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Musical jewels in the most seductive Mediterranean city

“Barcelona is easily one of the most attractive cities for connaisseurs of music.

It can rank very high, in the south of Europe, but also worldwide.”

Valery Gergiev

Jordi Savall, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa – Pekka Salonen, Irene Théorin,

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Roberto Alagna, Javier Camarena, Philippe Jaroussky,

Teodor Currentzis, Kazushi Ono, Cecilia Bartoli, Josep Pons,

Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Halsey, Orfeó Català, Franco Fagioli,

Simone Young, Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Joyce DiDonato,

Philippe Herreweghe, Juan Diego Flórez, Khatia Buniatishvili,

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maria Joao Pires, Valery Gergiev, Alisa Weilerstein, Fumiaki Miura,

Jakub Jozef Orlinski, OBC - Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival

February — March

FebruarySunday 09 — Friday 14 | 20.00h — Palau de la Música Catalana

Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Beethoven Symphony CycleSir John Eliot Gardiner, conductorOrchestre Révolutionnaire et RomantiqueMonteverdi Choir9th Symphony n. 1 & other works 10th Symphonies n. 2 & 3 11th Symphonies n. 4 & 5 13th Symphonies n. 6 & 7 14th Symphonies n. 8 & 9

MarchThursday 19, March — Sunday 05, April | Liceu Opera

Lohengrin, Richard WagnerJosep Pons, conductorKatharina Wagner, stage directorGünther Groissböck, HeinrichKlaus Florian Vogt, LohengrinErin Wall, Elsa de BrabantGran Teatre del Liceu and Oper Leipzig, coproduction

Thursday 19 | 20.00h — Palau de la Música Catalana

Philippe Herreweghe, Saint John’s Passion by BachPhilippe Herreweghe, conductorCollegium Vocale GentJ. S. Bach: St John’s Passion, BWV 245

Friday 20 | 20.00h — L’Auditori Saturday 21 | 19.00h — L’AuditoriSunday 22 | 11.00h — L’Auditori

Lawrence Foster & Barcelona Symphony OrchestraLawrence Foster, conductorOBC – Barcelona Symphony OrchestraArabella Steinbacher, violinMontsalvatge: Morphological Disintegration of Bach’s Chaconne Szymanowski: Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1, Op. 35 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 ‘Polish’

Saturday 21 | 18.00h — Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau

Bach cantatas for soloistsAlex Ashworth, baritone Soloists from BECA BACH – SALVAT Foundation Ensemble BZM Daniel Tarrida, organ and conductorJ. S. Bach: Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe BWV 156 J. S. Bach: Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem BWV 159

Saturday 21 | 20.00h — Palau de la Música Catalana

Lang Lang, Goldberg Variations by BachLang Lang, pianoJ. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Sunday 22 | 17.30h — Palau de la Música Catalana

Salvador Mas & OCM, Great Mass in C minor by MozartCor Lieder CàmeraOrquestra Simfònica Camera MusicaeSalvador Mas, conductorJ. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 1, BWV 1066 W. A. Mozart: Great Mass, in C minor, KV 427

Saturday 28 | 19.00h — L’AuditoriSunday 29 | 11.00h — L’Auditori

Valery Gergiev, Eine AlpensinfonieValery Gergiev, conductorMariinsky OrchestraOBC – Barcelona Symphony OchestraSeong – Jin Cho, pianoLiszt: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Sunday 29 | 19.00h — L’Auditori, Sala 2

Benedetti – Elschenbroich – Grynyuk Trio, First trios of Schumann and Brahms Nicola Benedetti, violinLeonard Elschenbroich, cello Alexei Grynyuk, pianoSchumann: Trio No. 1 in D minor, op. 63 W. Rihm: Fremde Szenen (III) Brahms: Trio No. 1 in B major, op. 8

Monday 30 | 20.00h — Palau de la Música Catalana

Philippe Herreweghe, Saint Matthew’s Passion by BachPhilippe Herreweghe, conductorCollegium Vocale GentJ. S. Bach: Saint Matthew’s Passion, BWV 244

Monday 30 | 20.30h — L’Auditori

Valery Gergiev, Verdi’s RequiemValery Gergiev, conductorMariinsky OrchestraCor IbercameraVerdi, Requiem

Blooming Classical MusicPhilippe Herreweghe, © Wouter Maeckelberghe

Klaus Florian Vogt, Lohengrin, © Harald Hoffmann

Arabella Steinbacher, © Sammy Hart

Lang Lang, © Philip Glaser

Valery Gergiev,© Marco Borggreve

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, © Sim Canetty Clarke

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Barcelona Obertura Season 2019– 2020

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An initiative of:

Barcelona Obertura+34 618 66 91 31info@barcelonaobertura.com www.barcelonaobertura.comAv. Diagonal, 579, 3rd Floor 08017 Barcelona, Spain @BObertura @barcelonaobertura

Musical jewels in the most seductive Mediterranean city

“Barcelona is easily one of the most attractive cities for connaisseurs of music.

It can rank very high, in the south of Europe, but also worldwide.”

Valery Gergiev

Jordi Savall, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa – Pekka Salonen, Irene Théorin,

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Roberto Alagna, Javier Camarena, Philippe Jaroussky,

Teodor Currentzis, Kazushi Ono, Cecilia Bartoli, Josep Pons,

Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Halsey, Orfeó Català, Franco Fagioli,

Simone Young, Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta, Joyce DiDonato,

Philippe Herreweghe, Juan Diego Flórez, Khatia Buniatishvili,

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maria Joao Pires, Valery Gergiev, Alisa Weilerstein, Fumiaki Miura,

Jakub Jozef Orlinski, OBC - Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

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In collaboration with:

Institutional partners:

Promoted by:

Media partner:

Hotel partners:

Supported by:

An initiative of:

In collaboration with:

Barcelona Obertura+34 618 66 91 31info@barcelonaobertura.com www.barcelonaobertura.comAv. Diagonal, 579, 3rd Floor 08017 Barcelona, Spain @BObertura @barcelonaobertura