The Liceu of Barcelona has decided to continue dreaming big with the new and ambitious collection of titles that articulate its next season, which it presented this morning. The programming is structured from the idea of chase a dream as a form of healthy ambition that gives meaning to our lives, said its artistic director, Vctor García de Gomar. Nobody knows better than the Liceu public that music is capable of drawing emotional landscapes dreamlike places where the echo of these longings that sleep in all of us resonates.
As a kind of awakening of the sensesthe first curtain will be by Lex Oll, who on September 25 will premiere his version, always sharp and intelligent, of Lady Macbeth de Mtsensk of Shotakvich, the pear that represented the composer’s descent into hellafter Stalin attended a performance at the Bolshi Theater and the censors of the Pradva They would describe their music as vulgar and primitive. The production, which proposes a complete nude of the feelings of the protagonist couplefeaturing the voices of Sara Jakubiak and Pavel Cernoch.
In November, eight performances of The force of Destiny (Verdi’s pear of maturity that serves to showcase Saioa Hernndez in the role of Donna Leonora) and, in December, Soprano Sonya Yoncheva gathers crowds like the Cio-Cio-San of Mamada Butterfly by Puccini on the centenary of the composer’s death. The heartbreaking reading of the registas Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier is inspired by European images of 19th century Japan.
Another great title from the repertoire, The Traviata in the applauded version by David McVicarwill take the stage in January loaded with big names: Nadine Sierra and Ruth Iniesta (alternating in the role of Violetta) and Javier Camarena and Xabier Anduaga (for the part of Alfredo). Romeo Castellucci debuts at the Liceu with an operatic adaptation of the Requiem by Mozart to conduct from the pit by Giovanni Antonini (and February 17 at the Basilica of the Holy Family).
Already in March, the Rambla theater invites Katharina Wagner, great-granddaughter of the composer German, for the new and long-awaited staging of Lohengrinwhich should have been released in 2020 but the pandemic forced to delay. Beyond his stylistic innovation and his impulse to the development of musical drama, the influence of Wagner’s fifth opera reaches our days (and this is demonstrated by its heir) as a allegory of the birth of a community consciousness.
The following month, Brbara Lluch return to the Liceu (after leading the assembly of Turandot of his grandmother, Nria Espert) with the adaptation of The sleepwalker by Bellini that premiere at the Teatro Real in Madrid. And to the date of the season Calixto Bieito could not be missing, of course.which will deal with one of the six new productions of the course: Julius Caesar of Hndel with the specialist William Christie managing the decibels of the Liceu orchestra.
Its owner, maestro Josep Pons, will be in charge of several titles and concerts throughout these ten months, including the seven performances of Undine of Dvork (according to Christof Loy, in June and July) with the vocal guarantee of Piotr Beczaa and Asmik Grigorian. As colofn, on July 19 Antoni Ros-Marb will conduct the absolute premiere of a score of his own creationthe pear in two acts Benjamin in Portbouwhich will be presented in a semi-staged version signed by Anna Ponces.