A talk with Lisa Randall

Posted by Marcel Soleda on December 15, 2008  |  Leave a comment

Yesterday published in The Boston Globe, an interview with Lisa Randall about her present project: the opera Hypermusic Prologue, by Hèctor Parra.

Read the whole interview…

Hèctor Parra and Lisa Randall: Hypermusic Prologue

Posted by Leticia Martin on December 9, 2008  |  2 Comments

At beginnings of 2008 the DLD (Digital, Live, Design) Conference in Munich provided a platform for the music of composer Hèctor Parra. DLD is one of the world’s leading showcases for digital design and interactions between art, science and technology, with the presence of many of the top names in this new network of creativity.

Hèctor Parra, the only Spaniard present at the conference, appeared with the artist Matthew Ritchie, the art patron and impresario Francesca von Habsburg and the theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, who is collaborating with Mr Parra on a chamber opera project entitled Hypermusic Prologue.

Check the video highlights after the jump…

Rueda opera premieres at the Venice Biennalle

Posted by Marcel Soleda on September 30, 2005  |  Leave a comment

This 2 and 3 October mark the premiere of a fragment from the opera Orfeo by Jesús Rueda. This work, is commisioned by The Biennalle and the Madrid composer’s first incursion into the genre, will be performed in it entirety in 2007 on the 400th anniversary of what is considered to the first great opera in the history of music, La favola d’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. Rueda confesses his concern for achieving “an introspective approach to the vocal line, to the singing, to the melody”.

The premiere takes place at the 49th Contemporary Music Festival, part of the Venice Biennalle. The performers include: Antoni Comas, Orfeo; Pilar Jurado, Euridice; Julián Elvira, flutes; with the Community of Madrid Orchestra and Choir conducted by Beat Ferrer. Rueda continues the exploration of the possibilities of the human voice that he started with El viaje múltiple.

Babel 46 at the Liceu – Barcelona

Posted by Marcel Soleda on February 13, 2004  |  Leave a comment

This 16 February, the new production of Xavier Montsalvatge’s opera Babel 46 premieres at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The Liceu and the Teatro Real de Madrid co-produce.

The opera, first performed in 1994 at the Festival del Castillo de Peralada, is playing through 28 February with a total of 9 performances featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu conducted by Antoni Ros Marbà.