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Works in the City Center Penthouse apartments City Block
Construction of a Municipal Parking, Gymnasium and Pre-school building
Plaza Real in Barcelona
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Las Ramblas
Popular street in Barcelona to stroll from Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya
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Specchio Magico in Barcelona
Italian Atmosphere Restaurant in Gracia Neighbourhood
Modernisme Walking Tour
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Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso in Barcelona)
Antoni Tàpies Sculpture at the passeig Picasso close to the Parc de la Ciutadella
Barcelona Aquarium
Moll d'Espanya del Port Vell de Barcelona
Roman Barcelona – Barcino
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Catalan modernist Hospitalary complex by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner
Cerveceria El Vaso de Oro
First-rate Tapas Bar and good Chilled Beer in the Barceloneta Neighborhood
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About Barcelona
In About Barcelona we have information of things that are happening in the city, events, fairs, congresses, or popular events that will take place together with Festivals and Concerts, Sporting Events and Art Exhibitions. Also information on interesting places to vist and what we like to call our favourite places, museums and outdoor sculptures. And if you are interested, we can provide your Barcelona Accommodation for your stay during the events, congresses or Festivals you are willing to participate.
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Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
From April 1st to May 21st of 2011 the annual edition of the Guitar festival will schedule more than 30 concerts related to the world of guitar, open to all tendencies from classic guitar to the most forefront artist with their different proposals in its 22 edition.
Different artists will take place in the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from well known Spanish names like: from the flamenco guitar world, Tomatito; from the Catalan contemporary music like performer and composer Toti Soler with classical training and influences of blues, jazz and flamenco; from the Spanish urban rock, player...
22 Festival de Guitarra de Barcelona
From April 1st to May 21st of 2011 the annual edition of the Guitar festival will schedule more than 30 concerts related to the world of guitar, open to all tendencies from classic guitar to the most forefront artist with their different proposals in its 22 edition.
Different artists will take place in the Barcelona Guitar Festival, from well known Spanish names like: from the flamenco guitar world, Tomatito; from the Catalan contemporary music like performer and composer Toti Soler with classical training and influences of blues, jazz and flamenco; from the Spanish urban rock, player...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
Andreas Scholl will perform at the Gran Teatre del Liceu works by Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Georg Friedrich Händel, Thomas Campion, and Joseph Hayden, accompanied on piano by Tamar Halperin.
Andreas Scholl, born 10 November 1967, is a German countertenor specialized in Baroque music. His range, male classical singer in the alto vocal range, is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom Handel wrote his greatest alto roles. All of his family members were singers. At age 13, Andreas Scholl sang the second boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at...
Andreas Scholl in Barcelona
Andreas Scholl will perform at the Gran Teatre del Liceu works by Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Georg Friedrich Händel, Thomas Campion, and Joseph Hayden, accompanied on piano by Tamar Halperin.
Andreas Scholl, born 10 November 1967, is a German countertenor specialized in Baroque music. His range, male classical singer in the alto vocal range, is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom Handel wrote his greatest alto roles. All of his family members were singers. At age 13, Andreas Scholl sang the second boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, February/March 2011.
Parsifal is sacred festival drama in three acts with Libretto and Music by Richard Wagner. The Opera is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, a 13th century epic poem on the life of Parzival (Percival) knight of the court of King Arthur, and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
The opera was first performed on 26 July 1882 at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. Wagner first conceived the work in April 1857 but it was not finished until twenty-five years...
Parsifal, Sacred festival drama
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, February/March 2011.
Parsifal is sacred festival drama in three acts with Libretto and Music by Richard Wagner. The Opera is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, a 13th century epic poem on the life of Parzival (Percival) knight of the court of King Arthur, and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
The opera was first performed on 26 July 1882 at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. Wagner first conceived the work in April 1857 but it was not finished until twenty-five years...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, December 2010
This coproduction from The Welsh Naional Opera (Cardiff) and The Opéra National de Lyon with Music direction of Fabio Luisi and stage direction of Peter Stein of The “commedia lirica” ,Giuseppe Verdi's last Opera, "Falstaff", will be performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona during the month of December with The Liceu Symphony Orchestra and the Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus having on stage two different casts (the second with a nearly complete Spanish cast at reduced prices) being in the leading...
Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, December 2010
This coproduction from The Welsh Naional Opera (Cardiff) and The Opéra National de Lyon with Music direction of Fabio Luisi and stage direction of Peter Stein of The “commedia lirica” ,Giuseppe Verdi's last Opera, "Falstaff", will be performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona during the month of December with The Liceu Symphony Orchestra and the Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus having on stage two different casts (the second with a nearly complete Spanish cast at reduced prices) being in the leading...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann accompanied on the piano by Helmut Deutsch will give a recital in The Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona on October 10 with songs by Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert and others.
After his notable successful debut in the 99th Bayreuth Festival in August 2010 on the role of Wagner’s Lohengrin, staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons, and before coming to Barcelona he will be playing the role of Maurizio in Francesco Cilea’s Adraina Lecouvreur at the German Opera of Berlin in a concert performance and the song cycle, from Franz Schubert,...
Recital Jonas Kaufmann at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona
The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann accompanied on the piano by Helmut Deutsch will give a recital in The Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona on October 10 with songs by Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert and others.
After his notable successful debut in the 99th Bayreuth Festival in August 2010 on the role of Wagner’s Lohengrin, staged by Hans Neuenfels and conducted by Andris Nelsons, and before coming to Barcelona he will be playing the role of Maurizio in Francesco Cilea’s Adraina Lecouvreur at the German Opera of Berlin in a concert performance and the song cycle, from Franz Schubert,...
Musical Events and Dance > Ballet-Dance
Fall is time for Ballet in Barcelona.
For the first time at the Gran Teatre de Liceu de Barcelona from November 6 to 15 will be on stage Giselle, ballet in two acts with libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, and music by Adolphe Adam (with musical arrangements from David Coleman) in this new choreography by Dawson and costumes by leading dancer of the group Yumiko Takeshima.
Giselle is a story about fate, love, despair, madness, death and sacrifice that Dawson passes through the filter of his unmistakable style to a timeless story of love.
The...
Ballet Giselle in Barcelona
Fall is time for Ballet in Barcelona.
For the first time at the Gran Teatre de Liceu de Barcelona from November 6 to 15 will be on stage Giselle, ballet in two acts with libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, and music by Adolphe Adam (with musical arrangements from David Coleman) in this new choreography by Dawson and costumes by leading dancer of the group Yumiko Takeshima.
Giselle is a story about fate, love, despair, madness, death and sacrifice that Dawson passes through the filter of his unmistakable style to a timeless story of love.
The...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Carmen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu – September/October 2010 and July 2011
Carmen, Opéra-Comique in four acts by Georges Bizet, will be on stage at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona from September 27 to October 17 of 2010 and again from July 21 to July 30 of 2011.
The new coproduction between the Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona, the Teatro Massimo from Palermo and the Teatro Reggio from Torí with stage director Calixto Bieito is based on the one created by Bieito for the Peralada Festival in 1999 and that has been presented in different International theaters...
Carmen – Georges Bizet
Carmen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu – September/October 2010 and July 2011
Carmen, Opéra-Comique in four acts by Georges Bizet, will be on stage at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona from September 27 to October 17 of 2010 and again from July 21 to July 30 of 2011.
The new coproduction between the Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona, the Teatro Massimo from Palermo and the Teatro Reggio from Torí with stage director Calixto Bieito is based on the one created by Bieito for the Peralada Festival in 1999 and that has been presented in different International theaters...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Gluck at the Gran Teatre del Liceu – September 2010
Openening the 2010-2011 season of the Gran Teatre del liceu it will be presented for the first time in Spain the second version d'Iphigenie auf Tauris from music composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787). The Opera was first performed on May of 1779 at the Académie de Musique de París, and a second version in german was first performed in October 1781 at the Burgtheater de Viena.
This second version of d'Iphigenie auf Tauris clearly marks his returns to Viena and the end of his Parisian...
Iphigenie auf Tauris - Christoph Willibald Gluck
Gluck at the Gran Teatre del Liceu – September 2010
Openening the 2010-2011 season of the Gran Teatre del liceu it will be presented for the first time in Spain the second version d'Iphigenie auf Tauris from music composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787). The Opera was first performed on May of 1779 at the Académie de Musique de París, and a second version in german was first performed in October 1781 at the Burgtheater de Viena.
This second version of d'Iphigenie auf Tauris clearly marks his returns to Viena and the end of his Parisian...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
In Barcelona, from February to June, 2010.
The Guitar Festival is one year more in Barcelona on its 21st edition, having this year two of the most influential guitarists of the last decades for the Opening and Closing concerts; In between more than twenty concerts, mainly focused in the world of the six strings, but together with other thematic variations.
Pat Metheny will be opening the Festival on Sunday February 21st in L’Auditori, presenting his last work Orchestration, and months after Paco de Lucia, the most influential guitarist of recent history of flamenco, will close the festival...
21 Festival de Guitarra i altres Acords
In Barcelona, from February to June, 2010.
The Guitar Festival is one year more in Barcelona on its 21st edition, having this year two of the most influential guitarists of the last decades for the Opening and Closing concerts; In between more than twenty concerts, mainly focused in the world of the six strings, but together with other thematic variations.
Pat Metheny will be opening the Festival on Sunday February 21st in L’Auditori, presenting his last work Orchestration, and months after Paco de Lucia, the most influential guitarist of recent history of flamenco, will close the festival...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
DE CAJÓN! 2009 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to April 2009
The fourth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! comes this year with some changes. The first is a change on dates, instead of being during springtime this year the festival will go on through the winter opening on January 9th with a concert of Diego El Cigala and his group at the Gran Teatre del Liceu presenting also some special guests like Remedios Amaya and Moncho. Also the number of concerts has changed reaching to a total of 17 concerts, more than double that of the previous edition...
DE CAJÓN! 2009
DE CAJÓN! 2009 FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA January to April 2009
The fourth edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! comes this year with some changes. The first is a change on dates, instead of being during springtime this year the festival will go on through the winter opening on January 9th with a concert of Diego El Cigala and his group at the Gran Teatre del Liceu presenting also some special guests like Remedios Amaya and Moncho. Also the number of concerts has changed reaching to a total of 17 concerts, more than double that of the previous edition...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
Las Ramblas
Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA , May to July 2008
The third edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will last from 29 May to 6 July.
Vicente Amigo with his guitar accompanied with a group and the voice of Rafel de Utrera will open the festival. The next concerts will bring on stage, between others, the voice of Diego el Cigala and his group, the Flamenco Dancer Juan de Juan with his show, the guitar of Tomatito and his group. The closing Concert will bring to Barcelona to Rosario, the daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores, presenting her last album “Dentro...
DE CAJÓN! 2008
FESTIVAL FLAMENCO DE BARCELONA , May to July 2008
The third edition of the Barcelona Flamenco festival DE CAJÓN! will last from 29 May to 6 July.
Vicente Amigo with his guitar accompanied with a group and the voice of Rafel de Utrera will open the festival. The next concerts will bring on stage, between others, the voice of Diego el Cigala and his group, the Flamenco Dancer Juan de Juan with his show, the guitar of Tomatito and his group. The closing Concert will bring to Barcelona to Rosario, the daughter of the always remembered Lola Flores, presenting her last album “Dentro...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
The Valkyrie, first journey. Gran Teatro del Liceo , May 2008
From the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) by Richard Wagner.
This time with only two opportunities in May 28 and 31, to listen to this Opera with an excellent cast of voices led by Placido Domingo and accompanied by René Pape, Waltraud Meier, Alan Held, Evelyn Herlitzius, Jane Henschel, Silvana Dussmann, María Rodríguez, Eugenia Maria Bethencourt, Jane Dutton.
Music drama in three acts. Die Walküre (1870) is the first day in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard...
Die Walkure - Richard Wagner
The Valkyrie, first journey. Gran Teatro del Liceo , May 2008
From the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) by Richard Wagner.
This time with only two opportunities in May 28 and 31, to listen to this Opera with an excellent cast of voices led by Placido Domingo and accompanied by René Pape, Waltraud Meier, Alan Held, Evelyn Herlitzius, Jane Henschel, Silvana Dussmann, María Rodríguez, Eugenia Maria Bethencourt, Jane Dutton.
Music drama in three acts. Die Walküre (1870) is the first day in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Wagner at the Gran Teatre del Liceu - March/April 2008
From March 19 to April 10 Richard Wagner is back at the Ramblas Coliseum with the Grosse Romantische Oper, Tannhäuser in a new co production between the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Paris National Opera and the Tokyo Opera Nomori. Tannhäuser was first performed in Spain at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 11 February 1887-
Tannhäuser, written between 1843 and 1845, is probably the most mature of the young Wagner's operas and the richest in dramatic ideas and musical inventiveness. The theme of redemption through love,...
Tannhauser
Wagner at the Gran Teatre del Liceu - March/April 2008
From March 19 to April 10 Richard Wagner is back at the Ramblas Coliseum with the Grosse Romantische Oper, Tannhäuser in a new co production between the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Paris National Opera and the Tokyo Opera Nomori. Tannhäuser was first performed in Spain at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 11 February 1887-
Tannhäuser, written between 1843 and 1845, is probably the most mature of the young Wagner's operas and the richest in dramatic ideas and musical inventiveness. The theme of redemption through love,...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu - February /March 2008.
Elektra is a one-act opera-defined as a «Tragödie»- by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted from his drama of 1903—the first of many such collaborations between composer and librettist, based on Sophocles' eponymous tragedy. It was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on January 25, 1909, and remains a part of the standard operatic repertoire.
This new Co production between the Gran Teatre Liceu and La Monnaie-De Munt from Brussels is conducted by Sebastián Weigle...
Elektra by Richard Strauss
Gran Teatre del Liceu - February /March 2008.
Elektra is a one-act opera-defined as a «Tragödie»- by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted from his drama of 1903—the first of many such collaborations between composer and librettist, based on Sophocles' eponymous tragedy. It was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on January 25, 1909, and remains a part of the standard operatic repertoire.
This new Co production between the Gran Teatre Liceu and La Monnaie-De Munt from Brussels is conducted by Sebastián Weigle...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, November 07 to January 08
Opera in four acts. Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. The premiere took place at the Cairo Opera House, which had been inaugurated two years earlier, in 1869 (the year of the opening of the Suez Canal) on 24 December 1871. First performed in Barcelona on 16 April 1876 at the Teatre Principal. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 25 February 1877. It has become the most frequently performed title in the theatre's history.
One of the prime attractions of this particular co-production, between the...
Aida - Guiseppe Verdi
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Barcelona, November 07 to January 08
Opera in four acts. Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. The premiere took place at the Cairo Opera House, which had been inaugurated two years earlier, in 1869 (the year of the opening of the Suez Canal) on 24 December 1871. First performed in Barcelona on 16 April 1876 at the Teatre Principal. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 25 February 1877. It has become the most frequently performed title in the theatre's history.
One of the prime attractions of this particular co-production, between the...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
New Year Concert - Gran Teatre del Liceu, January 2008
The popular New York director Woody Allen will offer in Barcelona on January 1st a concert of New Year in the Gran Teatre del Liceu. His well-known passion for jazz and for the clarinet, instrument that Allen use to lead his New Orleans jazz Band, brings him to Europe with an extensive Tour.
This European Tour will take Woody Allen and the New Orleans Jazz, among other cities, to London at the Hammersmith Apollo, to Paris at the prestigious Châtelet Theater, Athens, Luxembourg, Budapest, Brussels and Lisbon.
In addition to the...
WOODY ALLEN & HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND
New Year Concert - Gran Teatre del Liceu, January 2008
The popular New York director Woody Allen will offer in Barcelona on January 1st a concert of New Year in the Gran Teatre del Liceu. His well-known passion for jazz and for the clarinet, instrument that Allen use to lead his New Orleans jazz Band, brings him to Europe with an extensive Tour.
This European Tour will take Woody Allen and the New Orleans Jazz, among other cities, to London at the Hammersmith Apollo, to Paris at the prestigious Châtelet Theater, Athens, Luxembourg, Budapest, Brussels and Lisbon.
In addition to the...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
Fall is time for Jazz in Barcelona. October to December 2007
The 38th Barcelona International Jazz Festival is one of the most respected events in Spain. It takes place during the autumn from October 28th till December 5th. The music comes in a wide variety of styles, from big bands and bebop to gospel and Latin jazz. In addition to the numerous concerts, there are a handful of workshops and master classes.
More than 30 concerts will take place during the 37th Barcelona International Jazz Festival. In the long list many known names as Jamie Cullum, Joan Monné & the Nou Nonet, Lucky...
Barcelona International Jazz Festival
Fall is time for Jazz in Barcelona. October to December 2007
The 38th Barcelona International Jazz Festival is one of the most respected events in Spain. It takes place during the autumn from October 28th till December 5th. The music comes in a wide variety of styles, from big bands and bebop to gospel and Latin jazz. In addition to the numerous concerts, there are a handful of workshops and master classes.
More than 30 concerts will take place during the 37th Barcelona International Jazz Festival. In the long list many known names as Jamie Cullum, Joan Monné & the Nou Nonet, Lucky...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Barcelona, October-November 2007
The Pocket Size Opera and New Creations Festival will be in Barcelona from October 24 till November 25. The Festival shows this year four new premières from Contemporary composers Joan Albert Amargós, Agustí Charles, Lleonard Balada and Jordi Rossinyol.
Amargós together with Toni Rumbau and Luca Valentino will confront in the guise of a magic show and cabaret the principal character and the audience with the subject of death. Agustí Charles together with the dramatist marc Rosich will present a type of opera buffa but with...
Festival d'Òpera de Butxaca i Noves Creacions.
Barcelona, October-November 2007
The Pocket Size Opera and New Creations Festival will be in Barcelona from October 24 till November 25. The Festival shows this year four new premières from Contemporary composers Joan Albert Amargós, Agustí Charles, Lleonard Balada and Jordi Rossinyol.
Amargós together with Toni Rumbau and Luca Valentino will confront in the guise of a magic show and cabaret the principal character and the audience with the subject of death. Agustí Charles together with the dramatist marc Rosich will present a type of opera buffa but with...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Umberto Giordano at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. September-October 2007
To open the 2007-2008 season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Opera Andrea Chénier; Drama istorico in four acts. Libretto by Luigi Illica. Music by Umberto Giordano. First performed on 28 March 1896 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. First performance in Spain at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 12 November 1898.
Andrea Chénier, the most famous opera by Umberto Giordano (1867-1948), is also one of the most popular musical works in Italian Verismo style.
Production from New National Theatre, Tokio, conducted by...
Andrea Chenier
Umberto Giordano at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. September-October 2007
To open the 2007-2008 season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Opera Andrea Chénier; Drama istorico in four acts. Libretto by Luigi Illica. Music by Umberto Giordano. First performed on 28 March 1896 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. First performance in Spain at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 12 November 1898.
Andrea Chénier, the most famous opera by Umberto Giordano (1867-1948), is also one of the most popular musical works in Italian Verismo style.
Production from New National Theatre, Tokio, conducted by...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
Eclectic Musical Offering in Barcelona, July to September 2007
Festival for the summer nights, with programs that covers everything from jazz to electronic pop. Names like the Buenavista Social Club band with music from the isle of Cuba, the afro-Cuban artist Manolito Simonet, the Caribbean salsa rhythms of José Luís Cortés and NG La Banda or Lucrecia accompanied by the Barcelona Symphonic Orchestra. Also it will be possible to listen to the Orquestra Árabe de Barcelona with guests like Omar Sosa, Omar Faruk, Miquel Gil and Lucrecia. Other names like Wayne Shorter...
Mas i Mas Festival
Eclectic Musical Offering in Barcelona, July to September 2007
Festival for the summer nights, with programs that covers everything from jazz to electronic pop. Names like the Buenavista Social Club band with music from the isle of Cuba, the afro-Cuban artist Manolito Simonet, the Caribbean salsa rhythms of José Luís Cortés and NG La Banda or Lucrecia accompanied by the Barcelona Symphonic Orchestra. Also it will be possible to listen to the Orquestra Árabe de Barcelona with guests like Omar Sosa, Omar Faruk, Miquel Gil and Lucrecia. Other names like Wayne Shorter...
Musical Events and Dance > Festivals
Festival Flamenco de Barcelona, June-July 2007
From June 1st till July 22nd this new chance to listen in Barcelona’s second Flamenco Festival De Cajón! to very well known flamenco stars like the last year Grammy award Winner Diego El Cigala in the open concert at the Palau de la Musica.
The following concerts will bring to Barcelona the new and promising voice of Maria Lopez Tristancho, Argentina, the well-known voice of José Mercé and the flamenco guitar of José Fernandez Torres, Tomatito, with his sextet. For the closing night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
De Cajón!
Festival Flamenco de Barcelona, June-July 2007
From June 1st till July 22nd this new chance to listen in Barcelona’s second Flamenco Festival De Cajón! to very well known flamenco stars like the last year Grammy award Winner Diego El Cigala in the open concert at the Palau de la Musica.
The following concerts will bring to Barcelona the new and promising voice of Maria Lopez Tristancho, Argentina, the well-known voice of José Mercé and the flamenco guitar of José Fernandez Torres, Tomatito, with his sextet. For the closing night at the Gran Teatre del Liceu...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Vincenzo Bellini at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
For closing the season 2006-2007 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu it will be on stage the Opera Norma, Lyric tragedy in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani based on the work by Alexandre Soumet. Music by Vincenzo Bellini. First performed on 26 December 1831 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 16 October 1847.
Norma (1831) is unquestionably one of Bellini's great operas, and one of the finest in the bel canto repertory and the entire history of opera.
Co production between the Gran Teatre del Liceu and...
Norma - Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
For closing the season 2006-2007 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu it will be on stage the Opera Norma, Lyric tragedy in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani based on the work by Alexandre Soumet. Music by Vincenzo Bellini. First performed on 26 December 1831 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 16 October 1847.
Norma (1831) is unquestionably one of Bellini's great operas, and one of the finest in the bel canto repertory and the entire history of opera.
Co production between the Gran Teatre del Liceu and...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
French Opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, June-July 2007
Manon (1884) is Massenet's most popular and famous work and a veritable paradigm of French opera. Based on L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost (Amsterdam, 1731), it follows the original more closely than most other operas on the same topic. It tells the tale of two adolescents -an attractive young girl on her way to a convent and a provincial nobleman who has fallen madly in love with her- who elope to Paris. There life's harsh realities uncover their true characters. Manon is...
Manon - Jules Massenet
French Opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, June-July 2007
Manon (1884) is Massenet's most popular and famous work and a veritable paradigm of French opera. Based on L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost (Amsterdam, 1731), it follows the original more closely than most other operas on the same topic. It tells the tale of two adolescents -an attractive young girl on her way to a convent and a provincial nobleman who has fallen madly in love with her- who elope to Paris. There life's harsh realities uncover their true characters. Manon is...
Musical Events and Dance > Ballet-Dance
Antonio Gades Ballet Company at the Liceu, April 2007
4 opportunities to see in Barcelona the particular version of the ballet Carmen, directly inspired in Merimée’s tale, with the choreography made by Antonio Gades in the 80’s with music form George Bizet and Paco de Lucía, first presented to the public at the Théâtre de Paris in 1983, starring Cristina Hoyos and Gades himself.
Antonio Gades, who died in 2004, was a Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer that contributed to popularize the flamenco art on the international stage. He also collaborated...
Ballet Carmen
Antonio Gades Ballet Company at the Liceu, April 2007
4 opportunities to see in Barcelona the particular version of the ballet Carmen, directly inspired in Merimée’s tale, with the choreography made by Antonio Gades in the 80’s with music form George Bizet and Paco de Lucía, first presented to the public at the Théâtre de Paris in 1983, starring Cristina Hoyos and Gades himself.
Antonio Gades, who died in 2004, was a Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer that contributed to popularize the flamenco art on the international stage. He also collaborated...
Musical Events and Dance > Opera
Wagner at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, April 2007
From April 4 to April 25 there will be ten opportunities to listen to the Romantische Oper Der fliegende Holländer /“The Flying Dutchman”/ considered the first of Wagner's mature operas, composed in 1843 and first performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 12 December 1885.
Libretto and music by Richard Wagner based on the text Aus den Memorien des Herren von Schnabelewopski by Heinrich Heine.
Conducted this time by Sebastian Weigle, the Music Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona since 2004, with Allan Titus on...
Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, April 2007
From April 4 to April 25 there will be ten opportunities to listen to the Romantische Oper Der fliegende Holländer /“The Flying Dutchman”/ considered the first of Wagner's mature operas, composed in 1843 and first performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 12 December 1885.
Libretto and music by Richard Wagner based on the text Aus den Memorien des Herren von Schnabelewopski by Heinrich Heine.
Conducted this time by Sebastian Weigle, the Music Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona since 2004, with Allan Titus on...
Musical Events and Dance > Concerts
At the Liceu Opera House, February 2007
The Concert initially scheduled for November 26th 2006, will finally take place on 7 February 7th 2007 at 21.30 pm.It is always a pleasure and an honour to have Montserrat Caballe singing in Barcelona and more even in the Liceu Opera house. With the company of Manuel Burguesas at the piano she will offer music from composers like Haendael, Cherubini, Niedermayer, Nicolai or Catani in the first part or Brahms, Massenet, Saint-Saëns or Goundod in the second half. Born in Barcelona, her international debut began in New York with a...
Recital Montserrat Caballé
At the Liceu Opera House, February 2007
The Concert initially scheduled for November 26th 2006, will finally take place on 7 February 7th 2007 at 21.30 pm.It is always a pleasure and an honour to have Montserrat Caballe singing in Barcelona and more even in the Liceu Opera house. With the company of Manuel Burguesas at the piano she will offer music from composers like Haendael, Cherubini, Niedermayer, Nicolai or Catani in the first part or Brahms, Massenet, Saint-Saëns or Goundod in the second half. Born in Barcelona, her international debut began in New York with a...