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Patricia Racette won plaudits when she first sang the title role at the Met in 2010. Now she returns with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandrs Antonenko ...

Patricia Racette won plaudits when she first sang the title role at the Met in 2010. Now she returns with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandrs Antonenko ...

On sale at the Grand Theatre box office, Uniticket and day of concert at Theatre box office Axerquía Niña Pastori is a flamenco singer who ...

In an hilarious change of pace from Salome and Moby-Dick, we laugh as the doddering old fool Pasquale is tricked into thinking he has married ...

The Ballet Nacional de España was founded 35 years ago and had Antonio Gades as its first director. Its subsequent evolution has aimed to maintain ...

La Traviata is unique in Verdi's output. Unlike Aida or Nabucco, it is remarkable for its realistic portrayal of the tale of Violetta who, on ...

Norina and Ernesto are a young couple in love but then Don Pasquale, Ernesto's aged uncle, decides to interfere. He has other plans for his ...

The superlative quality of Così fan tutte enabled it to withstand numerous contemporary obstacles (1790): the financial restrictions at the Viennese court which compelled Mozart ...

Everybody knows this tale by the Grimm Brothers. The young audience will love the dancing and they'll finish up singing the song. So, off you ...

Find out what it's like to act and sing an opera on stage. Girls and boys from secondary schools will play the leading roles in ...

Verdi was just starting to be Verdi when I due Foscari was first performed. But this was also his period of intensive work, which he ...

No sooner had Prosper Mérimée introduced the myth of the gypsy Carmen to the world in 1845 than she became the epitome of the femme ...

Opium, the title of a poem by Armand Renaud, is also that of this recital dedicated to French songs of the late 19th and early ...

Its mythological and philosophical connotations make The Ring of the Nibelung – of which Siegfried is the third part – a monument of Western culture. ...

Betrayal, lost honour, guilt and expiation; boundless, consuming, illicit passion; the desire for death and oblivion: such are the ingredients of Tristan und Isolde, a ...

At last you'll be able to say you've sung at the Liceu! And you'll witness a live performance by the Liceu Chorus as well. We'll ...

Poor Guillem is being hunted on a charge of treason! Can he save his fellow citizens from disaster? This hymn to freedom, sung by a ...

Though the history of Semperoper Ballett dates back to 1817, the arrival in 2006 of its present artistic director, Aaron Sean Watkin, revolutionized its style ...

If we weep from emotion on hearing it, it's nothing to be ashamed of. That is what Richard Wagner said about Vincenzo Bellini's most famous ...

Noè has to rescue all the animals and get them into the ark. Young and old alike will be fascinated by this visually magical show ...

Aquest recital del contratenor Andreas Scholl, basat en el lieder alemany, s’allunya del seu repertori habitual per endinsar-se en les composicions de Haydn, Mozart, Schubert ...

The final concert of the 52nd edition of the Francesc Viñas International Singing Contest will afford a chance to see the winners of this year's ...

Montsalvatge's Una voce in off and Poulenc's La voix humaine are linked by other factors apart from the influence Poulenc exerted on Montsalvatge. In both ...

The British baritone Simon Keenlyside, remembered at the Liceu for his brilliant performances in Hamlet and Don Giovanni, is back with a recital of German ...

The overture to an oratorio by Schumann inspired by Goethe's Faust, and an Impressionist score by Falla influenced by his friend Rusiñol's landscape paintings, make ...

The history books tell of the fate of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was beheaded for treason after making the mistake of defying her powerful ...

Christmas is the time for reinforcing tradition. And Christmas concerts, at which families gather to enjoy music reminiscent of a well-loved and magical world, are ...

Arabella marked the return of Richard Strauss to comedies with a Viennese backcloth, like his most famous work, The Knight of the Rose. Here we ...

As his symphonic output unfolded, Beethoven's orchestration achieved ever greater plenitude, so that each of the earlier symphonies became a necessary step towards the Ninth, ...

Natalie Dessay is one of the few singers who have also triumphed as an actress, with memorable Liceu interpretations of Manon and Ophélie. Now she ...

Papageno and Tamino have thrilling adventures on their way to save the Princess. With Comediants in charge of the stage direction, the whole family is ...

Music full of vitality, beauty and serene emotion was the prime legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven. He endowed the orchestra with the power to speak ...

Jordi Savall is a man of many skills: performer, pedagogue, researcher and instigator of musical and cultural projects. But what stands out in all these ...

Despite being whistled on the first night, the most famous opera buffa of all time won undying fame for its composer, Gioachino Rossini. He wrote ...

Seen by over than 65 million people worldwide, winner of more than 100 international awards and recently adapted to the big screen (winning three Oscars), ...

Porgy & Bess takes us to the marginal districts of Charleston (South Carolina), where notes of jazz and blues give voice to the characters' souls. ...

Though the musical distance between Puccini and Dallapiccola may seem to make this double bill incongruous, in fact they share the same vision of the ...

Puccini's Il tabarro is the ideal dramatic prologue to Dellapiccola's Canti di prigionia: first the tragic tale of a crime of passion and then the ...

Quadern Obert is a scenic proposal having as a central core a selection of poems that reflect on the fact of artistic creation. Based on ...

The French song ambassador, Charles Aznavour comeback to Barcelona after several years of absence with a unique and fantastic concert in the Gran Teatre del ...

The charity concert for the Raval Solidari Foundation will take place this coming 2nd of June in the Great Lyceum Theatre, with the purpose of ...

In the world of fairytales, nothing is impossible. The imagination gushes forth and unwinds, as if it were an everyday occurrence. For children, avid lovers ...

From his debut in La Gioconda (1970-71), Joan Pons, one of the leading dramatic baritones of our times, always maintained a close relationship with the ...

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations have succeeded in turning serious music, played on period instruments, into a product for general consumption by applying ...

An innocent country girl named Fevroniya saves her town from a Tartar attack: she makes a wish, the wish comes true, and Kitezh becomes invisible. ...

"Two lives to live": such is the title of this recital dedicated to Kurt Weill which was first given at the 2011 Salzburg Festival. After ...

After La Bohème at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and La Traviata at the Staatsoper in Vienna, Angela Gheorghiu and Saimir Pirgu can be considered ...

Winterreise, the finest song cycle in history, has been performed more often than any other. Each of the twenty-four songs, based on poems by Wilhelm ...

Three is a number of special relevance to Tosca: three settings in Rome in the year 1800, three main characters (Tosca, Cavaradossi and Scarpia), and ...

The Swedish soprano, who was named Best Singer of the Year by the German press in 2012, has always left an indelible memory at the ...

The Houseboat, a musical tale inspired by the stories of the Great Flood and Noah’s Ark. A family show in which the music played on ...

Charles Perrault wrote a story entitled The Sleeping Beauty and Petipa turned it into a delicate ballet to a magnificent score by Tchaikovsky. Jean-Christophe Maillot ...

A vibrant and spicy adaptation by Carol López of Mozart’s opera, full of gags and humorous touches, to be a good attraction for the audience ...

The concert of the 51st edition of the «Francesc Viñas» International Singing Contest will offer the opportunity to get to know the winners of this ...

The contestants having passed all the rounds of the contest will compete for the main prizes. After the audition, the verdict of the Jury will ...

Conducted by Josep Pons and surrounded by renowned soloists, the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu made a second season revolves around the ...

Jules Massenet's score makes it perfectly clear: Cendrillon is a fairy tale. Laurent Pelly takes the line of least resistance and creates a show that ...

An arrow, an apple, a boy, the adventure of a brave archer… these are the pictures that immediately spring to the mind of children when ...

This opera seria by Handel is a politically incorrect comedy about how to seize or hang on to power, the tale of a battle between ...

The composition of L’Atlàntida spanned half a century, from approximately 1926, when the first idea surfaced in Falla's mind, to 1976, when Ernesto Halffter signed ...

Edita Gruberova has chosen a programme focussing on works of delicate virtuosity by Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss and Sergey Rachmaninov, a programme that is tailor-made ...

«A countertenor voice – says Jaroussky – leaves no one indifferent. It may startle or move, but it invariably touches our sensibility. A countertenor is ...

To mark the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, the Gran Teatre del Liceu is opening the 2013-2014 season with a great Verdi celebration, divided into four ...

Il barbiere di Siviglia is the most renowned of Rossini’s operas and its well-known melodies, unflagging pace and extroverted humour make it a fundamental part ...

To mark the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, the Gran Teatre del Liceu is opening the 2013-2014 season with a great Verdi celebration, divided into four ...

To mark the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, the Gran Teatre del Liceu is opening the 2013-2014 season with a great Verdi celebration, divided into four ...

To mark the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, the Gran Teatre del Liceu is opening the 2013-2014 season with a great Verdi celebration, divided into four ...

ACT I A house on a hill overlooking Nagasaki Harbor Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton of the US Navy is preparing to go through a form ...

The blossoming of Mozart´s talent By the tender age of sixteen Mozart had already mastered the art of opera seria and gives a show of ...

One of the most famous comedies of Rossini An intricate, fast-moving, light-hearted comic plot and a diabolical tempo: these are the main hallmarks of Rossini´s ...

Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani. A weekend in an Italian mountain village: Giannetta, a young bus ...

The first part of Wagner's great mythological system is the building of Walhalla, the mansion of the gods. The second part – recounted in Die ...

Midway between opera and musical Kurt Weill launched his short but memorable American career with this work, which spans the gap between the 20th-century European ...

Prologue A tavern in Nuremberg. The Muse appears and reveals to the audience that her purpose is to draw Hoffmann´s attention to herself, and to ...

If there is one title that occupies a unique place in Barcelona's nearly two centuries of operatic history, it is unquestionably Bellini's La sonnambula. Its ...

The mystery of Bach metamorphosed into movement Kunst der Fuge, the first major ballet by choreographer Martin Schläpfer, has been a contemporary classic ever since ...

Act 1 A meadow by the edge of a lake Three wood-sprites tease the Water-Goblin, ruler of the lake. Rusalka, the Water-GoblinÃs daughter, tells her ...

The Christmas spirit visits the Liceu The Hungarian choreographer Youri Vámos conjures up the Christmas spirit by blending two quintessentially Christmas tales into a single ...

The American tradition of major classical ballet A perfect marriage: the Anglo-Saxon sense of the spectacular and the exquisite sensibility of 19th century Russian ballet ...