
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.
Composed by Nicolas Bolens and conducted by Franck Marcon, this new work brings together Ensemble Polhymnia and the HEM Orchestra to set texts by Philippe Jaccottet. Seeking the writer’s truest voice, Bolens chooses to represent the poems rather than illustrate them, letting words, voices and instrumental color converse with delicate restraint. A female choir and orchestral textures weave intimate, luminous soundscapes that balance meditation and clarity, inviting a close listening to poetry’s fragile presence.
In French.
Directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by Jader Bignamini, Rossini’s Le Voyage à Reims is a lavish, meta-lyric comedy that reunites an array of virtuoso soloists. This new production plays on ceremonial pageantry and intimate comic intrigues, blending sparkling ensembles with lyrical soliloquies. The reconstructed score offers both historical colour and theatrical wit, realised through elegant staging, precise musical leadership and a vivid ensemble that turns Rossini’s coronation music into a glittering celebration of the operatic art.
In Italian.
Led by conductor Bertrand de Billy with violinist Alexandra Conunova as soloist, this symphonic concert presents a poetic programme ranging from Cécile Chaminade’s suite Callirhoë op. 37 to Camille Saint‑Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 op. 61 and Josef Suk’s Pohádka op. 16. The orchestra navigates luminous textures, romantic lyricism and virtuosic dialogue between soloist and ensemble, offering a refined and expressive evening shaped by colourful orchestration and intimate phrasing.
Given carte blanche, Beatrice Berrut unveils a world where classical heritage meets rock and electro. Pianist, singer and composer Beatrice Berrut performs her own surprise programme, accompanied by Nadir Graa on electric bass. The music blends introspective piano writing with pulse-driven textures and subtle electronics, conjuring intimate, immersive soundscapes that move from fragile lyricism to darker drive. The performance invites collective listening and emotional communion.
In French.
Considered the summit of Johann Sebastian Bach’s œuvre and a milestone in music history, the Mass in B Minor transcends genre and time. This monumental, enigmatic fresco unites diverse styles, forms and affects in a single arc. Gli Angeli Genève’s singers, both soloists and ripienists, join players from the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in a rare side-by-side project under the direction of Stephan MacLeod. The collaboration frames the score as an invitation to encounter voices, instruments and shared sensibilities.
Moncef Genoud offers a solo piano programme that focuses on the sensitivity of touch and the expressive range of jazz piano. His refined phrasing and subtle dynamics carve intimate soundscapes where improvisation meets quiet lyricism. Sparse harmonies and shifting tempos open spaces of reflection, alternating moments of warmth, tension and release. The listening experience is tactile and immersive: each phrase emerges from a precise touch that shapes mood and memory.
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