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"I am a narcissist"This is the title of the opera that won young Catalan composer Raquel García-Tomás the National Music Prize in the "composition" category in 2020.
She is preparing her new opera Alexina B., with Irène Gayraud and Marta Pazos, which will have its world premiere in March 2023 at the Liceu in Barcelona. She will be the second woman to create an opera at the Liceu in 175 years!
The Mixtur festival and Hémisphère have teamed up once again to commission a work, Sightings, to be presented in Barcelona on October 7, 2022.
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RaquelGarcía-Tomás, born in Barcelona, is a young composer specializing in interdisciplinary creation, with a doctorate from London's Royal College of Music.
In 2017, he was awarded the "El ojo critico" prize by Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE) for " the originality of his artistic approach, combining written language with technological and audiovisual language".
This combination is particularly evident in "Je suis narcissiste", written by Helena Tornero and directed by Marta Pazos, presented at the Teatro Real in Madrid, then at the Teatro LLure in Barcelona in 2019.
In recent years, these works have premiered in major national and international venues, including "DIDO Reloaded", produced by Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació, and "La Baleine Bleue", a reflection on sacrifice in contemporary society inspired by Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", written by Victoria Szpunberg and directed by Xavier Albertí in 2018.
His music has been performed in Barcelona at L'Auditori, Palau de la Música and Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; in Spain at Palau de la Música de València, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Teatro del Canal and Auditorio 400 at the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid. But also in Berlín, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Stockholm, Viena, Lisbon, Cairo and Buenos Aires, and in Orleans and Lyon in France.
It was in London, where she lived for six years, that she carried out her most remarkable projects in collaboration with the English National Ballet, the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Today, she is composing a new opera commissioned by Barcelona's Liceu opera house: Alexina B., with original libretto by French author and poet Irène Gayraud, to be staged again by Marta Pazos and presented on March 18, 21 and 22, 2023.
In the meantime, we have the pleasure of discovering Sightingsco-written with video artist Pere Ginard, and performed by the young German ensemble Via Nova, on October 7, 2022 at 8pm at the Fabra i Coats during the new edition of the Mixtur festival .
Sightings was previewed on September 5 at the Kunstfest in Weimar.
Photo article © May Zircus
