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Symphonic calendar

Wednesday

10.12.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Non-subscription concert
Youth concert

Saturday

13.12.2025

11:00 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series in family
Series in family+
Youth concert

Programme

Zofia Kiniorskaconductor

Antoine Courvoisiercomedian & text

Charlotte FilouBastien Blanchardcomedian

Works by Léo Delibes, Antonín Dvorák, Aram Khatchaturian, Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov, Sandrine Rudaz, Johann Strauss

Alternating actors :
Christmas concert on 10 December at 7.30pm :
Antoine Courvoisier and Bastien Blanchard 
Family concert on Saturday 13 December at 11am :
Antoine Courvoisier and Charlotte Filou

Approximately 1h00 (no intermission)
 

The music

Symphonic calendar is a concert-show designed like a musical Advent calendar.
Each ‘door’ opens with a surprise: an orchestral piece, a sketch, a touch of humour or poetry... To tide us over until the festive season, the orchestra and two actors take us on a merry, offbeat journey through music and theatre.

‘Hey, Antoine, how many more sleeps before Christmas?’
‘Well... hmmm... 80 musicians, minus 3 trombones, divided by 11 strings plus a conductor, multiplied by 2 oboes plus 8 milk chocolates gives us... 24! All you have to do to wait is open the 24 doors of your symphony calendar and get ready for the festive season!’

The venues

OSR Live

Wolfgang A. Mozart - Gustav Mahler

Concerto for two pianos - Symphony No. 1

Daniel Harding

conductor

Martha Argerich

piano

Maria João Pires

piano

Recorded on 16 December 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie N° 4 en si bémol majeur op. 60

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

Highlights

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