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The week begins with Cati Moyà

I'll start I'm preparing for the arrival in Mallorca of one of my favorite writers, Pedro Mairal, by rereading his work. Mairal is one of the first confirmed participants for the new edition of FLEM, which will take place in early October in Magaluf, just as the author's new novel is being published. The new onesWhile it arrives, it is a good time to return to The Uruguayan, a novel that speaks of hopelessness –or perhaps it is the other way around–, Salvatierra, where a man reconstructs his father's life from a painting he painted, and A Night with Sabrina Love, an extraordinary road trip starring a teenager who crosses Argentina to meet the actress he has dreamed of for as long as he can remember.

I will leave carried away by the sounds of Pol Batlle. After the introspection of Somersault, his solo debut, returns with On Horseback I Go, where she demonstrates her versatility and constant evolution. She will debut some tracks—the full album is due out in September—at a concert included in the Fundación Mallorca Literaria's La Luna en Verso series. Saturday, August 2, at 9 p.m., at Es Fortí, Cala d'Or.

I will visit Mercy to discover Anything can end everything at any time, an exhibition project with which Marina Planas received the 2024 Mallorca Talento Illenc Photography Award.

I will pass by the Kaplan Gallery to be discovered Symbiotic, parasitic and other relationships, a collaborative project by Marta Font and Xisco Bonnín based on the revolutionary theories and studies of the North American scientist Lynn Margulis.

I will discover The story of Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, the protagonist of the documentary Put your soul on your hand and walk, which will be shown in Palma as part of the Atlántida Mallorca Film Fest. Hassouna maintained daily contact with Sepideh Farsi, the documentary's director, and sent her the images documenting her life in the Gaza Strip until her death due to an Israeli bombing. Thursday, July 31, at 9 p.m., at La Misericordia.

The Week Begins with JA Mendiola

I will go At the first concert of the fifth Cap Rocat Festival, where Pretty Yende, accompanied by the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Riccardo Frizza, will offer a first-class opera gala, as achieved by both the soprano and the conductor. This level is marked not only by the quality of the performers, who constantly perform on the world's finest stages, but also by the difficulty of the program. A good example is the aria with which the evening begins: none other than the Casta diva, of Rule, by Bellini. From there, from the Verdi Mercedes, dilettante friend, of Sicilian Nights, even one of the most beautiful, if not the most, in the history of opera: The Song of the Moon, of Rusalka. Friday, August 1, at 9 p.m.

I will enjoy from the unique and unique concert that viola da gamba player Fahmi Alqhai and flamenco dancer Patricia Guerrero will offer at Son Marroig, as part of the Deià Music Festival. They will perform pieces by Gaspar Sanz, Santiago de Murcia, Sainte-Colombe, Von Biber, and Johann Sebastian Bach. An unprecedented combination; a seemingly impossible fusion. Tuesday, July 30, at 8:30 p.m.

I will read The Hermaphroditic Embrace of the Snails, the first collection of poems published by Bartomeu Bagur, which won him the 25 de Abril Vila de Benissa poetry prize. With a prologue by Àngels Cardona and published by Viena Edicions.

I'll be back at Cap Rocat to enjoy the second concert of the festival, where violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Evgenia Startseva will perform the Sonata for violin and piano, by Shostakovich; the Sonatina in G minor, by Schubert, and the Sonata No., by Johannes Brahms. A program that, in a way, offers a brief but exquisite journey through the history of sonatas.

I'll see, I will feel and enjoy Nabucco, in concert version, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most spectacular operas, along with AidaIt will be the closing act of the Cap Rocat Festival, with a cast that's hard to beat. It will be led by Anna Netrebko, the great world opera star, the soprano who, for now, has no media rival. She will play an extremely difficult role: that of Abigaille, a voice-destroying role, one that spaccavocciShe will be accompanied by the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pablo Mielgo.