Within the Grec Festival of Barcelona
Composers linked to Barcelona will write based on texts-librettos by important playwrights
The Òh!pera project was born three seasons ago, driven by the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Barcelona City Council, through the Disseny Hub, with the aim of being the gateway to the world of opera for young creators from all artistic fields: composers, librettists, stage directors, singers, musicians, lighting designers, students from design schools... It materializes in the creation of three contemporary operas, each lasting 30 minutes, which are performed, over a single evening, in three unusual spaces of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
The goal is to foster the future of opera with a new generation of professionals from all fields of this clearly multidisciplinary art, not only in the search for new aesthetics that future operatic proposals will have to achieve, but also in attracting new audiences for their ability to embrace aesthetic universes that point towards the future.
The three pieces gather contemporary stories. The first one, Eliza, introduces a woman who discovers that her partner is an artificial intelligence capable of controlling her thoughts. The second one, Azul como una naranja, tells the story of Sergei Krikalev, the astronaut who spent 311 days trapped aboard the Mir space station while his country, the Soviet Union, was collapsing. The third one, Contradir la noche, is a dazzling journey of two lovers through the underground and rascal Barcelona that reveals the true identity of the city.
In short, a determined bet on the future.
Eliza (Foyer)
- Composer
- Ferran Cruixent
- Libretto
- Pau Miró
- Stage director
- Pol Roig
- Set design, costume, video
- Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
- Lighting
- Institut del Teatre
Azul como una naranja (stage box)
- Composer
- Guillem Palomar
- Libretto
- Laura Ferrero
- Stage director
- Ester Guntín
- Set design, costume, video
- BAU College of Arts and Design of Barcelona
- Lighting
- Institut del Teatre
Contradir la nit (Mestres Cabanes Rehearsal Room)
- Composer
- Montserrat Lladó
- Libretto
- Martí Sales
- Stage director
- Marta Gil Polo
- Set design, costume, video
- EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona
- Lighting
- Institut del Teatre
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