The great Liceu Theater celebrates its 175th anniversary and TV-3 and Catalunya Radio They have wanted to celebrate it in a big way, with programs that talk about this institution, avoiding the strict documentary format. And from there the programs have started ‘Debut’which premieres on thursday 3 November (22.45) in TV-3and ‘Stories of the Liceu‘, which arrives Monday, 7 (22.15) to The 33. The radio version has already been broadcasting since September 10 Saturdays, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m..
‘Opera prima’ is a ‘docu-reality’ that shows how a collaborative project promoted by the Liceu was carried out four years ago to premiere an opera, ‘The cat loses’ with 300 neighbors from 11 choirs from the Raval neighbourhood. “This is how we understand the Liceu of the 20th century!”, says Valentí Oviedo, general director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, who wants to let the institution live behind the back of the neighbourhood. The programme, directed by Pol Leftresponsible for turning this madness into a series of four chapters, shows the key moments in the construction of this opera made about the Raval neighborhood with people from the Raval, starting from the libretto by playwright Victoria Szpunberg and the musician’s score Arnau Tordera. “I saw a lot of experiential stories from a neighborhood that didn’t believe this Liceu,” says Izquierdo, who assures that they wanted to make a “very cinematographic” space.
So the cameras will enter a world unknown to the viewer as they are rehearsals of professional singerss, the wardrobe tests and the tricks that the ‘amateurs’ must use to memorize the sheet music of such a complex work. Likewise, there will be moments of doubt as to whether all those efforts will bear fruit and will lead to the dream performance of ‘La gata perduda’. “Because in the middle of all this there was a pandemic & rdquor ;, recalls Cristian Trepat, director of Continguts i Programació of TV-3.
the stories of the theater
The space of El 33 ‘Històries del Liceu’, Nor will it be a historical treatise on the 175 years of this institution, since it does not narrate the history, in the singular, of the theater but rather the small stories of the people who work in it, its operation day by day “Their experiences, emotions and anecdotes”, as explained by its director, Àlex Robles. It will also show what happens Behind the scenes before and after the show.
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Directed by Robles and presented by Albert Galceran (the same as the previous radio version of Catalunya Ràdio), the space, which is co-produced by TVC, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and RTVEhas four chapters (the Liceu before its current location, the great voices, the public and the owners and the theater today) and a specialwhich started from an interview with Josep Carreras, tenor who debuted and developed a large part of his prolific career at the Liceu, which “was going to be three or four minutes of TV”, as Galceran explains, and due to his interest he generated a fifth chapter of 50. It will also have the expert and didactic vision of the journalist Enric Calpena and the contribution of people related to theater such as Àlex Ollé, Josep Pons and Marta Mathéu, among others.
On the radio since September
The ‘Històries del Liceu’ of Catalunya Radio, which is already halfway through the issuance of its 16 chapters (next Saturday the eighth is offered), reviews the most outstanding events of the life trajectory of the Liceu and discover the large number of people who have made it possible for it to reach our days. Presented and directed by Galceranwith scripts by a collaborator of the station, the professor, critic and doctor in Art History James Radigales —who is also in charge of the program of El 33–, the space also has the voices of Josep Carreras and Enric Calpena, and the participation of Narcis Serra, Lluis Permanyer and Serena Sàenz, among others.