Benjamin a Portbou - Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (2025) - Benjamin a Portbou - Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (2025)

Description

Benjamin in Portbou is an opera commissioned by the Gran Teatre del Liceu to the teacher Antoni Ros-Marbà. Anthony Carroll Madigan's booklet is focused on the life of the philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin.

For Ros-Marbà, writing this opera was like a pending subject in its long musical career. The book of the opera, written by the scholar Tony Madigan, is a work of art of a literary language that demands to be musicized and staged, and by the knowledge that the author had of the life and work of Walter Benjamin (Berlin, 1892 - Portbou, 1940).

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.