The Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Palau de la Música and L’Auditori will fill Sant Sebastià beach with free symphonic music on July 9 and 10. Featuring excerpts from Mar i cel by Dagoll Dagom, Bizet and Granados, and offering accessible programmes for everyone, the initiative aims to bring music to all audiences and take it to places where it doesn’t always reach. There will also be workshops and concerts at Hospital del Mar and two care homes for the elderly, in order to bring music to those who cannot make it to the beach.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu premieres Hammer in Barcelona, a work by Alexander Ekman that reflects on today’s society through a physical and visual language. From June 29 to July 5, four performances of this two-act show featuring choreography by the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu celebrates 25 years of the Petit Liceu with four new productions, the tour of 'The Young Aida', and three free performances during La Mercè. An illustrated book is being launched, and a new Educational Advisory Council is being created. Since 2000, nearly 1.8 million children and young people have attended its performances.
The concert will be a unique opportunity to enjoy Wagner and Strauss in an evening of high artistic intensity. Josep Pons will lead an emotional journey with Asmik Grigorian and Matthias Goerne, two exceptional voices. The program includes the 'Liebestod', the 'Lament of King Marke', 'Wotan’s Farewell', and the 'Vier letzte Lieder'. A sonic gift for opera lovers.
Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian and Polish tenor Piotr Beczała lead a great cast that will make shine the grand and demanding romantic score by Antonín Dvořák. Under the direction of Josep Pons, Christof Loy’s production reflects on the state of incomunication and emptiness when art ceases to function as the driving force of life.
The stars of this major event will be Marina Rebeka, Clémentine Margaine, Martin Muehle, and Ludovic Tézier, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu under the baton of maestro Giuseppe Finzi. This Opera Gala is part of the commemoration of the 178th anniversary of the opening of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, celebrated this past 4 April.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu presents Giulio Cesare by Georg Friedrich Händel, in a co-production with the Dutch National Opera, under the stage direction of Calixto Bieito. Maestro William Christie, one of the world’s leading authorities on the Baroque repertoire, will conduct the Liceu’s orchestra in a total of six performances. Barcelona-born countertenor Xavier Sabata and French soprano Julie Fuchs, two leading experts in 18th-century music, will take on the roles of Giulio Cesare and Cleopatra.
Rinaldo Alessandrini, regarded as one of today’s leading figures in early music, returns to the Gran Teatre del Liceu to take on a new challenge: the performance of Il terzo libro de madrigali (1592), on May 14 at the Sala Foyer. Alessandrini leads Concerto Italiano, the vocal and instrumental ensemble he founded in 1984, which has established itself as one of the most prestigious groups in the field of Renaissance and Baroque music.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu engages with the new edition of Calidoscopi Cultural, the annual series of cultural activities organized by the Sant Andreu district of the Barcelona City Council. This year's edition focuses on collective resilience, understood as the ability to face adversity, adapt to change, and emerge transformed.
The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation and the Gran Teatre del Liceu present a unique concert featuring the young and renowned cellist Anastasia Kobekina, on May 12 at 8 pm in the Liceu’s Foyer Hall. This concert is a one-of-a-kind experience where Sean Scully’s paintings come to life through Anastasia Kobekina’s music, creating a dialogue between colour, rhythm, and emotion.
