Concert "Dudamel Conducts 'Scheherazade'" with Artist Shirin Neshat
4 April 2027 · 18:00
Gran Teatre del Liceu, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
'Scheherazade': when Rimsky-Korsakov's music and Shirin Neshat's images turn storytelling into an act of resistance. 'Scheherazade' resonates as a meditation on the power of storytelling: the voice that will remain alive as long as someone listens. The One Thousand and One Nights, a legendary compilation of medieval Eastern tales collected in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age, is the perfect metaphor for narration as a form of resistance. With that same pulse, Rimsky-Korsakov conceived Scheherazade, a symphonic poem in which music becomes a voice that, with wit and light, defies darkness. With Dudamel on the podium, the orchestra becomes a fabric of successive waves: the sensuality of the solo violin, the solemnity of the woodwinds, and orchestral textures evoking imagined ports, erupting storms and oases opening like mirages. This reading becomes even more intense thanks to Shirin Neshat's film. Neshat is an artist who has turned exile, identity and silence into aesthetic material. Her images do not illustrate the music but enter into dialogue with it: faces emerging from darkness, deserts breathing like blank pages, writing crossing the skin, and a femininity radiating…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026