A concert by Chinese pianist Yuja Wang at the Carmel Church put the finishing touches on the summer edition of the Peralada Festival on Sunday, which ended with a total of 3,900 spectators and an average occupancy of 95% (12 of the 14 shows that made up the program were sold out). The Empordà Show is already working on a new edition of the Easter Festival, which will be celebrated for the third year, and has announced the premiere, on April 18, of the Holy Week Responsories Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae, a work for mixed a cappella choir. The Barcelona composer Bernat Vivancos.
The artistic director of the Peralada Festival, Oriol Águila, considered that the balance of this 38th edition could only be considered completely satisfactory: “We have remained faithful to our commitment to excellence, new creativity and emerging talents from home, with the intention of giving creators carte blanche to work,” he pointed out in a statement issued by the organization.
Among the highlights seen this summer at the Peralada, the festival’s artistic direction mentions concerts by tenors Piotr Beczała and Ismael Jordi and sopranos Anna Peruzzi, Sarah Blanche and Sonya Yoncheva, all with programmes designed expressly in the Empordà show that is not usually brought to large theatres and halls.
It should also be noted that the premiere of the chamber opera Don Juan is not present. Sobre lo que olvidamos y lo que Permanente, a piece composed by the young Helena Cánovas (Tuna, 1994), with a libretto by Alberto Iglesias, musical direction by Joana Sierralta and stage direction by Bárbara Lloch, as well as the reloaded Renaissance concert, in charge of the Palau de la Música Catalana chamber choir directed by Julia Cesse, and folkloric dance performances by the Acosta Danza company, and Terra llaurada by Alex Martínez.
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The Carmelite Church and the Mirador del Castille were, once again, the main stages of a festival where proximity is a fundamental element. “These proximity spaces that we are currently using make it possible to generate contact between artists and the public, triggering new dynamics and allowing the public to live unique artistic experiences,” points out Oriol Águila.
In addition to cancelling preparations for the Easter edition, the festival team accepted an invitation from the prestigious Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland to bring their production, at the end of July, of the five-act baroque semi-opera The Fairy Queen , directed by Henry Purcell, which premiered at Peralada in the summer of 2022.
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