Except for the Empordà summer music calendar with the first concert of the Perelada Festival, which this year, exceptionally, has been brought forward to the first two weeks of July. The program, conceived as a kind of symphony of Twelve movements around the gardens of paradise, has raised the curtain with the debut of the extraordinary mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, accompanied on piano by Craig Terry, in the church of Carme.

This summer, the gardens of Peralada Castle will reopen their doors to host a new edition of the Peralada Festival, which this year will be held more as usual, from July 3 to 18. In total, there will be twelve proposals of music, dance, and opera, with special attention to contemporary creation, under the motto of "the invitation to paradise," conceived as twelve movements of a single cultural and artistic symphony. Most of the shows, all small-format, will be performed inside the Carme Church and in the Mirador space, while work on the new open-air auditorium is pending.