Ferran Pi (Palma, 2001), Vicenç Calafell (Esporles, 2001) and Àngel Exojo (Santa Eulalia de Ronçana, 2001) They met while studying Catalan philology in Mallorca and their friendship gave rise to Fades, a pop music group. queer and Catalan. Irreverent and outspoken, Fades champions Catalan culture and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community through festive, uninhibited music that earned them the 2024 Enderrock Award for Breakthrough Artist. After the album Friends and Autotune (2023) and Metallix (2024), now the group continues the party with Metallix: Afterparty, (Satélite K, 2025) a more electronic and mischievous revision of the previous album that features collaborations with Samantha Hudson, SVSTO and Papa Topo. The Fades tour will pass through Primavera Sound on June 6th, Acampada Jove (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia) on July 11th, Mobofest (Mallorca) on July 25th and Cangrejo Festival (Menorca) on September 26th and 27th.

After winning three Gaudí awards and the Goya for best novel direction for A thief's daughter (2019), Belén Funes (Barcelona, ​​​​1984) premieres this Friday The Turtles, an expressive, layered drama about the relationship between a mother and daughter after the death of their husband and father, Julián, and the threat they face of eviction. Set between Barcelona and the Jaén countryside, Funes's second film crowns the Barcelona-born director. Does it give rise to a desire to talk about grief?

Losing her voice was simultaneously one of the best and worst things that ever happened to Raquel Andueza (Pamplona, ​​1980). Following a car accident that dislocated her larynx in 2016, the Navarrese soprano was forced to stop singing for almost six months, until two teachers from Italy, Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla, helped her regain her voice. "When you lose your voice, you lose the way you communicate with the world," says Andueza. "However, I learned that singing could be easier and that the voice is an instrument that should last a lifetime." Now the Baroque singer feels "freer than ever" and this year she is one of the stars of the eighth edition of the Espurnes Barroques festival, which takes place in central Catalonia over five weekends from this Friday until June 8.

Ricard Viñes (Lleida, 1875 - Barcelona, ​​​​1943) and Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, 1875 - Paris, 1937) met during their adolescence and, from their early years in Paris, shared artistic concerns and a great personal affinity. When a young Ravel wrote the Small antique (1895), Viñes decided to premiere it in 1898, thus beginning a career deeply committed to new musical languages. "Ravel wasn't so gifted on the piano and was expelled from the conservatory, but thanks to it we gained a great composer," explains Màrius Bernadó, curator of the Viñes Year. That premiere, apart from marking Ravel's public debut, consolidated Viñes as a tireless promoter of 20th-century modern music.

Considered one of the most difficult works of the operatic repertoire of all time and a symbol of bel canto, The sleepwalker, by Vincenzo Bellini, returns to the Gran Teatre del Liceu after eleven years. American soprano Nadine Sierra and Basque tenor Xabier Anduaga star in a new realistic version of the piece, directed by Bárbara Lluch, which focuses on the experiences of Amina. After its run at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the opera will be in Barcelona from April 22 to May 8, with an additional Under35 performance (for those under 35) on April 16, featuring soprano Caterina Sala and tenor Omar Mancini in the lead roles.

Conxita Badia i Millàs (Barcelona, ​​​​1897 - Barcelona 1975) was one of the most relevant Catalan sopranos of the 20th century and a "leading figure of song", according to the writer Joan Alavedra. A disciple of Enric Granados, Pau Casals and Manuel de Falla, her voice and deep passion for music, but also her dreamy character, captivated everyone. "She was music made woman", the composer Narcís Bonet once said. "She had a special way of saying the paraules, of fer-te feel the music", remembers Montserrat Bonet, net of the soprano. Tanmateix, the interruption of the seva career by the war and the exile, the her discreet character and the fet of being dona, are going to bury in the oblit the figure and arrival of Badia, who now recovers the Generalitat in l'Any de Conxita Badia, mig segle After the death of the soprano.

The fact that the Orfeó Català sings the Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler, is nothing new. However, having performed it in Stockholm to a euphoric, standing-room-only audience is a milestone that he proudly adds to an unstoppable career. After performing with the prestigious orchestras of Hamburg and Berlin, the vocational heart of the Palau de la Música debuted last Friday in the Berwaldhallen, accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and under the baton of British conductor Daniel Harding. "The truth is that the heart is in a very sweet moment; it's a work we know very well and have performed often," says the director of the Orfeó, Pablo Larraz. The concert will be repeated at the Palau de la Música on May 26 and at the Auditori-Palau de Congresos in Girona on May 27.

Oscar D'Aniello (Barcelona, ​​1977) and Helena Miquel (Barcelona, ​​1972) return as Delafé and the Blue Flowers for the last time. After the album Of you without me/Of me without you (2013) went their separate ways until They reunited on stage in 2022.. And now they say goodbye with Love (2025), a letter of devotion and appreciation for children, art, and life. Along with Ramir Kulyela, Dani Vega, Chris Carmichael, and D'Aniello's own son—who wrote the album cover—the group embarks on a sonic journey that flows between pop, lyricism, andspoken word, culminating in a 31-minute single-song album. Delafé y las Flores Azules' tour will stop at the Strenes Festival in Girona on April 4th and at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona on May 24th.

Since she was a child, Marta Ros (La Roca del Vallès, 1996) had to live with the good girl syndrome. Years later, and tired of playing this role, Ouineta was born, a diva pop star irreverent and festive, ready to turn everything upside down. "I'm not going to be what I've been forced to be anymore," was Marta Ros' reaction. Known for putting the theme tune on the 3Cat show The Turra and for simple things like Bikini Kill and DMs, the singer's musical universe is a journey to adolescence inspired by pop icons from the late 2000s and urban culture. Ouineta will go on tour this year, starting on April 19 at the Ítaca Festival (l'Escala). She will then perform at the Embassa't Festival in Sabadell (May 17), at Sónar (June 12), at the Magnífico Fest in Lleida (June 13), at the Itaca Festival in l'Estartit (June 23) and at the Vida Festival in Vilanova i la Geltrú (July 3).

Mario Casas (A Coruña, 1986) returns to romantic cinema with The secret of the goldsmith, first work by Olga Osorio. Based on the novel of the same name by Èlia Barceló (Debolsillo, 2005), the Goya winner plays a successful goldsmith who, on his way to New York, decides to stop in the town where he fell in love for the first time. Casas and Michelle Jenner star in the film, which will be released in theaters this Friday.

Susana Ventura (Barcelona, ​​​​2000), known as Suu, turns 25 with a desire to question everything. After the records Natural (2018), Fortune (2020) and Karaoke (2022), the singer "marries" pop in Sensitive material (Halley Record, 2025), an album with twelve joyful and festive songs about love, heartbreak, vulnerability and the doubts that the future poses. The tour of the album will begin on March 14 at the Sala Copérnico in Madrid and will pass through the Mallorca Live Festival, on March 15; the Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, ​​​​on March 28; the Strenes Festival in Girona, on April 11, and the La Previa Festival in Valencia, on April 25.

Susana Ventura (Barcelona, ​​​​2000), known as Suu, turns 25 with a desire to question everything. After the records Natural (2018), Fortune (2020) and Karaoke (2022), the singer "marries" pop in Sensitive material (Halley Record, 2025), an album with twelve joyful and festive songs about love, heartbreak, vulnerability and the doubts that the future poses. The tour of the album will begin on March 14 at the Sala Copérnico in Madrid and will pass through the Mallorca Live Festival, on March 15; the Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, ​​​​on March 28; the Strenes Festival in Girona, on April 11, and the La Previa Festival in Valencia, on April 25.