The OSR and soloist Antoine Tamestit will perform Jörg Widmann’s Viola Concerto, a challenging piece that showcases the musician’s diverse skills. The program also features Wagner’s “The Ring Without Words,” an orchestral arrangement by Lorin Maazel that condenses fourteen hours of music into one hour. The event is conducted by Daniel Harding.
Formed in 2017 and based in Geneva, The Molitors are an alternative rock/indie quartet whose songs draw on influences from Nick Cave, The Smiths, Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd and Nick Drake. Their original compositions explore dystopia, solitude, love and hope, balanced between brooding ballads and expansive, guitar-driven textures. Fronted by David Powell (vocals, guitar) with Sébastien Gabriel (bass), Anthony Weber (guitar) and Sébastien Steinmann (drums, piano), the band’s recent album deepens their atmospheric, melancholic sound.
Written by E.-E. Schmitt, La Tectonique des Sentiments probes how love can turn to hatred in an instant. The plot follows Diane and Richard as imagined betrayals unleash seismic emotional shifts, toppling certainties and stirring violent tenderness. The piece balances sharp comedy and quiet cruelty, dissecting contradictions of desire through intimate exchanges and sudden tremors of feeling. The staging favors psychological clarity and a charged, oscillating atmosphere that leaves the audience unsettled and moved.
In French.
Are Demons Among Us? Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym was a French citizen from Avignon who, after having his cards read by a fortune-teller, began to see malevolent beings all around him, whom he called “goblins.” The delusion lasted his entire life. His book on demons is an impressively detailed work, written in a rich literary style and containing utterly bizarre content—both pathetic and unintentionally comical.
It constitutes the most complete account of the inner world of a man gripped by profound madness. It was rediscovered in the following century by the Surrealists, notably Raymond Queneau, as well as by enthusiasts of outsider art. The performance will be a montage of the very words of this famous “literary madman” and will offer the audience a journey into the labyrinth of his thoughts.
In French.
Brigade financière stages a tense, chamber drama by Hugues Leforestier that confronts the logic of contemporary finance. Under Antony Mettler’s direction, Christian Gregori and Maria Mettral embody a sharp, cerebral duel between a financial crimes commissioner and an accused executive. Christian Gregori also signs scenography and costumes while Florian Cuellar sculpts the lighting. The production blends police-procedural suspense with satirical intelligence, probing power, privilege and the contradictions of today’s economic system.
In French.
Desperate for (bonds) is an improvisational performance for electroacoustic harp that explores the sonic tensions embedded within human attachment. Strings and woven connections create an architecture of bonds between a body and a harp that are strapped together, inviting the audience into a form of radical listening — if one dares to enter it.
Choreographer Marcos Morau unveils Svatbata, a world premiere for the Grand Théâtre de Genève. This work brings together the theater’s ballet troupe to delve into the rituals and concept of marriage, drawing inspiration from Bulgaria’s unique position as a bridge between East and West. Through choreographic movements that blend human sounds and gestures, the piece offers a contemplation on life, death, and the rituals connecting them, while celebrating the universality and depth of collective traditions.
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