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Lang Lang, Diana Krall and Seal, the great names of Castell de Peralada Festival 2016


Lang Lang, Diana Krall and Seal, the great names of Castell de Peralada Festival 2016

Promotional image of Lang Lang (Yann Orhan), courtesy of Castell de Peralada Festival

The Castell de Peralada Festival opens its 30th edition with pianist Lang Lang on the night of July 7. Chinese piano virtuoso will be the first guest star to perform at the festival in 2016. He will offer three works on tour to promote his new album 'Live In Paris': the four seasons of Tchaikovsky, Bach's Italian Concerto and the four Chopin scherzos. China is giving the world great pianists such as Yundi Li and Yuja Wang.

Other big names performing at the festival are known jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall-all the tickets are sold out for this concert-with her new work 'Wallflower', the British singer Seal with his new album '7', Simply Red, the spanish pop group La Union, Pink Martini, the return of El Gusto Es Nuestro -with the singers Miguel Rios, Victor Manuel, Joan Manuel Serrat and Ana BelénEzio Bosso or the Original Blues Brothers Band.

The festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary, will offer a gala -15 July- with some of the best voices of the current opera scene. They will take the stage in Peralada sopranos Sondra Radvanovsky and Eva-Maria Westbroek, tenor Marcelo Alvarez, Carlos Alvarez and baritone Leo Nucci, and low Ruggero Raimondi. He will accompany the National Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona and Catalonia (OBC) directed by Daniele Rustioni.

Mario Gas has been commissioned to stage the opera Turandot. The Castell de Peralada Festival has produced this work by Puccini to be represented on 6 and 8 August.

The Festival is held in the Gothic and Renaissance of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries Peralada Castle buildings. Has four musical spaces: the Main Auditorium Castle Park and three more intimate, the Iglesia del Carmen where will sing Olga Peretyatko or Anita Rachvelishvili, the Cloister of Carmen where the madrigals of Monteverdi will be interpreted and the Terrace of the Cotton Club where they will perform Alfonso Vilallonga and pianist Marco Mezquida.

Musical festival program

- Lang Lang (07/07/16)

- Alfonso Vilallonga & Marco Mezquida (08/07/16)

- Pink Martini (09/07/16)

- 30th Anniversary Gala (07/15/16)

- Olga Peretyatko (07/18/16)

- Seal (07/23/16)

- Diana Krall (07/30/16)

- Combattimento - Monteverdi (01/08/16)

- Anita Rachvelishvili (03/08/16)

- Bryan Hymel (08/05/16)

- Turandot, Puccini (08/06/16)

- Xavier Sabata, 'Alexander the Great' (07/08/16)

- Turandot, Puccini (08/08/16)

- Ezio Bosso, Music For Weather Elements (09/08/16)

- La Unión (08/10/16)

- Demestres & Guinovart (08/13/16)

- Music Festival (08/14/16)

- The Original Blues Brothers Band (08/15/16)

- Simply Red (08/16/16)