Swiss music icon Stephan Eicher pares everything to the bone in this intimate solo soirée, blending grainy-voiced classics with wry, raconteur anecdotes to chart a life spent wandering off the mainstream map; sparked by a chance stroll, honed with director François Gremaud, the show unfolds like a dandy’s confessional, letting familiar melodies bloom into candid, humorous revelations that lay bare the poetic, ever-restless spirit behind the hits.
In French. Ages 12 and up.
Directed by Guillermo Cacace, this stripped-down staging places five actresses around a single table in the heart of the audience to perform Chekhov’s La Mouette. Pilar Boyle, Marcela Guerty, Clarisa Korovsky, Paula Fernandez MBarak and Romina Padoan inhabit Nina, Treplev, Arkadina, Trigorine and Macha, exposing desires, disillusion and distress in an intimate, raw mise en scène. Dramaturgy by Juan Ignacio Fernández; produced by Bérénice Bardoul and Gabriela Gobbi.
Performed in Spanish with French surtitles.
The play “Judith,” elevated by masterful language, delves into the depths of desire through an intriguing and intimate setting. Directed by Gabriel Alvarez and featuring Clara Brancorsini, Justine Ruchat, and Soufiane Guerraoui, the performance presents a gripping duel between Judith, a young widow, and Holopherne, an enemy general. This battle, where territorial stakes interweave with personal desires, examines the boundaries between ideology and bodily impulses, in a confrontation where words both soothe and sting.
In French.
Thomas Dobler arranged the project alongside the Ayekoo Drummers—founders of a Ghanaian percussion ensemble (est. 2007) with international festival experience—and the HEMU Jazz Orchestra, a flagship ensemble of master’s performance students.
This masterclass and concert examines the meeting of jazz, classical writing, highlife and ancestral West African rhythms. It explores improvisation, contemporary arranging and rhythmic dialogue, revealing how cross-cultural collaboration shapes new compositional forms and performance practices.
Nine exiled Afghan actresses and their director turn Sophocles’ Antigone into a luminous act of defiance, weaving their own flight from tyranny into a fluid chorus that moves between whispered poetry and blazing resolve; on a moon-lit set where shadows ripple across a reflective pool, their shared fervour collides with oppression’s darkness, conjuring a present-tense theatre of resistance performed in Dari (with French subtitles) that pulses with the courage, grace and unbroken spirit of women who refuse to fall silent.
In Dari, with french subtitles. Ages 14 and up.
Kamel Raiah, an Algerian singer who performs in the Kabyle language, will take the stage at the Alhambra in a concert organized by Tiwiza Léman. He is renowned for his vibrant voice and his deep connection to Amazigh traditions, which he enriches with modern sounds. Notable among his works is “Lechiakh,” an album that pays tribute to the masters of Kabyle music.
L’Aventure Invisible explores what shapes a person when the self wavers under life’s blows. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Marcus Lindeen transforms real stories into a compelling theatrical experience, continuing the director’s work seen in Orlando, Mikael, and Wild Minds.
In French.
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