An evening to thank Josep Pons for his 14 years of dedication and dedication to the Liceu

Content:

In 1906, Gustav Mahler described his Eighth Symphony as the most ambitious creation of his entire previous catalog in content and form. According to Mahler, the symphony was revealed to him as a dazzling vision, with a unique structure: from beginning to end, everything is sung, with human voices as essential instruments. The work merges two disparate texts in different languages: the medieval hymn Veni creator spiritus and the final scene of Goethe's Faust, which explores and expresses a common idea of redemption by the grace of love

The challenge of bringing an Eighteenth to life surpasses that of any other symphonic work. Josep Pons, after these years at the head of the orchestra and choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, puts an end to this magnificent musical episode, after transforming the formations and leaving his own stamp. This overwhelming Symphony of a Thousand, one of the greatest works of all time, will be an exciting crowning of this love story.

Artistic file:

Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Director

Josep Pons

Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Director

Paul Assante

Spanish National Choir

Director

Miguel Angel Garcia Canamero,

Puig-Reig Pplofonica

Emmanuel Niubò, conductor

Depart:

Peccatrix Machine

Elisabeth Teige

Poenitentium

Jacquelyn Stucker

Mater Gloriosa

Serena Saenz

Mulier Samaritan

Beth Taylor

Maria Aegyptiaca

Miyoko Fujimura

Doktor Marianus

Michael Spyres

Pater Ecstaticus

Nicholas Brownlee

Deep Pater

Albert Dohmen