(Credit: LA Opera official website) The Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has announced a cast change for Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The Spanish company announced that tenor Murat Karahan will no longer sing the title role and will be replaced by Arturo Chacón-Cruz who will make his house debut. Chacón-Cruz is well known for his Italian roles and he {…}
The Gran Teatre del Liceu is set to offer a concert to plants. Under the title “Concierto para el bioceno,” the Barcelona theater will perform a concert to 2,292 plants, which will be placed throughout the theater. The concert will be held on June 22, a day after the state of emergency in Spain is lifted. The project is a {…}
El Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y la Música has initiated a process that aims to establish a timetable for the reopening of theaters throughout Spain. In an official press release, the organization, which is responsible for such organizations as the Auditoria National and the Teatro de la Zarzuela, stated that it was engaged in two separate conversations relating {…}
Soprano Saioa Hernandez will sing the role of “La Gioconda” in tonight’s performance at the Gran Teatro del Liceu. The Liceu announced that Iréne Theorin is indisposed and therefore will not perform the title role. As a result, Hernandez will take on the role in a performance, which is scheduled to be broadcast live in cinemas. Hernandez made her Liceu {…}
The Barcelona Cathedral, in collaboration with the Gran Teatre del Liceu, is set to offer a funeral service for the late Montserrat Caballé. The service, organized by her family, will be held on Nov. 17, 2018 and will include Verdi’s Requiem with Ainhoa Arteta, Maite Beaumont, Nikolai Schukoff and Alexander Vinogradov as the soloists. The service will be free of {…}
Any time an opera production begins with non-textual lines, especially in a language different to the libretto, alarm bells ring louder the tubular Grail chimes in “Parsifal.” Such was the case in Davide Livermore’s new staging of “Manon Lescaut” for the Gran Teatre del Liceu which had already been seen in co-production with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Instead of {…}