New twist at the Comédie de Genève: the institution forced to cancel summer performances of a production of The Rite of Spring

Danced and performed by artists with disabilities, this show on the programme of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève has been postponed to January. Behind the change of dates: visa problems This summary may have been written with the assistance of generative AI. Learn more If there was one production Séverine Chavrier was delighted to co-produce, it was this production of The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky's musical masterpiece staged by Serbian artist Saša Asentić. But the whole thing fell apart: the show, rehearsed this summer with performers with disabilities, had to be cancelled, as the broadcaster Léman Bleu reported. Yet another blunder after the cancellation, in April 2025, of Cyrano de Bergerac, a production by director Lola Giouse with an all-female cast, and the spectacular cancellation, in June 2023, of Krystian Lupa's The Emigrants.