Tuesday 31 March, 18:00

Siegfried (Opera Passion)

Performances

Le City

Booking Required

Barrie Kosky’s staging of Wagner’s Siegfried follows the mythic hero’s journey with ruthless clarity. Set to Wagner’s towering score and conducted by Antonio Pappano, the production balances blistering orchestral power with lingering moments of lyric intimacy. Andreas Schager inhabits the title role with fearless strain, joined by Christopher Maltman, Peter Hoare and Elisabet Strid in vividly drawn portraits. The drama moves through shattered steel, dragon-scorched confrontation and the hushed reverie of a sleeping Valkyrie, evoking both wonder and brooding mysticism.

Sung in German with French subtitles

Place des Eaux-Vives 3,
1207 Geneva

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

27 March – 2 April

Pour un temps sois peu

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Pour un temps sois peu is a powerful solo piece by Laurène Marx in which she recounts the life of a trans woman through razor-sharp, intimate detail. Text and performance by Laurène Marx, directed by Laurène Marx and Fanny Sintès, with lighting by Solange Dinand. The show blends anger, wit and tenderness to confront medical procedures, violences, social erasure and heteronormative pressures, shaping a raw, urgent language that reclaims lived experience.

In French.

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12 March – 1 April

La grande ourse

Performances

POCHE /GVE

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.

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24 March – 1 April

Portrait

Performances

Théâtre le Galpon

Portrait is a creation by Alexandre Simon and Cosima Weiter that delves into the city through the lens of its diverse inhabitants. Combining text, acting, film sequences, and music, “Portrait” unveils a multicultural and unique Geneva. Pierre Maillet brings to life the testimonies collected by Cosima Weiter, supported by a trio of musicians under the direction of Vincent Bertholet. Filmed sequences by Alexandre Simon add depth to the staging, providing an artistic and anthropological view of the city.

In French.

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3 March – 2 April

Le Tartuffe

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

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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24 March – 12 April

Comme des bêtes

Performances

La Parfumerie

Directed by Marie Wyler and adapted from Violaine Bérot’s novel, Comme des bêtes follows a man nicknamed “the Bear” whose difference unsettles a mountain village after a child is sighted near his cave. Performed by Marie Probst, Marie Ruchat, Alexandra Tiedemann and David Casada, the piece mixes elements of folk tale and detective narrative to probe mutual taming between humans and other forms of life. Giulia Muniz’s costumes, David Kretonic’s lighting and Rudy Deceliere’s sound design build a tense, mysterious atmosphere that questions the limits of rationality.

In French.

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1 & 2 April

Requiem Allemand

Performances

Victoria Hall

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under the baton of Neeme Järvi, performs Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” featuring soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Matthias Goerne, and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. Composed in the wake of the deaths of Brahms’ mother and his friend Robert Schumann, this poignant work offers a universal message of comfort that transcends religious boundaries.

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Siegfried (Opera Passion)