For the second consecutive year, the LiceuApropa social programme is taking part in the Calidoscopi Cultural, the cycle of cultural activities organised by the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. This year, Calidoscopi becomes a community opera festival and invites people to imagine opera beyond the spaces that have historically defined it.
Between 7 May and 7 June, the district’s seven neighbourhoods will host workshops, performance actions and collective creation processes around opera. The Liceu is collaborating in several of these activities, including a film series featuring various titles from LiceuOpera+, the lecture “Opera and technology: new ways of imagining the stage”, and the “Opera Lab: Creating our libretto”, led by Blanca Bardagil, dramaturge of La rosa dels set pètals. You can consult the full programme below.
Visit by young people from the Second Chance School of Navas (Sant Andreu) within the Opera Prima programme.
The crafts of opera
Within the framework of the Liceu’s community opera line, Opera Prima, students from the Second Chance School of Navas (Sant Andreu) have visited us to discover everything that happens behind the scenes of an opera house—the unseen jobs that are essential for the curtain to rise. Guided by Marc Comas, Head of the Technical Office and Logistics Service, and Maria de Frutos, Stage Manager, they have gained first-hand knowledge of the technical teams that make each performance possible and have highlighted the essential role they play.
New episode of La Coctelera podcast
A few weeks ago, the CIO team of La Coctelera, a collaborator of Opera Prima, attended the meeting of the creators of the posters for La gata perduda and La rosa dels set pètals, and interviewed the artists from the Art-Therapy Association Artenea who took part in it. They also spoke with the artist Rebeka Elizegui, who collaborated in the creative process. You can listen to the episode below.
The co-creation process of the AMPLIFY immersive experience continues
In the previous newsletter, we explained that the first volumetric recording of the immersive experience of the AMPLIFY project had taken place, featuring testimonies from Maribel Ferrándiz and Àngels Rabadà, former inmates of the women’s prison at Trinitat Vella, and the artistic direction of LabOriosa. In the video below, you can see how memory, technology and stage creation come together in this process to preserve silenced voices and transform them into a shared artistic experience.
