L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
Season 2025-2026
- Founded in 1992, the orchestra now performs nearly 50 concerts annually. Its repertoire, centered around its “Mannheim” ensemble—perfectly suited to the composers of the Classical period (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)—extends from the Baroque era to the 21st century, thanks to the orchestra’s insatiable curiosity and its versatility across different eras and styles.
- Upholding a collaborative vision of culture, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra interacts with a rich ecosystem of actors and institutions, from jazz to operatic repertoire.
Programme
Der Wald: 27 May
- Raphaël Merlin (direction), Chelsea Zurflüh (soprano)
- 8pm, Bâtiment des Forces Motrices
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20% discount
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Building A, door A13/A15, level 2.
Mon. – Fri. : 10am-3pm, non-stop
022 917 11 11
Participatory concert open to amateur musicians and amateur singers
It’s a universal story that’s been told many times: two lovers who can’t marry because someone’s standing in their way. In Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald, a jealous witch tries to prevent the tenor from marrying the soprano. To thwart their wedding plans, she casts a spell on them… What will become of the protagonists? Will they suffer the same fate as Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Yseult?
You’ll find out all about it when you attend this opera featuring the Le Motet choir and additional amateur musicians and singers, set against a backdrop imagined by HEPIA students. A unique participatory evening in Switzerland.
To top it all off, Celia Cano, the second winner of the OCG’s prize for a particularly brilliant graduate, will conduct theOverture to The Wreckers.
“Ethel Smyth, a British composer trained in Leipzig, a great personality, an author-conductor and a feminist activist, wrote the one-act opera Der Wald at the turn of the twentieth century. Never before performed in Switzerland, it is a rare fresco of underestimated scope, in the vein of the great German Romantics.” – Raphaël Merlin