Hola part 8! La Musica

I think this post will finally cover all my Barcelona experiences. I'll have one more to wrap up tomorrow. We attended 2 musical events in Barcelona.

The first musical event was a night of Catalonian classical music at Gran Teatre del Liceu. The opera house on La Rambla is one of the world's finest. Everything about the inside says luxury. I ordered box seats for a show featuring two composers. The first half of the show was scenes from an opera called La Celestina by Felip Pedrell. The language was Catalan, but the music and voices were top notch. Their were digital displays in every seat with a translation, but on our night the translations were only for Spanish and Catalan. My sister figured out that the opera was a comedy about match making.

The second half of the show was by Roberto Gerhard. This was a performance unlike any I've ever heard. The music and a narrator told a haunting story called La Pesta. My sister figured out that it was about Nazi occupation in France, but the story was told as a tale of horror. It was quite amazing to see horror movie music performed live with a haunting choir and deep voiced narrator.

The second musical event we attended was during our last day in Barcelona. The show was at the Gran Palau de la Musica Catalana. The concert was mainly arranged for tourists as it featured a potpurri of Flamenco, opera, and spanish music. The Flamenco dancers were very impressive and the crowd was nuts for them. The opera singers were pretty good too, but I felt they didn't get featured enough. Nevertheless, the venue and show were great.