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SCHMITZ ROTHOPERA IN BARCELONA

“...specialized in organizing

premium stays in barcelona to

enjoy the opera...”









SCHMITZ ROTH is a travel agency, registered in the Catalan Registry of Tourism with

number GC-004042, specialized in organizing Premium stays in BARCELONA to enjoy

the Opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, explore its Private Areas behind the scenes with

a specialized guide and enjoy the experience of an exclusive visit to “El Círculo del Liceo”,

the oldest English-style private club in Spain, which has one of the most important private

collections of modernist art in Catalonia.

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SCHMITZ ROTHOPERA IN BARCELONA

“...the only agency

which organizes premium

stays particularly for

german-speaking

visitors...”








german-speaking

SCHMITZ ROTH is the only agency which organizes PREMIUM stays for

German-speaking visitors who want to enjoy the experience of going to the Opera in the

incomparable setting of Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, explore the Private Areas

behind the scenes and also get to know the exquisite Private Club “El Círculo del Liceo”

which is in the same building and is the venue for top personalities of Catalan society, as

it is the oldest private social club in the city.


“...travelling with schmitz roth

guarantees unique and

unforgettable experiences...”







To guarantee the quality of the Premium experience with SCHMITZ-ROTH, we combine five key factors in our programmes:

1. Exclusive seats.For each performance we select the best seats, to make sure that our clients enjoy an unforgettable experience at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

2. Exclusive visit and lunch in the Restaurant of the Private Club “El Círculo del Liceo” (access restricted to members) with a German or English-speaking guide.

3. Premium visit behind the scenes of the Gran Teatre del Liceu with a specialized a German or English-speaking guide.

4. Personal attention.Our clients receive very special treatment in their own language.

5. Maximum comfort for your stay.Our clients will enjoy staying at the Hotel Claris, a 5-Star Grand Luxe Hotel in the centre of Barcelona, a few steps from the Paseo de Gracia, the city’s main shopping street. This Hotel is unique in Barcelona for its strong connection with the arts, reflected in the superb collection of works displayed in each of the bedrooms, all of them decorated with exclusive pieces to give a special atmosphere which combines luxury and comfort. But there is no doubt that the finest collection in the Hotel Claris is the Egyptian works of art on show in the hotel's museum on the first floor.

The result:

Travelling with SCHMITZ ROTH guarantees a unique and unforgettable experience.


“...barcelona is a reference

point for opera

in europe...”

“...barcelona is a reference“...barcelona is a reference“...barcelona is a reference

Barcelona, with its outstanding geographical location and great cultural, architectural and gastronomic attractions, is also a point of reference for Opera in Europe, since it has one of the finest opera houses in the world, a cultural symbol of the city: the Gran Teatre del Liceu, now the leading European theatre in the Italian format in number of seats and second in the world.

OPERA IN BARCELONA.

In the 19th century, the need to create a music conservatory in a Barcelona in full economic and demographic expansion led in 1838 to the conversion of the “Sociedad Dramática de Aficionados” into the “Liceo Filarmónico Dramático Barcelonés de H.M. Isabel II”, who added the Italian style of singing and music to the cultivation of theatre. Its success, together with the determination of a distinguished group of the Barcelona bourgeoisie, led by Joaquim de Gispert i d’Anglí, resulted in a new and ambitious theatre, worthy of the city’s importance and which has lasted for more than a century and a half, being built on the site of the old Trinitarian Monastery on the Rambla.

The inaugural performance was on 4 April 1847, a programme including a symphony by Joan Melcior Gomis, the drama Don Fernando de Antequera by Ventura de la Vega, an Andalusian-style dance entitled Rondeña by the composer Josep Jurch, and Il Regio Imene, a cantata in Italian by Joan Cortada with music by Marià Obiols.

After a first stage in which opera was part of the artistic activity, together with many drama performances, concerts and variety numbers, it became a prestigious opera theatre.


The first opera given, Anna Bolena, by Donizetti, was already a symptom of the taste for bel canto and romantic Italian drama of the moment (Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, etc.), which has remained in the repertory throughout the years, together with French grand opera (Auber, Meyerbeer, Halévy), now forgotten, and later French composers, such as Gounod, Bizet, Massenet and Saint-Saëns, who have been maintained.

1883 marked the appearance of Wagner, one of the composers most loved and valued by the public of the Liceu, and who has given the theatre some extraordinary moments. Verismo, especially in the figure of Puccini, since the end of the 19th century, has been a much appreciated school and also, after 1915, Russian opera (Mussorgski, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky).

In the second half of the 20th century, the repertory concentrated more on the most popular titles worldwide and also gave nearly all the other great composers of the century: Bartok, Honegger, Gershwin, Berg, Janacek, Weill, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Britten, Schönberg, Hindemith, etc., and has also exhumed baroque and classical composers such as Monteverdi, Handel and Gluck.

The finest voices of all times, among them outstanding Catalans such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Montserrat Caballé, Jaume Aragall and Josep Carreras, as well as Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas and Luciano Pavarotti and the best conductors and production designers, have all performed in this great theatre.


EL CÍRCULO DEL LICEO.

El Círculo del Liceo, founded in 1847 by 125 members, is an exclusive Private Club in the English style which at present has more than 900 members. It is the oldest club of its kind in Spain and still occupies its original premises.

It shares a symbolic building with the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, with which it has a common origin, but it is an association totally independent of the Theatre and a place of reference for the social and cultural life of Barcelona and Catalonia. Every year it is the venue for many occasions, recitals, concerts, conferences, presentations of prizes, fiestas and celebrations in which the members take part with personalities from the cultural life of Barcelona and from other parts of Spain.

El Círculo del Liceo has a unique artistic heritage, with one of the most important groups of modernist paintings in Spain, an important collection of art works, especially painting and sculpture, unequalled in Barcelona for its importance and excellent state of preservation:

- A set of murals, 12 oils on canvas by Ramón Casas, in “La Rotonda”, inspired in musical themes. Ramón Casas also designed and decorated this little room, which has been preserved until today without significant changes. In the oil “El automóvil” we see in the distance the orchestra playing in the pavilion which the Círculo del Liceo exhibited for the Universal Exhibition of 1888.

- The well-known “Fish bowl”, with a fabulous view of the Rambla, decorated by Josep Pascó (1901-1903) and with murals by Oleguer Junyent.


“...it is the oldest club of its

type in spain which is still

in its original setting...”



in its original setting...”in its original setting...”







- The four famous stained-glass windows were installed in the vestibule in 1905, works by Oleguer Junyent, Josep Pey and A. Bordalba, testimony to the tremendous influence of Wagner in Catalan culture in the early twentieth century, and the role of the Círculo in introducing Wagner to Catalonia.

- Large mural frieze in the “television and reading room” painted by Josep Pey (1903).

- The “Grand Salon”, decorated by Francesc P. Vidal, presided over by the famous “Julia” by Ramón Casas, a work known as “La Sargantain” (1907). There is also "Fatigada" by Francesc Masriera and “Acequia en Valencia” by Rusiñol.

- The “Clock Room”, decorated by Messrs. Vidal, enriched with the paintings “En el jardín” by Francesc Miralles and “Paisaje” by Modest Urgell.

- The Alexandre de Riquer room, decorated by him in 1900.

- The Dining room, renovated by the architect Josep Plantada in 1921, with large windows overlooking the Rambla. And the Private Dining room, with a portrait of the first president, the Marqués de Sentmenat.

- The Library, with a table designed by architect Bartomeu LLongueras (1955).

- A set of engravings by Antoni Tàpies dedicated to Richard Wagner for the redecoration of the old writing room on the second floor (added in 2010).



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04.12.2015

23.01.2016

23.04.2016

27.05.2016

03.06.2016

NABUCCO

Concert RICARDO MUTI

BENVENUTO CELLINI

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

BEETHOVEN and MALKOVICH

BOCCANEGRA with Plácido Domingo

Recital by JOYCE DIDONATO

Concert DIANA DAMRAU

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OPERAS AND CONCERTSAT THE GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU IN BARCELONA

Saturday 10 October 2015, 20.00 h

NABUCCO Giuseppe Verdi

Lyric drama in four parts. Libretto by Temistocle Solera, inspired in the homonymous drama by Francis Cornue and Anicet-Bourgeois.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians, invades the kingdom of Judea. His daughter Fenena, in love with a Hebrew, wants to free the conquered people and is in conflict with her sister Abigail. She, jealous, betrays her to her father and seizes the throne of Babylon, but Nabucco, converted to Judaism, recovers the kingdom and frees the Hebrews.

31 years after the last staged performance at the Liceu, one of Verdi's most famous works returns to Barcelona.

In this version, stage director Daniele Abbado reinterprets the Babylonian oppression of the Hebrews and situates the drama in the Holocaust years of the 20th century.

CREDITS:

CONDUCTOR Daniel Oren

STAGE DIRECTOR Daniele Abbado

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN Alison Chitty

LIGHTING Alessandro Carletti

CHOREOGRAPHY Simona Bucci

CO-PRODUCTION

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro alla Scala (Milan),

Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London),

Orquesta Sinfónica and Coro del Gran Teatre del Liceu.


Friday 13 November 2015, 20.00 h

Concert RICARDO MUTI

In 2004 Maestro Riccardo Muti founded the Orchestra Giovanile “Luigi Cherubini” which has now become a symphonic reference point in Europe.

This concert will bring together, on the stage of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, this Orchestra and soloist Ignasi Cambra, under the baton of Maestro Muti.

PROGRAMME:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for piano and

orchestra no. 24 in C minor K491 and others

CONDUCTOR Riccardo Muti

PIANO Ignasi Cambra

PRODUCTION

Fondazione Orchestra Giovanile «Luigi Cherubini».

Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu


Saturday 14 November 2015, 20.00 h

BENVENUTO CELLINI Hector Berlioz

Opera in two acts. Libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier.

Benvenuto Cellini is commissioned to make a sculpture for Pope Clement VII. Enamoured of the lovely Teresa, he does everything possible to elope with her. Meanwhile, Fieramosca, Teresa's fiancé and also a sculptor, will attempt the impossible to try to get the girl and the papal commission.

Premiered in 1838, it was not until 1977 that it came to the Gran Teatre del Liceu; the only time that this work has been given at the Liceu.

Terry Gilliam, member of Monty Python and director of films such as Brazil, presents an amusing, fresh and colourful production – including acrobats – of this classic work by Berlioz.

CREDITS:

CONDUCTOR Josep Pons

DIRECTOR Terry Gilliam

DIRECTOR AND

CHOREOGRAPHER Leah Hausman

SET DESIGNERS Terry Gilliam

and Aaron Marsden

COSTUME DESIGN Katrina Lindsay

LIGHTING Paule Constable

VIDEO Finn Ross

PRODUCTION

English National Opera (London),

De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam).



Friday 4 December 2015, 20.00 h

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Gaetano Donizetti

Opera in three acts. Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the novel “The Bride of Lammermoor” by Walter Scott.

Scotland. Between two enemy clans, love is born: Lucia and Edgardo secretly swear to marry. Lucia's brother, to separate her from his rival, makes her believe that Edgardo has forgotten her and forces her to marry another. She goes mad, kills her husband, and in the end she also dies. On hearing this news, Edgardo kills himself so as to be reunited with his love.

World premier of Juan Diego Flórez in the role of Edgardo, in this second most popular opera by Donizetti.

The staging, based on a leaning tower of glass, is a landscape of destruction and desolation, recalling that the country is at war, torn by the ambitions of the rival clans.

CREDITS:

CONDUCTOR Marco Armiliato

STAGE DIRECTOR Damiano Michieletto

SET DESIGN Paolo Fantin

COSTUME DESIGN Carla Teti

LIGHTING Martin Gebhardt

PRODUCTION

Opernhaus Zürich

Orquesta Sinfónica and Coro del Gran Teatre del Liceu


Saturday 23 January 2016, 20.00 h

BEETHOVEN and MALKOVICH

An innovative programme offered by the Wiener Akademie orchestra, combining a soprano, pieces of incidental music and Egmont, recited by actor John Malkovich.

In this work, the text is an adaptation of the classical work by Goethe, arranged by Christopher Hampton, Oscar winning script-writer.

PROGRAMME:

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 7, Op. 92 in A

major / Ah! Perfido, Op. 65 / Egmont, Op. 84

SOPRANO Kerstin Avemo

ACTOR John Malkovich

TEXT ADAPTATION Christopher Hampton

Wiener Akademie

CONDUCTOR Martin Haselböck


Saturday 23 April 2016, 20.00 h

BOCCANEGRA with Plácido Domingo

Opera in a prologue and three acts. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave with alterations by Giuseppe Montanelli and revised by Arrigo Boito, based on the work of the same name by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

What is the price of success? When the corsair Simon Boccanegra was young, his lover died and his infant daughter disappeared. Twenty-five years later, as Doge of Genoa, he is reunited with his daughter Amelia, but his new-found happiness is threatened by political enemies, among whom is his daughter's lover, Gabriele Adorno.

Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci and Giovanni Meoni, three great performers, three ways to enjoy Simon Boccanegra. The sets are designed by José Luis Gómez, austere, clean, abstract and distanced from historical references which could distort the universal message of the work.

CREDITS:

CONDUCTOR Massimo Zanetti

DIRECTOR José Luis Gómez

DESIGN AND PROJECTIONS Carl Fillion

COSTUMES Alejandro Andújar

LIGHTING Albert Faura

STAGE MOVEMENT Ferran Carvajal

CO-PRODUCTION

Gran Teatre del Liceu and Grand Théâtre de Genève.



Friday 27 May 2016, 20.00 h

Recital by JOYCE DIDONATO

One of the divas most loved by the public of the Gran Teatre del Liceu returns to give a recital with piano following her acclaimed success as Maria Stuarda and Cendrillon.

"The happy art of Joyce DiDonato reminds us that in any generation there are giants. Joyce is not only a great, valiant and inspiring artiste - one of the finest singers of our time - but also a transforming presence in the arts. Those who know her admire her gifts, and those who do not know her are instantly conquered. Joyce sings and the world is suddenly brighter. She makes us listen actively, listen in a different way". Jake Heggie, Gramophone.

PROGRAMME:

To be decided

MEZZO-SOPRANO Joyce Didonato


Friday 3 June 2016, 20.00 h

Concert DIANA DAMRAU

The return to the Gran Teatre del Liceu of the really successful Diana Damrau, one of the leading bel canto divas of the moment, singing great arias. Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, the essence of bel canto.

Diana Damrau has been called the "leading coloratura soprano in the world" (New York Sun) and «... the voice is simply glorious, whether in measured pianissimos or heroic raptures" (Financial Times).

Recently she won the prize as "Best Female Singer" in the "International Opera Awards 2014".

PROGRAMME:

Bel canto scenes and arias

SOPRANO Diana Damrau

BARITONE Nicolas Testé

CONDUCTOR Francesco Ivan Ciampa

OBC Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña.

The SCHMITZ ROTH experience starts with the visitor's arrival in the city:

- Airport - Barcelona Transfer with German or English-speaking chauffeur.

- Accommodation at the Hotel Claris, 5-star, Grand Luxe, with a strong connection with the arts and therefore unique in Barcelona, in the centre of the city, just a few steps from the Paseo de Gracia.

- Premium Visit to the Gran Teatre del Liceu behind the scenes with German or English-speaking guide.

- Exclusive visit to the Private Club “El Círculo del Liceo” with German or English-speaking guide.

- Lunch in the Restaurant of the Private Club “El Círculo del Liceo”, accompanied by Natalia Schmitz, founder of “SCHMITZ ROTH”.

- Hotel - Opera - Hotel Transfers.

- Going to the Opera of your choice at the Gran Teatre del Liceu with the finest seats.

- Barcelona - Airport Transfer with German or English-speaking chauffeur.

To complete the PREMIUM visit there is the option of adding other services:

- Visit to the Egyptian museum: the finest private collection of Egyptian works, just a few steps from the Hotel Claris.

- Personalized tours of the city of Barcelona accompanied by German or English-speaking guide and chauffeur.

- Other personal services, to be agreed.


THE PREMIUM EXPERIENCE

“...it is already a reality for

any visitor passionate about

opera to be able to enjoy

a unique visit to barcelona...”













Natalia Schmitz (CEO of SCHMITZ ROTH), German and resident in Barcelona since 1992, is a graduate in Law from Mannheim University and also has studies in Tourism.

Her love of Barcelona and its music has led her to embarkon the SCHMITZ ROTH project. Today, thanks to her determination, it is already a reality for any visitor passionate about Opera to be able to enjoy a unique visit to Barcelona.


NATALIA SCHMITZ

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