Benvingut Jonathan Nott

Pau Casals's legacy through the baton of Jonathan Nott.

This show is a memorial tribute to Pau Casals, a key figure of the cello in the 20th century, conducted by Jonathan Nott at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The production revives Casals not only as a performer, but as an ethical voice of universal reach: a musician who, exiled out of loyalty to his principles, understood musical practice as an act of responsibility capable of preserving human dignity in the darkest periods.

Jonathan Nott's direction stands out for its intellectual clarity and expressive intensity. His approach seeks rigour, depth and constant attention to the meaning of each work, and presents music not as a monument, but as a living experience, charged with memory and with a challenge to the present.

The performance is part of a season built around the tension between the sacred and the sacrilegious. Within that framework, the tribute holds that what is truly sacred is that which demands responsibility, in a friction between faith and dissent, between ritual and commitment, where music honours memory and questions the present.