Royal & OSVA & Pardo

Kate Royal, a frequent name at the Festival since her debut in 2018, appears this year before the Barcelona public alongside the Victoria de los Ángeles Symphony Orchestra (OSVA) in an all-Mahler program, for which she is a leading interpreter following her recordings with Simon Rattle. In the first part, they will perform the Symphony No. 4 in the arrangement by Arnold Schönberg, a piece that concludes with the powerful Lied Das himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn), which narrates the abundance of celestial life with all the saints, ending by telling us that “no music on earth can compare to ours.” In the second part, the soprano will offer the great Rückert-Lieder, based on the poems of Friedrich Rückert, a vital crescendo that culminates in Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world), an end of life outside of society with only her love and her song, a finale that already points towards Um Mitternacht (At Midnight), of great poetic and musical power.