Part of the Grec Festival of Barcelona
Small venues, unconventional corners, or interactive spaces become stages where the works take on a more intimate and experimental dimension.
With Òh!pera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Disseny Hub open the doors to a pioneering project that redefines the traditional concept of opera, embracing innovative formats that resonate with 21st-century sensibilities. This initiative, blending experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and creative risk, gives voice to new talents and artistic languages in a setting designed to provoke surprise and reflection.
The project, under the guidance of Àlex Ollé, is based on the creation of short operas that, despite their brevity, retain the essence of the genre: the fusion of music, dramaturgy, and stage direction. These works, conceived by emerging creators in collaboration with more established artists, explore contemporary themes such as identity, technology, ecology, and social conflict—bringing audiences closer to realities that echo our everyday lives.
One of the most compelling aspects of this project is its aim to explore alternative spaces within the theatre, breaking down the barrier between audience and stage. Small venues, unconventional corners, or interactive areas become stages where the works take on a more intimate and experimental dimension, offering the audience a close and surprising experience. This sense of proximity is also reflected in the dialogue between disciplines—music, theatre, set design, audiovisuals, costume, lighting—all coming together to shape productions that connect with the sensitivity of today’s audiences.
With Òh!pera, the Liceu and the Disseny Hub reaffirm their role as a driving force for cultural renewal in Catalonia and beyond. This laboratory of ideas and creation not only opens new paths for opera, but also invites audiences to rethink the performing arts from a more open and participatory perspective. Through its commitment to innovation and emerging talent, the Liceu pushes boundaries and reminds us that Art should not only preserve tradition, but also serve as a platform to imagine the future.
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This show takes place at the Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació de Barcelona from July 2 to 5.
Artistic profile
- Project direction
- Àlex Ollé
- Coordination
- Anna Llopart, Anna Ponces
'Jo, núvol'
Audiovisual and contemporary language to talk about heartbreak in the age of AI
In the near future, a woman digitizes her consciousness to edit her own memory. She wants to erase certain memories, especially those of Adrien, a digital nomad with whom she had a brief romance and who later ghosted her.
She hires the services of Mnemosyne Labs and prepares to edit the memories of their affair. Stop. Rewind. Erase.
Artistic profile
- Composition
- Sergi Puig Serna
- Libretto
- Imma Ávalos (Alicia Kopf)
- Stage direction
- Lucia del Greco
- Musical direction
- Miquel Massana
- Assistant stage director
- Anna Muñoz López
- Lighting
- Helena Mateos-Serna (Institut del Teatre)
- Choreography
- Ariadna Monfort
- Set and audiovisual design
- La Salle students: Aina Rodríguez, Laura de la Torre, Lídia Ubieto, Irina Montiel, Laia Rueda, Emma Youngblood, Marta Rabella
- La Salle faculty
- Carles Anselmo, tutor, and Xavier Solé, coordinator
- Costume and character design
- Escola de la Dona students: Gabriela Quinzio, Nina Nomen Poy, Berta Pujol Reverter
- Escola de la Dona faculty
- Irene Fernández, lecturer, and Marta Campañá, lecturer
- Echo (soprano)
- Montserrat Boixadera
- Adrien (baritone)
- Pau Camero
- Percussion
- Gonzalo Otero
- Saxophone
- Pol Cabrera
- Cello
- Candela Puigbò
- Repetiteur pianist
- Álvaro Abadías
- Dancers
- Anna Climent and Glòria Garcia Garrido
'La vida por los cuernos'
A hybrid of opera and flamenco that breaks stereotypes
This opera-flamenco reimagines the myth of Theseus, Phaedra and Hippolytus, questioning, through humor, poetry and cante, a number of assumptions about masculinity, power and desire. Theseus, both king and bullfighter, dreams of a male heir who will carry on his legacy, while Phaedra feels suffocated in a marriage where she is treated more as a reproductive body than as a person.
Hippolytus, by contrast, rejects his father’s violent model of manhood: he dances with bulls instead of killing them and advocates a free, sensual and non-dominating way of life. When Phaedra is consumed by her forbidden desire for her stepson, a tragedy charged with eroticism and jealousy erupts, and the characters are literally transformed into bull, bullfighter and monster.
Artistic profile
- Musical composition
- Anna Colom
- Libretto
- Pablo Macho Otero
- Stage direction
- Alexandre Rodríguez i Fons
- Musical direction
- Exequiel Coria
- Assistant stage director
- Inés Jiménez Borrell, Juli Aymí
- Lighting design
- Hannah Blisky (Institut del Teatre)
- Set and costume design
- IDEP, School of Image and Design: Aina Codina, Ángel Vilda, César Olivar, Luken Pui, Tomás, Gómez, Victoria Hidalgo
- IDEP tutor
- César Olivar
- IDEP coordinator
- Ángel Vilda
- Phaedra (Soprano)
- Aseel Massoud
- Theseus (Cantaor)
- Pere Martínez
- Hippolytus (Bailaor)
- Rubén Heras
- Trumpet / flugelhorn / voice
- Gerard Peñaranda
- Percussion / voice
- Pablo Gómez
- Guitar / voice
- Exequiel Coria
'Opereta'
An urban musical fantasy
A man suffers an accident at a neighborhood community center where an amateur show is being rehearsed. As emergency responders fight to save his life, his consciousness leaves his body and enters a strange dimension suspended between reality and death. He drifts into a dream where the kitsch exoticism of the community center’s homemade stage design blends with the sarcasm of the gods and the delicate boundaries of life-changing decisions.
Artistic profile
- Musical composition
- Arnau Brichs
- Libretto
- Pol Guasch
- Stage direction
- Marc Salicrú
- Musical direction
- Marcel Ortega i Martí
- Assistant stage director
- Claudia Nieva Muñoz de León
- Lighting design
- Josep Pijuan (Institut del Teatre)
- Set and costume design
- UPC_School of Professional & Executive Development: Bárbara Bahamondes, Carla Sanfratello Marco, Carmen Rodríguez, Carolina Vigo, Coque Claret, Cristina Masferrer, Cristina Ortega, Dana Williams, Delfina Roca, Ezequiel Romero, Francisco García, Giovanna Pezzullo, Javier Coeto, Juan Pablo Ramírez, Laia Segon Franco, Luciana Sotela, Marina Paredes, Mario Corea, Marion Beaudenon, Milena Milne, Miquel Nogueras, Pablo Meriles, Sara De La Torre Pelegrí, Valeria Ramirez
- UPC tutor
- Juan Ramírez
- UPC coordinator
- Cristina Masferrer
- Project coordinator
- Cristina Ortega
- Healthcare Worker (Soprano)
- Larraitz Navas
- Manel (Tenor)
- Héctor Ruiz
- Baritone
- Arnau Segura
- Piano/Keyboards and répétiteur
- Carmen Vilanova
- Percussion
- Pau Buforn, Ferran Martínez