L’Auditori participates to the new edition of Spring Festival

Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival celebrates its third edition with the aim of turning Barcelona into the capital of culture and music.

The Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori de Barcelona present a new edition of the festival organized by the main musical institutions of Barcelona and Barcelona Global with the support of the Barcelona City Council, through the Department of Tourism and Creative Industries and ICUB.

The three organizing facilities will host concerts featuring artists such as Alondra de la Parra, Carolyn Sampson, Tallis Scholars, Denis Kozhukhin, Janine Jansen, Alexei Volodin, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Ian Bostridge, Teodor Currentz.

The Barcelona Overture Spring Festival, programmed jointly by the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Auditori de Barcelona, with the collaboration of Ibercamera, the Conservatori del Liceu and the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, celebrates this year its third edition between March 6 and 30. The festival continues to work with the founding objectives of positioning Barcelona as a city of culture and music. It is an initiative managed by the aforementioned institutions together with Barcelona Global and has the support of the Barcelona City Council, through the Department of Tourism and Creative Industries and ICUB, with resources from the tourist tax.

The artistic proposal of the Auditori de Barcelona for the festival consists of four programs, three performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña (OBC) and a fourth program of chamber music. As part of the Rahmaninov Festival at L’Auditori, on the weekend of March 11 and 13, Kazushi Ono conducts the OBC with pianist Denis Zozhukhin, to perform the Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2, plus works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Violinist Janine Jansen together with Denis Kozhukhin present a chamber music program consisting of sonatas by Schubert, Brahms and Beethoven.

The Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña performs together with Josep Mor, cello, the symphonic poem based on the misadventures of Don Quixote. The orchestra will also perform Takemitsu’s Visiones and the world premiere of Jordi Cervelló’s La armonía de las formas. The concert program will be completed by conductor Francesc Prat and tenor Ian Bostridge, who will lead the OBC in a performance of Gerhard’s cantata La Peste and Britten’s Illuminations, accompanied by the Ensemble O Vos Omnes de L’Auditorio, the Palau Chamber Choir and the Coro Madrigal.

The festival will also host another outstanding symphonic event organized by Ibercamera and L’Auditori de Barcelona: Teodor Currentzis will conduct the SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra with a program including Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 and Nikodijevic’s Viola Concerto at L’Auditori de Barcelona.

The festival has the involvement of more than 40 entities and comes preceded by the success of the two previous editions, held in 2019 and 2021. This year’s edition will feature more than forty artistic proposals. Tickets for the festival concerts can be purchased from the website www.barcelonaobertura.com