NovAria 10th anniversary lyrical gala

Palau de la Música Catalana, Concert Hall, Barcelona, Spain

Wednesday 11 September 2024

8 PM

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Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: Barcelona, Spain

Starts at: 20:00

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Programme

Overview

The NovAria company celebrates its 10th anniversary of life and success with a lyrical gala to benefit the Pasqual Maragall's Foundation. During the last decade, NovAria has offered unique and innovative opera seasons at the Palau de la Música Catalana, with the orchestra integrated into the scene and lasting no longer than two and a half hours, including the break.

A 10th anniversary is more than a reason for NovAria to host a very special lyrical gala, which will feature artists who have participated in the project over the last ten years, as well as artists and external collaborators of great prestige on the international scene, who wanted to join in selflessly. All of them will be accompanied by the NovAria Philharmonic Orchestra.

The charity gala is held to the benefit of the Pasqual Maragall's Foundation to support its Alzheimer's prevention project.

Performers:

NovAria Filharmonia Orchestra
NovAria Choir
NovAria Ballet
Adolf Gassol, musical direction
Sergi Giménez, artistic direction
Sarah Zhai Strauss, vocal coach
Núria Serra, choreography
Mar Lorca, stage direction
Mambana Martínez, costume direction
Álvaro Duran, stage-manager
Alessio Coppola, correpetidor
Ben Aisit, production and communication
Laura Planas, honorary president

Marta Tricuera, host of the gala
Enrique Bagaría, piano
Sarah Zhai Strauss i Sara Bañeras, sopranos
Cristina Segura, mezzo
Sergi Giménez, Carlos Cosías i Vicenç Esteve, tenors
Alberto Cazes, baritone

Programme:

I
G. BIZET: “Prelude” from Carmen (orchestra)
C. BIANCHINI: Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 7 (Enrique Bagaría)
E. TOLDRÀ: Festeig (Sergi Giménez)
G. BIZET: "Habanera" from Carmen (Cristina Segura and choir)
G. BIZET: "Votre Toast" from Carmen (Alberto Cazes and choir)
R. MARTÍNEZ VALLS: “Pirineu” from Cançó d’amor i de guerra (Vicenç Esteve)
R. CHAPÍ: “Carceleras” from La hijas de Zebedeo (Sarah Zhai Strauss)
A. LARA: Granada (Sergi Giménez)
G. VERDI: “È strano… Sempre libera” and “Parigi, o cara” from La traviata (Sara Bañeras and Carlos Cosías)
G. BIZET: “Aragonese” from Carmen (ballet and orchestra)
W. A. MOZART: “Dies Bildnis” from Die Zauberflöte (Carlos Cosías)
W. A. MOZART: “Pa, pa, pa” from Die Zauberflöte (Sara Bañeras and Alberto Cazes)
F. LÉHAR: “Meine Lippen sie küssen” from Guiditta (Sarah Zhai Strauss)
F. LÉHAR: “Lippen Schweigen” from Die Lustige Witwe (Sarah Zhai Strauss and Sergi Giménez)

II
G. VERDI: “Preludio terzo atto” from La traviata (ballet and orchestra)
L. DELIBES: “Duo des fleurs” from Lakmé (Sara Bañeras and Cristina Segura)
F. CILEA: “Lamento di Federico” from L’arlesiana (Carlos Cosías)
G. VERDI: “Di provenza” from La traviata (Alberto Cazes)
G. ROSSINI: “Cruda sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri (Cristina Segura)
G. PUCCINI: “Nessun dorma” from Turandot (Sergi Giménez)
P. MASCAGNI: “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria rusticana (orchestra)
G. PUCCINI: “Che Gelida Manina” from La bohème (Vicenç Esteve)
G. PUCCINI: “O soave fanciulla” from La bohème (Sarah Zhai Strauss and Vicenç Esteve)
G. PUCCINI: “Quando m’en vo” from La bohème (Sara Bañeras)
G. PUCCINI: “O Mimì tu più non torni” from La bohème (Sergi Giménez and Alberto Cazes)
G. PUCCINI: “Duetto dei fiori” from Madama Butterfly (Sarah Zhai Strauss and Cristina Segura)
G. PUCCINI: “Bocca chiusa” from Madama Butterfly (choir)
G. GIMÉNEZ: “Intermedio” form La boda de Luis Alonso (ballet and orchestra)
L. DELIBES: Les filles de Cadix (Sarah Zhai Strauss)
J. RIBAS: “Rosó” from Pel teu amor (Sarah Zhai Strauss, Sara Bañeras, Cristina Segura, Sergi Giménez, Carlos Cosías, Alberto Cazes and Vicenç Esteve)
G. VERDI: “Di sprezzo degno” de La traviata (choir-Sarah Zhai Strauss, Sara Bañeras, Cristina Segura, Sergi Giménez, Carlos Cosías, Vicenç Esteve and Alberto Cazes)

Venue Info

Palau de la Música Catalana - Barcelona
C / Palau de la Música, 4-6

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth). It was inaugurated February 9, 1908.

The project was financed primarily by the society, but important financial contributions also were made by Barcelona's wealthy industrialists and bourgeoisie. The Palau won the architect an award from the Barcelona City Council in 1909, given to the best building built during the previous year. Between 1982 and 1989, the building underwent extensive restoration, remodeling, and extension under the direction of architects Oscar Tusquets and Carles Díaz. In 1997, the Palau de la Música Catalana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with Hospital de Sant Pau. Today, more than half a million people a year attend musical performances in the Palau that range from symphonic and chamber music to jazz and Cançó (Catalan song).

The Palau is located in the corner of a cramped street, Carrer Palau de la Música, and Carrer de Sant Pere Mes Alt, in the section of old Barcelona known as Casc Antic. Most of the other prominent modernista buildings, those designed by Antoni Gaudí, for example, are located in the chic 19th-century extension of the city known as the Eixample.

From the opening of the Palau de la Música Catalana in 1908 special attention was given to the promotion of local composers and artists. After World War I the Orquestra Pau Casals performed at the Palau, and among composers featured gave presentations of the music of Enrique Granados from 1921 onwards.

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City: Barcelona, Spain

Starts at: 20:00

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