'Tis the Season
The global star performed 2,300 meters high in the Austrian Alps for Ischgl’s “Top of the Mountain” concert
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It was a brazenly sunny day at the Idalp, a mountain plateau 2,300 meters high in the Austrian Alps that serves as a sky high terminal for skiers being ferried up the slopes like cargo wrapped in puffer jackets. I was there for Ischgl’s annual “Top of the Mountain” concert, a speck among the reported sea of 19,000 attendees gathered for one united purpose: to see Christina Aguilera in all her glory perform.
Anyone blissfully carving down the mountain at that time may have snatched a glimpse of the astonishing setting: a pop star, the snow-covered tips of the Alps, a ski lodge, and thousands singing along to “Genie in a Bottle.”
