Sitgestiu Cultural 2015

Sitgestiu Cultural at Museums reaches adulthood! For such a merry celebration, we prepared an attractive program that, as a new feature this year, adds the opportunity to see the Cau Ferrat and Maricel Museums. Both museums were reopened last winter and are completely refurbished.

The beautiful spaces of museums and the excellence of art collections are a plus to cultural and musical activities held in the facilities. Therefore, we will offer a real treat for the senses; "aesthetic pleasure for your eyes and poetry for your life" which, since the years of Modernism, has always been the main offer of our museums during the summer.

See you there!

Vinyet Panyella

Managing Director of the Sitges Heritage Consortium

JAZZ

Jazz in the museums

Join in: Retrio: amb Òscar Ferret, piano; Joan Pinós, bass, and Josep Martí, battery

Date: Tuesday 7, tuesday 14, tuesday 21 and tuesday 28 of july; tuesday 4, tuesday 11, tuesday 18, tuesday 25 of august and tuesday 1 of september

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: During summer Tuesdays, we will enjoy a very particular vision of musical compositions that are part of the popular culture of Sitges, such as dances from the Main Festival and works by composers such as Enric Morera, Gabriel Pallarès or Manel Torrens .. . all with different rhythms ranging from swing to jazz and traditional music.

VISITS 

Visit to Maricel Palace with castanet concert and glass of Cava

Join in: Silvia Baqués i Vanessa Tello (castanets)

Date: Wednesday 1, wednesday 8, wednesday 15, wednesday 22 and wednesday 29 of july; wednesday 5, wednesday 12, wednesday 19 and wednesday 26 of august and wednesday 2 of september

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Palau de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: Summer Wednesdays we will experience and admire the beauty of Maricel Palace. The visit culminates with music by Georges Bizet and Isaac Albeniz, among others, accompanied by castanets and a glass of Cava.

Guided tour Palau de Maricel

Date: Wednesday 2, friday 3, tuesday 7, thursday 9, friday 10, thursday 16, friday 17, tuesday 21, thursday 23, friday 24, tuesday 28, thursday 30 and friday 31 of july; tuesday 4, thursday 6, friday 7, tuesday 11, thursday 13, friday 14, tuesday 18, tuesday 25, thursday 27 and friday 28 of august and tuesday 1, thursday 3 and friday 4 of september

Time: 11 a.m (English), 12 p.m (catalan) and 1 p.m (english)

Place: Palau de Maricel (s/n) 

Price: 5 euros

Description:  A tour through the different areas of the Maricel Palace, a "Noucentista" jewel built between 1910 and 1918 by the American magnate and collector Charles Deering (1857-1927) and by engineer and art critic Miquel Utrillo (1861-1934) .

Jacques Monory, mon cinéma

Date: Friday 10 of july 

Price: free 

Description: Guided tour of the exhibition led by its coordinator, Ferran Martínez Sancho.

CONCERTS

Guitar concert

Join in: Juan Mario Cuéllar (guitarist)

Date: Thursday 2 and thursday 23 of july and thursday 13 of august

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: Entitled Romany & Caña de Azúcar, Juan Mario Cuéllar will offer a guitar concert with a repertoire of Mediterranean and Latin music that will please our senses, thanks to the broad range of sounds, rhythms and nuances obtained from this instrument.

Harp concert

Join in: Caterina del Cerro (harpist)

Date: Thursday 9 of july and thursday 6 of august

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: A musical journey from Baroque to the music of the nineteenth century thanks to melodies evoked by the harp. A program that will include works by Handel, Debussy, Couperin or Hasselmans. A glass of Cava, the flow of the waves and art collections, will make this concert a unique experience.

Piano concert

Join in: Anna Olivan (pianist)

Date Thursday 16 of july and monday 27 of august

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: Anna Olivan, winner of several nationwide piano and chamber music competitions, combines his dedication as a pianist with teaching. She will use the concert to teach in a funny manner all kinds of musical notions to all sorts of audiences, creating a friendly and forthcoming atmosphere. The Waltz Concert features pieces from F. Chopin. J. Strauss, E. Granados and E. Morera. The Home Concert offers a repertoire of works by Soler, Albéniz, Granados, Ginastera and Gerswhin.

Harp and piano concert

Join in: Caterina del Cerro (harpist) and Anna Olivan (pianist)

Date: Thursday 3 of september

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: Sitgestiu's last string quartet combines the sound of Caterina del Cerro's harp and the sound of the piano played by Anna Olivan. Harp and piano, difficult to find together in a concert with a repertoire of works by Claude Debussy, one of the initiators of Modern Art in the musical field.

Chamber concert

Join in: Antoni Guinjoan (violin), Maria Rosa Llorens (pianist) and Montserrat Sitjà (cello)

Date: Saturday 11 and thursday 30 of july

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: No other name could better define this ensemble of musicians: Trio Gaudeamus. A group of musicians who have performed at prestigious orchestras that came together to enjoy and make us enjoy -through piano, cello and violin- a repertoire that includes classical and modern compositions. 

ÒPERA 

Opera recitals on the Maricel’s lookout with a glass of Cava 

Join in: Sopranos: Soledad Cardoso, Charo Picazo, Ximena Agurto and Griselda Ramón; mezzosoprano: Amalia Medina; tenors: Facundo Muñoz and Jorge Jasso; baritones: Lucas Groppo, Joan Sebastià Colomer and Jorge Tello; piano: Elke Sanjosé.

Date: Friday 10, friday 17, friday 24 and friday 31 of july; friday 7, friday 14 and friday 28 of august and friday 4 of september

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 12 euros 

Description: Carmen, La Traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia ... An evening of opera on the Maricel’s lookout. The Mediterranean as a backdrop, art collections and the pleasant taste of a fresh and bubbly glass of Cava, the ideal sensory experience to let yourself be carried away by the music, the sunset and enjoy one of the best experiences of summer.

Rusiñol i el Modernisme

Join in: Griselda Ramon (soprano) and Àlex Jordi (pianio)

Date: Saturday 4 and saturday 25 of july and saturday 8 and saturday 29 of august

Time: 7 p.m

Place: Museu del Cau Ferrat (s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: Modernism in Catalonia and Europe was a new artistic movement that trumpeted the renewal of the arts, and was looking for a new and modern art. But in addition, it was also a way of living and feeling. The Modernist Music is a grassroots’ musical expression including deep edges and touches of modernity, a living example. Hence we find it close and at the same time innovative. The performance for voice and piano, honoring Catalan modernism, combining Rusiñol words, accompanied by musical pieces of that time, some of them almost unknown. A glass of Cava will be served.

From Montmartre

Join in: Griselda Ramon (soprano) and Àlex Jordi (pianist)

Date: Saturday 18 of july; saturday 1 and saturday 15 of august and saturday 5 de september

Time: 7 p.m  

Place: Museu del Cau Ferrat (s/n)

Price: 12 euros

Description: From Montmartre is the musical based on the texts that Rusiñol wrote from Paris to La Vanguardia newspaper between 1890 and 1891. The text mentions issues that even today are extremely modern, texts that do not cease to surprise us due to its ironic and fresh vision. The staging of the show at Cau Rusiñol -even when we are savoring a glass of Catalan sparkling- is accompanied by French music of all time, which allows us to relive the atmosphere and spirit of an era.

L’Elisir d’amore, de Gaetano Donizetti

Join in: Soledad Cardoso (Adina), Facundo Muñoz (Nemorino), Joan Sebastià Colomer and Jorge Tello (Belcore), Lucas Groppo (Dulcamara), Charo Picazo (Gianetta) and Elke Sanjosé (pianist)

Date: Sunday 19 of july and sunday 9 and sunday 16 of august

Time: 8 p.m

Price: 20 euros

Description: We all love Adina, she's beautiful and rich, she reads, study and learns. She knows everything. Or so believes poor Nemorino, unable to compete with the overwhelming virility of the soldier Belcore. Until Dulcamara appears in the village with its love potion: a simple Bordeaux wine. But only when his uncle dies and leaves him a fortune is when Nemorino can savor the delights of the only proven love potion.

La Traviata, de Giuseppe Verdi

Join in: Ximena Agurto (Violetta Valery), Facundo Muñoz (Alfredo Germont), Joan Sebastià Colomer and Jorge Tello (Giorgio Germont), Amàlia Medina (Flora Bervoix), Lucas Groppo (Barone Douphol - Dottor Grenvil), Ezequiel Casamada (Gastone) i Elke Sanjosé (pianista)

Date: Sunday 26 of july and sunday 30 of august

Time: 20h

Place: Palau de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 20 euros 

Description: La Traviata suffered rejection and ridicule by the public in Venice on March 6, 1853, when the work was released. Among other reasons, the candent sheerness of the subject, the required search of complicity with Violetta Valéry, a high class  prostitute, and the discomfort of many illustrious spectators when they watched their own faces in La Traviata’s mirror. Today, the opera is represented everywhere. Also here in Sitges. Years have passed, many years. The mirror is now fogged.

La Bohème, de Giacomo Puccini

Join in: Charo Picazo (Mimí), Soledad Cardoso (Musetta), Facundo Muñoz (Rodolfo), Jorge Tello (Marcello), Joan Sebastià Colomer (Schaunard), Ulises Ordúñez (Colline), Bartolomé Fernández (Alcindoro) and Elke Sanjosé (pianist)

Date: Saturday 12 of july

Time: 8 p.m 

Place: Palau de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 20 euros

Description: Poverty and cold does not prevent bohemians Rodolfo (poet), Marcello (painter), Colline (philosopher) and Schaunard (musician) to enjoy life in Paris. The love affair of Marcello and Musetta, especially Rodolfo with her neighbor Mimi, will make harsh reality breaks into their lives and end a youth that will no longer return.. It was the favorite opera of Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931), who, accompanied by Ramon Casas and Miquel Utrillo, experienced the bohemian live of Montmartre between 1889 and 1893.

WORKSHOPS

Workshop Tomeus i Tecletes 

Date: Saturday 25 of july, saturday 22 of august and wednesday 19 of september

Time: 11 a.m

Place: Museu de Maricel (Fonollar, s/n)

Price: 6 euros

Workshop Jacques Monory, mon cinéma 

Date: Saturday 18 of july and saturday 1 of august

Time: 11 a.m

Price: 6 euros

Workshop 11 de setembre: Història il·lustrada

Date: Saturday 5 and saturday 12 of september

Time: 11 a.m

Price: 6 euros