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March 20th, 2019
Young and talented pianists from all over the world gather in Barcelona for the 65th edition of the Maria Canals International Music Competition
- A total of 88 young and talented pianists from 33 different countries will take part in the 65th Maria Canals Competition, between March 23rd and April 4th, 2019.
- The Competition will be held at the Palau de la Música Catalana and will consist of two preliminary rounds, a semi-final and a final with orchestra.
- Music and spring are the unifying thread of this year’s Maria Canals International Music Competition, which also puts together a great number of educational, social and informative activities within the framework of the OFF Competition.
- This year’s new image has been devised and will be presented by visual artist Tatiana Blanqué.
- As a new project, piano works will be commissioned to Catalan composers, and the contestants will add such works to their own repertoire.
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Press Release THE LICEU CELEBRATES THE ‘20 YEARS’ SEASON The artistic project looks to the future and remembers the past with great titles, great voices and the opening of five new productions, three of them led by the Liceu. New productions of Franc Aleu’s Turandot, which opens the season, Lohengrin from Katharina Wagner and Il barbiere de Siviglia from Josef Ernst Köpplinger will be performed for the first time in the Liceu. Doña Francisquita, staged by Lluís Pasqual and Alcione, with musical direction from Jordi Savall, are two new co-productions from the Teatro de la Zarzuela and the Opéra Comique de Paris, respectively.
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PRESS RELEASE
Friday 28th September
Piano for everyone
The OFF Maria Canals Barcelona Competition will schedule more than 800 educational and social activities and will place 150 grand pianos in public spaces for the 2018/19 season
- For the 2018/19 season, the OFF Competition schedules more than 800 educational, social and informative activities in association with over 100 public and private entities.
- Catalan artist Paula Valls, who has participated in the OFF Competition activities, closed the event with the piece Monsters
- Up to 330,000 people will enjoy the more than 150 pianos stationed on the streets, and 6,000 music and general education students will benefit from the program.
- The OFF Competition includes: Maria Canals “Porta Cua”, Can you play?, the social project It’s my turn! and Learning with Maria Canals.
- The projects It’s my turn! and Maria Canals “Porta Cua” have already been introduced in several cities in Spain and are jointly organized with the Jesús Serra Foundation.
Today has been presented at the press conference the OFF Competition Maria Canals Barcelona, which celebrates its 10th anniversary the 2018/19 season. The journalists and guests have been able to enjoy a tour that has visited the most emblematic places where the OFF Competition has been present in the city such as: Via Laietana, Plaça Catalunya, Passeig de Gràcia, Passatge Maria Canals, the home of Maria Canals, Academia Ars Nova, Sagrada Família, Avinguda Diagonal, Centre Cívic Sant Martí, Badalona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Parc de la Trinitat, Ciutat Meridiana, Parc de la Guineueta, Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron, Plaça Pastrana, Casal Font d’en Fargas until reaching the Mirador dels Somnis of Tibidabo.
In the park there have been speeches by Mariona Carulla, president of Maria Canals Barcelona Competition Association and Jordi Vivancos, general manager of Maria Canals Barcelona Competition Association, and performances by Jorge Nava, Catalan prizewinner of the Maria Canals Competition, Athena, student with a scholarship from the OFF Competition and Francesc Busquets, amateur pianist, to end with the artist Paula Valls, who has played her own work Monsters.
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Press release · NEW SEASON 2018/19
THE VOICE OF LICEU
SEASON PROGRAMME
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A wide variety of styles embracing pieces from the 18th through the 21st century featuring the world première of L’enigma di Lea by Benet Casablancas, with stage direction by Carme Portaceli and musical direction Josep Pons.
A new season with strong female roles in the operatic titles and 3 leading female stage directors -Portaceli, de Beer and Miskimmon- with new and inventive performances on stage.
Liceu continues to be a venue for international great voices with Camarena, Damrau, Radvanovsky, Theorin, Beczala, DiDonato, Yende, Buratto, Schrott, Haroutounian, Bakanova, etc. as well as great Catalan and Spanish singers such as Álvarez, Albelo, Arteta, Sabata, Moreno, Beaumont, de León, Blanch, and Calvo, among others.
A new co-production to inaugurate the season with Bellini's I Puritani with stage direction by Annilese Miskimmon and musical direction by Christopher Franklin
Wagner's inspiring spirit guides the new "Chamber Music at Liceu" project led by Josep Pons featuring the Theatre's Chorus and Orchestra. The Orchestra's symphonic concerts also evoke the paths forged by the German composer.
Large formations and technology will also be present in the new season with Ponchielli's La Gioconda, featuring 238 artists on the stage and Händel's Rodelinda, with stage direction by Claus Guth, large format projections and a mobile building in the set design.
The season boasts a remarkable combination of classic titles and breakthrough projects. Les pêcheurs de perles returns to Liceu after 54 years with a performance featuring a reality show approach.
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Press release
THE BRITISH TENOR FREDDIE DE TOMMASO WINS THE 55TH TENOR VIÑAS INTERNATIONAL SINGING CONTEST
Second prize goes to the Spanish soprano Leonor Bonilla while the South Korean tenor Sehoon Moon earns third prize, along with the public prize
Liceu is aiming to provide an ever more expansive international reach to the contest and will offer a live streaming broadcast of the Final Concert tomorrow, Sunday, 21 January, direct from the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Barcelona, January 2018
The British tenor Freddie de Tommaso has earned the first prize of the 55th “Tenor Viñas” International Singing Contest, in the Final held yesterday in the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Second prize has been awarded to the soprano Leonor Bonilla, while third prize goes to Sehoon Moon, from South Korea. The rest of the official prizes have been awarded to the French soprano Anaïs Constans (fourth prize), the South Korean counter-tenor Jungkwon Jang (fifth prize) and the baritone Andrew Manea from the United States (sixth prize).
Sixteen singers participated in the Final of this year's Tenor Viñas contest out of a total of 515, representing 60 countries. The artists have passed through preliminary auditions in London, New York, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Beijing, San Francisco, Moscow and Madrid.
An international jury presided by the artistic director of Liceu, Christina Scheppelmann, has been in charge of selecting the winners from among all the finalists. The jury members form part of the world's leading opera theatres such as Russia's Bolshoi Theatre, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, New York's Metropolitan Opera House and l'Opéra National de París among others.
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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
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 A NEW SEASON WITH GREAT VOICES
The greatest voices of opera appearing in 13 titles by 10 composers affirm the Liceu as a major international opera house: Kaufmann, Hvorostovsky, Radvanovsky, Kunde, Domingo, Beczala, Zajick, Theorin, Vinke, Salsi, Pratt, Garifullina, Pirgu, Álvarez, Puértolas, de León, Metlova, Siri, Abdrazakov, and many more.
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Picture by Andrey Stoycher
The young American baritone John Chest is going to perform Papageno in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart in Padua this week. Winner of prestigious awards and gifted with any interesting voice, this talented Artist answered very friendly to our questions.
Some of the most important music magazines have described your voice as ‘rich’, ‘clear’, ‘agile’, but how would YOU describe it?
Oh wow! Those are nice words. I guess the most important thing for me is that my voice is “reliable." It’s there when I need it. And I would say “consistent” too. I usually know what I’m going to get when I open my mouth to sing! Then beyond that, of course, beauty is what I always strive for, but I won’t go so far as to say that about myself...
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Spielzeitbeginn am Stadttheater Klagenfurt mit Salome, Maria Stuart
und der Langen Nacht der kurzen Musik.
Die Spielzeit 2016/2017 wird am 15. September 2016 mit Richard Strauss‘ Oper Salome unter der musikalischen Leitung
von Chefdirigent Alexander Soddy eröffnet. Michael Sturminger inszeniert diesen bahnbrechenden Einakter, bei dem
unerfüllte sexuelle Begierden zu einer Entfesselung von Gewalt und zu einer unheilvollen Verquickung von Eros und
Thanatos führen. Die Titelrolle singt Anna Gabler, die Partie des Jochanaan übernimmt Michael Kupfer-Radecky.
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Intendant Florian Scholzund die Kaufmännische Geschäftsführende Direktorin Iris Dönicke haben heute das Programm der Spielzeit 2016/2017 im Stadttheater Klagenfurt vorgestellt. Elf Premieren auf der großen Bühne, sechs Statt-Theater Veranstaltungen, Konzerte des Kärntner
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