The Orchestre des Nations celebrates its 15th anniversary with a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, featuring pianist Matei Varga under the baton of Antoine Marguier.
The Orchestre des Nations celebrates its 15th anniversary with a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, featuring pianist Matei Varga under the baton of Antoine Marguier.
Follow a silhouette as they move through waves of strong feeling while a pianist plays calm, steady music. Gradually childhood memories surface, spoken in gentle gestures and small movements. Kids will watch shifts in rhythm, listen to low piano tones, and feel the hush and warmth of the scene. This quiet duet invites curiosity about how feelings grow and settle, encouraging listening, reflection, and gentle imagination.
Actor Samuel Labarthe turns Nicolas Bouvier’s fever-drenched memoir The Scorpion-Fish into a hypnotic, miniaturist tour de force: marooned in 1950s Ceylon after a headlong road trip from Geneva through the Balkans and Afghanistan, the once-ebullient traveller spirals into tropical delirium, trading human company for buzzing insects, mirage-bright visions and mordant humour that flits between the sublime and the grotesque. Under Catherine Schaub’s finely gauged direction, Labarthe channels both the lush lyricism and the slow-burn torment of this “motionless voyage,” distilling Bouvier’s languid prose into a tactile, rejuvenating elixir that lets the audience feel every bead of sweat, jolt of wonder and sting of isolation.
In French. Ages 12 and up.
Inspired by the accounts of women mountaineers, this performance intertwines mountaineering, feminism, and ecology. Two women, united against the elements, commemorate a vanished glacier, confronting fear and hope. The mountain emerges as a symbol of both endangered nature and the solidarity of humanity in need of rebuilding.
In French.
Staro slips, sneaks and interferes between genres, inhabiting a liminal space between rap and rock. His French-language, finely crafted and punchy lyrics draw listeners into an intimate, turbulent universe where melancholy dances with the fury of living. On stage he alternates restrained phrasing and explosive outbursts, shaping a raw, urgent sound that balances poetic precision with visceral energy. The performance feels both confessional and confrontational, leaving a lingering emotional charge.
In French.
After spending six years in prison, a solitary con artist embarks on a journey of reintegration. Suddenly, a woman claiming to be his daughter appears, bringing up a missing sum of money, a cult, and an heiress tied to wartime exploitation. With the support of a therapist who was involved throughout his incarceration, the characters delve into a world of deception, identity quests, and shared guilt. This existential thriller delves into the fragmented nature of reality and memory.
In French.
Swiss music icon Stephan Eicher pares everything to the bone in this intimate solo soirée, blending grainy-voiced classics with wry, raconteur anecdotes to chart a life spent wandering off the mainstream map; sparked by a chance stroll, honed with director François Gremaud, the show unfolds like a dandy’s confessional, letting familiar melodies bloom into candid, humorous revelations that lay bare the poetic, ever-restless spirit behind the hits.
In French. Ages 12 and up.
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