26 April – 23 May

Un p’tit caillou dans la chaussure

Booking Required

Pascal Chenu brings a witty, music-rich solo show devised with Annik von Kaenel, blending chansons, texts and playful satire inspired by Jacques Prévert, Francis Blanche and Bénédict Gampert. Chenu’s original compositions and piano frame a warm, theatrical concert where he is joined by longtime collaborators Véronique Mattana and Sophie Solo. The staging mixes song, dance and sharply comic asides to create an intimate, uplifting evening that oscillates between tenderness and caustic humour.

In French.

Chemin de Ruth 16,
1223 Cologny, Switzerland

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Photo Credit: DR

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80th Concours de Genève

Performances

Victoria Hall

Presented in collaboration with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Concours de Genève, this cycle highlights emerging composers and conductors in a series of high-level performances. Candidates present new works and conduct symphonic programmes, forging a direct dialogue with the orchestra and showcasing contemporary compositional voices alongside established repertoire. The events emphasize craft, mentorship and concentrated insight into compositional technique and conducting interpretation.

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Partition of the Future – Squared

Performances

Plaine de Plainpalais

At the crossroads of theatre, mixed reality and technological installation, this immersive performance invites audiences to test the machine built by a scientist to tackle existential problems. Wearing mixed-reality headsets, spectators collectively explore the chaotic inner world of a person trapped by indecision. The experience moves between human vulnerability and artificial intelligence, until the machine itself begins to falter in the face of what it cannot fully understand.

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Jazz Night Latina | Edwin Sanz

Performances

Le Chaudron – EMA

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Wednesday 11 November, 20:00

Georg Philipp Telemann — Paris Quartets — The Art of Conversation

Performances

Rue Verdaine

Five selections from Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Quadri” or Paris Quartets bring the art of musical conversation into focus. Italian vivacity and virtuosity meet the refinement of French dance and the contrapuntal ingenuity of German style. Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Karel Valter (traverso), Jonathan Pesek (viola da gamba), Hadrien Jourdan and Marc Alomar (continuo) shape a lively dialogue across sonatas, concertos and a suite. The programme features Concerto 1 in G major, Sonata seconda in G minor, the Second Suite in B minor, Sonata prima in A major and Concerto secondo in D major.

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8 October – 14 November

Toutes les femmes sont des aliens

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Told as a solo performance, this piece follows a woman as she remembers the films that shaped her life and blurs the line between cinema and memory. Through references to science-fiction sagas and cinematic archetypes — the woman-soldier, the survivor, the reluctant mother — the show probes identity, fear of change and the ways stories migrate from screen to skin. Sparse staging and intimate narration create a haunting, introspective atmosphere.

In French.

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11 – 14 November

Thésée, sa vie nouvelle

Performances

Théâtre Saint-Gervais

Directed by Guy Cassiers and starring Valérie Dréville, this stage adaptation of Camille de Toledo’s novel blends documentary and fiction. Through photographs, letters and manuscripts, the performance traces a family’s history across generations as a man seeks rebirth amid loss. The staging mixes intimate memory, myth and collective history with a restrained visual language and careful dramaturgy, inviting a delicate, atmospheric encounter with grief, identity and transmission.

In French.

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