The Metropolitan Opera in New York has been able to lower the average age of its audience by programming contemporary operas and living composers. This has also allowed them to improve their attendance figures. The Metropolitan Opera is trying the same Barcelona High School With the youth program under 35 years of age for three years Oh! Pera Course With newly created 30 minute pieces.
The three mini-operas of this edition will be presented this weekend. The first is “Contradictions of the Night”, composed by Igualadine Montserrat Lado Gambinformed between London and ESMUC and operated by electroacoustics. Anoienca has created a musical score for countertenor, soprano, oboe, cello, percussion and electronics.
The book is written by Poet and translator Marty Sales It is a picture of a night on the Ramblas in Barcelona, and at the same time a love story between two boys. There is a “shadow longer than the soul of the great city” and a “bolt of lightning” that “tears the sky and deafening thunder” that already appears in his long poem of eight stanzas. Clouds (Mali Herbs, 2016).
A sensitive story with movement, dance, music, spoken poetry and interpretation. According to Lado, his proposal evokes “The Sound of the Underground Aquifer in Barcelona”For sales, it’s a “wild ride,” as Juan Viñoly puts it.
Lyrical Closure
The three operas were performed nearby, and were distributed in three spaces of the Liceu: the room dedicated to Scenographer Mestres Cabanis from ManrisThe main stage box and foyer. Students from Barcelona’s main art and design schools participated in lighting, costume and scenography design, in a project coordinated by One of the founders of Fura dels Baus, Alex Ollé.
a Blue like orange It tells in metaphors the story of Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who ended up spending more than twice the planned time in space and became the last inhabitant of a country that had disappeared. The music is played by one instrument from each orchestra family: piano/keyboard, violin, trumpet and clarinet and is the work of Guillem Palomar.
AI becomes a character
a Eliza There is a dialogue with artificial intelligence, in a thick text written by Bao Miro Sung by soprano and tenor accompanied by a string quartet. Small watermarks Ferran Croixentwhich turns the result into a loop that starts while people are sitting and continues to replay.
Contemporary opera has tripled in size, looking for its own space and audience. Performances continue today and Sunday at the Liceu de Barcelona. Tickets are sold out.
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