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…
Francesco Cavalli's Erismena is much more than a baroque opera: it is the heart of an ambitious training and transmission project, run jointly by La Cité Bleue and the Haute école de musique de Genève. For several months, singers and instrumentalists from the Early Music Department took part in an…
Pompeo Magno, dramma per musica in three acts Music by Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676) Libretto by Nicolò Minato (1627 - 1698) First performed at the Teatro San Salvatore in Venice on 20 February 1666 After Elena, Il Giasone, Eliogabalo and Erismena, Leonardo García-Alarcón continues his rediscovery of the…
Grails, a lyrical mystery in three acts Excerpts from King Arthur by Henry Purcell (1659–1695) and compositions by Kevin Juillerat (*1987) for baroque instruments and live electronics. Libretto by Luc Birraux (*1989) Premiere at the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières, VD, on 17 August 2024 Everyone knows King Arthur…
Les Dinos et l'Arche, a Darwinian opera, a dystopian fable Music by Thomas Leininger (*1981) Libretto by Tina Hartmann (*1973) and Cédric Costantino (*1974) World premiere in French at La Cité Bleue Alas, dinosaurs, the dream of children of all ages, have disappeared. Of course, books tell us that…