Columns linked to Adriana Lecouvreur - Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (2024)

Adriana Lecouvreur at the Liceu: Less Sincere is the Truth

Xavier Pujol

Adriana Lecouvreur has returned to the Liceu, a title that is an authentic operone, with a great vocal score and an orchestration of high level and full of details; a very great drama, with four acts, ballet, three imposing characters and an intense dramatic conflict on a libretto with no special poetic relevance. A work with a very rare aesthetic situation given that, ascribed by the time of composition (it was premiered in 1902) to verismo, it is not about screams and stabbings...