Laurel & Hardy
The most famous comedy duo now in film concert!
Thursday
24.09.2026
19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva
Programme
Jean Deroyerconductor
Laurel & Hardy
Music by Cyrille Aufort for the short films An Eye for an Eye by James W. Horne, Long Live Liberty by Leo McCarey, and The Battle of the Century by Clyde Bruckman.
Approximately 1h without intermission
The music
Major figures in slapstick cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy left their mark on the history of cinema with their precision acting, sense of rhythm and exceptionally effective comic timing.
On screen, a selection of restored short films will allow audiences to rediscover the finesse of their art. Accompanying the films, the orchestra will perform a symphonic score specially composed to accompany these films, reviving the tradition of musical screenings that, in the era of silent cinema, created a dialogue between images and music in a shared collective experience.
This film concert thus offers a demanding artistic and heritage-based approach, where the richness of the orchestral timbres illuminates the visual drama and highlights the undiminished modernity of this legendary duo. An encounter between cinema memory and symphonic interpretation.


