The 'Concert for Peace' brings together musical institutions
L'Auditori will host a recital by artists such as Joyce DiDonato, Jordi Savall, Antoni Ros Marbà, Airam Hernández and Mattia Olivieri, amongst others.
On Wednesday, 30 March, the Auditori de Barcelona will host the Concert for Peace organised by the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation, the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya in support of the Red Cross project Ukraine needs us. The event will vindicate music as a universal element of cohesion, understanding and coexistence between people. It will, therefore, be a hymn to world peace and a condemnation of all wars.
The musicians and singers who participate do so altruistically, and all box office proceeds will go to the mission promoted by the Red Cross.
The Concert for Peace is an initiative of the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation be made possible thanks to the collaboration of the following institutions, which have selflessly lent their facilities and technical and human resources, and are covering the costs of the event: the Barcelona City Council, the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the Sant Cugat City Council, the Franz Schubert Association, L'Auditori de Barcelona, the Conservatori del Liceu, the Delegació del Govern, the Escolania de Montserrat, the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, the Pau Casals Foundation, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Palau de la Música Catalana - Orfeó Català and the University of Barcelona.
The conductors Mireia Barrera, Salvador Brotons, Tomàs Grau, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Jordi Mora, Pedro Pardo, Xavier Puig, Antoni Ros Marbà and Jordi Savall will lead the Orquestra and the chior for Peace, made up for volunteer musicians and singers from orchestras of the different Barcelona institutions: Orquestra Simfònica and choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC), Franz Schubert Filharmonia, Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation, Pau Casals Foundation, ESMUC, Conservatori del Liceu, Coral Càrmina and Quartet Casals.
The programme will begin with Valentin Silverstrov's Prayer for Ukraine, conducted by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, and the evening will also include performances of The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kyiv), from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, conducted by Xavier Puig; Adagio by Samuel Barber, conducted by Jordi Mora; Da pacem domine, by Arvo Pärt, conducted by Jordi Savall; Morgen! Op. 27/4 by Richard Strauss, under the charge of the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conducted by Pedro Pardo; and Nimrod Adagio from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, conducted by Tomàs Grau.
The final stretch will feature the fourth movement by Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, performed by soprano Katerina Tetryakova, mezzo-soprano Marina Pinchuk, tenor Airam Hernández and baritone Mattia Olivieri, conducted by Salvador Brotons. The repertoire will be completed with a Madrigal on the popular theme El cant dels ocells by Xavier Montsalvatge, with a performance by the Escolania de Montserrat and the cellist Miquel Keenan Fuentes conducted by Antoni Ros Marbà.
Tickets for the Concert for Peace go from 15 to 25 euros and can be bought in advance through this link.