With Vivo Duo, lyrical voice and electric guitar meet in an intimate concert lit by real candles. Viviane Urio and Flavio Vanini move from Puccini and Handel to Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Maxime Le Forestier and Michel Berger, before opening toward Solann, Zaho de Sagazan and original works by Urio. The result is a sensitive dialogue between opera, chanson, pop and contemporary music, shaped by poetry, emotion and a warm, immersive glow.
Focus Jeune Création brings together a new generation of Romand artists over two weeks, presenting five bold and hybrid performances that blur theatre, performance and live art. The program explores emergent writing and stage practices— from plateau-based text to pieces rooted in the real—offering layered, often indisciplinary approaches that question formats and invent languages for a transforming world. Accompanying meetings and discussions extend the works and open insight into creative processes.
FURTHER AFIELD
Choreographer Anne Nguyen, rooted in breakdance battles and informed by scientific studies, rebuilds hip‑hop vocabulary with a mathematical sensuality. Promenade Obligatoire stages an uninterrupted, ordered march across the performance space that becomes a meditation on life’s meaning and the passage of time. Popping—blocks, isolations and body dissociations—sharpens contrasts between rupture and mimicry. The explosive, precise gestures transform the inexorable walk into a hypnotic, transportive experience that explores repetition, synchronization and the poetry of everyday movement.
Blending choral singing with the refined austerity of nō theatre, this performance follows a man on an inner journey through solitude and the longing for unity. The presence of Masato Matsuura lends the staging a striking ritual intensity, while the voices of the Aedes ensemble open a wide musical landscape. Schubert, Tormis, Seppar, Dumont, Schnittke and Hersant weave together a score of contrasts, from lyric grace to tension and transcendence.
French Subtitles. Kids ages 12 and up
On Tuesday, November 10, the duo Vocal Cheese will be delighted to share their traditional annual reunion concert. For 15 years, Vicky and Meret have been singing songs from the Alps and the shores of Greece, Italy, Occitania and Bulgaria, occasionally venturing into Latin America or adding an original composition of their own.
The joy of savouring these songs, gathered along the way through encounters and shared experiences, shines through in arrangements that pay tribute to these traditions while reflecting the performers’ own hybrid, itinerant lives. Expect rooted folk music with a subversive edge when needed — and it is needed — delivered with humour and tenderness.
Meret Mohr Millner — vocals, guitar; Vicky Papailiou — vocals, accordion
Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.
In French.
Presented in partnership with the Institut National Genevois, this closing concert brings together prizewinners of the Geneva Competition: violist Brian Isaacs and the Quatuor Elmire. The programme centres on Beethoven’s Quintet alongside two contrasting works, offering intimate chamber music textures. The performers favour clarity of line and heated interplay, shaping a narrative of tenderness and tension. Lighting and staging are understated, focusing attention on timbral richness and communicative ensemble playing to create a luminous, emotionally precise evening.
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