Within the Grec Festival of Barcelona
Composers linked to Barcelona will write based on texts-librettos by important playwrights
The Òh!pera project was born three seasons ago, driven by the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Barcelona City Council, through the Disseny Hub, with the aim of being the gateway to the world of opera for young creators from all artistic fields: composers, librettists, stage directors, singers, musicians, lighting designers, students from design schools... It materializes in the creation of three contemporary operas, each lasting 30 minutes, which are performed, over a single evening, in three unusual spaces of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
The goal is to foster the future of opera with a new generation of professionals from all fields of this clearly multidisciplinary art, not only in the search for new aesthetics that future operatic proposals will have to achieve, but also in attracting new audiences for their ability to embrace aesthetic universes that point towards the future.
The three pieces gather contemporary stories. The first one, Eliza, introduces a woman who discovers that her partner is an artificial intelligence capable of controlling her thoughts. The second one, Azul como una naranja, tells the story of Sergei Krikalev, the astronaut who spent 311 days trapped aboard the Mir space station while his country, the Soviet Union, was collapsing. The third one, Contradir la noche, is a dazzling journey of two lovers through the underground and rascal Barcelona that reveals the true identity of the city.
In short, a determined bet on the future.
Dates & tickets
NOTICE: This show takes place in three different areas of the Liceu, all unnumbered, and there are movements between them. In one of the areas, the audience is standing. An alternative route and accessible spaces are available for people with reduced mobility and/or wheelchairs. For more information [email protected] or 93 485 99 29.
Contradir la nit (Mestres Cabanes Room)
- Composer
- Montserrat Lladó
- Libretto
- Martí Sales
- Stage director
- Marta Gil Polo
- Conductor
- Lorenzo Ferrándiz
- Sound
- Sixto Cámara
- Lightning
- Palmira Sabaté (Institut del Teatre)
- Set design, costume, video
- EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona
- Cast
- Alejandro Díaz Carrascosa, Álvaro Basco, Gonzalo Otero, Júlia López Ariño, Marta Esteban and Odo Cabot
- Thanks to
- Montse Colomé, Abel Vallhonesta and Fundació Ernesto Ventós.
Azul como una naranja (Stage Box)
- Composer
- Guillem Palomar
- Libretto
- Laura Ferrero
- Stage director
- Ester Guntín
- Conductor
- Miquel Massana
- Lighting
- Quim Algora (Institut del Teatre)
- Set design and costume
- BAU College of Arts and Design of Barcelona
- Cast
- Adriana Aranda, Carlos Bujosa, Olivia Cortese, Pau Armengol, Pau Camero, Xavier Castillo, Celia Castellano and Arnau Boces.
Eliza (Foyer)
- Composer
- Ferran Cruixent
- Libretto
- Pau Miró
- Stage director
- Pol Roig
- Conductor
- Irene Delgado-Jiménez
- Set design, costume and video
- Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
- Lighting design
- Sergi Cerdan (Institut del Teatre)
- Cast
- Ainara Quijada, Dai Mar López, Joana Espar, Jordi Pérez Nogué, Paula Sánchez-Valverde and Roger Vicens.
- Co-repetition
- Oriol Sanz Baqués
Programa de mà
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