Apéropéra #4 : Autour de L’Italienne à Alger - MEG

Apéropéra #4 : About L’italiana in Algeri

The MEG and the Grand Théâtre de Genève are joining forces to host a unique performance on Thursday 15 January 2026: ApérOpéra Bab Geneva, a poetic plea conceived and performed by Amel Merabet, accompanied by music from Amel Daiffallah and their guests.

Inspired by Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri and the MEG’s Rencontres exhibition, this creation traces an intimate journey: from Algiers to Geneva, from absence to presence, from history to the silences that only poetry can illuminate.

Amel Merabet, the ‘poetess of the courtrooms’, leaves the courtrooms for one evening to take over the museum’s galleries. There she presents three imagined pleas, three stories set to music, three paths that question our inner thresholds.

Because in Arabic, Amel means ‘hope’.
And on 15 January 2026, hope will knock on the door of ‘Bab Geneva’ in duet.

Who among us will open it?

At Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG)