What is the meaning of unjust suffering? Why evil? What remains when the answers are silent and God no longer responds? In Job, le procès de Dieu, composer Michel Petrossian and director Anaïs de Courson take the Book of Job and turn it into a sacred musical drama deeply rooted in our times.
Carried by a group of soloists, a choir and an orchestra combining contemporary, baroque and traditional instruments (qanun, theorbo, cornetto, accordion, etc.), this world premiere work questions the mystery of evil and the human capacity to rise again and again.
Part chamber opera, part biblical poem and part contemporary testimony (the war in Nagorno-Karabakh is a painful echo), Job, le procès de Dieu weaves a polyphony of voices, languages and images, in a stage space criss-crossed by light, water, mud and memory: a creation to be experienced from the inside out.
Tuesday 10 June 2025 at 7.30pm
Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 7.30pm
Friday 13 June 2025 at 7.30pm
Saturday 14 June 2025 at 7.30pm
1 hour 30 minutes, without intermission
Michel Petrossian, composition and libretto
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Léo Margue, musical direction
Felix Ramos, assistant musical director, pianist – vocal conductor
Anaïs de Courson, director
Antoine Dupuy Larbre, assistant director
Andréa Baglione, scenography
Jérémie Papin, lights
Jérémie Scheidler, video
Valentine Sole, costumes
Soloists and chorus
Gloria Tronel, Yemimah, Woman of Job, Eliha, chorus
Mathilde Ortscheidt, The Satan, Bilda, Third Messenger, chorus
Fabien Hyon, Job, chorus
Halidou Nombre, Eliphaz, Second Messenger, chorus
Ugo Rabec, God, Tsophar, Fourth Messenger, chorus
Emmanuelle Ifrah, First Messenger, soprano choir
Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, cmezzo-soprano chorus
Alexia Macbeth, alto chorus
Orchestra
Aurélie Gallois, violin
Hans Egidi, viola
Martina Brodbeck, cello
Luca Innarella, contrabass
Caroline Delume, theorbo/guitar
Azra Ramic, clarinet
Maruta Staravoitava, flute
. Liselotte Emery, recorders and cornets
Vincent Lhermet, accordion
Meri Vardanyan, qanoun
Sébastien Cordier, percussion
Extras
Eulalie Turbet (11 and 13 June), Lucia García Flores (10 and 14 June)
©️2025 – Éditions Musicales Artchipel
A creation by La Cité Bleue Genève in co-production with Ensemble Contrechamps and Cappella Mediterranea.
Creation supported by the Fondation Armenia and the Fondation des frères Ghoukassiantz.
This production is supported by the Prince and Princess of Chimay for their residency at the Château de Chimay.
