The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) hosts Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla for her Geneva debut, joined by pianist Georgijs Osokins. The event’s program includes “The Four Elements” by Frank Martin, Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor,” Debussy’s “La Mer,” and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from “Daphnis and Chloé.” This concert showcases the OSR’s essence through works that evoke nature, reflect its celebrated early recordings, and feature brilliant orchestral pieces.
Written by Julie Gilbert and directed by Lou Ciszewski, Quoiqu’il arrive. Respire. follows Joana, shaken after seeing a play about a young activist in which one of her pupils performs. Performed by Margot Le Coultre, the piece questions women’s will and capacity to fight—physically and metaphorically—and how to claim and hold space without being assigned a role. Presented in a portable, ‘portative’ form commissioned by the producing company, the staging favors close-up gestures, raw textures and a quietly collective imagination that unsettles certainties.
In French.
Organised by Alliance Créative, Double Jeu is an improvisation format built on strategy and subtle manipulation: each performer secretly receives a mission to coax a partner into a specific action without being noticed. Scenes cascade into comic chaos where every line conceals an intention, and performers juggle personal objectives against shifting group dynamics. The atmosphere alternates between playful mischief and razor-sharp timing, producing surprising twists and communal laughter.
In French.
Written by Penda Diouf and staged by Evelyne Castellino, LA GRANDE OURSE is an ecofeminist fable that traces a mother’s descent after a minor incident becomes criminalized. Combining video, choreographed movement and choral voices, the piece weaves police violence, racism and sexism into a hallucinatory, dystopian world where omnipresent surveillance watches every gesture. As the heroine reconnects with ancestral nature by transforming into a bear, the production evokes animal survival instinct, collective gossip and the fragile line between humanity and wildness, offering a visceral, poetic reflection on power and resistance.
In French.
Part of the Voix de Fête programme, this evening brings five distinct voices: Gildaa, a satirical songwriter straddling chanson and baile funk with bilingual, theatrical delivery; Malaka, a sister duo whose folk-soul harmonies favour pared-back instrumentation; Sam Mallais, a New Brunswick guitarist channeling analog-era psychedelic blues-rock (produced by Mike Trask); Soleil Launière, an Innu singer blending soul-roots with percussive performance alongside CHANCES and Simon Walls; and Noir & Gerber, a franglais soul-blues trio weaving intimate grooves and luminous covers.
Now in its forty-fifth edition, the AMR Jazz Festival champions musical freedom and improvisation, foregrounding risk and the unexpected. International artists from Switzerland, South Africa, the Americas, Scandinavia and Portugal converge to reshape contemporary jazz through diverse improvisational practices. Evenings alternate between exploratory ensemble sets and DJ-driven late-night sessions, with names such as DJ Evita Koné Belama Sounds, Zemzem, the Skankin’ Society collective and DJ Mitch. The overall experience is urgent, tactile and celebratory, where sound invites discovery.
Molière’s Tartuffe tells the story of a slick con-man who hides behind ostentatious piety to worm his way into the wealthy Orgon household. Orgon, dazzled by Tartuffe’s sanctimonious rhetoric, defends him even as the impostor’s hypocrisy poisons family bonds and pushes the household toward ruin.
Director Jean Liermier underscores how, in Molière’s work, the female characters serve as the moral compass and spark of resistance, a beacon of hope against oppression. Staged on a stark, minimalist set that exposes the family’s rigid tensions—and featuring Gilles Privat as an unbending Orgon—this production highlights the play’s continuing resonance in a world beset by egotism, fanaticism, and conspiracy thinking. The central question remains timeless: will society keep falling for Tartuffe’s brand of seductive deceit?
In French. Ages 12 and up.
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