Sunday 30 May, 17:00

Parfums: Scented Concert Experience

Booking Required

With Parfums, the concert becomes a total sensory experience led by François Cardey and the Ensemble Agamemnon. Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire is woven with an original olfactory layer: three fragrances spatialized by studio Magique, designed to unfold in dialogue with motets, madrigals and historical « arabi odori » reconstructed by Alexandre Helwani. Principal singers Amandine Trenc and Marc Mauillon join an ensemble of cornet, violin, viola da gamba, lirone, harp, harpsichord and organ, creating an intimate, immersive soundworld.

Avenue de Miremont 46,
1206 Genève
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