Microoperas of Today | Activity

Microoperas of Today is a ground-breaking stage event that brings together three key Barcelona cultural institutions: CCCB, MACBA and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The project involves artists from different disciplines to offer a new look at traditional opera, rethinking it from a contemporary point of view.

Setting out from shared concern about the climate crisis, interspecies communication and the acoustics of nature, it presents a journey of artistic reflection structured by sounds, words and images. Each institution stages a newly-created multidisciplinary opera lasting between 15 and 20 minutes, offering the audience a unique way to open up new views and questions concerning matters that speak to us and affect us.

With an approach specially designed to showcase young artists from the visual, performing and literary arts, Microoperas of Today reflects on the lyric genre by exploring the relationship between music, new technology and new stage writing.