Onex welcomes the legendary Twinkle Brothers, a Jamaican reggae group founded in 1962. With a rich career spanning over sixty years, their music delivers powerful messages of unity, social justice, and resistance against oppression. Audiences can groove to their deep basslines and captivating percussion in an energetic and generous performance, in collaboration with the Plein Les Watts festival.
The 28th edition of the Chopin Festival in Geneva invites you to indulge in the tender, passionate, and noble music of Chopin. Exceptional performers and outstanding chamber musicians will bring his masterpieces to life in the city’s concert halls.
Choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana brings together four performers with diasporic roots to explore themes of identity, connection, and individuality through dance and song. Titled Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (Malagasy for comparison, transmission, rivalry), the piece celebrates shared cultural expression. It is accompanied by the podcast Rouge cratère, a personal and political reflection on Madagascar, colonization, and the embodied experience of diaspora.
The Sinfonietta Bern Ensemble performs the iconic soundtracks from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpieces, composed by Joe Hisaishi, including pieces from “Howl’s Moving Castle,” “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” “Spirited Away,” and “My Neighbor Totoro.” This show promises a captivating musical journey, filled with emotion and vibrant colors, perfect for a family outing.
Eugène Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” is a quintessential work of absurdist theater, depicting the nonsensical and tedious interactions between two couples, the Smiths and the Martins. The arrival of the Fire Chief and the maid Marie sparks surreal situations and unexpected outbursts, before the Smiths dismiss the unlikely visitors and return to their original monotony. This production, directed by Cyril Kaiser, features puppets by Christophe Kiss alongside actors Vincent Babel, Nicole Bachmann, Blaise Granget, and Vanessa Battistini.
This performance is part of the Scène Vagabonde Festival.
In French.
Written by Elisa Shua Dusapin and directed by Ludovic Chazaud, Le vieil incendie delicately explores the fragile bond between two sisters separated by time, silence, and absence. Fifteen years after their estrangement, they reunite in the family home destined for demolition, where childhood memories and buried wounds resurface. Blending words, gestures, and silence, this poetic and sensory play reveals what still connects us — to loved ones, to places, and to shared memory.
In French.
The Ensemble Les Illuminations continues its commitment to contemporary women composers with their concert Vera Vita Viva. Featuring a new work by Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber for five instruments, the piece weaves together baroque timbres and contemporary colors, sacred and profane, tracing a musical thread from Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre to Kaija Saariaho, Ethel Smyth, and Sofia Goubaïdoulina, where memory and invention engage in a continuous dialogue.
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