By Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020
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Sunday, 8 March 2020
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The Grand opera returns to the Grand Theatre!
Musical Director Marc Minkowski
Stage Directors and dramaturgy Jossi Wieler & Sergio Morabito
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Baritone
Sunday, 15 March 2020
20:00
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Stéphane Degout baryton
Simon Lepper pianist
Recital on musics by Gabriel Fauré, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Robert Schumann
By Christian Jost
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Monday, 30 March 2020
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Wednesday, 8 April 2020
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Journey to Hope is the title of the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film by Swiss director Xavier Koller. It tells the story of a migrant Kurdish family that abandons kin and country to try to get into Switzerland; a story of worlds divided, of uprooted families, of exploitation, of goodwill, of a brutal fate where human and natural forces end up destroying their every hope. It is now also the title of a new opera commissioned by the Grand Théâtre from German composer Christian Jost, whose distinctive orchestral writing has the epic proportions of film music and defines a new genre somewhere between opera and symphony. Hungarian film and theatre director Kornél Mundruczó’s socially and dramatically innovative projects are all over the stages of Europe, at the intersection of reality and its representation. In his staging of this opera, he reminds us of the daily reality of all those who are forced to leave their homeland and are waiting to be someone again, of all those who have no land under their feet, no country in their dreams and only paradise lost in their eyes. Voyage vers l’espoir is an opera for Geneva: yesterday city of refuge and today, home of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
From 10yo
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Wednesday, 22 April 2020
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Sunday, 26 April 2020
Théâtre Am Stram Gram
Electric Dreams est l’histoire d’un adolescent perdu entre les mondes virtuels, entre des mondes qui ap- paraissent et disparaissent intempestivement. Entre jeux et paradis artificiels, infos déferlantes et sans importance, il se met à oublier d’exister, à se fondre dans les ombres de sa chambre et à devenir lui-même une projection. Arrivera-t-il à sortir du labyrinthe des impatiences et des apparences en une seule pièce, ou devra-t-il abandonner quelques illusions au passage ? Accompagné de cinq chanteurs et de quinze musiciens, notre adolescent voyagera dans la schizophrénie des images et des imaginaires qui entourent la banalité et les événements du quotidien.
Soprano
Sunday, 26 April 2020
20:00
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La carrière kaléidoscopique de Natalie Dessay se poursuit avec brio, six ans après ses adieux à la scène lyrique. Entre ses prestations théâtrales à succès, la verve de ses apparitions sur les plateaux télé et ses vi- rées dans le monde de la comédie musicale, la soprano française ne renonce pas pour autant à la musique dite sérieuse, si tant est qu’une artiste animée par une telle joie de chanter puisse en faire. Véritable légende vivante de l’art lyrique international, Natalie Dessay peut s’enorgueillir d’avoir été LA soprano colorature française pendant plus de vingt années, depuis ses débuts à l’opéra dans Les Contes d’Hoffmann en 1992 jusqu’à son dernier salut en Manon au Capitole de Toulouse en 2013. De cette période faste, le public genevois chérit le souvenir de ses passages sur la scène de Neuve en Adèle, en Manon, et surtout en inoubliable Ophélie aux côtés de Simon Keenlyside en Hamlet dans la mise en scène de Patrice Caurier & Moshe Leiser.
By Gioacchino Rossini
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Monday, 4 May 2020
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Wednesday, 20 May 2020
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La Cenerentola was conceived in a dream. Discussions had dragged on, a topic for a new opera was needed, someone suggested “Cinderella” and Rossini, who was dead tired, woke up briefly to assent, and then went back to sleep. Rossini did however edit out all the fantastical fairy tale stuff from his dream. His heroine has a real name, Angelina, a pompous old stepfather instead of an evil stepmother and a wise old philosopher to help her instead of a fairy godmother. French director Laurent Pelly returns to the Grand Théâtre with a new staging inspired by Rossini’s madcap, ebullient, fanciful music. The solitary and outcast figure of kind Angelina has the touch of sadness that Pelly knows defines real burlesque. If there is one opera that give us hope to resist the unabashed nastiness of our virtual and physical worlds, if there is only one opera heroine to teach us simply to be kind, it must be Angelina, our Cenerentola. Conductor Stefano Montanari, a Baroque violinist with the look of a heavy metal rocker, leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande through the head-spinning ensembles and throat-busting coloraturas of this “joyous drama”.
Tenor
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
20:00
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Pour ce récital, Ian Bostridge a choisi les deux cycles des Fêtes galantes composés par Debussy sur les poèmes de Verlaine, l’expression parfaite de l’injonction du premier vers de l’Art poétique cité en exergue, depuis le rythme des vers jusqu’au jeu musical avec les sonorités des mots. Les trois mélodies langoureuses de Shéhérazade de Ravel complèteront la première partie française de ce programme qui passera ensuite outre-Manche. Le cycle de chansons Winter Words de Benjamin Britten, sur des poèmes de Thomas Hardy, composé en 1953, est traversé par un thème qui hanta Britten toute sa vie : la perte de l’innocence au moment où naît la conscience et commence l’inexorable marche vers la vieillesse et la mort.
By Jérémy Tran
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Saturday, 6 June 2020
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Sunday, 14 June 2020
Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
The comfortable and sophisticated daily life of beautiful people in a beautiful place is suddenly destroyed by an event, completely unforeseen. In the ruins of their memory palace, the survivors of this wreck are adrift, in the shadows, until a new hope swells and makes them rise. Behind the title of the young French artist Jérémy Tran’s dance piece for Geneva lies a question: what is left for us, after the traumas of revolution, genocide or diaspora? Where will our drama end? In the cherished memories of a paradise lost or gathering dust on the derelict shelves of the memory palace? Jérémy Tran’s film-maker eye imagines a work in multiples, seamless. Bodies that move, finely wrought music to the bell-peals ringing in Johann Paul von Westhoff’s baroque violin arpeggios and JS Bach’s B-minor mass, but also living images that that delve deeply into the viewer’s unconscious. Ce qu’il nous reste imagines a body expressing both the duty to remember and the need to forget, a universal act of memory, as eternal as hope or as evanescent as ecstasy.
By Olivier Messiaen
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Friday, 26 June 2020
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Sunday, 5 July 2020
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Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) still fascinates us in the era of turbocapitalism. His humble, sunny disposition, his tender love for creation, the audacity of his vocation rooted in the Gospel are all part of the mythical image we have of Saint Francis of Assisi today. The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908.1992) wrote this opera about this “poor little monk” and great seeker of God’s truth in 1983. The piece resonates deeply and singularly with all the characteristics of the believer, composer and committed Roman Catholic that was Messiaen: “I’ve always preferred to work with what could contain miracles, colour and birdsong.” Saint François d’Assise, a work of awe-inspiring ambitions and proportions, will be staged by world-famous French contemporary visual artist, Adel Abdessemed, born in 1971 in Constantine (Algeria). The work of this artist rips up polarities. It gravitates between peace and adoration, hope and damnation, hell and heaven, with heaven remaning the only antidote against the barbarity of our times. This first performance in Switzerland of Messiaen’s only opera will be conducted by Jonathan Nott, musical and artistic director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
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