The plastic artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa will assume, as announced a few months ago, the staging of the new Macbeth that the Liceu will premiere next season. Its iconographic universe and strong aesthetic presence will be the setting for this dark and demonic drama by Verdi, starring Luca Salsi and Carlos Álvarez as Macbeth and Sondra Radvanovsky and Anna Pirozzi as Lady Macbeth.
And his will not be the only great production that will mix disciplines: the artist and performer Marina Abramovic will present her show about Maria Callas (in the centenary of the famous soprano) that unites opera, living art, performance and video creation, while the sculptor Antonio López will make his first scenic proposal with that world full of wounds that is Schubert's Winter Journey . And it will be in La Model.
Crossing of disciplines
De Gomar seeks to structure a programming with a clear crossover vocation
The artistic director of the lyric coliseum, Víctor Garcia de Gomar, is determined to turn the opera house into the Liceu de les Arts. Something that is taking greater shape in the 2022-23 season that has been presented this Tuesday. With the leitmotiv of the 'leap into the void', De Gomar seeks to structure a programming with a clear crossover vocation in which "the characters of the titles are faced with decisions that imply a point of no return: Tosca, Manon, Parsifal … ".
Only by accepting risk can we move into the future, says De Gomar. And for this it places the spectator as the protagonist, so that the theater is no longer a prescriber but a connector of experiences and a cultural medium for society. And among the other creators that will bring the theater are the American poet Louise Glück, Nobel Prize 2020, and the Brazilian photographer Flávia Junqueira, who will make one of her installations with balloons in the Liceu room at the beginning of the season.
Staged opera
It will be a season with baroque, belcanto, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, French opera and new creation
But in spite of everything there will be opera, great voices and notable musical and stage directors. There will be belcanto, Verdi, verismo, Wagner, French opera, newly created compositions, new productions -focusing on the creation of the country- and abundant baroque opera.
Calixto Bieito on a visit to Barcelona, among the paintings of Casas de la Rotonda del Cercle del Liceu
And especially unusual and fabulous will be the tandem that will form Calixto Bieito to the stage direction and Jordi Savall to the musical in this L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi, whose assembly premiered four years ago in Zurich, becoming one of the most acclaimed shows of the last seasons. Julie Fuchs is the sensual Poppea who goes from ambitious courtesan to being decorated empress. She is supported by voices such as David Hansne (Nerone), Magdalena Kozená (Ottavia) or Xavier Sabata (Ottone).
The belcanto
Donizetti's 'Don Pasquale' will open the course in the successful production of Damiano Michieletto and a cast of national voices
The course will open with Donizetti's Don Pasquale in the successful production of Damiano Michieletto and the voices of notable Spanish singers, Carlos Chausson, Xabier Anduaga and Sara Blanch. The latter will alternate in the second cast with Serena Sáenz, another of the young Catalan sopranos with the greatest future.
'Il trovatore' by Verdi according to Àlex Ollé, a montage that premiered in 2018 in Amsterdam
Josep Pons will take the baton in this bel canto title –a terrain little explored by the musical director of the Liceu– and also in Macbeth and Il trovatore by Verdi. The latter with a stage production by Àlex Ollé that is inspired by the power games and trench battle of the First World War. This was a commission from the Paris Opera and the Amsterdam Opera that the furero premiered more than five years ago and that can finally be seen in Barcelona. With singers like Saioa Hernández or Vittorio Grigolo.
Finally in Barcelona
Àlex Ollé will show his montage of 'Il trovatore' that he premiered in Amsterdam, inspired by the Second World War
The theater rescues Wagner's Parsifal that Claus Guth once mounted in Barcelona for a luxurious cast that includes Nikolai Schukoff, Elena Pankratova, René Pape, Matthias Goerne and Evgeny Nikitin. A title that will also be directed by Pons. But there will be other guest masters in the Pit of the Liceu, and one of them will be Marc Minkowski, with Massanet's Manon.
Nadine Sierra in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' with Javier Camarena at the Liceu
Javier Camarena and Nadine Sierra, who already showed themselves as a couple at the Liceu last season, with Lucia di Lammermoor, are the protagonist couple of Manon, a paradigmatic title of the French repertoire and a story that, de Gomar recalls, "speaks to us from provocation and two teenagers who jump into the void".
Great voices
Javier Camarena and Nadine Sierra will be a couple again at the Liceu starring in 'Manon' by Massenet
One of the highlights of the season will come from the hand of Puccini: Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi), the sum of three independent operas united in one piece of music. That bet disembarks at the Liceu with a feminine look, both on the part of the baton, Susanna Mälkki, and on the part of the production, of the Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich, which signs Lotte de Beer.And in the extraordinary voices of the Norwegian Lise Davidsen, the Albanian Ermonela Jaho or the Italian Ambrogio Maestri.
And also Puccini will be the new Tosca that co-produces the Liceu with La Monnaie de Bruselas and under the gaze of Rafael R. Villalobos a la reggia, which makes a parallel with Pierre Paolo Passolini.It will star Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna.
New assignment
Raquel García-Tomás will be the second woman to premiere an absolute work in the 175 years of history: 'Alexina B', about an intersex
And the composer Raquel García-Tomás will be the second woman to premiere an absolute work in the 175-year history of the Gran Teatre, after Matilde Salvador, who made Vinatea in 1974.He will do it with a story about an intersex person who fights for identity but in his solitude ends up committing suicide. Alexina B., which is the title, has a libretto by Irène Gayraud inspired by the story of Adélaïde Herculine Barbin, born in France in 1838. The staging will be by a close collaborator of the composer, such as Marta Pazos.
There are a total of nine operas staged, although the season has 13 titles, plus 3 dance titles, 14 concerts and recitals and 10 LiceuAprèn shows. In total, 40 titles with 204 functions. And there will be operas in concert that represent a "leap into the void into mythology": René Jacobs conducts Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Mark Minkovski also conducts Alcina with his Musiciens du Louvre.
Union of opera and dance
William Christie to music and Blanca Li to choreography offer this story of betrayal that is 'Dido & Aeneas' by Purcell
In addition, the Liceu receives a show halfway between dance and opera… A Dido & Aeneas by Purcell with William Christie directing his formation Les Arts Flourissants and Blanca Li reinterpreting from the choreography this story about the power of feelings and betrayal.
It is not the only thing that the Liceu dance programs. Akram Khan, who will soon see the long-awaited Giselle by the English National Ballet, returns with Jungle Book reimagined, about Kipling's Jungle Book . A reflection on climate change and the interdependence of humanity with nature and the animal kingdom.
'Coppél-i.A.', by the Ballets de Monte Carlo
And finally, the Ballets of Monte Carlo land with their experimental Coppél-i.A., that is, the famous romantic piece about automata from the story of E.T.A Hoffmann, but here taken to the society of artificial intelligence.
As this 2022 will continue to be the 175th anniversary of the Liceu, the theater will become a temple of great voices with evenings starring Piotr Beczala and Sondra Radvanovsky, Cecilia Bartoli, Sara Blanch and Xabier Anduaga. Although one of the surprising recitals will be the one that brings together three generations of Wagnerian sopranos: Waltraud Meier, Iréne Theorin and Lise Davidsen… Fidelio or Elektra will be heard.
Orchestra Exchange
Gustavo Dudamel will travel with the Paris Opera Orchestra to the Liceu to offer Mahler's Novena
And in the symphonic cycle, Gustavo Dudamel, who has just won a Grammy, will make a visit to Barcelona at the beginning of the season recovering that orchestral exchange with the Paris Opera and the Simfònica del Liceu that had to be postponed because of the pandemic. The Venezuelan conductor and his now Parisian orchestra will be equipped with Mahler's Novena, just at the same time that Josep Pons begins the integral of the symphonies of this composer with his Liceu orchestra, interpreting this course the 3rd and 6th. Then the formation will travel to Paris to offer Bartók's Bluebeard Castle with soprano Iréne Theorin and tenor Bryn Terfel.
Gustavo Dudamel
On the other hand, the Liceu puts the project on track (Òh!) pear piloted by Àlex Ollé, as resident artist of the theater. This collaboration with the Regidoria de Turisme i Indústries Creatives del Ayuntament de Barcelona, the Disseny Hub and the city's design schools aims to strengthen learning and practice, so that teams of young people will be formed to design 30-minute operas that talk about current affairs. It is, says De Gomar, the leap into the void of the creators of the future.
Live viewings
The digital season of Liceu-Live will start, with 'Il trovatore', 'Il trittico', 'Tosca', 'Macbeth' and 'Manon'
As far as affordable prices are concerned, the LiceuUnder35 continues to propose functions at 20 euros for young people. They will be Il trovatore, Tosca, Alesina B. and Dido & Aeneas. It will also start the digital season of Liceu-Live, with live views and edited version. The theater seeks both the internationalization and accessibility of opera throughout the territory. This season 22-23 will pass Il trovatore, Il trittico, Tosca, Macbeth and Manon. And on the other hand, 100% flexible subscriptions are invented, which allows unlimited changes in titles and dates.
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