Join a whimsical and playful encounter blending Eugène Ionesco’s “Children’s Stories” with the music of Georges Aperghis. Actor Yves Adam and double bassist Noëlle Reymond team up to create a theatrical duet where text and music engage in a delightful dialogue, appealing to both young and old alike. This free event includes a complimentary breakfast.
Isidore, a circus child forced to trade his nomadic life for a sedentary education, discovers the rigid rules of school and befriends Anaïs, a rebellious dreamer. Together they escape into a vivid adventure. Brought to life by three puppeteer-musicians, this energetic and poetic show explores, with humor and nuance, the shadows and lights of school and of learning to live.
Kids ages 5 and up.
Directed by Bastien Blanchard, CANICULE is a first play that turns a scorching domestic scene into a comedic yet unsettling probe of consumerist happiness. Actors Nadim Ahmed, Estelle Benaïch, Danae Dario and Angelo Dell’Aquila shift between light banter and mounting unease as a repairman exposes fissures in a marriage. Cornélius Spaeter’s scenography, Marc Heinmendinger’s lighting and Ljubica Markovic’s costumes frame moments of heat, claustrophobia and ironic intimacy, touching on climate change and overconsumption with dry wit and emotional precision.
In French.
L’Aventure Invisible explores what shapes a person when the self wavers under life’s blows. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Marcus Lindeen transforms real stories into a compelling theatrical experience, continuing the director’s work seen in Orlando, Mikael, and Wild Minds.
In French.
Nathalie Karibian and Fabrice Lelong bring the opera Nour to La Parfumerie. Nour, a symbol of Armenia, poetically delves into universal themes of displacement, identity, and love through a conversation between a grandfather and his granddaughter, touching on the Armenian diaspora. Created to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, this opera highlights human resilience. The musical direction is led by Fruzsina Szuromi, with staging by Michèle Cart and choreography by Béatrice Nauffray. The performance is supported by the Maîtrise du Conservatoire populaire and the Ensemble instrumental d’Opéra-Théâtre.
In French.
Amid the bustle of city life, five “artist donors” — musicians, singers, poets, performers, and visual and sound artists — offer a timeless, made-to-measure pause created just for you. This intimate and restorative experience invites audiences to slow down, reconnect, and give space to new, bold aspirations.
The Orchestra of Nations celebrates its 15th anniversary with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, conducted by Antoine Marguier. The event highlights performances by cellist Camille Berthollet and violinist Julie Berthollet.
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