Performance: "The cat lost"

Description

The Liceu, as a cultural emblem of the country with a vocation for serving the neighbourhood, co-leads a community project with the associative movement of the neighbourhood: the creation of a participatory and co-created opera in which the link between the institution and the citizens is reinforced from the neighborhood This is how La gata perdida was born, the opera with which the Raval enters the Liceu. Presenting this fresh proposal will have involved three years of significant collective effort. Musically conceived by Arnau Tordera I, guitarist, vocalist and leader of the band Obeses, and with text by Victoria Szpunberg, it moves between the lyrical and the musical world, passing through bursts of world music, which are so popular in its streets. Truly chaotic living space, the Raval is the perfect counterpoint to the world of the establishment. A real train wreck between the Apollonian-Dionysian visions of an orderly Eixample and a labyrinthine Raval. A conflict that has been ordered and rationalized, but the Raval remains an urban center with a great spirit of resistance. We focus on anonymous people: its inhabitants who, with their identity hybridization, live together in the neighborhood. It is from their anecdotes, experiences, stories, dreams and concerns that the script has been drawn up. The lost cat talks about the struggle of a neighborhood that does not resign itself to being manipulated. A united neighborhood that rebels against the powers that be and is in itself a fundamental character that will be performed by the choral mass of the Raval's amateur choirs. Around this neighborhood converge characters who want to speculate and use the Raval for their interests: the tycoon who watches the neighborhood from the upper part of the city, who hides a secret and mobilizes the caretaker; the architect; and the detective, so that they resolve a network of facts that harm him. The cat represents a character who undergoes a transformation during the opera; someone who decides to be free, who does not bow to abuse and represents hope. In this project, more than ever, the Liceu is a mediator, and La gata Perdida is the perfect vehicle to give voice to diversity, and is also a true path of integration and development of people.

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