Celebrar el Lliure

Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Teatre Lliure at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu conducted by Josep Pons and a programme combining music and voice.

This show marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Teatre Lliure and presents culture as a public service, a space for encounter and freedom. The proposal evokes the spirit of the now-defunct Orquestra del Teatre Lliure and the programmes it performed, with the music performed by the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu under the direction of Josep Pons.

The programme includes the orchestral suite from Kurt Weill's opera Ascens i caiguda de la ciutat de Mahagonny and El amor brujo in its 1925 version by Manuel de Falla. On stage perform the flamenco singer Maria Toledo, the soprano Marcelina Román, the baritone Carles Pachon and the actress Muntsa Alcañiz.

The celebration is inspired by the thinking of Fabià Puigserver, who conceived the stage as a shared territory, open to all forms of creation. It is, first and foremost, a tribute to the career of the Teatre Lliure, presented at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, an opera house on La Rambla that regularly hosts opera performances and other musical productions.