La Cité Bleue Genève has announced its 2026-27 season, titled “Le baroque entre héritage et création.”

The season opens with “Neverland,” a chamber opera after the myth of Peter Pan featuring contemporary music by Sarah Nemtsov, presented by Ensemble Contrechamps in collaboration with La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Theater Magdeburg, and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Performance Dates: Sept. 5–6, 2026

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Leonardo García-Alarcón leads Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur in “Roma,” a large-scale baroque vocal fresco moving from the shadows of the Sistine Chapel to the blazing light of the Italian baroque.

Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2026

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Mezzo-sopranos Éléonore Pancrazi and Lucile Richardot join the Collectif ActeSix in “Musiques interdites,” a theatrical cabaret program of music banned under Nazi occupation, drawn from Jewish and modernist composers of the German interwar years.

Performance Dates: Sept. 22–23, 2026

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García-Alarcón leads Cappella Mediterranea, the Chœur de Chambre de Namur, and the dance company Structure Rualité in “Les Indes galantes – De la voix des âmes,” a staged hybrid of extracts from Rameau’s opera-ballet set in dialogue with urban choreographic culture, presented at Concorde Espace Culture in Vernier.

Performance Dates: Oct. 10–11, 2026

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Mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet and tenor Petr Nekoranec join the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in “Gitanes,” a concert-mise en espace of vocal works by Janáček and de Falla.

Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2026

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Conductor Masato Matsuura leads the ensemble Aedes in “Le Chant du sabre,” a staged choral concert drawn from the encounter between Nō theater and choral song.

Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2026

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Soprano Mariana Flores, Arezki Aït-Hamou, TK Russell, and soloists of Cappella Mediterranea appear in “Seasons,” a hybrid theatrical work combining music, cinema, and concert performance.

Performance Dates: Nov. 22 & 24, 2026

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William Sabatier directs the Quatuor Terpsycordes in “María de Buenos Aires,” Astor Piazzolla’s operita, presented in a staged concert version.

Performance Dates: Nov. 27 & 29, 2026

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García-Alarcón leads Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur in “Arcadelt,” a program devoted to the Renaissance madrigals and sacred works of the Flemish composer Jacques Arcadelt.

Performance Date: Dec. 4, 2026

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Canticum Novum presents “Kósmos!,” a concert-mise en espace weaving together sacred and love songs from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern traditions.

Performance Date: Dec. 17, 2026

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Soprano Neïma Naouri, baritone Pablo Campos, pianist Damien Pass, and pianist Alphonse Cemin present “Noël à Broadway,” an evening of Broadway vocal repertoire for the holiday season.

Performance Date: Dec. 21, 2026

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García-Alarcón leads Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur in “Carmina Latina,” a program spanning the Spanish baroque and the musical worlds of the New World.

Performance Date: Jan. 30, 2027

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Shani Diluka and actor Charles Berling present “Le Journal intime de Bernstein,” a theatrical recital interweaving Bernstein’s music with readings from the composer’s private writings.

Performance Date: March 17, 2027

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Soprano Sabine Devieilhe joins pianist Pauline Buet and pianist David Violi in “Smile!,” a staged recital traversing cabaret, chanson, and musical theater repertoire, co-presented with the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Performance Dates: March 24–25, 2027

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The house presents its own creation, “The show must go on!,” an opera-pop and musical theater work with music by il Baskerville (Jacopo Raffaele) on a libretto by Laurent Delvert and Aurélien Hamard-Padis, inspired by a Goldoni comedy about a theater troupe on the financial precipice hoping for patronage from a wealthy Arab businessman.

Performance Dates: April 28–May 2, 2027

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García-Alarcón leads Cappella Mediterranea, the Chœur de Chambre de Namur, and the Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon in a concert presentation of Francesco Cavalli’s “Ercole amante.”

Performance Date: May 19, 2027

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The season closes with “Il pomo d’oro” by associate artist Pablo Agudo López and directed by Les Impertinences with soloists and the orchestra of the Haute école de musique de Genève.

Performance Dates: June 26–27, 2027