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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.

Un final ovacionado para la carrera del maestro Josep Pons, quien se despide de la titularidad orquestal de la casa, en un estreno que resultó efectista y de nivel.

En un día representativamente importante para Barcelona, EMC Productions llevó a cabo un acto conmemorativo creado para celebrar el centenario de la muerte de Antoni Gaudí.

Una propuesta pintoresca que acercaba y alejaba a partes iguales a los espectadores en la noche del estreno, donde brillaron por encima de todo Sara Blanch y Adriana González.

Lang Lang resolvió con elegancia, control y dominio de ejecución una paleta variada de caracteres pianísticos.

Un recorrido por el posromanticismo germánico, donde la orquesta invitada logró evocar musicalmente el paisaje emocional y la arquitectura sinfónica de los protagonistas del programa.

El pianista ruso Artem Kuznetsov interpretó admirablemente a Rachmaninov y a Prokofiev en una velada en la que las composiciones rusas dialogaban con la tradición italiana bajo la elegante batuta de Catherine Larsen-Maguire.

Idealización de tonalidades luminosas y pulso musical en las líneas románticas de Massenet, capitaneadas por el estreno de Xabier Anduaga en el papel del joven protagonista.

Entre la variedad estilística y las diversas maneras de hacer, la música del violonchelista alemán desplegó un muestrario de posibilidades instrumentales en la intimidad monástica.

Una interpretación preciosista sobre la herencia musical e historiográfica, llevada a cabo con precisión y claridad por Le Concert des Nations y La Capella Nacional de Catalunya.

Enmarcada entre suburbios y fronteras, Asmik Gregorian logra triunfar en su rol protagonista, sin poder salvar a su personaje, ahogada por la agresividad y provocación escénica.