Serena Sáenz, Maria Hinojosa, Núria Rial, David Alegret, Jan Antem, Josep Bros, Carlos Cosías, Carlos Daza, Beñat Egiarte, Mercedes Gancedo, Tina Gorina, Marc Sala or Laura Vila, accompanied on the piano by Josep Buforn and Stanislav Angelov, all they are the artists that Roger Alier contributed to promote or who participated in so many of his private operatic initiatives.
The entire poetry profession in Catalonia will pay tribute to the great popularizer and critic of the genre on June 11, the year after his death. He will be from the stage of the Foyer del Liceu, singing works by Mozart, Cimarosa, Donizetti, Rossini or Verdi. Music that made happy the one who was for decades a critic of La Vanguardia, and that the same professor and musicologist was in charge of programming, directing or disseminating throughout his life.
"It is a tribute to someone who dedicated his life to opera and to its dissemination, especially from the area of Catalonia and Barcelona as the opera capital of Spain, as he always defended it, since the first opera house important in the country was the Teatre Principal, followed later by the Liceu,” points out Jordi Maddaleno, also a critic of this newspaper, and his right-hand man for 25 years.
The Liceu, which awarded him its Gold Medal shortly after his death, will echo his long biography dedicated to the lyric, from his tireless work of exhuming the Principal season, to the premiere of the first staged version of Mozart's opera Il re pastore in Spain.
“We will take a walk through his operatic life as frames of his relationship with this art, from that Barber of Seville by Rossini that marked him so much at the Liceu. Then he began to have initiatives such as being part of the board of Amics del Liceu, writing books about the Liceu, beginning to criticize for La Vanguardia... even a more active life, with the creation of a season at the Principal de Barcelona, with operas that he himself translated into Catalan.”
His radio and television forays will also appear, the Andorran adventure – he staged The Magic Flute – or his work in favor of young voices with Sopars Lírics at 7 Portes. The 10th edition of it, now without him, is dedicated to his memory with a multi-voice recital on May 30.
