The Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu was created to provide support to the theatre’s opera seasons. Its first resident conductor was Marià Obiols. He was followed by Eugenio M. Marco, Uwe Mund, Bertrand de Billy and Sebastian Weigle. Since September 2008, the Liceu's music director has been Michael Boder.

Guest conductors
In its long history, the Orchestra has been placed under the batons of guest conductors such as Albert Coates, Antal Dorati, Karl Elmendorff, Franco Faccio, Manuel de Falla, Alexandre Glazunov, Josef Keilberth, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Hans Knappertsbusch, Franz Konwitschny, Clemens Krauss, Joan Lamote de Grignon, Joan Manén, Jaume Pahissa, Ottorino Respighi, Josep Sabater, Max von Schillings, Georges Sebastian, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Hans Swarowsky, Arturo Toscanini, Antonino Votto and Bruno Walter; and then Gerd Albrecht, Aleksandr Anissimov, Harry Bicket, Richard Bonynge, Sylvain Cambreling, Paolo Carignani, Frédéric Chaslin, Franz-Paul Decker, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Romano Gandolfi, García Navarro, Lamberto Gardelli, Armando Gatto, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Cristóbal Halffter, Janos Kulka, Peter Maag, Riccardo Muti, Woldemar Nelsson, Vaclav Neumann, Josep Pons, David Robertson, Antoni Ros Marbà, Julius Rudel, Pinchas Steinberg, Peter Schneider, Silvio Varviso and Sebastian Weigle.

Venues where it has performed
The Orchestra has performed at venues including the Teatro Real and the Palacio Real in Madrid, the Arènes de Nîmes, the Ludwigshafen opera house, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Teatre Grec in Barcelona, the Chorégies d’Orange, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, the Seu Vella in Lleida, the Castell de Peralada Festival, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Savonlinna Opera Festival. It has also gone on tour to Galicia (Santiago de Compostela and Vigo).

Musicians