Repertoire

Hèctor Parra: Justice. Suite from the Opera (2023-2024) 33′ – World premiere, suite commissioned by L’Auditori. Opera commissioned by Grand Théâtre de Genève and Festspielhaus St. Pölten/Tangente Festival.
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). Suite (1874) 40′

ARTISTS

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC
Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, soprano
Lauren Michelle, soprano
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Programme

The season’s penultimate concert takes us to the opera, with suites containing outstanding fragments of two works belonging to quite contrasting styles and aesthetic approaches.

The first is also the premiere of this selection of music from the opera Justice by Hèctor Parra, one of the most international Catalan composers, with a keen interest in writing music for the stage. Justice‘s libretto is written by Congolese novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila from an original screenplay by Swiss director Milo Rau.

The second is an opera classic, although Richard Wagner never defined it as an opera, but rather as a musical drama. This is Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), the fourth and final “journey” in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), which concludes the story of the struggle between gods and humans – and a few monsters – to obtain the ring that makes whoever possesses it lord of the world. Wagner’s masterpiece contains such impressive music as the descriptive interlude “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” and the striking “Funeral March”, which pays homage to the hero Siegfried’s death.