Saturday 28 March, 18:00

Cinéopéra — Diana Markosian (Around Madame Butterfly)

Filmmaker Diana Markosian offers a cinematic meditation inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, blending documentary intimacy with operatic drama. Her selection foregrounds personal narratives and staged tableaux, privileging luminous compositions, close-up portraiture and a haunting soundtrack. The program weaves memory and performance, exploring themes of displacement, longing and identity through images that feel both archival and theatrical. It’s an atmospheric encounter with image, voice and the operatic imagination.

In French.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève
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