July 2023
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Marina Rossell is one of the most important and recognizable voices in our country. Over the course of nearly five decades, Rossell has adapted Catalan poets, traditional songs and references to French song, managing to project himself around the world.
For the first time, Rossell presents a concert in symphonic format, where he will review his most beloved and emblematic songs accompanied by the Franz Schubert Philharmonic, the symphony orchestra with the most projection in the country.
A concert to enjoy the poetry and Mediterranean airs of his music with the spectacle of a great symphony orchestra.
CONCERT DATES
Marina Rossell & Franz Schubert Filharmonia
Biography Marina Rossell
Marina Rossell began performing professionally in 1974 opening for Lluís Llach, Ovidi Montllor, Maria del Mar Bonet… In 1976 she released her first album “Si volíeu escortar”, produced by Llach, in which she collected updated popular Catalan songs, songs that they accompany him in his first concerts. Soon, music critics gave him the name “the exquisite voice”.
She has recorded more than 20 albums, including: “Penyora” (1979), Fotogramas de Plata award, a work that made her very popular and which included the theme La Gavina.
Marina Rossell’s voice, warm and intense like few others, is her most personal and identifiable mark. More weighted as the years pass, it acquires nuances, is enriched and nourished by musical experiences and new horizons. In 1974 he started singing, taking part in the first parts of Lluís Llach and Ovidi Montllor. The Navy was the voice of the transition, that of a generation that Catalonia did not give any other, or at least, not of its height and duration in time. From 1976 until now, he has recorded twenty records, some of them with international distribution: USA, Europe: France, Germany, England, Portugal, Belgium, to Japan or South America: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay …
Because of his status as a singer, he has been able to make countless trips of a solidarity nature: from Armenia, Bosnia, Colombia, the Sahara, Palestine, Israel, to Juarez City in Mexico, Cuba, and to Baghdad, a few days before the explosion the Iraq war. This privilege has served her to assert herself more, if possible, in her attitude, always committed to peace and at the service of civil and individual liberties, which has also made her deserving of important awards and content, such as Olof Palme de la Pau.
At the Liceu he has sung timeless pieces, which form the pillars of the Renaissance, Modernism and Noucentism, to this day. A century and a half of our history, revaluing our cultural heritage. A heritage and a history that the Navy will never tire of singing about. In doing so, he will go back to snacking on bread and chocolate, and run from the vineyard to his house, through La Gornal, and evoke his mother… A whole world of beloved things and people who are no longer there. And so we will follow her, on the flight of her diaphanous voice.