Gran Teatre Del Liceu BARCELONA

Suite Festival wants to promote the Ediciones Musicals Clipper’s is Gran Teatre del Liceu as Barcelona's promoting the Suite Festival in greatest and grandest concert hall, in partnership with private sponsors the mould of other concert halls who have ensured the event's around the word such as London's economically viability and allowed us Royal Albert Hall, the Olympia in to offer competitive ticket prices, Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York, thus making the festival accessible to all of which offer regular concert the general public as well as winning programmes of the best pop, rock, over new audiences for the future. jazz and folk, as well as other genres of contemporary music.

Suite Festival is a new season of Suite Festival aims to become one of concerts that has set out to bring Catalonia's key cultural events, together the best national and offering a line-up of large musical international artists. Its regular, productions with a more intimate and high-quality programme of personal approach at the Gran Teatre performances will take place at the del Liceu, creating a unique audience legendary Gran Teatre del Liceu, one experience. Suite Festival is of the world's most emblematic opera presenting a varied bill of world-class houses and a cultural icon of artists in this unrivalled venue with Barcelona. spectacular acoustics and capacity for 2,026 people. persones. Suite Festival wants to promote the Ediciones Musicals Clipper’s is Gran Teatre del Liceu as Barcelona's promoting the Suite Festival in greatest and grandest concert hall, in partnership with private sponsors the mould of other concert halls who have ensured the event's around the word such as London's economically viability and allowed us Royal Albert Hall, the Olympia in to offer competitive ticket prices, Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York, thus making the festival accessible to all of which offer regular concert the general public as well as winning programmes of the best pop, rock, over new audiences for the future. jazz and folk, as well as other genres of contemporary music.

Suite Festival is a new season of Suite Festival aims to become one of concerts that has set out to bring Catalonia's key cultural events, together the best national and offering a line-up of large musical international artists. Its regular, productions with a more intimate and high-quality programme of personal approach at the Gran Teatre performances will take place at the del Liceu, creating a unique audience legendary Gran Teatre del Liceu, one experience. Suite Festival is of the world's most emblematic opera presenting a varied bill of world-class houses and a cultural icon of artists in this unrivalled venue with Barcelona. spectacular acoustics and capacity for 2,026 people. persones. Suite Festival helps to attract new As a new player on the Catalan music audiences to the Gran Teatre del Liceu and cultural scene, Suite Festival will by programming major national and act as a draw for national and international tours, thus consolidating international audiences, helping to Barcelona's opera house as the city's consolidate the Barcelona brand through best live music venue and its number music while further strengthening the one concert hall. city's cultural fabric. Gran Teatre del Liceu BARCELONA

Barcelona’s premiere opera house, the The opera house is managed by the Gran Teatre del Liceu, opened in Gran Teatre del Liceu Foundation, 1847 on the city’s main thoroughfare, which is comprised of the Catalan La Rambla. It has maintained its role Regional Government, Barcelona City as a bastion of art and culture over the Council, Barcelona Provincial Council years. In terms of seating capacity, it and the Spanish Ministry of is the largest Italian-style opera house Education, Culture and Sport, as well in Europe and the second largest in as the Patronage Council and the the world. Gran Teatre del Liceu Society.

Seating capacity: 2,026 woody allen & his new orleans jazz band van morrison els amics de les arts 31 / DECEMBER 19 / JANUARY 16 / FEBRUARY

luz casal ara malikian gregory porter 20 / MARCH 26 / MARCH 30 / MARCH

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antonio orozco Kraftwerk Katie melua 12 / APRIL 22 / APRIL 23 / MAY woody From Broadway Danny Rose to Match Point, an obsession with music abounds in the work of the filmmaker who best captured allen the Big Apple. Woody Allen leads the Eddy Davis New Orleans & his new Jazz Band on its concerts around the world, giving full rein to his love for classic jazz and his passion for the clarinet. The New orleans jazz band York filmmaker’s musical manifestation, Woody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band, will take to the stage at the 31 / DECEMBER Gran Teatre del Liceu to open the first Suite Festival, where it 20 h will play a selection of the best international jazz numbers, some of which are closely connected with his films. A very special concert to bring 2014 to a close, alongside Woody Allen and with the exceptional backdrop of his beloved Barcelona.

Tickets on sale Tuesday, 25 November at 10 am.

*After the concert, a New Year’s Eve dinner with party favours will be held in the Foyer of the Gran Teatre del Liceu for 300 www.woodyallen.com guests. Van Morrison is one of Britain's most important van morrison and prolific solo artists thanks to his special 19 / JANUARY blend of introspective lyrics, profound transcendental emotions, mysticism and 20 h melodies that encompass Celtic music, blues, jazz, soul, folk, country, swing and gospel. Van Morrison is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of his generation, with an unbroken musical track record that spans the last four decades, more than 30 studio albums and a large list of songs that break down the traditional boundaries. This Northern Irish artist, born in Belfast, has been awarded with a number of Grammys, has earned a place in the Rock Hall of Fame and has been decorated with an OBE for his services to music.

www.vanmorrison.com els amics After becoming one of the most solid bands on the new Catalan pop scene, Els Amics de les Arts have de les arts returned in top form in 2014 with a new album and an extraordinary launch tour that has seen them back 16 / FEBRUARY on stage with all the atmosphere of their greatest moments. Their new album, entitled Només d’entrar 21 h hi ha sempre el dinosaure, was released in April. This is the fourth record from one of the music scene's biggest bands, which had already won over fans with previous work including its acclaimed debut album, the bestselling, multi-award winning Bed & Breakfast (2009), followed by Espècies per catalogar and Tenim dret a fer l'animal. This will be one of the most highly-awaited comebacks of the season and, without a doubt, a concert well worth seeing.

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After six years without a new release following the success of luz casal her album Vida Tóxica and La Pasión, her homage to popular 20 / MARCH Hispanic-American music, Luz is back on stage. The star is taking her performances from Peking to Montreal, with a 21 h stop-over at the Suite Festival to present her musical comeback, Almas Gemelas. In her new record, Luz is extremely versatile and reaches out to many different styles, creating fresh, intimate sounds without forgetting the essence of rock. Recognised as one of Spain’s most international artists, and with awards including an Honorary Latin Grammy, the French Order of Arts Medal and, more recently, the Spanish National Award for Contemporary Music, she has a warm voice that stays in your mind. Her prodigious career started with rock and has encompassed genres including ballads and boleros, reaching across a range of different audiences and generations. www.luzcasal.es An inexhaustible curiosity of music and human ara malikian nature have led Ara Malikian to explore his own 26 / MARCH Armenian roots and fuse the music of other Middle Eastern cultures (Arab and Jewish) with 21 h genres from Central Europe (gypsy and klezmer), Argentina (tango) and Spain (flamenco), all within a very personal style and with the virtuosity and expressiveness of the great European classical tradition. He has performed in over 40 countries, giving more than 450 concerts each year, and has been presented with some of world's most prestigious awards. Ara Malikian is currently on tour with more than 10 different shows, accompanied by a group of renowned musicians. He has released more than 40 records and has formed his own orchestra, while his skill and accomplishments as a violinist have been www.aramalikian.com recognised in numerous world-class competitions. When Jazz Times and All About Jazz, two of the most influential US gregory jazz magazines, both said that he would be the next gre at jazz porter vocalist, it was clear that Gregory Porter was no ordinary talent. With just two records to his name, Water and Be Good, both nominated for 30 / MARCH Grammys, Gregory Porter fuses jazz and soul better than any other singer today. His musical career includes a stint on Broadway (he was 21 h part of the cast of It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues, which received four Tony nominations), he made history when his song “Real Good Hands” was named iTunes Single of the Week (the first time a jazz number had ever been chosen) and he has also performed with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Gregory Porter is considered to be one of the most brilliant singers in jazz today, with a voice that combines the sensitivity of Nat King Cole, the depth of Joe Williams and the soul of Donny Hathaway, with a personal quality that makes it truly unique. He recently won the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 56th Grammy Awards, reaffirming the fact that we have before us the next big star in the world of jazz. www.gregoryoporter.com Antonio Orozco is one of the most brilliant and talented antonio artists on the Spanish music scene and one of the most orozco prolific singers and composers in Spanish pop. With a career dating back to the year 2000, he has built a valuable 12 / APRIL musical legacy consisting of seven studio albums and numerous hits, all this with the basic ingredient of utmost 20 h honesty, something that enables him to reach people’s hearts. Antonio Orozco is now set to perform his Único show at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu: an innovative concept showcasing his live repertoire in all its aspects. Featuring great songs from his back catalogue at their most expressive together with meticulous staging, it is a completely different artistic project that enables audiences to discover the most accessible and intimate musical facet of one of our most extraordinary artists and a wholly original proposal in his career. www.antoniorozco.com The multimedia project Kraftwerk was founded in 1970 by Kraftwerk Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider within the experimental art scene of the late Sixties in Düsseldorf. Kraftwerk are 22 / APRIL considered to be pioneers in electronic music and an endless 21 h source of inspiration for a wide range of musical genres. They have made musical history and achieved recognition all over the world for more than four decades now. Since their beginnings they worked with the latest achievement of modern technologies, they composed sound poetry with highly reduced-condensed texts and programmed their robot image as an expression for the theme of a world dominated by machines and computers. Right from the start, Kraftwerk regarded their concert performances as complete audio-visual events. Their sound and image has been a long-term influence not only in music, but also in the world of contemporary visual art. Texts, style, and media-reflective strategies incorporated the themes and issues of the information era, namely the www.kraftwerk.com interaction between men and machines. katie Born a Georgian although with British nationality, Katie Melua is a great international star. In 2007 she became the female artist with melua most records sold throughout the world, a whole of 11 million, and was awarded with 56 platinum records. London is the city which saw her 23 / MAY grow professionally when the composer and producer Mike Batt discovered her while performing at the school she was studying. All 21 h along her career Katie has lived really special moments, like for example, when she performed for Nelson Mandela with her idols, Queen, or during a dinner where she performed for Queen Elisabeth at Buckingham Palace. In her concerts we can highlight the sensitivity which arises from her elegant pop with snaps of folk and jazz, a tendency that prevails in her last album Ketevan, where she covers variety of ideas with romance and melancholy.

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