Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

Titular symphony orchestra from the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Founded, as the theater, in 1847, it is the oldest orchestra still working in Barcelona, and the oldest in Spain. Its first conductor was Marià Obiols.

Orchestra musical directors, and head conductors has been:

Previously, the orchestra had not head conductors, but invited ones. Some of the conductors that have worked at Liceu have been: Franco Faccio, Felix Weingartner, Manuel de Falla, Alexander Glazunov, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Lamote de Grignon, Joan Manén, Jaume Pahissa, Ottorino Respighi, Pietro Mascagni, Karl Elmendorff, Max von Schillings, Joseph Keilberth, Clemens Krauss, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Hans Knappertsbusch, Otto Klemperer, Albert Coates, George Sebastian, Erich Kleiber, Franz Konwitschny, Antal Doráti, Hans Swarowsky, André Cluytens, Antonino Votto, Richard Bonynge, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Jesús López-Cobos, Riccardo Muti, Václav Neumann, Josep Pons, Antoni Ros-Marbà, Pinchas Steinberg, Friedrich Haider, Peter Schneider, Silvio Varviso, Sylvain Cambreling or Víctor Pablo Pérez.

The orchestra has played at Teatro Real and Palacio Real de Madrid, Arenes de Nîmes, Ludwigshafen opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, el Palau de la Música Catalana i el Teatre Grec de Barcelona, Orange Festival, Odeon Herodion Atticus in Athens, Seu Vella in Lleida, Peralada, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Palau de la Música de Valencia and La Fenice opera house in Venice.

Premieres performed by the orchestra

Liceu opera house has been the location for the world premieres of several works, and for the Spanish premieres of a lot of musical works. Among the absolute premieres are (see all at Gran Teatre del Liceu):

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