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An innovative angle on a familiar ballet, Benjamin Pech's production brings some novel ideas to fore.

I felt that the choreography as performed by these excellent dancers was enough to carry the story without such excessive use of text and animation

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto started out naively impetuous, quick, breathless as if on the way to an assignation

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.

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

It's a game of two halves in Barcelona from Kazushi Ono and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.

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.

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. 

The Gran Teatre del Liceu’s orchestra performs challenging works by Strauss under resident conductor Josep Pons.

A spectacular cast makes this Andrea Chénier the great event of the Liceu's opera season.

This season, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC) is turning its eyes towards Bach, whilst at the same time programming the usual great symphonic repertoire, as well as contemporary composers. Here, Kazushi Ono gathered a Bach concerto (transcribed for violin), a rarely-performed work by Schumann and Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra.

The 2011 Lyon production, with an excellent orchestral and vocal performance, brings an austerely moonlit version of Tristan und Isolde to Barcelona.

A dark minimalist inspiration for Vincent Boussard’s co-production of the Boston version of Un ballo in maschera, returning to the Gran Teatre del Liceu after 16 years.

The bonds between Kazushi Ono and the OBC musicians are slowly improving.

Emilio Sagi’s brightly lit but simplistic staging of Il viaggio a Reims moves the action from northern France to a sunny spa hotel in warmer climes.

The Gran Teatre del Liceu's revival of a shortened Merry Widow lacking some of the essence of this highly popular operetta.

A visually stunning production with a fine cast to match. 

The Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu has made a remarkable evolution during recent years under Josep Pons' direction. 

Temirkanov avoided any useless gesture, while Leticia Moreno explored all the pain, sadness and violence of Shostakovich’s Concerto

Philipp Stölzl's production of Der fliegende Holländer, which places the action within a giant frame in a library, arrives at The Liceu.

Clemens Flick (harpsichord) and Christoph Huntgeburth (flute) gave an impressive performance as soloists, while the orchestra wasn’t able to play as well as expected.

Bach presented in various orchestral transcriptions made for a powerful, entertaining evening in Barcelona. 

Jacobs has found in the excellent musicians of this orchestra the perfect laboratory to explore his conception of Mozart.

An outstanding concert, with impressive performers that love to play together and had lots of time to rehearse

In Barcelona, Gustavo Dudamel and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela continued their Beethoven cycle with performances of the Fifth and Sixth. 

Younger generations have still a lot to learn from the 76-year old singer

Having received excellent reviews for his Mahler, Verdi, Wagner and Shostakovich, Pablo Heras-Casado decided to programme a composer he has loved since his youth: Claudio Monteverdi. 

Beczała's "Pourquoi me réveiller" stops the show in Willy Decker's thoughtful Werther at the Liceu, expertly conducted by Alain Altinoglu.

Gergiev and the Mariinsky excel in Act III of Tristan und Isolde with the help of star singing from Vekua, Westbroek and Nikitin; George Li shows promise in Liszt.

Kavakos and Pace give us a textbook lesson in perfect balance between violin and piano as they trade the melody in Beethoven sonatas.

A warm and charming Coppélia performed by Julio Bocca's excellent young Uruguayan company.   

At a time of love and literature in fairest Barcelona, the scene was laid at the Liceu for interpretations by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Berlioz and Bernstein of Shakespeare's timeless tale.

Barcelona's L'Auditori was taken on a journey of contrasts, via Parra and Prokofiev, that unsettled as much as it delighted. 

Truly sublime playing and singing from the massed forces in Barcelona's L'Auditori perfectly showcased Mahler's genius ability to evoke whole worlds.

A solidly brazen night from the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev that ultimately lacked sincerity and depth thanks to its quick-fire delivery.

Seamless playing and magical moments from the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya in a youthful programme meant that a slight lack of flair and grit felt even more amiss.

The fortunate audience of Barcelona's Liceu has much to enjoy a wonderfully performance of Arabella conceived as an intimate drama of human psychology.

Claude Debussy’s only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, calls for a spring in a forest, scenes in a palace, a well in a park and a scene in the palace vaults. Ever since its premiere in 1902, it has been a difficult work to stage, and indeed to appreciate. Its complex symbolism, impressionistic music and lack of any memorable melodies were not a good recipe for a runaway hit.

L'Auditori de Barcelona comienza su nueva temporada con un concierto integrado por obras de Terradellas, Berlioz y Beethoven y un mensaje de paz.

La Orquestra Sinfónica del Liceu contó con un reparto y una dirección en la que brilló, aunando ritmos y estilos en una noche más musical que nunca.

Las voces para esta ópera fantástica de Dvořák serán recordadas en el Liceu; un plantel internacional en el que no faltó la excelencia y una dirección magistral del gran Pons.

La Franz Schubert Filharmonia ofreció la quinta sinfonía de Beethoven en una versión de tiempos moderados que sirvió de colofón a una vibrante interpretación de la violinista Lisa Batiashvili.

Las bandas sonoras se convierten en las protagonistas de un espectáculo que celebra la escritura cinematográfica como parte en la historia de la música.

El pianista nórdico hizo entrega al público barcelonés de una lectura única, en la que sencillez y vitalidad pivotaban en el ejercicio, previo a la obra principal de la noche.

El planteamiento escenográfico de Bieito se queda entre dos aguas –con regalo nostálgico para el público liceista incluido– logrando un vacío lumínico y exuberante sin condición.

Carlos Miguel Prieto se puso al frente de la Franz Schubert Filharmonia en una lectura sobria y definida en Beethoven que antecedió a la interpretación más colorista, aun ortodoxa, de Ginastera y Márquez. 

José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana dirigió la Banda Simfònica Portuguesa y Banda Municipal de Barcelona en un concierto con el estreno absoluto de Memoria de la isla verde, de José María Sánchez-Verdú.

Vespres d'Arnadí y Dani Espasa abordaron en el Palau de la Música Catalana un monográfico instrumental de Bach con grandes dosis de teatralidad y afable trato hacia el oyente. 

Otro éxito para la soprano norteamericana del momento, donde la verosimilitud escénica y los dotes innatos de su canto han logrado un nuevo triunfo en las butacas liceistas.