Product(s) of the promotional code "GEM2223"
Product(s) of the promotional code "GEM2223"
Product(s) of the promotional code "GEM2223"
SUTRA
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."
LE RETOUR D'ULYSSE
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.
SIMON KEENLYSIDE
Grand Théâtre de Genève
baryton
Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
VOYAGE VERS L'ESPOIR
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.
TRACES
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.
LADY MACBETH DE MTSENSK
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.
NABUCCO
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.
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER
Grand Théâtre de Genève
mezzo-soprano
Friday, 16 June 2023 20:00
Grand Théâtre de Genève
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