Grand Théâtre de Genève
Season 2025-2026
- 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.
Programme
- Opera by Giacomo Puccini
- Sung in Italian with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 3h with one intermission*
- World premiere in May 2026 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève
- Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
Having collaborated with numerous international companies, and participated in prestigious events such as the Festival d’Avignon and the Venice Biennale, choreographer Marcos Morau is now bringing his unique choreographic language to the exceptional performers of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève with Svatbata – a continuation of his exploration of the different visual and choreographic aspects of ritual (na svatbata means “the wedding” in Bulgarian), following Sonoma, Hermana, Folkå and Totentanz.
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- Music-theatrical fresco by Frank Zappa
- Sung in English with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 1h50 without intermission*
Frank Zappa is a legendary figure on the American rock scene, but not so much on the opera one. Surprise! It is with his opera 200 Motels that Aviel Cahn has decided to close his tenure as General Director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, which he inaugurated with the no less surprising choice of Philip Glass‘s Einstein on the Beach. Frank, Mark, Howard and their associates traverse the USA from town to town, motel to motel, excess to excess, delirium to delirium, gig to gig, always with reality catching them up. Clearly alter egos to Frank Zappa and his colleagues in The Mothers of Invention, they bring to life this American-style road-movie sitting somewhere between a dream, a bad trip and sophisticated, experimental mish-mash which flirts with the serious genres of classical and contemporary music, but also of rock-opera and musical. Before it was recorded by Esa-Pekka Salonen in Los Angeles in 2013, 200 Motels – The Suites had existed in so many different shapes that it‘s hard to trace the work‘s genealogy.
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Special Offer
15% discount on all seat categories (except category F).
Under 26 years old
Tickets available for CHF 20.00, subject to availability. If not available, benefit from a 50% discount on regular prices.
Student Rates
Preferential pricing is also available for students. (-25% discount)
Other Dates
Tickets are available for all remaining dates at regular prices.
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Building A, door A13/A15, level 2.
Mon. – Fri. : 10am-3pm, non-stop
022 917 11 11
Giacomo Puccini chose the subject of his sixth opera after attending a performance of David Belasco’s single-act play, Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, in London in June 1900. This was not the first time that the composer and his two librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa had been inspired by the literature of their own time – there was also Victorien Sardou’s Tosca, for example – and this time again, in 1904, it would be a masterpiece that was born. The world’s most performed opera almost every season, its story is of a geisha who renounces everything for the love of an American marine who is passing through. If only it had been just a passing love affair!