Maestro Josep Pons will conduct the traditional UN concert on 9 December with an excellent musical repertoire including pieces by Beethoven, Strauss and Händel.
Organised by the ONUART Foundation and produced by MEDIAPRO, the concert is dedicated to peace among peoples and will pay homage to the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
The link between the United Nations and the Liceu goes back to Maestro Pau Casals, who was a cellist at the Liceu and composed the UN’s hymn as a universal symbol of peace.
Barcelona, 22 November 2017
On 9 December, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Josep Pons, will perform the Concert for Peace and Human Rights organised by the ONUART Foundation and produced by Mediapro, which will broadcast it around the world from the United Nations. For the fourth year in a row, the concert will be performed in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room at the United Nations under the great dome created by Miquel Barceló, which was conceived as a metaphor for what the United Nations represents.
The relationship giving rise to this event is



