Temporada Alta looks at international ‘big picture’ with its 'longest and biggest line-up' 

Temporada Alta, Catalonia's premiere performing arts festival in Girona, has presented the line-up for its 33rd edition. 

This year's edition includes 110 shows, 13 more than the previous year, and will take place from September 13 to December 8.  

Salvador Sunyer, director of the festival, explained that this is "the longest edition with the most shows we have ever done, as we are trying to create a big picture of what the international scene looks like." 

The festival will start earlier than usual with a performance by Fura dels Baus called 'Carmina Burana'. The festival will then resume on the first weekend of October in its usual dates. 

That first weekend will kick off with one of the biggest acts, the European project "Shared landscapes." Various international festivals and open-air companies take part in the organization of this performance, which will take place in various areas of the town of Celrà, in Girona, northern Catalonia.  

International shows scheduled 

Another of the important international performances is 'Bérenice', the new production by Romeo Castelluci which will premiere in Spain and will only be seen at Temporada Alta. 

It stars Isabelle Huppert, and the audience "should not expect to hear any of the verses from the original text from Racine," Sunyer mentioned.  

‘A sublime mistake' by Neecompany and Jan Lawers will also be premiering atnhe Catalan festival. The play represents a portrait of a lost men, interpreted by Gonzalo Cunill. 

The Italian actor Toni Servillo will be interpreting 'Tre modi per non morire', which revisits texts by Dante, Baudelaire and Greek classics.  

Catalan line-up 

This edition of the festival will see 70 Catalan productions, such as "A marriage in Boston" starring Emma Vilarasau and Marca Marco. 

Another performance will be "Death of a comedian" by Guillem Clua, featuring Jordi Bosch, Mercè Pons, and Francesc Marginet.