Cartes a Julieta

SYNOPSIS

The monastery in Verona where, according to tradition, Juliet, the young co-star of Romeo and Juliet, still receives letters from people all over the world who write to the unfortunate lover. Even a local teacher was responsible for years to respond to those letters. Inspired by this story, the rock musician Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet released an album in 1993 made up of twenty songs, each of which was based on one of those stories of love, betrayal and heartbreak written by men and the anonymous women who addressed Juliet. The string quartet and Costello himself performed the album at the Palau de la Música Catalana in 1995, but now we can listen to a Catalan version of these songs in the BARTS room performed by Ivan Labanda, one of the best-known names in the music scene in our land. The staging of these letters and love stories is directed by the director and playwright Sergi Belbel, and they are set to music by a quartet of soloists from the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, which takes the name of Quartet Juliet for the occasion.