The most internationally renowned conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding, Iván Fischer, John Eliot Gardiner and Pablo Heras-Casado; the great voices of Nadine Sierra, Cecilia Bartoli, Sabine Devielhe, Jakub Józef Orliński, Juan Diego Flórez, Franco Fagioli and René Pape; and outstanding performers such as Lisa Batiashvili, Leif Ove Andsnes, Julia Fischer, András Schiff and Gautier Capuçon shape the new season at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

The Modernist concert hall will also welcome some of the most relevant young conductors on today’s musical scene, such as Klaus Mäkelä, Tarmo Peltokoski, Rafael Payare, Raphaël Pichon and Lorenzo Viotti.

Peace will be the central theme of the Palau de la Música Catalana’s 2026–27 season, which will open on September 28 with a tribute concert to Pau Casals, a universal symbol of peace.

The 200th anniversary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven will be commemorated with a strong presence of the composer in the program and a complete cycle of his symphonies presented in four concerts.

The Palau continues to support artists, ensembles and projects from the country, with the presentation of Josep Pons conducting the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern; a concert with the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu and the choirs of the Orfeó Català; the Missa solemnis conducted by Jordi Savall; and an opera by Handel with Dani Espasa and Vespres d’Arnadí, among other events.

One of the highlights will be the international tour of the Orfeó Català with Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic, travelling to Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Hamburg and Vienna.

The Palau de la Música Catalana presents the flagship cycles of the 2026–27 season: Palau 100, Palau Òpera and Palau Grans Veus, with a total of 23 concerts programmed, in addition to 8 Extraordinary Concerts and 4 further concerts devoted to the complete cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies, marking the 200th anniversary of the death of the genius from Bonn.

Palau 100, the Palau’s most emblematic series, featuring the most renowned conductors, ensembles and international soloists of the moment, will present 13 concerts in which major orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform. The series will also feature rising young conductors who are gaining prominence on the international music circuit, including Klaus Mäkelä, Tarmo Peltokoski, Rafael Payare, Raphaël Pichon and Lorenzo Viotti, as well as distinguished and well-established conductors returning to the Modernist stage, such as Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Iván Fischer and John Eliot Gardiner.

The cycle will also bring together outstanding soloists, including the violinists Julia Fischer, Isabelle Faust and Lisa Batiashvili; the cellists Daniel Müller-Schott, Gautier Capuçon and Jean-Guihen Queyras; and the pianists Kirill Gerstein, Leif Ove Andsnes, Javier Perianes, Martin Helmchen and András Schiff. Some of the most iconic voices of the moment will also appear, such as the sopranos Sabine Devielhe and Emőke Baráth, the mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and the tenor Reinoud van Mechelen.

With a varied repertoire, the new season will highlight composers less frequently performed in major concert halls while continuing to present essential figures, with a special focus on Beethoven in commemoration of the bicentenary of his death. The Palau will present a complete cycle of his symphonies. The project, promoted together with BCN Clàssics, will offer four concerts in the Modernist hall with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Daniele Gatti, allowing audiences to experience the full symphonic journey of the genius from Bonn, from the First to the Ninth Symphony.

In addition to Palau 100, the season includes 8 Extraordinary Concerts, unique proposals that maintain the spirit of artistic excellence that defines the Palau’s flagship series. By their nature and uniqueness, these concerts expand and enrich the program with special initiatives and unique musical experiences. Ensembles such as the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and the Utopia Orchestra — in its Spanish debut — will appear, and conductors including Pablo Heras-Casado, Teodor Currentzis and Jordi Savall will take part, among others.

The opening concert of the season will form part of this series of Extraordinary Concerts. It will take place on September 28 and will be a tribute to Pau Casals on the 150th anniversary of his birth. It will pay homage to the musician and composer and to one of the values he represents, which also forms the central theme of the Palau’s 2026–27 season: peace. Conducted by Xavier Puig, it will bring together the cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Quartet Casals, the Escolania de Montserrat, the Orfeó Català and the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, along with a cast of leading Catalan soloists. The concert reflects the Palau’s commitment to highlighting Catalan musical talent and heritage.

In this regard, the season will also include other notable projects, such as the presentation of Josep Pons with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the oratorio Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn with the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu and the choirs of the Orfeó Català conducted by Xavier Puig, and the Missa solemnis conducted by Jordi Savall with Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, among other projects.

The 2026–27 season of the Palau Grans Veus series will feature some of the most outstanding lyric voices of the moment in a total of four concerts, with two additional performances outside the subscription series. The stage will host top-level artistic partnerships such as Cecilia Bartoli with Lang Lang and Lea Desandre with Thomas Dunford. It will also feature the Palau debut of soprano Nadine Sierra and concerts with Juan Diego Flórez, Franco Fagioli and René Pape.

The Palau Òpera series, now in its sixth season, reaffirms its commitment to presenting Baroque opera in concert or semi-staged format. The intimacy and acoustics of the Modernist hall provide an ideal setting for rediscovering this repertoire with high-level performances. Three operas will be presented in concert version, plus one outside the subscription series. These are three operas by Handel, two of which will receive their Spanish premieres: Riccardo Primo and Alessandro, as well as Agrippina. Outside the subscription series, and in tribute to Beethoven on the 200th anniversary of his death, Fidelio will be presented with Pablo Heras-Casado and the Monteverdi Choir.

Gustavo Dudamel will include the Orfeó Català in his first international tour as music director of the New York Philharmonic, which will travel to several European capitals.

Following the great success of the three concerts performed by the Orfeó Català with Gustavo Dudamel last February in the United States with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Venezuelan conductor wishes to collaborate again with the Orfeó Català on his first tour with the New York Philharmonic.

Thus, during the presentation of the New York Philharmonic’s 2026–27 season on March 10, it was announced that Dudamel’s first tour, from October 9 to 22, 2026, will also include the Orfeó Català and the Orfeó Català Girls’ Choir. They will perform at the Philharmonie de Paris, L’Auditori in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Musikverein in Vienna. In these concerts, the Palau choirs will take part in the performance of the work On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams, which the American composer wrote in tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, now twenty-five years ago.

Tickets and subscriptions

On March 17 the renewal period and sale of new subscriptions begins for the presented cycles: Palau 100, Palau Grans Veus, Palau Òpera and the Complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle.

From Monday, May 11, renewals and new subscriptions for the other cycles of the season will begin, along with the flexible “build-your-own” subscription option and priority ticket sales for Palau groups. From Monday, May 18, tickets will go on sale to the general public.

The Palau offers special subscription rates for people under 35 and for people with disabilities.

 

You can consult the full press dossier here with details of all the concerts presented today.

You can download here the brochure for the 2025–26 season programming of Palau 100, Palau Òpera and Palau Grans Veus.

You can download, through the links, photographs of the artists featured in the concerts of the 2025–26 season for:

Palau 100
Extraordinary Concerts
Beethoven Symphonies
Palau Òpera
Palau Grans Veus