Definitely no Cité de la musique in Geneva
The Foundation for the Promotion of a Cité de la musique de Genève (FCMG), supported by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) and the Geneva University of Music, among others, has been dissolved.
After a financing model for the project was rejected by the people of Geneva by a very narrow margin of 50.86% in June, the initiators initially designed an alternative model. The foundation has now come to the conclusion that too little support could be expected.
A glass complex near the United Nations was planned as a home for the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the University of Music. The Cité concert hall would have had 1580 seats. An alliance of the Greens, the Left and the SVP had formed against the project. The stumbling blocks were the costs, the loss of a manor house and the trees that would have had to make way for the Cité.
