Nostos - Memory and Exile

Name: Nostos - Memory and Exile — Family Concert
Start: 2026-12-05T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-05T12:00:00+01:00
Location: Flagey

Family Concert

Music Chapel Festival

Sat 5 Dec 11:00

Studio 4

tickets

5 Dec

11:00

tickets

Music Chapel Festival Pass | Access to all concerts of the festival. Reservation is mandatory using the code indicated on your pass.

Program

Excerpts from the following works:
Claudio Monteverdi: Excerpts from Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Francesca Caccini: Excerpts from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina
Cipriano de Rore: Madrigals
Giovanni Battista Riccio & Francesco Cavalli: Instrumental works
Songs from Neapolitan and Greek traditions

artist(s)

- InAlto Ensemble -
Alice Foccroulle, soprano
Riccardo Pisani, tenor
Giulio Quirici, theorbo
Luca Isolani, chitarra battente
Efrén López, oud & percussion
Michalis Kouloumis, violin
Lambert Colson, cornetto & artistic direction

- Chorales Equinox -
Equinox Children’s Choir, Saint-Gilles
Zeno Popescu, choir director
Irene Monari, artistic coordination

“Nostos” combines artistic creation with educational impact, offering every child a unique opportunity to discover themselves through art and to share this experience with a broad and diverse audience.

The project Nostos – Memory and Exile is an intercultural musical creation led by Chorales Equinox and the InAlto ensemble.

It brings together early music and traditional Mediterranean songs with an educational approach involving the Equinox Children’s Choir, made up of young people from vulnerable backgrounds.

Through the lens of Odysseus’s Ulysse and the music of the 16th and 17th centuries, the project explores the universal themes of exile and the journey back to oneself. It offers children and audiences an artistic and emotional journey combining memory, wandering and cultural discovery.

In the context of