Jessé presents a compact solo performance that blends sincerity and comedy. With plainspoken presence and precise timing, the comedian unpacks intimate reflections and social observations, moving effortlessly between gentle irony and sharp punchlines. The staging favors close, immediate exchange with the audience, creating moments of warmth and unexpected candour as the performer rolls up his sleeves to deliver a deeply personal message. Text-driven and human, the show privileges honesty over artifice.

In French.

Lou Trotignon tells, with humour and candour, a personal story of transition: from starting testosterone and playful strip-tease to the discovery of queer communities. The show blends stand-up and performative moments to gently question gender norms, the relationship to the body and the ways we love. Intimate and often funny, the piece combines raw testimony and theatrical staging to invite reflection and warmth. Presented by Caustic Comedy Club.

In French.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Dimokratía examines the contradictions at the heart of democracy through a visceral dance-theatre language. The Ballet du Grand Théâtre collaborates with sculptor Antony Gormley, whose movable scenography is built and dismantled by performers into agoral stones, barricades and articulations of a communal body. Composer Dimitris Skyllas’s new score for voices and orchestra, led by conductor Margaryta Grynyvetska, weaves ancient texts with contemporary reflections on power, belief and belonging, yielding a tense, intimate ritual.

John Osborn is a celebrated tenor whose long association with Geneva’s opera scene has established him as a charismatic and elegant recitalist. In this programme he surveys a rich vocal repertoire, from Beethoven and Schubert to de Falla, alongside rarer mélodies by Chausson, Fauré and the American song composer Ernest Charles. His refined phrasing and luminous timbre promise poetic intensity and intimate musical storytelling.

Kaija Saariaho’s opera unfolds a luminous encounter between the human and the supernatural, inspired by Japanese nō plays Tsunemasa and Hagoromo and set to an Ezra Pound libretto. Peter Sellars’s staging is framed by Julie Mehretu’s pictorial designs, where sound and image conjure a ritualised atmosphere. The production highlights soloists Philippe Jaroussky and Davóne Tines within a delicate, otherworldly score that blends chant, orchestral colour and spectral textures. A poetic, meditative evening of music and theatre.

In English.

Euphoria reimagines Beethoven’s Ninth as an intense choreographic and musical performance. For the bicentenary of the composer’s death, David Greilsammer and choreographer Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola fuse orchestra, choir and soloists into a collective stage ritual. The Geneva Camerata’s instrumentalists and the GTG choir members share the spotlight with dancers, dissolving boundaries between music and movement. The production emphasizes the Ninth’s unifying power and pacifist message through immersive staging and visceral ensemble interplay.