SHOWS 11
SHOWS 11
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BRUNCH
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BRUNCHFoyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Sunday, 18 September 2022 to Sunday, 11 December 2022
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
B is for Bel canto and Bellini (also a very nice drink), Bizet and Berlioz, Britten and his Billy Budd and, of course, B is for Brunch! Will you be alone or tête-à-tête, will you be a bunch of boisterous brunchers or are you looking to bring your babbling brood? The tables are set for a Grand Brunch in Geneva’s most beautiful ballroom, where the gods and nymphs of legend beam their benign, but blasé, smiles down on you from above.
Ten Sundays per season, ten chances for a nice lie-in, ten chances to add some beautiful music to your eggs benedict: we have a Sunday buffet ready to satisfy the hungriest opera and ballet buffs! As space is limited in our Main Foyer, we kindly ask you to reserve your table beforehand.
Please make sure of your availability for the day, tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.
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APEROPERA
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APEROPERAFoyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Thursday, 6 October 2022 to Thursday, 8 December 2022
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
The aperitifs take place in 2 parts:
- an aperitif part from 6.30 pm to 7 pm
- an animation from 7pm to 7.30pm
BALLETS
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MONDES FLOTTANTS
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MONDES FLOTTANTSGrand Théâtre de Genève
de Damien Jalet et Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
from Saturday, 19 November 2022 to Thursday, 24 November 2022
Grand Théâtre de Genève
For the opening of the season of the Geneva Ballet, Skid by Damien Jalet, the company's new associate artist, and the world premiere of Ukiyo-e by its director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, will bring into play the forces that give way to or resist the Earth's law of gravity, by which our fragile existences sometimes rise and often fall. Oscillating between verticality and horizontality, Damien Jalet's Skid is presented on a platform at a 34 degrees gradient. Sometimes epic, dangerous, humorous or moving, the slope of Skid creates a chain reaction of physical and emotional events where the physical relationship with others is often the only solace against the call of the void. Ukiyo-e by Cherkaoui, is named after the "images of the floating world", the famous artistic movement that emerged in 18th century Japan in the demi-mondes of urban hedonism. On a network of impossible staircases in which the dancers lose themselves, bodies are called upon to unite, dialogue and contaminate each other.
CONCERTS
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CONCERT L'ECLAIR
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CONCERT L'ECLAIRGrand Théâtre de Genève
Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
In 1835, in parallel to his masterpiece La Juive, Fromental Halévy composed L’Éclair (“The Lightning Bolt”), a more comic than dramatic opera that tells of the amours of George, an Englishman, and Lyonel, a US Navy officer, for two sisters, Henriette and the young widow Mme Darbel. These are complicated by everyone being a bit indecisive and variable in their choice of preferred partner, and then further complicated by the temporary blindness suffered by Lyonel when he is struck by lightning in a thunderstorm. Guillaume Tourniaire, a specialist in French Romantic music, will conduct the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and four young soloists in this unique concert performance. It will be an opportunity to renew acquaintance with belcantist Edgardo Rocha, before he comes back in Maria Stuarda, and Claire de Sévigné, former member of the Jeune Ensemble du Grand Théâtre (2019-2020).
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CONCERT DU NOUVEL AN / GALA OFFENBACH
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CONCERT DU NOUVEL AN / GALA OFFENBACHGrand Théâtre de Genève
Saturday, 31 December 2022 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
For our traditional New Year's concert, the Grand Théâtre offers you a trip to the fantastical comic universe of Jacques Offenbach. From the frenzied can-cans of La Vie parisienne to the Grand Duchess' love for men in uniform, with a detour via the underworld in Orpheus, we will celebrate the New Year Jules Verne-style, around the world with stops in Peru, Greece, Germany and who knows ... maybe even the Moon? Offenbach's world knows no borders! And of course, a New Year's Concert means a “Blue Danube”, but this time the waltz comes to us in the very special version by the little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées. On this bubbly menu, we feature tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac, as well as the formidable Franco-Swiss mezzo Marina Viotti. As the sommelier of the evening, the very young conductor from Lausanne, Marc Leroy-Calatayud, will make the musicians of the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève sparkle with moonstruck madness.
OPERAS
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LA JUIVE
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LA JUIVEGrand Théâtre de Genève
de Fromental Halévy
from Thursday, 15 September 2022 to Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Here is another monument to the fascinating and questionable genre of French grand opera: Fromental Halévy's La Juive (1835). La Juive was Halévy's first great success, with its colossal spectacle and final execution scene, the stuff of operatic legend. Beneath its sumptuous stage finery, La Juive speaks of religious intolerance, imperialism and the tragedy of medieval Jewish life in Europe threatened by Catholic fanaticism and forced to migrate constantly. The goldsmith Éléazar and his daughter, the beautiful Rachel, take in a young man who introduces himself as Samuel, but the truth and the price of love will only too soon become clear to the protagonists. American director David Alden will treat the harsh and disturbing plot of La Juive with his trademark sense of irony and black comedy. At his side to rekindle this complicated, exciting and dangerous operatic artefact, Marc Minkowski reigns as the undisputed maestro of French grand opera.
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KATIA KABANOVA
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KATIA KABANOVAGrand Théâtre de Genève
de Leoš Janáček
from Friday, 21 October 2022 to Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Written in the white heat of Janáček's passion for Kamila Stösslová, Káťa Kabanová is based on the play The Storm by the 'Russian Shakespeare', Alexander Ostrovsky. Janáček was unhappily married and felt close to the heroine who longed to escape her dreary provincial home and loveless marriage. Káťa begins a disastrous adulterous relationship with Boris. Her dreams of freedom and torrid nights on the Volga draw stunningly beautiful music from Janáček's pen, in stark contrast to the brutal world that forces Káťa to drown. After last season’s Jenůfa, this production brings together again soprano Corinne Winters in the title role and German director Tatjana Gürbaca. They tell the story of a desperate search for ecstasy in a narrow, claustrophobic world. If Káťa's final decision is desperate, it is also an escape into nature. And it inspired one of Janáček's most powerful compositions.
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COMBATTIMENTO - LES AMOURS IMPOSSIBLES
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COMBATTIMENTO - LES AMOURS IMPOSSIBLESGrand Théâtre de Genève
Autour de Monteverdi et ses contemporains
from Sunday, 6 November 2022 to Monday, 7 November 2022
Grand Théâtre de Genève
- Seventeen years after the first performance of his Orfeo, Venice was celebrating Carnival, for which Monteverdi composed the moving scene Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a madrigal conceived as a duel of two warriors, a man and a woman, in a limited space and above all a plea for love... or death? Since the beginning of their collaboration in Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 2016, the myth of Orpheus has never left Rolando Villazón and Christina Pluhar and her renowned ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Together, with five of the finest baroque singers, they dare to look back on the loss of the loved one and follow the stories of the tragedy of love in every musical sense of the word.
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MARIA STUARDA
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MARIA STUARDAGrand Théâtre de Genève
de Gaetano Donizetti
from Saturday, 17 December 2022 to Thursday, 29 December 2022
Grand Théâtre de Genève
In the second part of our Donizetti trilogy about the Tudors, Elizabeth of England returns alongside her cousin Mary Queen of Scots. She who was once also Queen of France is an expert at imposing her whims and wills, juggling lovers, partisans and rebellions. Channeling her father Henry VIII, Elizabeth dispatches her rival to the scaffold, where Mary does not lose the opportunity to stage her own death...
Mariame Clément and Julia Hansen take us back to the phantasmagorical universe they initiated last season with characters who, in the style of Henry James, seem to visit each other from one opera to the next, weaving history, its hidden reasons and our gaze with an invisible thread. Stéphanie d'Oustrac sings the title role and Elsa Dreisig, the Virgin Queen. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande follows the lead of Maestro Stefano Montanari who, from behind his fortepiano, rebuilds the musical bridges between Donizetti’s predecessors and successors.
RECITALS
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DIANA DAMRAU
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DIANA DAMRAUGrand Théâtre de Genève
soprano
Saturday, 24 September 2022 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
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BRYN TERFEL
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BRYN TERFELGrand Théâtre de Genève
baryton-basse
Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
SPECTACLES
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LA SOURIS TRAVIATA
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LA SOURIS TRAVIATAFoyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Wednesday, 12 October 2022 to Saturday, 5 November 2022
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
Pour les enfants de 3 à 7 ans accompagnés de leurs parents.
Savez-vous que la nuit, il y a dans le Foyer du Grand Théâtre une souris qui rêve de devenir cantatrice ? Quand les lumières sont éteintes et qu’il n’y a plus personne pour la surprendre, elle fait des vocalises et travaille tellement dur qu’il lui arrive de s’endormir dans la chaussure de concert de notre chanteuse ! Pour la réveiller, une seule solution : lui envoyer des bisous en chanson…
D’abord conçu pour les crèches et les écoles en collaboration avec des professionnels de la petite enfance sous le titre la Fabrique d’Opéra, cet atelier-spectacle participatif est désormais accessible à tous.
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ROSA ET BIANCA
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ROSA ET BIANCAFoyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Wednesday, 14 December 2022 to Wednesday, 21 December 2022
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
Opéra familial à partir de 5 ans
Rosa (soprano) et Bianca (mezzo-soprano) sont deux princesses jumelles aux caractères diamétralement opposés.
Quand Rosa court, crie et trompette, Bianca rêve, lit et soupire.
Quand Bianca salue la foule d’une geste gracieux, Rosa la harangue d’un ton impétueux.
Mais le jour de leur dix-huitième anniversaire, le Grand Chambellan du Royaume (comédien/pianiste) doit annoncer qui de Rosa ou de Bianca montera sur le trône et deviendra la reine. Au cours d’une série d’épreuves, elles s’affronteront, se disputeront, avant de réaliser que bien souvent, c’est l’union qui fait la force …
A travers une réécriture en français d’airs de Donizetti principalement tirés de Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, La Fille du régiment, Don Gregorio, l’Assedio di Calais (entre autres), la metteure en scène Sybille Wilson et la scénographe Aurélie Thomas entraîneront toute la famille à la suitede Rosa et Bianca, pour cinquante minutes d’émotions, de pianoforte et de bel canto.
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