Tarda de musicals

Classical music concert at Sala 1 Pau Casals in Barcelona, conducted by Sergi Cuenca, featuring excerpts from musicals and operatic works by Bernstein, Gershwin, Sondheim, Lloyd Webber and other composers.

A programme devoted to musical theatre, conducted by Sergi Cuenca, with the participation of Ana San Martín and Daniel Anglès. The selection traces works by American and European authors: it opens with the overture to the operetta Candide, by Leonard Bernstein, an American composer, pianist and conductor born in 1918, and also includes excerpts from West Side Story by the same author.

The repertoire includes 'Summertime' by George Gershwin, taken from Porgy and Bess, and 'Some enchanted evening' by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, from South Pacific. Also featured are the overture to The Music Man by Meredith Wilson, selections from My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe, and from El fantasma de la ópera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, alongside 'Send in the clowns' by Stephen Sondheim, from A Little Night Music.

The programme concludes with the entr'acte from Sunset Boulevard by Lloyd Webber, a selection from Notre-Dame de Paris by Richard Cocciante, and numbers from Wicked by Stephen Schwartz. Sala 1 Pau Casals hosts concerts and shows in Barcelona.