14 – 22 May

Marguerite à l’aiguille

Led by Emmanuel Colliard, Saint-Alban offers a luminous concert that revisits the life and work of Marguerite Sirvins through ten finely wrought songs. With guitars and keyboards, the ensemble (Emmanuel Colliard, Gael Kyriakidis, Fabrice Seydoux, Romain Gachet, Sacha Ruffieux) navigates between rage and delicacy, mixing lyrical, solar and melancholic textures. Texts by Fabrice Melquiot give voice to Sirvins’s solitary, obsessive craftsmanship — the patience of a woman who stitched a legendary wedding dress. The staging balances intimacy and intensity.

In French.

Rue du Général-Dufour 16,
1204 Genève
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Photo Credit: DR

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