Thursday 1 October, 19:30

Geneva Symphony Orchestra — Dvořák Programme

Booking Required

Conductor Sergey Ostrovsky leads the Geneva Symphony Orchestra in a season-opening programme devoted to Antonín Dvořák. Soloist Arne Zeller shines in the Cello Concerto in B minor, navigating lyrical soliloquy and intense orchestral exchange. The programme pairs Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances with the expansive Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’, unfolding folk‑inflected rhythms, sweeping Romantic textures and vivid orchestral colours. The performance emphasises dynamic contrast and narrative flow, transporting listeners through emotional landscapes.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 14,
1204 Genève

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

28 August – 13 September

Cirque Knie in Geneva

Performances

Plaine de Plainpalais

Cirque Knie presents a family-oriented, large-scale circus spectacle combining athletic acrobatics, equestrian artistry and choreographed variety numbers. The programme balances fast-paced technical acts and poetic interludes, with careful staging, lighting and live musical accompaniment to create moments of wonder and humour. Suitable for children from four years upwards, the show prioritises accessibility and comfort while offering an immersive, theatrical atmosphere that blends tradition and contemporary circus aesthetics.

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8 – 9 September

Festival de la Bâtie – My Fierce Ignorant Step

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Choreographed by Christos Papadopoulos, My Fierce Ignorant Step gathers ten bodies whose mounting breath becomes the show’s engine. The piece translates performers’ respiration into kinetic waves and layered soundscapes, dialoguing with the contemporary music of Mikis Theodorakis. Drawing on the choral pulse of ancient tragedy, the work collapses collective Hellenic memory into intimate reveries — the impulse of beginnings, the buoyancy of first encounters and the spontaneous spark of early laughter. The staging is physical, precise and visceral.

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1 – 16 September

Geneva’s Piano Festival 2026

Performances

Multiple locations

Piano Festival Geneva 2026 brings together acclaimed pianists and emerging talents for a celebration of the piano’s rich repertoire, from classical masterpieces to contemporary works. Held at Geneva’s iconic venues, the festival features solo recitals, concertos, and special performances in an intimate and inspiring musical

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9 – 12 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Shabaab

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Samar Haddad King’s Shabaab blends dance, theatre and puppetry to trace the intimate bond between two Palestinian friends, Mohamed and Mahmoud. Through movement, dialogue and a haunting puppet by Sipho Ngxola, the piece reconstructs memories, imagined futures and the silences carved by colonial violence. The choreography explores youth, tenderness and forms of resistance, creating a fragile space where friendship becomes a means of survival and poetic witness.

In English and Arabic with French surtitles.

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27 August – 18 October

Scène Vagabonde Festival 2026

Performances

Théâtre Cæcilia

Scène Vagabonde’s seventh edition brings a compact program of contemporary theatre and music, presenting three contrasting stage works — “Par le bout du nez”, “Quadrille” and “Prima facie” — alongside a concert by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp as part of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. Across intimate stagings the festival favors inventive direction, close ensemble interplay and a balance of wit and intensity, offering encounters that privilege physical presence, tonal variety and rigorous dramaturgy.

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9 – 11 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Gounouj in Situ

Performances

Musée Ariana

Choreographed by Léo Lérus, Gounouj in situ is an intimate, physical dance for four performers that evokes fragile, living landscapes. Rooted in gwoka rhythms and inspired by the creole concept of bousyè, the work blends traditional and contemporary vocabularies to explore vulnerability, transformation and resistance. Bodies shift between human and amphibious states across a sensory soundscape of bird song and marine breath, transforming the stage into a moving ecosystem and proposing a fragile possibility of new balance.

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Geneva Symphony Orchestra — Dvořák Programme