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
200 Motels: 20, 23, 25 and 28 June
- Music-theatrical fresco by Frank Zappa
- Sung in English with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 1h50 without intermission*
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.
Please specify in the form below at the section *order details* which category, event, date and time.
Share the information depicted on the seatmap of the Grand Théâtre de Genève website, in the order form below.
Building A, door A13/A15, level 2.
Mon. – Fri. : 10am-3pm, non-stop
022 917 11 11
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.