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title: 'From Maria Callas to Freddie Mercury'
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lang: en
date: '2026-09-18'
description: 'Clash Pop: from Maria Callas to Freddie Mercury, from Bellini to ABBA. With Théophile Alexandre, Manon Galy, Yohan Hennequin and the Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse. Thursday 14 January 2027, 8.30 pm, Casino Bern.'
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Clash Pop

# From Maria Callas
to Freddie Mercury

BERN • Thursday 14 January 2027 • 8.30 pm

[Casino Bern](#lieu) · Casinoplatz 1, 3011 Bern

 [Book in Bern](https://tickets.clash.fr/clashbern/callas-mercury/) 

## About

From Maria Callas to Freddie Mercury, from Bellini to ABBA, from *Casta Diva* to *The Winner Takes It All*, this Clash Diva explores a single realm: that of iconic voices, unforgettable timbres and emotions pushed to their highest pitch. For opera and great pop share the same intensity: a taste for drama, for momentum, for excess, for fragility laid bare. In Bellini as in Queen, in Verdi as in ABBA or Michael Jackson, to sing is to give everything — to turn the voice into theatre, the breath into tension, the word into immediate truth.

These are arias and songs we know by heart, melodies that run right through us, voices we recognise in a second. Here Bizet crosses paths with Dalida, Puccini meets Barbra Streisand, Verdi reaches out to Whitney Houston, while Madonna, Kate Bush, Björk and Amy Winehouse each carry on, in their own way, the brilliance of the great operatic figures. The meeting between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé remains its perfect emblem: that of a world where lyricism and pop come together in virtuosity, theatricality and absolute emotion.

 [Discover our artists](https://clash.fr/saison26-27/artistes-clash-pop-2/) 

 ![Théophile Alexandre, countertenor](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/theophile-alexandre.webp) Théophile AlexandreCountertenor 

 ![Manon Galy playing violin with an orchestra](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/manon-galy.webp) Manon GalyViolin 

 ![The Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse on stage at a Clash concert](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/orchestre-chambre-toulouse.webp) Orchestre de chambre de ToulouseOrchestra 

 ![Yohan Hennequin on drums](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/yohan-hennequin.webp) Yohan HennequinDrums (Cats on Trees) 

## Cast

 **Guests:**- **Théophile Alexandre:** Countertenor
- **Manon Galy:** Violin
- **Yohan Hennequin:** Drums (from the band Cats on Trees)
- **Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse**

 [Book in Bern](https://tickets.clash.fr/clashbern/callas-mercury/) 

 ![The Great Hall of the Casino Bern](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/casino-bern.webp) 

## The venue

### Casino Bern

Casinoplatz 1, 3011 Bern, Switzerland

Built in the heart of the old town, the Casino Bern is a jewel of neo-Baroque architecture. Opened in 1909 and magnificently restored, it offers world-class acoustics in its Great Hall. Between bourgeois tradition and modernity, this Swiss landmark remains the prestigious setting for the greatest orchestras and cultural events.

  Date Thursday 14 January 2027 

 Start 8.30 pm 

 Address [Casinoplatz 1, Bern](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Casino+Bern+Casinoplatz+1+3011+Bern) 

 ![Clash](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/logo-clash.webp)- Pop
- Electro
- Rock
- World
- Rap
- Chanson

**Bern** • Thursday 14 January 2027 • 8.30 pm • Casino Bern

 [Book my seats](https://tickets.clash.fr/clashbern/callas-mercury/) 

## Photos

©Thomas Morel-Fort

![Clash concert at the Salle Gaveau, blue and pink lighting](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-01.webp)

![Harpist under turquoise and red light](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-02.webp)

![Dancer and musicians on a stage bathed in red](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-03.webp)

![Full house in front of the illuminated organ](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-04.webp)

![Piano and singers under blue light](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-05.webp)

![Baroque ensemble and harp in front of the organ](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-06.webp)

![Orchestra on stage under red lighting](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-07.webp)

![Dancers and viola da gamba on stage](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-08.webp)

![Whirling dancer accompanied by musicians](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-09.webp)

![Pianist in orange light](https://bern.clash.fr/user/themes/clashbern/images/galerie-10.webp)