EL CONTE DE NADAL DE CHARLES DICKENS

Albert Guinovart

AChristmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published originally in English in 1843, narrates the story of a stingy and selfish man with apparently permanent scars (Mr Ebenezer Scrooge) and his surprising turnaround after a series of visits from ghosts over the course of Christmas Eve. Written at the height of the Victorian era with a melancholic feeling about the past, Christmas and the values of sticking together against coveting, it enjoyed widespread popularity.

With the idea of revealing the nuances of Dickens’ magisterial text, Albert Guinovart gives us an extremely beautiful and sensitive score, full of contrasts. Music at the service of the words spoken by all the characters in the story.

Accompanying the musical action, the sand drawings of Borja González (Ytuquepintas Company) imbue the show with even greater poetry. On a handcrafted light table, in total synchrony with the music and the text, he models the illustrations with sand to evoke the different scenes and the different characters in the story.

VEUS – Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió, together with the Gran Teatre del Liceu Orchestra, come together to showcase a Christmas classic: art, delicacy and precision!

Music and piano

Albert Guinovart

Text adapter and set coordinator

David Pintó

Soloists

Ana San Martín

Albert Mora

Sand art performer

Borja Gonzalez (Cia. Ytuquepintas)

VEUS – Cor infantil Amics de la Unió

Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

With the participation of musicians from the Conservatori del Liceu

Conductor Josep Vila Jover

DECEMBER 2023

Saturday 16 11.30 h

From 10 to 29 €

Sunday 17 11.30 h From 10 to 29 €

Approximate running time: : 1 h 10 min

Guardeu-me les espines de roses ja finides al crepuscle: la nova flor que me’n faré es dessagna en dia sense llum; no haurà vist l’alba ni la verda calma dels boscos umbel·lats, però tindrà el besllum de joia germinada dins la mort.

Renúncia es dirà aquesta flor ja ungida en els umbracles: del tast del temps, la mà l’haurà arrencada amb un tallant de cel; i si voleu jardí de tanta alçada, mil vols passar d’un vol, a la vida doneu el vostre preu amb l’ànima callada.

—Susanna Rafart, La llum constant (2013)