For one night, the sand replaced the seats and the rumor of the waves accompanied the violins. The beach of Sant Sebastià, became on Wednesday to host the opening of the Clàssica to La Platja, an initiative promoted by the main musical institutions of Barcelona with the aim of bringing symphonic music to the general public, in an unusual environment.
The person inaugurated this year’s edition was the Simfònica Orchestra of the Great Teatre of the Liceu, directed by Sergi Cuenca, with a proposal as ambitious as singular: TuesdayDagol Dagom’s famous musical, presented in a symphony version, which also participated as a pianist. The evening opened with the overture of The dream of a summer night De Mendelssohn, a kind of ethereal prologue before entering the most agitated waters of the drama.
From there, the beach became the stage and stand. Some 20 interpreters gave life to the stage to the story of love and conflict between the Muslim Corsair Said and the Christian Blanca ,. Between the theater and the opera, between the epic and the intimate, the show displayed its narrative with an agile staging that included visual elements, acrobatics and a screen that allowed to follow the action from different points of the beach.
The public, numerous and varied, residents of the area, curious, families with children, tourists surprised, responded with an unexpected concentration for a massive event on the beach. From the first measures an atmosphere of respect and listening was generated. Some followed the function sitting in the sand, trapped by a music that, for one night, displaced the speakers of the beach bars and the summer bustle.
The symphonic version of Tuesday He maintained the narrative tension from the start to his tragic outcome. The scenes happened with theatrical rhythm: approaches, conspiracies, pleas, redemptions, all crossed by a precise orchestra and a solid vocal cast. He Himne dels Piratesbecoming emotional climax, was enthusiastically received by an audience that, for the most part, knew the original work well. The interventions of the narrators between scenes facilitated the monitoring of the plot to those who were not familiar with the story.
The Clàssica to La Platja initiative is the result of the collaboration between the Liceu, the Palau de la Música, L’a Auditori and the Barcelona City Council. It is a free and free commitment to democratize access to symphonic music, carrying it out of its traditional spaces and bringing it to new audiences without giving up artistic quality.
This Thursday, the program continues with the Simfònica orchestra of Barcelona I National of Catalonia (OBC), which will offer fragments of Carmen de Bizet and orchestral dances of Granados. In Barceloneta, music will continue to sound to the rhythm of the waves.
