FULL LA GATA PERDUDA (Arnau Tordera) Barcelona 2022

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: La gata perduda  
• Composer: Tordera Arnau   
• Libretto: Victoria Szpunberg    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain  
• Recorded: November 24, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Dianne Ico, Pau Armengol, Joan Sáez, Rocío Martínez, Marta Infante, Albert Casals, Óscar Peñarroya
• Conductor: Alfons Reverté  
• Orchestra: Orquestra del Conservatori del Liceu  
• Chorus: see program leaflet  
• Chorus Master: Cristina Colomer  
• Choreographer: Tuixén Benet, Anna Macau  
• Stage Director: Ricard Soler Mallol   
• Stage Designer: Adrià Pinar  
• Costume Designer: Montse Amenós  
• Lighting Designer: Cube.bz (María de la Cámara i Gabriel Paré)  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Liceu  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs, othersubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  PROGRAM LEAFLET

  La gata perduda is the opera through which Raval enters the Liceu and through which the Liceu has had the opportunity to open up, to get to know and learn from a neighborhood it belongs to and that welcomes it. This initiative involves the participation of the neighbors of Barcelona’s most eclectic community: more than 40 nationalities within 1.1 km², and home to the highest density of associations in the European Union. Around 1,000 people, both individuals and organizations, have taken part directly or indirectly.

  An artistic dialogue that has been enriching for both sides –artistic and community– and that aims to create a transformative experience for all the agents involved.

  

  Artistic Team

  This project also involved an artistic team that has created a new opera in collaboration with the entire neighborhood, offering them the opportunity to integrate into an innovative program in our country. La gata perduda features a libretto written by playwright Victoria Szpunberg, based on extensive bibliographic research about the neighborhood and around twenty interviews conducted with the residents of the Raval, a key source of inspiration for the writing of this fiction.

  The composition of the work was done by Arnau Tordera I, drawing on the musical realities of the neighborhood. It combines perspectives on the different musical styles that can be explored today in stage music, opting for a symphonic language that connects with the Romantic opera of the second half of the 19th century, as well as with cinematic music.

  

  Community Mediation

  Throughout the process, community dialogue has been activated, Liceu-neighborhood, neighborhood-Liceu, creating connections with over seventy local agents and organizations. This extensive and continuous work of prospecting, listening, and dialogue prominently includes the participation of the Tot Raval Foundation. The professional Eva García was invited to join the Opera Prima team for the project’s conceptualization and implementation, together with the Liceu team.

  The opportunity was taken to create a project that adds value to the Liceu and the neighborhood, and an impact assessment team—Nicolas Barbieri and Nil Barutell—was involved from the very beginning.

  

  The plot

  The plot of La gata perduda presents a traditional tension in the world of opera between the high and the low, between power and the people. Power, symbolized by an ambitious and ostentatious magnate, wants to place the Raval under his control, an operatic Raval made up of a colossal choir of the neighborhood’s residents. The libretto portrays a globalized world, where the consequences of a system driven by economic profit clearly and directly impact the population, the neighborhoods, and the lives of its citizens.

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