Timothée Chalamet is one of the hottest young actors right now, and on Sunday he could win his first Oscar for his performance in Marty SupremeHowever, public opinion is not entirely favorable to him, especially after his statements this weekend went viral, in which he called opera and ballet dying arts, a statement that has angered both artistic fields, which have responded to the actor through different institutions.

The baritone Àngel Òdena is one of the members of the cast of The Mona LisaThe opera by Amilcare Ponchielli, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, can be seen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu until March 2nd. The Tarragona native returned to the Liceu stage this past Monday after three years, when he participated in The Troubadour, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his debut at the Barcelona theater.

On Monday night, La 1 premiered Aria, crazy about opera, one Operation Triumph but adapted to lyric poetry. talent show It has a more modest structure in terms of its machinery, but this gives it a more refined and exclusive feel. In fact, this is a determining factor for the format: it conveys to the viewer the idea that they are accessing a higher level of entertainment than what is usually found on television. They justify this with musical education. There is a constant effort to explain to the audience that opera, despite seeming like a genre for connoisseursIt's accessible and can move everyone. Furthermore, commentator Mario Marzo points out the red flags of certain plots and characters that represent the most egregious machismo in opera. To the relational dynamics, one must add the overdoses of emotional sugar and confection that these shows require. Since the world of opera already has a certain tendency towards affectation, it all feels very much its own. The three members of the jury display a delicacy and sensitivity in their approach that transforms the final verdict of sending heads rolling into a magnanimous and somewhat contrived art.

What's the secret to a show that premiered in 1983 continuing to be a success four decades later? Stage director Mario Gas doesn't have the magic formula, but he believes it has something to do with "creating a slice-of-life comedy that offers a lot of stagecraft, but isn't just pure entertainment." He's the mastermind behind the production of The elisir of loveDonizetti's opera, which the Gran Teatre del Liceu is hosting again this season, after years of captivating audiences time and again. With Venezuelan maestro Diego Matheuz conducting, the production will feature a cast of top-tier performers, headlined by sopranos Pretty Yende, Serena Sáenz, and Marina Monzó, and tenors Javier Camarena, Michael Spyres, and Filipe Manu. The elisir of love It premieres this Saturday—in an evening that will coincide with the lighting of the Liceu's Christmas lights—and will run until December 15.

Sara Blanch is one of the most prominent Catalan opera singers of today. Born in Darmós, a small town in the Ribera d'Ebre region, at just 36 years old she has become a regular soloist in the Gran Teatro del Liceo seasons. She has already performed on major international stages and has established herself everywhere as a great interpreter of the opera. bel canto Italian. A light lyric soprano with a great gift for the high notes and coloratura, combined with an absolute command of expressiveness and nuances, she will debut at the Vilabertran Schubertiad, one of the most important lied competitions in Europe, next Tuesday, August 19, with a recital of works by German composers. After a summer full of high-flying engagements, the 2025-26 season begins in just a few weeks, once again full of stimulating appointments, with premieres at the Royal Opera House in London, the Paris Opera and La Scala in Milan, in addition to the return to the Liceu, in June, with Le nozze di Figaro.

Elegant and exquisitely kind, Atom Egoyan is also one of the great Canadian directors – born in Cairo in 1960 – of recent decades, responsible for fascinating works such as Exotic (1994), The sweet future (1997) and Ararat (2002). With Seven veils, which will premiere on the Filmin platform on July 11, Egoyan signs his most complete film of the last decade, a meditation on the turbulent process of creating a work of art in which Amanda Seyfried plays the director of the new version of a production of the opera Salome which she herself worked on as a young woman. Inherited from her mentor, the project is a poisoned gift that stirs up family traumas and collides with the new sensibility of a post-Me Too society.

Camp de Mart will once again be the stage for DO Tarragona opera this summer, thanks to the support of the Friends of the Tarragona Lyric Theatre Association. Specifically, one of Giacomo Puccini's greatest works will be performed, The BohemianIt will be on July 11 and 13, as part of the Tarragona Summer Festival.

Opera in the veins. This is the formula designed to create culture. Not only water culture (so necessary today), but also culture about the Urgell Canal, a structure that has shaped much of the Lleida district and represents not only a historical past of superhuman efforts to bring water to dry land, but also a future that necessarily requires its modernization.