Granada brings together 290 amateur singers to perform ‘El Mesías participativo’
- 65.000 cantantes y más de medio millón de espectadores
- Los conciertos participativos organizados por la Fundación “La Caixa”
The Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada will host this Friday 13 and Saturday 14 December at 19.30 ‘El Mesías participativo’ organised by the Fundación ‘La Caixa’ with a total of 291 amateur singers. It will be conducted by the renowned conductor Mireia Barrera, and with the help of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Coro de la Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.
The ‘La Caixa’ Foundation's participative concerts will return to Granada in December for their fifteenth edition. A total of 291 non-professional singers will raise their voices in the concert ‘El Mesías participativo’, under the direction of the conductor Mireia Barrera, and with the participation of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Coro de la Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.
After the success of these participative experiences, organised for more than three decades in cities in Spain and Portugal with proposals such as this one of Handel's Messiah, the Great Opera Choirs, Mozart's Requiem, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and The Participative Musical, the Andalusian city will host the fifteenth edition of a participative concert.
This project, which has been held for almost three decades, offers music lovers the opportunity to participate in an important pedagogical and musical project together with professional musicians and performers of recognised prestige and with one of the most emblematic and significant works of the repertoire of all times: ‘Handel's Messiah.’
The experience that these non-professional singers will live when participating in a concert of these characteristics has begun with individual work on the lyrics and score, as well as with the start of joint rehearsals. The preparation has consisted of collective rehearsals and intense preparation work led by Esteve Nabona.
Under the direction of the prestigious conductor Mireia Barrera, they will perform on the stage of the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Coro de la Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, together with professional soloists: the soprano María espada, the countertenor Gabriel Díaz, the tenor Emiliano González Toro and the bass Joan Martín-Royo.
To these will be added, from their respective seats, the non-professional singers, from choral groups of the territory: Asociación musical Orfeón de Granada, Coro de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Granada, Coro del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Granada, Coro Federico García Lorca de Granada, Coral Lauda y Coro del Centro artístico, literario y científico de Granada, Coro Gaudeamus, Coro Yájar de la Zubia, Escolanía Pueri Cantores de la Catedral de Guadix and Shola Cantoría de la Catedral de Granada.
The participative concert is considered a unique and different proposal: an enriching experience that generates synergies in which a wide range of amateur singers share with the professional musicians, and with all the attendees.
65,000 singers and more than half a million spectators
In 1995, the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation was a pioneer in Spain in turning the performance of Handel's Messiah into a true collective experience, a dream for choral music enthusiasts with some musical knowledge, who sing some of the choral parts of this great oratorio together with orchestras, soloists, and conductors of international prestige.
This year 2024, the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation is organising nine participative concerts in the cities of Cáceres, Badajoz, A Coruña, Madrid, San Sebastián and Las Palmas, as well as Granada, with the participation of more than a thousand amateur singers in total.
The participative concerts organised by the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation
The participative concerts organised annually by the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation offer an enriching experience that invites people who are fond of choral singing to take part in a high-quality musical and collective event. This initiative makes possible the dream of working closely with professional orchestras and choirs and singing outstanding works ranging from the symphonic-choral repertoire to the classics of musical theatre.
Since the creation of this project, more than 64,800 amateur singers have taken part in the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation's participative concerts, which have been presented in more than 40 towns and cities on the Iberian Peninsula, with an overall attendance of more than 555,000.
