After the alliance between the Hermitage and the Gran Teatre del Liceu came to nothing due to Barcelona City Council's refusal to install a private branch of the Russian museum on land owned by Barcelona's port, the opera house has continued working to find a suitable location to open a second hall, which would be dedicated to more experimental and contemporary projects. As ARA has been able to learn, this new site will be the former Imax cinema at Port Vell, closed since 2014. This is what is being proposed this Wednesday at Liceu's executive committee, where the administrations that make it up (Barcelona City Council, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Barcelona Provincial Council) are represented. If it receives the approval of the institutions, the general director of the theatre will be asked to present a project in the spring and, at the same time, the process of seeking funding to move it forward will begin. The Catalan Culture Department does not want to evaluate the operation until it sees "the viability of the project". The proposal could lead to a broader agreement than the joining the Hermitage did, as the previous one it did not even have the necessary space for a concert hall and a museum at the same time.