The Peralada Festival continues its summer programming with the absolute premiere of Genius loci, A modern and daring proposal created by stage director Rafael R. Villalobos and countertenor Xavier Sabata. The show, conceived as a kind of dramatized recital, halfway between performance and installation, transforms the garden into a space for abstract meditation on existential doubts and human crises. Without any excessively narrative pretensions, Sabata combines the performance of nine musical fragments with the recitation of texts in Spanish inspired by the book The garden loses [The Lost Garden] by Jorn de Précy, accompanied by Jonas Nordberg on the archlute, who also acts as an actor, and Liam Byrne, on the viola da gamba and electronics.

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.