Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady took Broadway by storm in 1956, earning six Tony awards, including "Best Musical". The film version later carried off eight Oscars, including "Best Film". This outstanding musical, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, serves as a yardstick to measure all rival works.
It tells the tale of Eliza, a Covent Garden flower seller, who
takes elocution lessons from Professor Henry Higgins. Her teacher becomes
obsessed with the idea of passing her off as a fine lady and introducing her to
London high society and their relationship ultimately evolves into an
improbable attachment. Defined as "the perfect musical", My Fair Lady
will be staged at the Liceu in the form of a semi-dramatized concert in which
the soloists will act on stage. It will be directed by Alfonso Casado-Trigo, a
veritable specialist in musicals, who has worked on such popular shows as Mamma
Mia!, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and the original
production of The Phantom of the Opera which is still playing at Her Majesty’s
Theatre in London.
Artistic profile
ConductorAlfonso
Casado Trigo
Stage directorGuy
Unsworth
Symphony Orchestra
and Chorus of the Liceu Opera Barcelona
Director of the
ChorusConxita Garcia
Cast
Eliza Doolittle
Ellie Laugharne
Professor Higgins
Steven Pacey
Colonel Pickering
Richard Suart
Alfred P. Doolittle
Peter Polycarpou
Freddy Eynsford Hill
Nadim Naaman
Mrs Higgins/ Mrs Pearce/ Cockney Woman
Susie Blake
https://www.liceubarcelona.cat/en/temporada-2020-2021/opera/my-fair-lady
Overview
Anna Netrebko’s performance with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra, scheduled for October 10, will be postponed to a future season.
Anna Netrebko has headlined 22 different operas, multiple galas, and more Live in HD transmissions than any other Met soloist. Now, she becomes the first artist to give a solo concert with the Met Orchestra since legendary soprano Birgit Nilsson in 1979. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for this landmark event, conducting a thrilling program of spectacular scenes and arias.
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