The comedian and actor Vincent Dedienne is venturing into new creative territory with “Un lendemain soir de gala,” a unique event that combines humor and music. Dedienne will perform original songs crafted by artists he admires, including Alex Beaupain, Jeanne Cherhal, and Vincent Delerm. This promises to be a one-of-a-kind evening filled with theater, music, humor, and warmth. Tickets purchased for the previous date are still valid for the new event.
In French.
Under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann will join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) for a concert at Victoria Hall. The program features Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” Overture, Frank Martin’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,” and Beethoven’s iconic “Symphony No. 5.” This evening offers a captivating journey through pieces that evoke nature, enchantment, and dramatic power, with a total duration of about 1 hour and 40 minutes, including an intermission.
Directed by Geneviève Pasquier and performed by Vincent Babel, LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR stages Eugène’s cathartic gesture of writing to Nicolae Ceauşescu. The production blends intimate monologue with archival echoes, folding fragments of Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue into a jazz-tinged score that punctuates memory and revelation. The creative space favors spare tableaux, tactile sound textures and a nimble rhythm that offsets historical weight with mischievous warmth, transforming personal trauma into a tender, witty coming-of-age confession.
In French.
Ghostwoman is a Canadian duo reviving the spirit of Americana with vintage-modern textures, garage lines and psychedelic atmospheres. Led by multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko and joined by drummer Ille van Dessel, their music blends lo-fi grit, grunge intensity and post‑apocalyptic themes into cinematic songs conceived for the stage. Their album Welcome to the Civilized World channels wide-open road imagery and stark, melancholic melodies, offering an evocative, immersive live experience.
Nicolas Fayol performs a striking solo that confines the body to a 1.5‑metre landscape, exploring what a man becomes when he can no longer stand. Through contortions, breaths and improvised encounters between hands and feet, he invents new physical vocabularies that blend acrobatics, yoga and hip‑hop. Bathed in precise lighting and accompanied live by the duo Mont Analogue, the piece shifts between animal, child and prehistoric forms, offering a tactile, intimate meditation on human posture and transformation.
Directed by Joël Maillard and adapted from Nina Yargekov’s novel, Double nationalité is a choral theatrical investigation into identity and its contradictions. Four actresses — Cécile Goussard, Mélina Martin, Alicia Packer and Marie Ripoll — embody a single heroine and the chorus of her inner thoughts, navigating bilingual disorientation, memory and fantasy. Mélissa Rouvinet’s scenography, Antoine Françoise’s music and Édouard Hügli’s lighting create a dreamlike, often sharp atmosphere. Production by Cie SNAUT; costumes by Coralie Chauvin and sound by Cédric Simon.
In French.
Festival Antigel transforms Geneva into an experimental cultural playground each winter, a three-week laboratory of innovation. Programming mixes renowned and emerging artists across music, performance and visual projects, revealing unexpected sites and blending disciplines. The festival foregrounds diversity and social engagement, bringing together varied audiences through bold curations. Lighting, sound and staging often shape intimate, cinematic atmospheres, while collaborative projects emphasize discovery, collective energy and the thrill of shared, ephemeral encounters.
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