Grand Théâtre de Genève
Season 2024-2025
- Built in 1879, the Grand Théâtre de Genève is the largest artistic stage in Switzerland and is home to the Geneva Opera and the Geneva Ballet Company.
- Each season, it hosts nine opera series, three dance series, and a wide range of recitals and cultural activities, aimed at both youth and festive audiences, to expand its audience and honor its public service mission.
- Damien Jalet
- Creation for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
- World premiere
- Coproduction with Kampnagel Hamburg
- Oratorio by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- First performed in 1736 at Pozzuoli, original version
- New production, creation of the Grand Théâtre de Genève
- In coproduction with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Dutch National Opera
All the genius of the Italian prodigy Pergolesi is here magnified tenfold. While the talented Roman Castellucci’s symbolic interpretation exalts the celestial singing of Jakub Józef Orliński and Barbara Hannigan, the musical dramaturgy enhanced by the works of Giacinto Scelsi draws out the cry of this sublime pain as it rises.
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- Songs by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, George Butterworth, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and others
It’s in dialogue with George Butterworth’s cycle Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ that German baritone Benjamin Appl, faithful to his musical curiosity, has built his recital centred around the figure of Gustav Mahler. From one side of the Styx to thew other, partnered at the piano by James Baillieu, this questioning, dramaturgical programme simultaneously expresses man’s finiteness and desire for transcendence.
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- Damien Jalet
Skid
- Revival from the 2022-2023 Season of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
- First performed in 2017 for the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Thr(o)ugh
- Revival from the 2022-2023 Season of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
- First performed in 2016 for the Hessiches Staatballet de Darmstadt
Fascinated by the legendary Japanese festival, Onbashira, Damien Jalet is inspired to bring mountain, Thr(o)ugh recalls the tree trunk upon which thousands of men ride down the steep Suma mountainside. In these two pieces, to ward off danger, the physical relationship to others is often the only comfort.
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- Opéra de Giuseppe Verdi
- Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave from the play by Alexandre Dumas fils La Dame aux Camélias
- First performed in 1853 in Venise
- Last time at the Grand Théâtre de Genève 2012-2013
- Sung in Italian with French and English surtitles
The heroine of heroines sees double in this Geneva production casting a tender modern eye on an independent woman sacrificed to ‘what people will say’. Inspired by the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, The Lady of the Camellias, La traviata combines the guilty pleasure of a melodramatic libretto with a skilfully orchestrated by Verdi, joyously theatrical music of formidable potency.
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Building E, door 40, level 1.
Mon. to Fri. : 9am – 1:30pm / 2pm to 5pm
022 917 11 11
Mirages passes through like a waking dream, moving and fluctuating in the manner of these fascinating phenomena. For this fourth collaboration, Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa depict a humanity in search of meaning in this unpredictable, simultaneously hostile and lush nature. In perpetual metamorphosis, the performers transform, layer after layer, into an infinite variety of physical and emotional states.