Thursday 20 November, 20:00

NNAVY & Roxane

Experience a captivating evening at the Salle du Lignon as part of the Les Créatives festival, featuring NNAVY and Roxane. Kicking off the night, Roxane delivers heartfelt songs, blending guitar with emotional depth and poetic sensitivity that resonates deeply. Following her, Swiss soul-jazz sensation NNAVY brings a smooth groove and vibrant intensity, offering a profound and radiant musical journey. This event, a harmonious mix of gentleness and strength, is presented in collaboration with Vernier Culture.

Place du Lignon 16,
1219 Le Lignon

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Photo Credit: Festival Les Créatives

9 – 12 November

Graals

Performances

La Cité Bleue

Premiering on August 17, 2024, at the Théâtre du Jorat (Mézières, VD), Graals is a bold and hybrid stage work that blends theatre, opera, and myth. With a libretto and staging by Luc Birraux, and music by Kevin Juillerat (for baroque instruments and live electronics), the production interweaves excerpts from Henry Purcell’s King Arthur with a contemporary score.

The piece reimagines the legend of the Holy Grail, tracing its origins through the journey of Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdalene as they navigate a world of early Christianity, pagan rites, and shifting beliefs. Between faith and superstition, sacred and profane, Graals offers an immersive, time-bending exploration of one of Western culture’s most enduring myths.

Conducted by Antoine Rebstein, this meeting of ancient and modern sounds creates a unique musical language—both rooted in tradition and boldly experimental.

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6 – 9 November

79th Concours de Genève – Viola Semi-Finals

Performances

Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Join the Semi-Final of the Concours de Genève – Viola Competition, featuring a solo recital and chamber music performance at the Geneva Conservatoire. Under the leadership of Tabea Zimmermann, the semi-finalists present a free-choice program along with works by Mozart and Berio, accompanied by guest artists.

Established in 1939, the Concours de Genève aims to discover and support young talents for an international career. The final will be held at Victoria Hall with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, followed by the prize ceremony.

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9 & 14 November

Jean-Luc Hervé: Sombre / Topos – Music Salon with a Population of Sound Animals

Lectures & Workshops Performances

Utopiana

Jean-Luc Hervé presents “Sombre / Topos – Musical Salon with a Population of Sound Animals” in collaboration with Utopiana and the University of Geneva. This innovative project features sound broadcasts, performances, and a seminar. Hervé explores the interplay between music and the environment by positioning sound sources throughout a house, crafting a natural polyphony that mimics animal populations. The performances, woven into this soundscape, gradually evolve and separate, forming an independent “sound population” that remains even after the performers have exited.

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Sunday 9 November, 17:00

Opera at the Farm

Performances

La Ferme de la Touvière transforms into a lyrical stage for a musical feast of opera arias. Enjoy refreshments and light snacks available an hour before and after the show.

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4 November 2025 – 1 February 2026

The Scorpion-Fish

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

Actor Samuel Labarthe turns Nicolas Bouvier’s fever-drenched memoir The Scorpion-Fish into a hypnotic, miniaturist tour de force: marooned in 1950s Ceylon after a headlong road trip from Geneva through the Balkans and Afghanistan, the once-ebullient traveller spirals into tropical delirium, trading human company for buzzing insects, mirage-bright visions and mordant humour that flits between the sublime and the grotesque. Under Catherine Schaub’s finely gauged direction, Labarthe channels both the lush lyricism and the slow-burn torment of this “motionless voyage,” distilling Bouvier’s languid prose into a tactile, rejuvenating elixir that lets the audience feel every bead of sweat, jolt of wonder and sting of isolation.

In French. Ages 12 and up.

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31 October – 9 November

GIFF | Locus Solus: Raccuia, Carrel, Kobayashi, Décosterd et Parel

Cool Stuff Performances

Temple de Plainpalais

As part of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Ensemble Contrechamps presents Locus Solus—a pioneering experience where virtual reality meets live instrumental performance. Featuring new works by Raccuia & Carrel, Kobayashi, and Décosterd & Parel, this immersive program transforms the Temple de Plainpalais into a hybrid sonic and visual space. In intimate groups, audiences enter an augmented listening environment where acoustic textures, VR synthesizers, and real-time performance converge in a poetic and boundary-pushing exploration.

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NNAVY & Roxane