Issue 04_05/2025 - Focus "Diversity"

SMZ (translation: AI) - 01 May 2025

Svenn Moretti-Golay, photographed by Holger Jacob

Focus

I like playing with all these codes
Interview with Svenn Moretti-Golay - drag queen, opera singer, communicator

Hidden feelings
How did homosexual composers live in a society that suppressed them for a long time?

(Editor's note: A concert series will be held in fall 2025 to mark the 125th anniversary of Robert Oboussier's birth, and a book and CD with works by Robert Oboussier will be published. Further information: https://www.oboussier.ch)

You might be tempted to think that making music is not for me
"Big Ensemble" is an inclusive stage project by Tabula Musica for 40 musicians with and without disabilities.

Carte blanche: The ESC and its contradictions
Uta Christine Fischer writes, among other things, that the ESC has become a forum for the broad dissemination of diversity policy

(italics = summary in German of the original French article)

Critiques

New releases Books, Sound carrier, Websites, Notes, Movies

Echo

Casanova at the Albergo Svizzero
Richard Flury's opera Casanova e l'Albertolli and Diego Fasoli's recording of the work, which celebrates the political situation of its time and the spirit of democracy.

Gradual lignification
World premiere of the musical theater The weather gets me at night by Andreas Neeser and Alfred Zimmerlin

Uprooting in unheard-of sounds
Beat Furrer's latest opera The great fire at the Zurich Opera House

Bleak prospects for club culture
In addition to concerts, the 27th edition of "m4music" once again offered panels and workshops.

Serbia's musical life under pressure
The weekly, sometimes daily protests continue unabated and the situation is devastating for the cultural life of the Balkan country.

Entre viole d'amour et ballet contemporain
Jasser Haj Youssef signe la musique d'"Ihsane", la nouvelle création mondiale de Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui présentée en ouverture de la saison 24/25 du Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Entretien

Enseignement des musiques actuelles
Two studies, one Swiss, the other French, have analyzed the teaching of contemporary music. The occasion to make the point between the similarities and the differences.

Éclipses : une œuvre musicale au cœur du cosmos
Cyprien Lengagne, young French composer and violoncellist, invites us to think about space-temps, relations between nature and man, nature and cosmos, musicians and interpreters.