Elisir d'amore agridulce en el Liceu con la cancelación de Camarena

By Sheila Isla Zarabozo, 23 November 2025

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Reviewed at Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona on 22 November 2025

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Diego Matheuz, Conductor

Mario Gas, Director

Marcelo Grande, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Quico Guitérrez, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

Coro del Gran Teatre del Liceu

Serena Sáenz, Adina

Filipe Manu, Nemorino

Huw Montague Rendall, Belcore

Ambrogio Maestri, Dulcamara

Anna Farrés, Giannetta

Xavier Palà, Assistant conductor

The starry trio of Davidsen-Hilley-Mälkki saves Tristan und Isolde

Maria Sánchez, 12th January

A highly unbalanced premiere, its opportunity to become one of the Liceu's historic productions prevented by the contrast between dramaturgy and music.

****1

Àlex Ollé's La bohème gets an unfair reception at the Liceu

Maria Sánchez, 14th June

Contrasting sensations at the Liceu, where the audience punished a production of La bohème with boos and gave rapturous applause to a cast that performed at half throttle.

*****

Aleu's video brilliance powers a dystopian Liceu Turandot

David Karlin, 8th October

Fine musical performances blend with staggering video artistry in Aleu's spectacular science-fiction setting.

*****

Thomas’ Hamlet in concert at the Liceu

John Marten Barnard, 10th March

Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet in concert in the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona is enthusiastically conducted by Daniel Oren.

****1

Vocal sparkle but a dull staging in the Liceu's Puritani

John Marten Barnard, 11th October

I puritani returns to Barcelona’s Liceu with Annilese Miskimmon’s production. Javier Camerena and Pretty Yende lead the inauguration of the season with a fine example of romantic bel canto.

****1

A forlorn Manon Lescaut arrives in Barcelona

John Marten Barnard, 7th June

Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu stages Puccini’s first great success as an operatic composer, Manon Lescaut with the stage direction of Davide Livermore.

***11

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Sheila Isla Zarabozo

Nacida en Asturias, a los trece años ya tenía claro que quería ser musicóloga, en el año 2015 comenzó sus estudios en la Universidad de Oviedo. Posteriormente, se mudaría a Barcelona donde cursó el Máster de Música como arte Interdisciplinar (Universitat de Barcelona / ESMUC / Universitat Rovira i Virgili), a través del cual hizo unas prácticas en el archivo de la Banda Municipal de Barcelona, donde pudo acercarse a una formación sinfónica profesional y al mundo de la documentación musical.

Elisir d'amore agridulce en el Liceu con la cancelación de Javier Camarena