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We have some examples of the application of AI to the world of classical music right now. In this article we tell you about some projects that are already underway that will surely surprise you.

The 2023-24 season of the Barcelona Obertura, together with its festivals Obertura Spring Festival and Ciutat de Clàssica, has attracted significant national and international media coverage. The media have highlighted the participation of renowned national and international artists, the success of outstanding operas and symphonic concerts

Exactly the same year that Wagner’s first opera was heard in Barcelona, 1882, was the year that Parsifal premiered at the Bayreuth Theater.

In this article we discover 3 ballets in which Picasso played an important role: Parade, the Three cornered had and Puscinella.

The Liceu Opera Barcelona, the Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori Barcelona presented today the fourth edition of the Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival, which will take place between March 8 and 31, organized with Barcelona Global and with the support of Barcelona City Council, through the Department of Tourism and Creative Industries and the ICUB. The Festival, a selection over time of the most outstanding proposals from the three cultural institutions, also has the collaboration of Ibercamera, Franz Schubert Philharmonia, and the Conservatory of the Liceu. An edition in which work continues with the founding objectives of positioning Barcelona as a city of culture and music.

Winter in Barcelona is really very pleasant. With an average temperature of between 4º and 17º, the first months of the year are usually mild and often sunny. This climate is ideal for walks, taking full advantage of the daylight hours. The city has many routes and today we are proposing four of the best plus a bonus track.

The Tibidabo amusement park, one of the oldest in the world, opened in 1901. Among its numerous attractions, the oldest have become classics and are a reflection of the modernity of the early 20th century. One of the park’s most emblematic attractions is ‘El Avion’ (‘The airplane’). Inaugurated in 1928, it is, even today, one of the park’s star attractions. Suspended from an iron structure, the plane circles taking in impressive views of Barcelona below. Neither is it just any plane being an exact replica of the Rohrbach Roland tri motor that took off from Barcelona on December 14, 1927 and landed in Madrid, the first commercial flight between the two cities.

On November 29, 1899, Barça football club was founded. Imagine, if Spotify existed at that time, what music would be the newest sound for that year? What music could fans of the moment have listened to?

The Barcelona artist Joan Miró is one of the great exponents of surrealism. A multifaceted artist who excelled as a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramicist. Although he studied commerce and worked for two years as a clerk in a drugstore, it was an illness, typhoid fever, that forced him to retire for convalescence in Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, in a farmhouse that their parents had just bought it. It was there that he decided to dedicate himself fully to painting and enrolled in the Francesc Galí School of Art, where he met other great artists such as Joan Prats, Josep Francesc Ràfols, Enric Cristòfol Ricart and Josep Llorens Artigas, among others.