Plácido Domingo returns to the Liceu

By Pep Gorgori, 04 March 2017

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Reviewed at Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona on 1 March 2017

Massenet, Thaïs (Concert performance)

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Patrick Fournillier, Conductor

Nino Machaidze, Thaïs

Plácido Domingo, Athanaël

Celso Albelo, Nicias

María José Suárez, Albine

Sara Blanch, Crobyle

Marifé Nogales, Myrtale

Damián del Castillo, Palémon

Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

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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Pep Gorgori

Journalist and musicologist with an MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths (University of London). Pep Gorgori was born and lives in Barcelona after having worked for several years in Madrid and London. Johann Sebastian Bach, audience development, organ music, and Enric Granados and his generation occupy most part of his time. You can learn more about him by visiting him here.

Plácido Domingo returns to the Liceu for Massenet's Thaïs