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Nearly 200,000 people celebrated music this weekend, a record
The cultural service of the city of Geneva has a good assessment of the 34th edition of its music festival.
Geneva, June 21, 2025. Atmosphere during the music festival. Here, the public listens to flamenco in the shade of the trees on the pine scene. Photo Pierre Albouy/Tribune de Genève
Pierre Albouy
The heat will not have been right with the festivities in the city of Geneva. On the contrary. The 34e edition of the Music festival ends with record figures: in three days, nearly 200,000 visitors have Braved the heat wave To participate in the event. With a peak of 80,000 people on Saturday, in the evening, according to the Geneva cantonal police.
The cultural service of the city of Geneva is delighted to have brought together all the cultures and all generations around a varied program. The latter also gave pride of place to Geneva hip-hop, thus attracting 15-25 year olds so far little present during previous editions.
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The Department of Culture and Digital Transition is already meeting the public next year, from June 19 to 21, for the 35e Edition of the Music Festival.
Lightning action in front of the great theater
The camera found in the changing rooms of the women of the Grand Theater had made a big splash in the spring. Even the French media Mediapart had echoed this story.
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During the night from Friday to Saturday, in the midst of Electro concert in partnership between the electron festival and the Grand Théâtre, individuals burst into a flash action. Lighting a few smoke bombs, they deployed banners “smile, they are filmed” or “camera in the showers, they wash their hands”.
A mobilization to denounce the affair of the Camera found in the shower of a wardrobe for women The great theater was revealed by the “Tribune de Genève” last March. The action was supported by the collective of the feminist strike and did not have current employees of the great theater in its ranks.
The rally lasted only a few minutes, calm. “It was not tense at all, on the contrary, people applauded because this story is serious,” says a participant in the evening. The police did not have to intervene and also deplore any incident during this music festival weekend.
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