Events
Job, le procès de Dieu
10 → 06/14/2510June 14, 2025
Cover image 1
Cover image 2
Cover image 3
Cover image 4
Cover image 5
Cover image 6
Cover image 7
Cover image 8
Cover image 9
Cover image 10
Image 1 of 10
Opera

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
\r\nWednesday 11 June 2025 at 7.30pm
\r\nFriday 13 June 2025 at 7.30pm
\r\nSaturday 14 June 2025 at 7.30pm

Michel Petrossian, composition and libretto
\r\n.
\r\nLéo Margue, musical direction
\r\nFelix Ramos, assistant musical director, pianist - vocal conductor
\r\n
\r\nAnaïs de Courson, director
\r\nAntoine Dupuy Larbre, assistant director

\r\n

Andréa Baglione, scenography
\r\nJérémie Papin, lights
\r\nJérémie Scheidler, video
\r\nValentine Sole, costumes

\r\n

Soloists and chorus

\r\n

Gloria Tronel, Yemimah, Woman of Job, Eliha, chorus
\r\nMathilde Ortscheidt, The Satan, Bilda, Third Messenger, chorus
\r\nFabien Hyon, Job, chorus
\r\nHalidou Nombre, Eliphaz, Second Messenger, chorus
\r\nUgo Rabec, God, Tsophar, Fourth Messenger, chorus
\r\nEmmanuelle Ifrah, First Messenger, soprano choir
\r\nMarie-Juliette Ghazarian, cmezzo-soprano chorus
\r\nAlexia Macbeth, alto chorus

\r\n

Orchestra

\r\n

Aurélie Gallois, violin
\r\nHans Egidi, viola
\r\nMartina Brodbeck, cello
\r\nLuca Innarella, contrabass
\r\nCaroline Delume, theorbo/guitar
\r\nAzra Ramic, clarinet
\r\nMaruta Staravoitava, flute
\r\n. Liselotte Emery, recorders and cornets
\r\nVincent Lhermet, accordion
\r\nMeri Vardanyan, qanoun
\r\nSébastien Cordier, percussion

\r\n

Extras

\r\n

Eulalie Turbet (11 and 13 June), Lucia García Flores (10 and 14 June)

\r\n


\r\n©️2025 - Éditions Musicales Artchipel
\r\n
\r\n

\r\n

A creation by La Cité Bleue Genève in co-production with Ensemble Contrechamps and Cappella Mediterranea.

\r\n
\r\n

Creation supported by the Fondation Armenia and the Fondation des frères Ghoukassiantz.

\r\n

This production is supported by the Prince and Princess of Chimay for their residency at the Château de Chimay.
\r\n
\r\n