Victoria Hall is a prominent concert hall housed in a majestic neoclassical building. This historic venue is celebrated for its exceptional acoustics, making it a favored destination for music enthusiasts. While occasionally featuring other musical genres, Victoria Hall remains predominantly dedicated to the world of classical music.
Led by conductor Raphaël Merlin and featuring violinist Nemanja Radulović, this concert pairs Prokofiev’s luminous Second Violin Concerto with Brahms’s First Serenade. Radulović’s electrifying stage presence and stratospheric technique bring out the concerto’s ironic brightness, while the serenade unfolds with warm lyricism and folk-tinged dance rhythms. The Geneva Chamber Orchestra shapes intimate textures and bold crescendos, sculpted through attentive phrasing and dynamic contrasts to create a colourful, emotionally rich opening to the season.
Three restored Laurel and Hardy shorts—An Eye for an Eye, Long Live Liberty and The Battle of the Century—directed respectively by James W. Horne, Leo McCarey and Clyde Bruckman. The program foregrounds their precision of gesture, rhythmic choreography and comic timing, framed in silent-era textures and restored prints. A newly composed symphonic score performed live by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande weaves with the images, creating a dialogue between music and motion. The mood alternates between nimble slapstick and melancholic lyricism, highlighting the duo’s enduring cinematic modernity.
Explore the sounds of a full orchestra in this playful musical journey. Hear lively brass, whispering strings, glittering woodwinds and bold percussion as each family of instruments takes a turn. Follow themes and clever variations that show how notes can change into animals and characters. Imagine bears, butterflies, giants and fairies guided by bright melodies and shifting rhythms. Listen closely, spot different timbres, and let curiosity lead your questions and discoveries.
Kids ages 6 and up.
Part of the Sunday Concerts season, this open day invites discovery of the hall, its renowned organ and musical life through guided visits, hands-on workshops, historical dance initiation and a silent-film ciné-concert. The programme features actors and singers alongside instrumentalists: Antoine Courvoisier, Charlotte Filou, Julia Deit‑Ferrand (mezzo), Lysa Menu (soprano), Jean‑Paul Pruna (piano), Diego Innocenzi and Thierry Escaich (orgue), and lutenist Monica Pustilnik. Partnerships with ClassiCosy and Fêtes Costumées shape a convivial, tactile encounter with music and heritage.
In French.
Under the direction of Elim Chan, this symphonic concert brings together contemporary and romantic sound worlds, opening with Noriko Koide’s Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain (Swiss premiere). Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa features in Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été op. 7, followed by Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. The programme balances intimate song and virtuosic orchestral colour, offering lyrical intensity, dramatic contrasts and refined orchestral detail.
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.
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