Sílvia Bel (Barcelona, 1970) believes in authenticity and naturalness, and practices them. The actress, who has graced the major theaters of the Catalan scene and is currently known for her role as Marta in Com si fos ahir, alternates maximum expressiveness –gestural and linguistic– with introspective silence. Bel understands the arts as a space for sincere expression, far from affectations and hypocrisies; and it is also in this way that she speaks of gastronomy and wine.They made a Ribera del Duero for his daughter, Ainara Elejalde. How does Sílvia Bel imagine the wine?

Elegant tribute to Joan Maragall and Clara Noble at the Petit Palau de la Música on the premiere of project Living Wordby Fernando Trias de BesOrganized by Sing Us and the ARA, the event was described as "a celebration of words" and "a beautiful and magical possibility," as Pere Agustí Maragall, the poet's great-grandson, remarked just before the recital. For nearly an hour and a half, a marital dialogue unfolded, imbued with sensitivity, humor, and tenderness, between the apocryphal diary of the woman, written by Trias de Bes, and some fifteen poems; between the thoughts of the woman, Clara Noble, recited by the actress Sílvia Bel, and the verses of the husband, Joan Maragall, sung by the tenor Roger Padullés, who participated in [the event] a few weeks ago. the opera Tristan and Isolde Wagner at the LyceumAnd accompanying Bel and Padullés was the pianist Miquel Esquinas.

Being reborn after an accident: it sounds like a cliché, but we can't forget that clichés are often deeply ingrained truths. Or, at least, rhetorical fossils with a kernel of truth at their core. Just ask economist and writer Fernando Trias de Bes, who about a year and a half ago suffered a serious car accident that could have killed him, but from which he emerged reborn and creatively liberated.