AIC Cutural Event

BOUQUET FINAL DE L'ENSEMBLE CANTATIO

Friday/vendredi 23 janvier 2026 at 20:00

This AIC Cultural Event is modeled after the recent GTG opera An American in Paris. AIC membership is not required. So you are welcome to come yourself, invite your partner, family and friends. Buy your own tickets, sit where you like (NOT open seating – all seat are numbered), and meet up in the Bar during the single intermission.

Victoria Hall

Programme:
Georg Friedrich Haendel: Teodora 
Henry Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art 
Georg Friedrich Haendel: Eternal Source of Light Divin
Henry Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia 

Ensemble Cantatio (cantatio.ch)
John Duxbury, direction 
Bénédicte Tauran et Aleksandra Lewandowska, sopranos
Alex Potter, contre-ténor
Robert Getchell et Thomas Hobbs, ténors
Stephan MacLeod, basse

Tickets : on-line; Billetterie Ville de Genève, Grutli (place de Neuve); Service Culturel Migro; Genève Tourisme, Gare Cornavin; Vitoria Hall one hour before concert.

Prices :  Two price options for ALL tickets:

1. Adult: Chf 25; including public transit*, Chf 26.

2. AVS, and under 25 yrs : Chf 10 ; including public transit*, Chf 11.

*public transit : Circulez librement two (2) hours before the concert; after the concert until the end of TPG service that day.

Robert in Loge 7 (left side). There is still room in Loge 7 and Loge 8. Large portions of Victoria Hall remain empty, so sit where you would like. Attention: all seats are NUMBERED.

Meet at the Bar durng the single interval.

Background : The in the last concert (Concert d’adieux) under the direction of John Duxbury who is retiring after 40 years in Geneva. I have been a faithful patron of Ensemble Cantatio for the past 30+ years. They perform a unique repertory of English Baroque, normally in churches, with an orchestra of period instruments and a small force of singers -  normally a chorus of 2 - 4 each of SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), with the soloist coming out of the chorus..... like they did in the Baroque period! The soloist at this concert are some of the best Duxbury has attracted over the years, some who have sung at the Grand Thèâtre.