CaixaForum networks are filled with music with opera and Lied

CaixaForum will seat its guests in the gallery with the viewing of the intimate drama ‘La Traviata’, by Giuseppe Verdi, within the series Opera for Everyone, introduced by the journalist and publicist Marcel Gorgori.

In collaboration with the Teatro Real de Madrid, the series has so far added the titles ‘Rigoletto’, by Verdi, and ‘The Magic Flute’, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which continue to be available through the links broadcast on networks. As a new feature, this Thursday the new series of introductions to the world of Lied will begin. It will be given by the baritone and singer Enric Martínez-Castignani. Through four video clips with audio clips recommended for the occasion, he will offer a tour of the world of Lied, Mélodie and Spanish Song.

The series Lied en Casa wants to offer a close and pleasant introduction to this world, fruit of the union of the pieces of outstanding composers with texts of the best poets, who managed to give their songs the right dimension of what they wanted to express. The proposal, which will have a musical list attached, seeks to be an opportunity to let oneself be carried away and travel through chamber music and the emotions it produces in the company of Martínez-Castignani, who has sung most of them and will offer a different point of view: that of the artist who knows the works from the inside.

This week, the "la Caixa" Foundation has launched the #YoCanto initiative, which invites users over the age of 14 to sing a participatory digital song to the rhythm of Coldplay's ‘Viva la vida’. Until May 13th, participants can send in their audio and video files, following the tutorials on the website, and the final video will be made public this May.

Also new this week will be a workshop on theater criticism with the critic and chronicler of performing arts Oriol Puig Taulé on Twitter and Facebook channels of the cultural centers of the Foundation "la Caixa".

The series will have three video sessions that will take place on Tuesday 5, 12 and 19 May. In the first two, explanatory videos will be published, while on the last day it will be suggested to the followers to make a critique of a show, which will be easier to watch.

The Confined Encounters space, which gives a voice to artists and creators in times of confinement, will have the film director Alba Sotorra and the theatre company José y sus Hermanas, as protagonists, this Wednesday and Friday, respectively.

This Tuesday, CaixaForum's Facebook channel featured a conference by architect, artist and activist Francesco Careri, which will be held under the title ‘The Observed City’: Can the city be walked around? Is it still possible to get lost in the urban experience? And what do we discover when we stop to observe or walk around the empty spaces and fill them with our gaze?

 The networks of CaixaForum will also delve into the full-colour lithograph Ode to Joan Miró from the "la Caixa" Collection of Contemporary Art. Within the space #ZoomAlaColección, you will discover Joan Miró's expressive power and ability to create forms and invent from absolute freedom, in a period of intense concern for discovering the essence of things.

On Wednesday, the space of #ObrasConfinadas will have a new auditory explanation by Sebastião Salgado, who will comment on one of his emblematic photographs of the ‘Genesis’ project. This project, which for eight years led him to follow in Darwin's footsteps, is part of an exhibition of the "la Caixa" Foundation's Street Art program. This area will also focus on the piece ‘Mobile Home’, by artist Mona Hatoum, commented by Diana Guijarro, curator of the exhibition ‘Where we are. Where we could be’, inaugurated recently at CaixaForum Barcelona.

The series Danza filmada, introduced by the cultural journalist Clàudia Brufau, will continue this Wednesday. Through the camera, she proposes to experience dance in a different way, from new angles, in everyday spaces, and in other ways. The chapter to be published this Wednesday will deal with neo-romantic choreographies premiered by the Ballets Russes con: ‘The Sylphs’ (1909) with scores by Frederic Chopin, and ‘The Specter of the Rose’ (1911), both choreographies by Mikhaïl Fokín.

Aimed at family audiences, this weekend's Small Cinephiles series will feature the film ‘Solan&Eri, Mission to the Moon’, along with a set of games and proposals for further work to enrich the viewing experience.

Throughout this week, networks from the CosmoCaixa science education centre will propose live dialogues with leading scientific minds such as the journalist Rosa María Tristán. The popular science expert will be the protagonist of this Wednesday's Live Talks with the meeting 'Scientific Missions in Antarctica', which can be followed with comments and questions on Facebook. In this line of dialogues with scientists led by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), on Friday there will be a dialogue between the diseminators Ignacio Crespo and José Luis Crespo (@quantumfracture) on noise and sound waves. This will take place under the title 'El Sonido no Existe' and will also be followed on Facebook. During these days of confinement, the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels of CosmoCaixa have opened a Window to Science in order to continue working for the dissemination of science with content aimed at families, young people and specialists.

As every weekend, the astronomer Jordi Aloy will offer from CosmoCaixa's networks an astronomical chapter to encourage followers to discover the sky from their own window. On this occasion, he will invite them to observe the conjunction of the Moon with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Throughout the week, a children's story with a scientific perspective will be published and will be followed by recommendations from documentaries and e-books such as Felix's. A Man on Earth, in memory of the anniversary of Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente's death. Precisely to commemorate his figure, the Live Talks next Monday, May 11, will be entitled ‘40 years without Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente’.