Job, le procès de Dieu


La Cité Bleue Genève

Av. de Miremont 46,
1206 Geneva

Chamber Opera
Subscription Concert

Michel
Petrossian

All the
other dates

10.06.2025, 19:30
11.06.2025, 19:30
13.06.2025, 19:30

Program

Michel Petrossian
Job, le procès de Dieu
(Creation 2025)
Sacred musical for
instrumental ensemble
modern, baroque, traditional
and opera singers

Cast

Michel Petrossian
Composition and libretto

Anaïs de Courson
Stage direction

Léo Margue
Musical direction

Chœur de chambre
de Namur

Cappella Mediterranea

Feras Charestan
Qanoun

Ensemble Contrechamps

In co-production
with

La Cité Bleue Genève
Programme Musical de
l’Aga Khan (AKMP)
Cappella Mediterranea

Partners

Loterie Romande
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz (FPFS)
Ville de Genève

A man sitting in a heap of ashes, struck by untold misfortune and suffering, the reason for which he cannot understand. The succession of trials. The arbitrariness. The helplessness in the face of suffering. The impossibility of compassion. The inability of his friends to console him. In the Book of Job, the idea of unjust suffering, which is constantly reactivated by current events, finds the setting par excellence for its unfolding. Taking this as his starting point, Michel Petrossian writes and composes a musical drama in which three worlds interact - the Baroque heritage, traditional music and contemporary music - like an echo chamber for other dramas that are shaking the world, or shaking up personal lives.

Michel Petrossian © Christophe AbramowitzMichel Petrossian © Christophe Abramowitz
Anaïs de Courson © François de MaleissyeAnaïs de Courson © François de Maleissye
Job on the Dunghill (detail) © Gonzalo Carrasco_1881Job on the Dunghill (detail) © Gonzalo Carrasco_1881

[MP]
Fig. 24 et 25
Representation of a resonant body [MP]
perturbed by various properties of the
sound track: michel_#petrossian_latens_
deitas_V#counter-tenor.mp3
Michel Petrossian / Latens Deitas V