Jonathan Dove’s opera adapts the tales The Enchanted Pig and The Brown Bear of Norway into a tender, witty musical fable. Directed by Joan Mompart and translated into French by Sabryna Pierre, the production blends cardboard and pixel-art scenography with a sensitive score to tell Flora’s journey — condemned to marry a pig who is an enchanted prince — aided by the North Wind, the Moon and the Sun. Themes include fate, free will and the clairvoyance of the heart.
In French.
Conceived and directed by Ágnes Havas, this itinerant festival combines cycle-tourism with a rich musical programme. Concerts range from classical and baroque to opera and jazz, presented across lakeside stages that dialogue with the landscape. The project foregrounds sustainable cyclo-tourism and cross-border artistic cooperation, pairing performances with local gastronomy. Lighting and acoustic choices favour intimacy and clarity, while artists of international calibre create moments of contemplative lyricism, conviviality and sensory immersion around the rhythms of the lake.
Violencia Rivas is a brazen stage persona created by Léa Pohlhammer that channels a fictional Argentine yéyé singer claiming to have invented punk in the late sixties. On stage Pohlhammer and Adrien Barazzone form a combustible duo: she as the diva, he as her devoted companion. Julien Jaillot directs the actor work; Florence Minder collaborated on dramaturgy; Fernando de Miguel supplies music and sound while Pedro Saborido and Fernando de Miguel provide song texts. Aline Courvoisier designs costumes and Danielle Milovic and Loane Ruga the lighting. Coproduction: F.A.B Force Prod., Venedig Meer.
In French.
Produced by Maress and COXOG Karpet, Og Karpet First Date assembles a charged lineup: 26Keuss, Trafalgar, Awuni, McMaams and Mohciss. The performance moves between US and French R&B, rap, Afro rhythms and Shatta energy, blending polished grooves with raw street intensity. Tight vocal exchanges, layered production and call-and-response sequences foreground communal dance and a nocturnal, electric atmosphere. The staging favours close interaction and club-oriented dynamics.
Two retired clowns revisit moments from their lives with mischievous tenderness and a sharp, critical eye. The piece unfolds as a series of rapid transformations—each reinvention arriving every three minutes—blending physical comedy, memory and gentle satire. The performers invite laughter through self-mockery and shared recognition, balancing fragility and spirited resilience. Staging privileges rhythm and gesture, creating a warm, bittersweet atmosphere that observes the world through playful yet clear‑eyed humour.
In French.
But what is “reality”?
A forgotten cassette in a tape recorder becomes the key to a journey through time.
Two coworkers, Kurt and Willard, are plunged into the heart of an unprecedented psychiatric experiment where delirium and lucidity intertwine.
They must piece together a puzzle that will lead them to the very edge of madness. “Why are you so angry? …Because all of a sudden I was taking control of something? …Huh? Until now you were used to completely controlling the situation, and now this strangeness has crept into your life…”
In French.
Une Simple Histoire is a tender musical tribute to the late Michel Bühler, celebrating his songs, poetry and humanism. Directed by Roland Vouilloz, the staging brings together Sylvie Bourban (voice) and Jean-Philippe Zwahlen (guitar) in an intimate duet that traces Bühler’s storytelling and travels. The programme weaves folk-inflected arrangements and poetic narration to evoke memory, solidarity and the quiet truth of ordinary lives.
In French.
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