FULL COMBAT DE SOMNI’ (Joan Magrané) Barcelona 2026 Montserrat Seró

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Combat del somni'   
• Composer: Magrané Joan   
• Libretto:
• Venue & Opera Company: Sant Pau Recinte Modernista, Barcelona, Spain  
• Recorded: March 25, 2026
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Montserrat Seró
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Marta Puig, PIANO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: LIFE Victoria Barcelona  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  In 1937, in Barcelona, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the editor and critic Josep Janés published his poetry collection Combat del somni, dedicated “Sonets a Maria Victòria, que va morir amb el seu somni” (“Sonnets to Maria Victòria, who died with her dream”). The collection is divided into two parts: the first six sonnets were written in 1934 and the remaining fourteen in 1936, when Janés was twenty-three years old, after Maria Victòria was found dead in her bed one morning.

  In 1941, after the war had ended, Frederic Mompou set five of these poems to music. In 1944, at her debut at the Palau and at just twenty-one years of age, Victoria de los Ángeles premiered the now celebrated Damunt de tu, només les flors (“Above You, Only the Flowers”), a piece that accompanied her throughout her life and aroused the admiration of composers such as Francis Poulenc.

  Following this musical tradition, LIFE Victoria has commissioned a new Combat del somni, in this case from Joan Magrané, which will receive its world premiere in our season, performed by Montserrat Seró, this season’s artist-in-residence, and Marta Puig, artist-in-residence for the 2023–24 season.

  PROGRAMME

  I
  Joan Magrané (1988)
  Jardí de campanes

  Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)
  Cantar del alma

  Joan Magrané
  Fantasiestück 4
  Fantasiestück 6 – a Santi Moix *estrena absoluta

  Frederic Mompou
  Combat del somni
  Damunt de tu, només les flors
  Aquesta nit un mateix vent
  Fes-me la vida transparent
  Ara no sé si et veig, encar
  Jo et presentia com la mara

  II
  Frederic Mompou
  Variacions sobre un tema de Chopin

  Joan Magrané
  Combat del somni *estrena absoluta
  Voldria veure el somni meu
  Ara no sé si et veig, encar
  Tot deu ser blanc
  Els mur que t’isolen del cel i el mar

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