The enthusiasm was as great as the vertigo before the challenge. Six months ago, when they had almost everything tied up, Sigfrid Quer and Joan Manel Coco explained to ARA the new adventure of the Cor Canta Foundation: Sea of ​​seasThe symphonic choral performance premieres on Sunday, March 15th at L'Auditori in Barcelona (12 pm) and will also be performed on March 18th in Valls and on April 17th in Girona Cathedral. The enthusiasm is understandable, both for its conceptual scope and the artistic talent involved: the premiere of three commissioned works by composers Feliu Gasull, Ferran Cruixent, and Anna Campmany; the participation of the Terrassa 48 Chamber Orchestra; soloists such as tenor Roger Padullés, baritone Germán de la Riva, and soprano Irene Mas; and Àngels Gonyalons as a reciter; the batons of Elisenda Carrasco, Jordi Lluch, and Eva Martínez; and the poetic material of authors such as Manuel Forcano, Joan Vinyoli, Jacint Verdaguer, and Joan Maragall. And, of course, the 120 singers of the Cor Canta choir. "It's the most ambitious project we've undertaken in eight years," Quer notes a few days before the premiere.

Enthusiasm has spread this Saturday through L'Auditori in Barcelona during and after the premiere of the suite for choir and orchestra by The lost cat, the opera by Arnau Tordera with libretto by Victoria Szpunberg. More than a hundred singers from the Cor Canta, the musicians from the Original Soundtrack Orchestra (OSTO) and the five solo singers were exultant receiving the ovation of the public, which almost filled L'Auditori, the third stop of a tour that has passed through Vic and Tarragona and that will close on March 2 in Man. It was the encore, and it sounded We are from Raval, the neighborhood anthem, one of the most exciting moments of the work.

It took four years of work by the associative and creative fabric of the Raval to build the opera The lost cat, with libretto by Victoria Szpunberg and music by Arnau Tordera. All this culminated in Two performances at the Liceu in October 2022... and quite a lot. Until several singers from the Cor Canta who had participated in the opera wanted to continue it. "We contacted Arnau and told him: 'We want to take the work out of the drawer.' And he prepared a suite for us," recalls Sigfrid Quer, president of the Cor Canta, at an event held this Thursday in the Martí el Humano hall of the MUHBA, which served precisely to present the four concerts in which it is performed. The lost cat.