A large part of Arnau Tordera's (Tona, 1986) musical interests are present in I have it in my heart (Global Music, 2024-2026), an album by the group Obeses released in two parts. Now comes the second part: Diastole. Eight songs that mix rock, metal, musical, pop, the sound of a quartans' band and a version of the Virolai with the Coral Canigó. Of the album, but also of the position of resistance in the Catalan musical ecosystem, of various political and economic upheavals, of the Obeses festival and of the program The Renaissance, speaks the leader of the group completed by Arnau Burdó (keyboards), Maiol Montané (drums) and the poet Jaume Coll Mariné (below), winner of the Carles Riba prize 2025 with the poetry collection Like leaves (Proa).

Arnau Tordera (Tona, 1986) says that becoming a musician wasn't the result of a decision made at a specific moment, but rather a consequence of music gradually taking up more and more time in his life and of a profession that, he asserts, never ends. The leader of the band Obeses, he is also the creator of the opera The Lost Cat and of Sardana SuperstarHe, who has described himself as a "unique artistic piece" irreplaceable by the country, sees in wine a point of connection with pleasure, tradition and the land.

The artistic universe ofArnau Tordera (Tona, 1986) has no limits. The musician and composer was the first to create a musical theater show centered, from beginning to end, around the sardana. "Until now, there have been some experiments incorporating the copla and the tenora, but this is the first dramatic work that uses these elements to convey the entire show," Tordera emphasizes. With this in mind, he conceived Sardana Superstar, which premiered in October at the Fira Mediterrània and is coming to Barcelona's Teatro Condal from July 2 to 6 as part of the Grec Festival.

Arnau Tordera (Tona, 1986), composer, guitarist and singer, is the leader of the group Obeses, he has created the musical Sardana Superstar and the opera The lost cat. Maybe you discovered it in a Marathon from TV3 singing Show must go on; in it FAQS, interpreting The Reapers at the top of Sant Jeroni, with just an electric guitar; or in one of his sections with Jordi Basté on RAC1. He has a degree in philosophy and has studied at the ESMUC (Spanish Academy of Music), the Taller de Músics (Music Workshop), and the Conservatori de Vic (Vic Conservatory). He has the talent, the discourse, and the aesthetics to go against the grain. His manner sometimes reminds me of Albert Serra's.

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.