The Valencian composer Francisco Coll already presented his chamber opera at Les Arts Café Kafka, microdrama of human incommunicado in the era of modernity. The dramatic inspiration brings him back with a drama about cutthroat capitalism, the leviathan of contemporaneity that puts the security of a town before the security of this one. Henrik Ibsen's eponymous drama, written 1882, he was right to highlight an unfortunately universal issue since the Industrial Revolution: the prevalence of money over human integrity, morality and health. enemy of the people inspired in the heat of the 20th century (1973) the novel of American Peter Benchley Jaws, translated to celluloid by Steven Spielberg in his cinematic success Tauró (1974). Closing a perfect circle, Francisco Coll presents, from the hand of Ibsen, his 21st century monstrous leviathan: the dehumanized capitalist known today as a finance shark.
For the first time in its history and on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its inauguration, the Palau de les Arts presents the world premiere of an opera, work commissioned to the international composer Francisco Coll, with whom he maintains a close collaboration started with Café Kafka, his incipient operatic incursion, which will be followed by the symphonic scores Mural and City Without a Dream. The same composer takes on the challenge of conducting our titular orchestra and choir in a co-production with the Teatro Real that bears the signature of director Àlex Rigola, recognized in the world of opera for works like Madama Butterfly at La Fenice or The Wandering Dutchman for the Liceu and the Real. The Catalan stage director and playwright, a virtuoso of the reconciliation of the different artistic disciplines with a visionary approach, tackles this political and media plot - illuminated by himself as a librettist- that invites reflection through the strength of its messages and the acting work carried out by quality performers such as José Antonio López in the role of Doctor and Moisés Marín as Mayor.
