1,600 young people looking for an opportunity to dedicate themselves to music
The reality show 'Operación Triunfo' is looking for contestants for its new edition.
BarcelonaThe Espacio Mestral at Barcelona's Olympic Port was a hive of excitement and young people from all over Catalonia and beyond (some from Madrid or Belgium). Castings are currently underway.Operation Triumph And in Barcelona, a total of 1,600 people, mostly young, waited for ten o'clock to arrive so they could start singing in front of the show's team. Waiting for their big moment, some candidates timidly fine-tuned their voices, while others kept their eyes glued to their phones or hugged their competitors as if the casting were a shared feat.
The auditions started at ten o'clock in the morning, although the candidates had been there long before then. This was the case with Paula, who had been waiting for her turn since 8:30 a.m. and had gotten up at 3:00 a.m. to get to Barcelona. "Renfe went well, on time. This suggests that the casting will go well for me," she said, laughing. Candidates could show up from nine o'clock until two o'clock, the time at which the stickers that granted a place in the casting stopped being handed out. Meanwhile, waiting in the long queue fostered the birth of new friendships.
The first applicants
The first to be selected were the 61 Prime Pass winners, selected based on their cover videos posted on TikTok with the hashtag #OTCover. "We received 13,000 videos. Now I understand the social media addiction, because I would go to bed and have a hard time sleeping from doing so much." scroll"I watched videos at breakfast, lunch, in the afternoon... There was even a moment when the app told me to take a break!" explained Noemí Galera, the casting director for Gestmusic and the program's academy.OT It's more than just a TV show. If there are young people watching us, I think we should be a reflection of what we believe the world should be: a place where we're all equal and have the same opportunities, where there's respect," she added.
When Galera is asked which singers she'd like to see visit the academy, it's Emilia or Trueno. She can't help but joke about the latter's name.Thunder[Thrones] No, not today. Please, Thunder "No," she says. The weather gives her a break and it doesn't rain all morning, despite the threatening clouds. With their nerves and emotions on edge, the candidates queued up, oblivious to anything but the judges and their performances.
The mechanics of the casting were an opportunity to impress them in twenty seconds. If they liked it, the candidate had to sing another song. If not, a friendly smile and a "thank you" and she was called up for the second phase. "I can't believe it, I'm so nervous, I didn't expect it!" she exclaimed. You know I'm no good, by Amy Winehouse, an artist who appears frequently in the castings ofOT. What's the key to getting the sticker? "That they sing well, that they have a good attitude, and that there's something about them that, after seeing fifty applicants, makes you want to keep listening to that voice," Galera concluded.
The rejected applicants thanked each other and left, not always discouraged. This was the case with Pablo. "Just being here is a dream come true!" he said as he said goodbye.
There can only be sixteen left.
The 88 candidates who earned their sticker this Monday had to appear the following day in the second phase of the punishment, also held in Barcelona. For this new round, they had to prepare three songs and sing the first accompanied by pianist Pablo Lluch. For the other two songs, they could choose between being accompanied by unamplified instruments or using recorded music.or sing a cappellaIn both phases, the first song that participants perform must be selected from a list available on Amazon Music.OT It will pass through eight other cities throughout Spain: Valencia, Santiago de Compostela, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Malaga, Seville, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The final city will be Madrid, on June 12. The final phase of the selection will be in Barcelona, where the eighteen candidates will be chosen to compete in Gala 0 to enter OT 2025 and become one of the sixteen students of the most famous music academy on television.