Gemma Camps (Palma, 1994) will fulfill a dream on April 24 and 25. Or close a circle. Or both at the same time. It will be then when she returns to the Teatre Principal in Palma, where she says she fell in love with opera. Now, with the commission to direct one. “I perfectly remember the first one I saw there, sitting in the stalls at 15 years old. It was La Bohème, and I knew immediately that I wanted to dedicate myself to this,” she admits. Sixteen years later, she will be in charge of the musical direction of La veu humana, a production that is part of the 40th edition of the Principal's Opera Season. With stage direction by Roberto G. Alonso and Marga Cloquell as soprano, it is expected to be one of the premieres of the season. It certainly will be for Camps, who at 31 years old has become one of the prominent figures in musical direction, a field where even now women, and much more so young women, are an exception. According to the most comprehensive study to date on this issue, by the SGAE Foundation, women directors did not reach 8% in 2019.

The summer festival La Lluna en Vers returns in 2026 to Mallorca with a program of 14 nights of open-air culture spread across different points of the island and an image marked by the eclipse of August 12, which this year inspires the visual and symbolic narrative of the project.

He was a futsal goalkeeper until he started to be afraid of the balls. He also did swimming. He liked (and maybe still does) playing Pro Evolution Soccer with friends. He has a younger brother, with whom they grew up in the Escorxador neighborhood. He is a "polyhedral and difficult to explain" character. Perhaps it is his elusive and distant character at first rather than anything else, but even his lifelong friend, Àngel Mendoza, finds it difficult to define the character of Lluís Cabot (Palma, 1990), musician and producer. He is known, above all, for having been the leaderof Da Souza for a decade. Àngel Mendoza, who will introduce us to the character, was the band's drummer.

The Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra has registered a complete sell-out in the two concerts it offered this week at the Cervantes Theatre in Malaga, as part of the artistic exchange with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra. More than 2,000 people attended the performances on Thursday and Friday, the institution reported in a statement.

Manacor hosts this weekend, April 11 and 12, a new edition of Acampallengua, the youth gathering in Catalan that combines music, popular culture, and linguistic advocacy. Parc de na Molla will be the center of a program with more than 30 activities, camping, and concerts until dawn.

This March, singer Júlia Colom published a tune on social media that is not part of any of the albums she has released to date. It is a song written by her and her brother Martí, in which she speaks of a Mallorca that cries, of historic records, and of what, Colom says, we all know we have to do when the day gets longer: “stay inside at home so as not to bother them too much”. In a video that begins with a close-up of her and ends with an image of a hotel on the Majorcan coast, the singer from Valldemossa states: “Mallorca, you have been punished, / for getting the maximum profit: / a seasonal product / that now lasts all year round”. It is just the latest example of a whole series of songs with which island musicians and singers have demonstrated against mass tourism in recent years.

Toni Aragón, director of the Professional Conservatory of Music and Dance of Mallorca, a key figure in the musical training of the Balearic Islands, has died.

The Catalan artist Laia Rius, who leads the musical project Nastallat, presented this Wednesday in Palma her proposal Cada casa, cada vida, a work that fuses electronic music with ball de bot with the aim of bringing tradition to new scenic spaces and audiences. The initiative opts for a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional music, conceived especially for live performance and aimed at generating a collective experience around dance, the artist reported at the presentation.

The question in the headline has no answer, but Verdi's biographer, Julian Budden, stated that it was in the Requiem that he showed the greatest concentration of his genius. Among so many requiems that inhabit the universe of music, it is not very difficult to think, with many elements of judgment, that this one we are discussing is the most complex, monumental, and anthological of all of them. It was not a genre that Giuseppe Verdi had cultivated much. It was his participation, with a Libera me Domine, which, along with twelve other composers, they dedicated to Gioachino Rossini, the "swan of Pesaro." A piece that was not even premiered when its first performance was planned, the commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of the person to whom it was dedicated. Verdi rescued it when he decided to dedicate his to Alessandro Manzoni. Thus began the history of this colossal musical skyscraper, which we enjoyed as the sixth concert of the season by the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, along with the UIB choir, conducted by Núria Cunillera, Mira Alkhovix, soprano; Sílvia Tro Santafé, mezzosoprano; Antoni Lliteres, tenor, and Simón Orfila, bass. Pablo Mielgo conducted the event.

The Manacor-based bands Nita, Garrafa Nadal, Saïm, and Reïna have announced the formation of the association Punyeta Món, a collective created to foster mutual support in the face of the precariousness and difficulties inherent in the music industry and its inconsistencies: "To pool financial resources, have shared equipment, and self-finance concerts, where and why." Their first action will be a joint boycott of Spotify on March 27th. The members have invited other artists and supporters to join the boycott and support the initiative. "Puñeta Món is an escape, but also a meeting point. It's the expression of a shared rage among like-minded groups who don't see music as a commodity," they explained in a statement.

A concert for those who cultivate a love for music. Perhaps for that reason, and because there were many children, students from the Conservatory, the Auditorium on the Passeig Marítim had a delightful atmosphere. The program was enticing, enticing from beginning to end. It began with theOpening No. 3, of Leonora, which Beethoven considered too important and imposing to lose relevance as the beginning of an opera, the only one he composed, Fideliowhich should first be said as the piece in question. And so, imposing, with lime and corresponding, sounded the prologue to the seventh concert of the season of the Illes Balears Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pablo Mielgo. A majestic presentation, I would even say with a special demeanor on the part of the conductor and the sixty musicians who accompanied him on this very special evening when interpreting such a precise musical synopsis of what would be the only operatic composition by the genius of Bonn. It was clear that there was a desire to please a little more than usual and they made that clear from the first bars.

With the title 60 years of The Lost LoveThe Principal Theatre of Inca and the BarnaSants cycle pay tribute this Saturday, March 21, at 7 p.m. Joan Ramon Bonet (Palma, 1944), one of the founding voices of the Nova Cançó movement. The event, six decades after Bonet joined Els Setze Jutges, aims to celebrate his own songbook, as well as the author's overall artistic dimension, which is complemented by his renowned career as a photographer. Thus, classics such as Lost love, Souvenir vendor and His seagull.

Puerto Rican singer Myke Towers will headline the Reggaeton Beach Festival Mallorca 2026, which will take place on July 18 and 19 at the Son Fusteret venue in Palma. The festival, specializing in Latin urban music, will reach its eighth edition this year with a tour planned between June and July that will visit seven cities: Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Alicante, Tenerife, Mallorca, Santander, and Nigrán. The organizers have also announced a reorientation of the project starting in 2026, with the aim of expanding the usual two-day summer format. The new plan includes activities spread throughout the year in the Balearic Islands, with pre-festival events in the spring, the main festival in the summer, and closing events. According to the festival's new executive director, Andrés Tortarolo, this new phase aims to "consolidate an entertainment platform with global reach" and expand the project's scope beyond the traditional format.

Manacor-born keyboardist Llorenç Barceló has rejoined Rosalía's band for the Lux Tour, which kicked off Monday in Lyon, France. This afternoon, the Catalan singer will perform in Paris. Barceló, known for his blues background and versatility on keyboards (Hammond and Fender Rhodes), has previously accompanied Rosalía on tours such as Motomami, contributing additional textures to her sound.bluesyand improvisational fragments that enrich the live versions.

Fifth and sixth grade students at CEIP Es Vivero presented a rap song, written by themselves, about equality and the fight for women's rights. This initiative took place during a rap workshop led by rapper Rafel Swing at the school over the past few weeks. It is also part of the awareness-raising activities promoting equality and preventing gender-based violence in schools, coinciding with International Women's Day (25-N) and International Women's Day (8-M).

With the album The Ghorba Musician Rachid B has become one of the names that has revolutionized the Spanish music scene. Included in various media outlets' lists of the best albums of 2025, the album reflects on the feelings of longing and loss that accompany any migration process, as explained by this singer, who has spent half his life in Morocco and half in Madrid. He will present it on March 28th in a concert at the Estudi General Lul·lià in Palma, where Miquel Serra from Manacor will also perform.

More than 3,500 performances, some 200 songs, and almost 50 years of history: these are some of the figures that define Cucorba, the children's entertainment group that, since 1977, has become a key part of the collective memory of several generations of islanders. This is confirmed by the requests they have already received to reserve tickets for their final performance, which will take place on January 4, 2027, coinciding with the group's 50th anniversary. Before their farewell, they will release one last album, which they will make available for free online. We spoke with two of its founders and current members, Francesc Aguiló and Gabriel Gamundí.

A musical hurricane has been stirring the people of Menorca for 50 years, captivating them at local festivals and celebrations. Like an intense tramontana wind, the small orchestra, born in the mid-70s in the island's smallest village, Migjorn Gran, continues to make its presence felt in squares, venues, and football fields. With over 5,000 concerts under their belt, the Orquesta Huracán (keyboardist Miquel Pascual, his inseparable Pere Sales, and vocalists Rudy Velasco and Antoni Rodrigo) is a force to be reckoned with. PopiTheir population has grown in parallel with tourism, which was still in its infancy at the time, and has now doubled in half a century. They are living cultural testaments to the authentic, uncrowded Menorca that many still long for today.

The Mallorcan singer Maria Jaume published this Friday San Domingo Forever (Halley Records), a tribute to her hometown, Lloret de Vistalegre, and its patron saint, Sant Domingo: "I miss Mallorca more and more each day," she stated in an interview with Europa Press. This is her fourth studio album and is her "most personal" and most conceptual to date, with 15 songs that blend pop and traditional sounds, using the town's main festival night as a common thread, the singer explained.

The Mallorcan band The Deaf Buffalos has released a new song, a direct and frontal attack on Airbnb and its consequences for the island of Mallorca and its inhabitants. Titled God bless AirbnbThe group includes lines and verses like "don't go to the beach, let the foreigner go, he's the king of the island, he's the one who gives us our bread," making a reference to tourist rentals. In fact, this is also the central theme of the music video, where the band members are seen in front of ETV signs, the identifying mark for properties intended for tourist rentals.