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APEROPERA
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Thursday, 8 December 2022 to Thursday, 25 May 2023
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
The aperitif take place in 2 parts:
- An aperitif part from 6.30 pm to 7 pm
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VISITES GUIDEES
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Monday, 12 December 2022 to Monday, 12 June 2023
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
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FASCINATION BELCANTO TODAY
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
9h-12h HEM (Rue du Général-Dufour 10), 14h-17h30 GTG
Friday, 16 December 2022 09:00
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
Conférences en Anglais
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BRUNCH
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Sunday, 15 January 2023 to Sunday, 18 June 2023
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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ATELIER PUBLIC
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Saturday, 21 January 2023 to Saturday, 3 June 2023
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
Une fois par production, le samedi matin, rejoignez-nous pour un atelier de pratique artistique en lien avec la thématique de l’opéra ou du ballet à venir. Chant, danse, théâtre, écriture, arts plastiques, laissez-vous surprendre et venez mettre en voix, en scène, en mots ou en images, avec des professionnels qui vous guideront à travers l’une des facettes de cet art total qu’est l’opéra.
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SLEEPOVER
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
Saturday, 1 April 2023 20:00
Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
L’espace d’une nuit, venez habiter le grand théâtre, on vous balade du plafond à la scène, de labyrinthe en labyrinthe, au fil des mélodies d’antan et des douces polyphonies. Venez rêver sous les lumières des lustres et des étoiles, on vous bercera jusqu’au petit matin, et alors quel réveil! Et munissez-vous de vos affaires:
- sac de couchage ou autre couverture
- matelas ou natte plus ou moins molle
- coussin
- lampe de poche
- affaire de toilette
- doudou
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De 20h à 8h
Petit déjeuner et petite collation compris
BALLETS
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SUTRA
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Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
from Thursday, 16 February 2023 to Sunday, 19 February 2023
Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
After meeting the martial arts monks of the Chinese Buddhist temple of Shaolin in 2007, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui designed this show for his company Eastman and gave it the Sanskrit name for the canonical scriptures of the Buddhist tradition. Sutra is a journey of cultural and social exchange at the end of which the monks and choreographer succeeded in creating an artistic universe that evokes old and new China in an unusual and playful way, dealing with construction and destruction, transformations and games. The set, by the great Antony Gormley, is covered with wooden boxes that can be modulated to form different constellations; they can stand as a wall, build a bridge, erect a temple or represent a cemetery. Sutra promises one of those increasingly rare moments when China and the West can, in the words of Shaolin’s founder Boddhidharma, "touch each other straight to the heart."
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TRACES
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Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
Damien Jalet and Fouad Boussouf
from Wednesday, 19 April 2023 to Sunday, 23 April 2023
Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
TRACES is both a rite of memory and a celebration of the present, always on the move. Damien Jalet, associate artist of the Geneva Ballet, and New York visual artist Jim Hodges have created THR(O)UGH, a piece in which an enormous cylindrical object, like a tunnel or a passageway between the natural and the supernatural, invites dancers to interact with it. This project was catalysed by Damien Jalet's personal experience as a witness and survivor of the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris. To process the unerasable images of these atrocities and soothe a broken spirit, THR(O)UGH's tunnel leads the darkest memory of the choreographer's life into a different light. Franco-Moroccan choreographer Fouad Boussouf brings with him the prominent Swiss visual artist Ugo Rondinone, for his new piece VÏA. On a luminous stage with tones as hot as asphalt under the sun, they bring dance back to its point of origin, the ground, the street, the urban track on which the body, tired of leaving its traces, crashes, curls up and evaporates. VÏA is a presence of every moment, where there is no right or wrong way, but only justness, or perhaps even justice.
CONCERTS
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CONCERT DU NOUVEL AN / GALA OFFENBACH
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Grand 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.
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CONCERT DU CHOEUR
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Cathédrale Saint Pierre
Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:00
Cathédrale Saint Pierre
OPERAS
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MARIA STUARDA
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by 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.
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PARSIFAL
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by Richard Wagner
from Wednesday, 25 January 2023 to Sunday, 5 February 2023
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Something is rotten in the state of the Grail knights. Their king Amfortas has lost the Holy Spear to the fiend Klingsor. Amfortas is crushed with shame and his wound festers horribly without killing him. In the midst of this ailing world, young Parsifal appears and the Grail knights make him their champion. Trials and temptations ensue for the pure-hearted Parsifal who finally retrieves the Holy Spear, the cause and the cure of Amfortas’ wound. Amfortas may now die and Parsifal take his place as king. German director Michael Thalheimer sees Parsifal as the “wound” of bidding farewell to the world. The world must bid farewell to the Grail knighthood and the knights to their past and their worldly works. Jonathan Nott already has a legendary performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Lucerne Festival under his belt. With the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and some of the best Wagner singers of the day, they embark on the great spiritual journey that is Parsifal.
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LE RETOUR D'ULYSSE
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by Claudio Monteverdi
from Monday, 27 February 2023 to Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Grand Théâtre de Genève
After his long journey back from Troy, Ulysses finally returns to Ithaca, where a trio of malevolent suitors are pestering his faithful wife, Penelope. The man of many devices faces his ultimate challenge: to make constancy and virtue triumph over treachery and deceit. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, the least known of Claudio Monteverdi's three surviving operas, is the most tender and moving part of the triptych. Founded in 2008, FC Bergman quickly made a name for itself with its anarchistic, slightly chaotic, but highly evocative and poetic theatrical language. The subject of Ulysses, repeatedly shipwrecked on his way home, seems to be just the thing for this quirky Belgian drama collective, which brings together, according to one critic, "the mystical naturalism of Romeo Castellucci, the melancholic absurdism of Christoph Marthaler, and the dancing dynamics of Pina Bausch." Fabio Biondi returns to Geneva, with his ensemble Europa Galante, to direct a passionately baroque interpretation of Ulisse.
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VOYAGE VERS L'ESPOIR
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by Christian Jost
from Tuesday, 28 March 2023 to Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Grand Théâtre de Genève
This new opera, based on the film of the same name by Swiss director Xavier Koller, tells the story of a Kurdish family that abandons kind and country to try to get into paradise, i.e., Switzerland. Like a mirage, this paradise fades away with each step forward and ends up disappearing completely in a snowstorm. More than 30 years ago, a family’s future was sealed by the mountains. Today, people meet their destiny at sea. But for those of us who do not have to make this kind of journey, the story is little more than a parable. Who better to stage this new opera than Hungarian film and theatre director Kornél Mundruczó, already seen in Geneva with The Makropoulos Case (2020) and Sleepless (2022)? The music of this journey into despair, the first of our productions to be cancelled by the 2020 COVID lockdown, is the work of German composer Christian Jost, whose distinctive orchestral writing has the epic proportions of film music and is full of powerful rhythms and great emotions.
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LADY MACBETH DE MTSENSK
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by Dimitri Chostakovitch
from Sunday, 30 April 2023 to Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote of his second opera: "Even if Katerina Lvovna is a murderer, she is not a scumbag. Her conscience torments her. (...) I can empathise with her...". In addition to murder, the opera features (audibly!) brutal sex, sadistic harassment and sexual assault. Buoyed by the steamy love affair between Katerina and Sergey, the opera also includes fragments of operetta, music hall, cabaret and jazz with the orchestra leading the party - one senses Shostakovich's vast experience as a silent film accompanist. Calixto Bieito, for one, is in a film noir mood, setting the opera in a rotten industrial labyrinth, where one can only work in hazmat suits, and which recalls the polluted and dilapidated metropolises of Russia and China... or Detroit. According to Bieito: "It's not Romeo and Juliet, it's the apocalyptic thriller of love in a post-capitalist system." The Argentine Alejo Pérez conducts the OSR and we introduce the dazzling Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė in the title role.
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NABUCCO
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
by Giuseppe Verdi
from Sunday, 11 June 2023 to Thursday, 29 June 2023
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Giuseppe Verdi’s early work Nabucco has often been interpreted as an epic call (“Va pensiero”) to the national liberation struggle that would eventually lead to Italian unity. However, the opera emphasises, perhaps unwittingly, a particularity of rabbinic thought, the idea of the "withdrawal" of the divine as a presence of absence. Brazilian director, filmmaker and author Christiane Jatahy, who was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2022, will organise the Jewish people’s resistance in Babylon by speaking, as she is wont to do in her readings of the classics, the words of those who are still resisting today at the four corners of the world, from the Middle East to the Amazon. Maestro Antonino Fogliani will lead the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, through the piece’s differences and concordances, along with a cast of extraordinary bel canto singers, including Riccardo Zanellato, Nicola Alaimo and Saioa Hernandez.
RECITALS
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NINA STEMME
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
soprano
Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
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SIMON KEENLYSIDE
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
baryton
Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
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ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER
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Grand Théâtre de Genève
mezzo-soprano
Friday, 16 June 2023 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
SPECTACLES
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ROSA ET BIANCA
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
from Wednesday, 14 December 2022 to Friday, 23 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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LA SOURIS TRAVIATA
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Foyer du Grand ThéâtreGrand Théâtre de Genève
LA SOURIS TRAVIATA
from Wednesday, 1 February 2023 to Saturday, 25 March 2023
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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ELECTRIC DREAMS
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Théâtre Am Stram Gram
from Thursday, 2 March 2023 to Sunday, 5 March 2023
Théâtre Am Stram Gram
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