16 – 17 October

Madame Loyal Geneva

Booking Required

Madame Loyal presents a vast electronic funfair where immersive staging and pounding club sounds meet circus spectacle. Multiple stages offer distinct sonic worlds, while performers and acrobatic troupes thread through fairground attractions and neon-lit rides. Chill zones, bars and food trucks punctuate the flow, and extended after-hours sustain the nocturnal pulse. Curated in collaboration with Festival du Soir, the production favours visceral energy, communal dance and sensory overload, shifting from intimate moments to overwhelming waves of light and bass.

Route François-Peyrot 30,
1218 Le Grand-Saconnex

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Photo Credit: Village du soir

Sunday 27 September, 17:00

Schubert: String Quintet

Performances

Les Caves Versoix

Performed by the Arkhè Quintet — Edouard Liechti, Nicolas Jéquier, Patrick Leyvraz, Arthur Guignard and Pascal Desarzens — this programme gathers musicians from French-speaking Switzerland who have collaborated for two decades. As a quintet they bring Schubert’s String Quintet to life with attentive ensemble playing, revealing lush textures, resonant low strings and luminous melodic lines. The performance privileges attentive listening, intimate dynamics and slow-burn emotional intensity, where close interplay and delicate phrasing unfold a spacious, deeply human sound world.

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25 September – 18 October

La Ménagerie de verre

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

For his final production as a theatre director, Jean Liermier revisits Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical classic about memory, longing and family. Set in the 1930s American South, the staging gathers a company around Laura, here embodied by Aurélia Thierrée, with Cyprien Colombo, David Gobet and Clotilde Mollet completing the ensemble. Liermier’s direction emphasises fragile interiors and poetic movement, offering a liberating, weightless atmosphere that balances tenderness and uneasy nostalgia.

In French.

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22 September – 4 October

Dire adieu

Performances

Théâtre le Galpon

Directed by Nathalie Cuenet and written by Valérie Poirier, Dire adieu is performed by Compagnie Volodia. The piece stages fragmented conversations between a daughter and her mother, probing a quest for recognition and the fragile possibility of reconciliation. Its form recalls the codes of Greek tragedy, using heightened language and concentrated staging to explore memory, silence and unresolved grief. The ensemble creates a tense, intimate atmosphere that makes emotional rupture palpable.

In French.

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25 – 27 September

Festival d’automne

Performances

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

Festival d’automne presents a programme of intimate organ and ensemble concerts exploring timbre, ritual and storytelling. Highlights include the electro-acoustic duo “Tuyaux et ondes” with Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes Martenot) and Vincent Thévenaz (organ), a narrated Mexican legend featuring Zeltzin Pérez and Diego Galicia Suárez, and a musical portrait celebrating Lionel Rogg with Anne Page, David Titterington, Alessio Corti and the choir Cantus Laetus led by Natacha Casagrande. The series favours reflective atmospheres and virtuosic instrumental colour.

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15 September – 4 October

Chronique d’une liaison passagère

Performances

Théâtre Alchimic

Chronicle of a fleeting liaison, this intimate theatrical piece examines the fragile architecture of desire and memory. Through concentrated scenes, the company maps the emotional aftershocks of a brief relationship, shifting between candid dialogue and charged silences. Lighting and sparse staging heighten moments of intimacy, while an attentive ensemble navigates tonal shifts from tenderness to unease. The production favors close observation and emotional clarity, inviting reflection on attachment and the traces left behind.

In French.

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Sunday 27 September, 19:30

Aterciopelados & Palenque la Papayera

Performances

Alhambra

Aterciopelados, led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago, bring three decades of socially conscious rock fused with Latin rhythms. On this tour they celebrate La Pipa de la Paz — 30 Years with a set that balances electric immediacy and poetic lyricism. Support act Palenque La Papayera offers exuberant banda rooted in Caribbean mestizaje, communal dance and brass-driven textures. Together they create a festive, visceral dialogue where political urgency meets collective joy and movement.

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