̉pera Oberta is an introductory course to opera offered by the Gran Teatre del Liceu through various universities. It includes live broadcasts of five titles from the Liceu opera season and one from the season at the Teatro Real in Madrid. It is part of the academic curriculum and carries optional credits.
Operas are broadcast with subtitles in the appropriate language in each case (Catalan, Castilian, Galician, Portuguese or French) and the broadcasts are preceded by a fifteen minute audiovisual preentations developed jointly by experts from a university affiliated with the program and the Liceu.
Forty universities currently participate in Spain, France, Andorra, Portugal, Mexico and Colombia.
Universities participating in the ̉pera Oberta project
The operas to be transmitted are:
Carmen (by Georges Bizet)
13 October 2010 at 7.30 pm. Gran Teatre del Liceu
Lulu (by Alban Berg)
16 November 2010 at 7.30 pm. Gran Teatre del Liceu
Iphigenie auf Tauris (by Christoph Willibald Gluck)
2 February 2011 at 7.30 pm. Teatro Real
Parsifal (by Richard Wagner)
8 March 2011 at 6.30 pm. Gran Teatre del Liceu
Cavalleria rusticana (by Pietro Mascagni) / Pagliacci (by Ruggero Leoncavallo)
13 April 2011 at 7.30 pm. Gran Teatre del Liceu
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