The Nouvel Opéra de Friborg (NOF) is getting in tune with the Olympic Games by offering two performances The Olympiad by Vivaldi, the action of which takes place near the city of Olympia, on the day of the games. The libretto serves above all as a pretext for a tremendous melodic overflow where betrayed friendships and thwarted loves compete. The Irish Baroque Orchestra will be in the pit and Daisy Evans will direct. JDB G.
“L’Olimpiade” and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. Balance Room, Friday May 31 and June 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Geneva
Music
They arrive like the sweet scent of the first summer evenings, Les Athénéennes. The Geneva festival “of all good music”, mainly jazz, classical and electronic, returns for its 13th edition, still with the Alhambra as its headquarters. On the program, ten evenings, nearly 30 concerts, seven DJ sets. Note the arrival of the American pianist Stephen Kovacevich (former companion of Martha Argerich), the lutenist Thomas Dunford, a fan of virtuoso covers, and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra in a film concert around the Silly Symphoniesthese 1930s Disney short films whose Three Little Pigs. A colorful and stirring cocktail! V.N.
The Athenians. Various locations, from May 30 to June 8.
Show
Rarely has an upcoming creation aroused as much curiosity as this dive into the lives of these four dreamers in a corner of libertarian France, from 1998 to today. Imagined and directed by Christian Geffroy Schlittler and his excellent performers whom he accompanies on stage (Aline Bonvin, David Gobet, Julie-Kazuko Rahir), this show will tell how “Alexandre, Caroline, Julien and Paul formed personal strategies and singular so as to never achieve wisdom, maturity, contentment. We are very pleased with this “wickedly nostalgic comedy about a few volatile beings”. M.-P. G
“The Schadocks”. Saint-Gervais Theater, June 6 to 16.
Valais
Outside
It is a popular destination for a summer getaway: Champex-Lac, its alpine hikes, its shimmering water, its panoramic setting. And these days there is an additional reason to spend a sunny afternoon there, and not to miss a trip to the botanical garden which, in addition to housing mountain plants and flowering rockeries, welcomes artists in residence. Cecile Giovannini and Jolan Chappaz, researcher and writer respectively, as a duo weave an interdisciplinary dialogue on our relationship to art and nature. Visual, textual, sensory interventions with a title that leaves you dreaming: In the end, so today, I love you. V.N.
“In the end, so today, I love you.” Champex-Lac, Flore-Alpe botanical garden, until October 25.
Vaud
Music
Five years now since the artistic residency of La Becque has brought about miracles on the banks of Lake Geneva, in La Tour-de-Peilz. To celebrate the chandelier, a full day (from 5 a.m.!): sunrise and sunset will be accompanied by the performance, under the care of the Alponom ensemble, of You Origin, piece for alphorn composed by Stephen O’Malley, great renovator of metal. In the extensive program, we will also note the presence, during the day, of Okkyung Lee, cello player. P.S.
La Becque. La Tour-de-Peilz, sa 25 from 5 a.m.
Two sound performances, two searches in the foundations. Lise Barkas, first of all, who handles the hurdy-gurdy, and secondarily the bagpipes: we are here in an aesthetic that creaks, but which manages to create subtle harmonics from infinitesimal frictions. Vincent Grimaldi then: manipulations with Revox which create electrical envelopments of astonishing warmth. P.S.
Lise Barkas, Vincent Grimaldi. Lausanne, HumuS, Saturday 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Show
The unimaginable happening in a loop in Gaza. Ruins and corpses by the thousands. The director Hervé Loichemol could not imagine this barbarity of seven months already when he went to Jenin, in the West Bank, The Gaza Metro. The former director of the Comédie de Genève co-wrote this text with the Palestinian actors Nisbat Serhan, Yasmin Shalaldeh and Ahmed Tobasi from the Freedom Theater. On stage, a young Palestinian woman from Haifa searches for a man she met in the Gaza metro, the one who does not exist, but who the visual artist Mohamed Abusal imagined in 2012. This show is at the heart of a weekend that the Theater de Vidy devotes to Palestine, through film screenings and meetings with artists. A.Df
“The Gaza Metro”. Lausanne, Théâtre de Vidy, from May 31 to June 2.
Do you live in Vevey? Do you have a talent, a crush, an anger that you want to share with a wide audience? So perhaps you will participate next Tuesday in the Journal of Vevey, by Edward Baer. The comedian welcomes on stage all personal stories and their authors, as long as the intervention does not exceed three minutes. Already tested in Arles, Namur and Paris, the concept benefits from the whimsy of this big-hearted entertainer. M.-P. G.
“Le Journal de Vevey” by Edouard Baer. Vevey, Théâtre du Reflet, Tue May 28 at 8 p.m.
