new celebration would take twentytwo year new celebration organized celebration took place august presided abbotpresident louis levade presided first staged spectacle actor performer participated seat arena canton vaud recently joined confederation theme first th century celebration glorified tradition patriotism traditional song ranz de vaches sung first time fête de vignerons organiser counsellor walther considered spectacle become complicated enough need director dance master david constantin musical director david glady selected arranged music text third fête de vignerons took place august direction abbotpresident vincent doret actor performer participated seat arena organised counsellor walther direction david constantin walther commissioned samuel glady son david glady compose original music complement song traditional repertoire costume designed theophile steinlen fourth fête de vignerons held august direction abbotpresident françois déjoux françois grast engaged write complete musical score giving fourth fête stylistic unity bringing music staging fore actor performer participated seat arena direction benjamin archinard first time ancient swiss troop previously intended supervise procession marched françois grast also composed music next fête de vignerons took place july abbotpresident louis bonjour actor performer participated seat arena benjamin archinard dancing master previous festival pierre lacaze responsible costume staging celebration grew became difficult finance rely public subscription one third budget august sixth fête de vignerons held direction abbotpresident former president confederation paul ceresole occasion show staged ernest burnat music hugo de senger brought together actor performer seat arena first time ranz de vaches performed soloist placid curtat choir armaillis highly acclaimed performance soloist showed symbolic function song festival established close link vevey height veveyse district gruyère district seventh fête de vignerons took place august abbotpresident time national councillor emile gaudard rené morax wrote libretto directed spectacle gustave doret composed music fête de vignerons notable procession become secondary element well first celebration restrict participation woman girl actor performer participated arena seat august eighth fête de vignerons presided abbotpresident previous one emile gaudard switzerland delegate league nation production directed edouard vierne rené morax declined invitation replaced durec week event music composed previous celebration gustave doret libretto pierre girard costume scenery designed ernest bieler choreographer george meriadec performer participated gathered seat arena inspired medieval city surrounded wall tower fête de vignerons took place august presided abbotpresident david dénéréaz context increasing entertainment possibility barely decade end second world war organisation became professional first festival international focus doubling capacity compared previous one first performance entirely sold additional one organised following success show directed oscar eberlé music carlo hemmerling libretto géo h blanc performer participated seat arena edition first organize night performance july august tenth fête de vignerons presided abbotpresident philippe dénéréaz directed charles apothéloz music jean balissat libretto henri debluë set costume designed jean monod andré charlet directed choir orchestra performer participated seat arena organized around large solar clock four cardinal point indicating four season fête de vignerons took place july august presided abbotpresident marchenri chaudet directed françois rochaix music jeanfrançois bovard michel hostettler jost meier libretto françois debluë nephew librettist henri debluë jeanclaude maret directed scenography catherine zuber responsible costume show featured arlevin winemaker representing crowned winemaker coronation took place first performance performer participated seat arena august audience able see show total solar eclipse decade model amphitheatre second half th century december fête de vignerons added unesco representative list intangible cultural heritage humanity first swiss tradition included twelfth fête de vignerons held july august presided abbotpresident françois margot directed daniele finzi pasca music composed maria bonzanigo musical director jérôme berney valentin villard libretto work stéphane blok blaise hofmann scenography hugo gargiulo bryn walter choreographer costume designed giovanna buzzi among approximately actor performer nearly singer local choir choirpercussionists child conducted caroline meyer céline grandjean arena seat traditional song ranz de vaches performed eleven armaillis traditional cowherdsmen rather soloist done since spectacle traced activity winegrowers season seen eye imagination small girl called petite julie opening scene set grape harvest july grandfather playing card drinking wine outside winegrowers hut locally known capite spectacle july grandfather teach mystery grapevine beauty landscape culture winemaking repeatedly encounter three doctor clownish local worthy expert fête reality transformed dreamlike fairy world july imagination accompanied adventure beautiful dragonfly headsman abbaye de vignerons novel james fenimore cooper