Concerts | Grec 2008 | Theatre |


Grec Festival celebrates the centenary of the Palau de la Música by dramatising one of the most influential poems in the history of art: Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Hildebrant and Delacroix dedicated paintings to it. Monteverdi, Handel, Rossini, Brahms and Dvorak put it to music. Now, Carme Portaceli, Paco Azorín and Marta Carrasco take a series of images from the poem and propel the piece into the 21st century. This new show revolves around the female characters in the story: the beautiful witch Armida; Sofronia, who sacrifi ces all for love; the wretched Princess Erminia; and Clorinda, the Persian warrior who comes to divine grace through battle. Brilliantly directed by Portaceli, with music by Gabriel Garrido’s acclaimed Ensemble Elyma, this is a production as spectacular as it is unusual.

Show in italian with Catalan subtitles.

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10,00>22,00

16+17/jul '08: 09:00pm