Gran Teatre del Liceu Backstage Tour in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
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Trip Type: Cultural Tours
Duration: 90 minutes
Make like a performer and visit the backstage areas of Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona’s must-visit theater. Showcasing the places normally off-limits to the public, the 1.5-hour walking tour takes in the dressing rooms, rehearsal spaces and stage among other exciting areas. While exploring behind-the-scenes sites with a guide, learn about the building’s history and its famous performing patrons including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and more.
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Make like a performer and visit the backstage areas of Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona’s must-visit theater. Showcasing the places normally off-limits to the public, the 1.5-hour walking tour takes in the dressing rooms, rehearsal spaces and stage among other exciting areas. While exploring behind-the-scenes sites with a guide, learn about the building’s history and its famous performing patrons including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and more.
Meet your guide at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona’s lively La Rambla area. Then, head inside to learn about day-to-day life at the Liceu during your backstage tour. With a working history that dates back more than 160 years, the theater has seen many changes to its performances over the decades. The building’s extensive reconstruction after a fire in the 1990s has benefited the Liceu with state-of-the-art acoustics and use of the latest theater technology.
While hearing tales about the site’s history, follow your guide around the spaces normally hidden from the public eye. Check out the dressing rooms, where world-class singers such as Montserrat Caballe and Placido Domingo have prepared themselves for performances. Walk around the rehearsal rooms, and make your way onto the stage for an exclusive view of the theater that normally only the performers see.
Look down into the orchestral pit beneath the stage, and learn about the theater’s choir and Liceu Symphony Orchestra who play there each performance. See machinery used to move large-scale sets as well as storage spaces where the props and staging equipment is held.
After roughly 1.5 hours of exploring the behind-the-scenes areas of the Liceu, follow your guide back to the start point where your tour ends.
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