"An important emotion": the return of Maria del Mar Bonet to the Olympia

Barcelona"An important emotion, because it had been 51 years since I last performed there," explained Maria del Mar Bonet after Sunday's concert at the Olympia in Paris, the French temple of song. In statements collected by the ACN, the Majorcan singer highlighted that seeing the hall full "was precious" and was grateful that the audience was so "sensitive and participatory." "And very warm, and that makes you give your all. I had a great time, and furthermore, the musicians were very dedicated," added Bonet.

This concert repeats the one she also performed at the Olympia on April 27, 1975, exactly the day she turned 28. "It was a fantastic spring," Bonet recalled last year during the presentation of the vinyl reissue of the albumthe vinyl reissue of the album A l’Olympia (1975). As ACN explains, much of the repertoire from that performance was repeated on Sunday in a concert that also featured songs from L'aigua no cansa, the album released this year, because the author of Alenar does not live off nostalgia, but firmly defends her creative present. On stage, she was accompanied by Toni Pastor on the lute, Marc Grasas on guitar, Marko Lohikari on double bass, Benjamí Salom on violin, and José Llorach on percussion, in addition to the special collaboration of actor Sergi López and guitarist Borja Penalba, with whom she performed Homenatge a Teresa, to remember that Ovidi Montllor had also performed at the Olympia on that April 27, 1975.

Among the audience on Sunday were the former President of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont; the Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar; the Government delegate in France, Eva Doya Le Besnerais, and the director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Anna Guitart. Also present were former Minister of Culture Laura Borràs, former president of Òmnium Cultural Jordi Cuixart, and former Spanish Minister of Culture Miquel Iceta.