The musical program of the 31st edition of the Temporada Alta festival is gaining muscle. The autumn competition was announced this Thursday the addition of six new proposals to its list which will pass through Girona and Salt between the months of October and December. Fito & Fitipaldis, Les Luthiers, Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés, Tarta Relena, Rita Payés and l’Orchestra Fireluche they are added, in the musical section, to those already announced Gio Symphony with Ute Lemper, Xoel Lopez i Joan Miquel Oliver with da Souza. Tickets for the new shows went on sale yesterday.
The festival also announced yesterday the addition of new venues for this year’s edition, thus demonstrating that it maintains its commitment to bringing its programming closer to the territory. This way, the contest adds l’Escala, Puigcerdà, Sant Gregori and Vilajuïga as new venues where to perform shows. The new headquarters are added to those already common in recent editions, such as Torroella de Montgrí, Banyoles, Palafrugell and Bescanó, and the official ones in Girona and Salt.
In these spaces, the festival will program a total of 7 shows, four of which will have a small tour of the Girona regions. the swallowthe work created by Guillem Clua and directed by Joseph Maria Mestres, will tour Palafrugell, Salt and Sant Gregori. The second show that will tour the festival’s venues will be alone at lastthe monologue created by Carles Sanswhich can be enjoyed this autumn in Girona, Palafrugell and Torroella de Montgrí.
From rock to progressive Gregorian
Among the new names joining the festival’s programming, the veterans Fito & Fitipaldis stand out. The rock band led by Fito Cabrales, ex-vocalist of Platero y Tú, will make a stop in Girona – on Friday 9 December at the Auditorium – as part of a tour for theaters and auditoriums in which, in addition to performing cuts from his latest studio album, every time corpsethey will also review many of their greatest hits, interpreted with a different nuance and in a more intimate format.
Also noteworthy is the presence of the duo formed by Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés, who will visit La Mirona de Salt on Tuesday, October 11 to present Hyperutopiaa “cosmic journey” through the universe of his acclaimed latest studio work, Clamor. It is one of the most ambitious and exciting live shows of today in an unforgettable, unpublished format that will feature the 36 voices of the Catalan Orfeó Girls’ Choir. The show, with a futuristic edge, could already be seen last June as part of the Sónar festival in Barcelona.
They will also go through Salt Marta Torrella and Helena Ros, members of the Tarta Relena project. The two singers – who accompanied Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés as choristers on the Clamor tour – will present a proposal on Saturday 26 November at the Teatre de Salt which they themselves define as “progressive tronadet and Gregorian folk” i que fusiona la tradició oral, amb textos antics en català, el castellà, el llatí, el grec o l’hebreu amb brushstrokes of electronics. This performance is co-organized by Temporada Alta and Festival Neu!, which once again commit to working together.
The Fireluche Orchestra will perform on October 31 at the Teatre de Salt Second flowering – the work signed next to the deceased PauRiba– i Rita Paid will offer a concert on December 4 at the Teatre Municipal de Girona accompanied by Elisabeth Roma and her new quartet formation, with which she has recorded the first original songs.
Humor and music it is the base on which it will turn big reserve, the show that the Argentinian collective Les Luthiers will premiere on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 October at the Girona Auditorium. Gran reserva is an anthology of the best numbers of the formation founded in Buenos Aires in 1967.