There is a hidden network of hundreds, even thousands of pits around Stonehenge. And no one knows exactly why they were excavated in prehistory. Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Ghent who have made this discovery find no...

Born in Madrid on March 16, 1933, this singer quickly distinguished herself among the disciples of Lola Rodríguez de Aragón. In 1954 she won the first Career Final Prize. Gifted with a voice without fissures or inequalities, from the first moment she was...

This is the story of Ernst Hanfstaengl, a musician who, despite being two meters tall, was nicknamed 'Putzi” (little man, in Bavarian). Brilliant student at Harvard, art dealer in New York around 1910, lover of Djuna Barnes, he would become Hitler's...

Although it seems that the pandemic is already something of the past, there are still cancellations of events due to covid. This is the case of the Il Volo trio, which will finally not be able to perform this Sunday, May 15, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in...

With sadness and sorrow, Jaume Aragall has received the news of the death of Teresa Berganza this Friday, at the age of 89. He united them a great friendship that, according to the Catalan tenor, led them to communicate regularly by phone. And although they...

French actress Juliette Binoche is the star of the poster for the 70th edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival and will also receive a Donostia Award during the contest that will be held between September 16 and 24 and which aims to return to normality...

"I want to leave quietly. I don't want public announcements, or wakes, or anything. I came into the world and nobody found out, so I want the same thing when I leave." This is what he left mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza saying before she died. And she...

A big top, impossible acrobatics, clowns and jugglers are the first images that we find in the collective imagination when we think of circus art. But the circus, the great forgotten of the stages and cultural policies, can stir consciences and raise debates...

MY SON SHALL BEAR MY FATHER'S NAMEWhen I sing, my mouth tastes of blood.Aunt Añica the PiriñacaI hung from that rope for seven and a half days. I was more or less adding the days thanks to the nights, which was when the cold froze my balls and I was...

After two cancellations for reasons of force majeure, read covid, Los Estopa are finally going to be able to materialize something historic today: perform for the first time in Barcelona outdoors in a large format. The appointment is at the Parc del Fòrum...

Could they have waited two years to square the 62 years of Edicions 62? Maybe, but now that we're still in a pandemic, we're getting used to celebrating everything, as many times as we can. Just in case. And so, many of the country's publishers...

Music lovers from all over the world are mourning the death of the mezzo-soprano from Madrid, Teresa Berganza. Singers like her are fundamental references for Spanish talent.Just as there is talk of the importance of having models of one's own sex as...

It's a terrible surprise. I spoke to her recently, a few weeks ago. Because we called each other often. "You have classes? Where are you going? Let's meet". We were in master classes together until she got sick. Now it's been a long time since...

Seuil has just published Lieux , an unpublished Perec. Printed in a beautiful volume of six hundred pages of text and drawings, lists, telegrams..., but also digitally ( lieux-georges-perec.seuil.com ), which allows non-linear readings very much in keeping...

'How do the living live with the dead? Even before society was dehumanized by capitalism, all the living expected to attain the experience of the dead. This was his ultimate future. By themselves, the living were incomplete. The living and the dead were...

Coinciding with the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gabriel Ferrater, one of the most prominent figures in Catalan poetry and post-war Barcelona culture, two books deal with his personality. Jordi Amat places him in the context of politics and publishing...

Among the thousands of visitors to room 345 of the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum, a question always arises that, not because it is repeated, is less important: why is the famous sculpture known as the Venus de Milo without arms? What are the reasons why...

When Concha Piquer sang "Look at my tattooed arm / With this woman's name", only people with unconventional lives dared to decorate their bodies. Sailors, like the protagonist of this song from 1941, soldiers, thugs, prisoners who had the names of their...

Those who believe that justice is slow today should look at the lawsuits of the past. Like the one that took place due to the Masdovelles inheritance, which began in 1696 and did not end until 1755. Almost sixty years, with a War of Succession in between...

From the question 'what can the ISE congress do for Barcelona” has passed, in just a few days, to 'what can Barcelona itself do so that ISE is a catalyst for the audiovisual sector, and by extension, the techno-cultural sector of the city and...

Paradís Street has three sections separated by two right-angle turns and connects Plaça Sant Jaume with the area of ​​the apse of the cathedral. At number 10, there is the headquarters of the Excursionist Center of Catalonia and, next to the portal,...

The Nit dels Museums is back, one of the unmissable events on the cultural calendar, whose convening power has not stopped growing since its first edition in 2008. After a last edition in which the schedule had to be brought forward to the afternoon due to...

The musician Bobby Gillespie returned to Barcelona yesterday, but this time not as a singer and leader of the rock band Primal Scream, but as the author of his autobiography Un chaval de barrio (Contra).For this reason, the man who was also the drummer for...

The playwright Marc Artigau excuses himself: 'It's a commission”. But the commission contains a series of elements, a kind of Artigau-brand master formula, which leaves no one indifferent, especially with regard to that Catalanness, let's...