Vilafranca de Bonany will once again be a meeting point for children's and youth theatre from October 21st to 25th. The 24th edition of the Balearic Islands Children's and Youth Theatre Fair (Fiet) will bring together 45 companies from the Islands, from various territories of the State, and from countries such as France, Denmark, and Brazil. The programme includes nearly fifty activities and thirty premieres: 4 absolute, 3 in the State, and 23 in the Balearic Islands, as reported by the organisers this Monday.

Actress Diane Kruger will be one of the protagonists of the 15th Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF), which will take place from October 28th to November 4th. The event will grant her the Evolution Icon Award in recognition of a career that has connected European cinema with Hollywood, with titles such as Troy, National Treasure and Inglourious Basterds. Over eight days, the festival will screen more than 140 films and documentaries in 13 locations in Mallorca and expects to bring together more than 8,000 attendees.

Saul Steinberg made drawing a way of observing and questioning the world. Known above all for his covers and illustrations for The New Yorker, the artist built a body of work that crosses painting, collage, photography, and literature without fully settling into any one discipline. The Joan March Foundation in Palma now proposes a tour through the exhibition Saul Steinberg, Artist, which opened this Tuesday and will be on view until January 23, 2027.

Puccini's Manon Lescaut promised to be extraordinary: firstly, for being the opera that inaugurated the Teatro Real season; secondly, for its secular silence at the 'Foro' and, finally, for a star like Sondra Radvanovsky at the helm of the performance. It remained, only, as a "not bad," but, above all, as "much room for improvement." Surely, the person most responsible for this 'highs and lows' was the artistic director of the co-production with the Oper Köln, Carlos Wagner. Not so much for a staging that turns out to be more aesthetic than functional, as for a direction of actors that meant nothing held together with a minimum of solidity; not for the imposture in every gesture, which also, but for a childish conception of the characters. Against the Venezuelan Wagner, Nicola Luisotti fought with his effective and silent instrument. So much so that the greatest applause of the evening was for him and the Teatro Real orchestra just after performing the famous Intermezzo, which they have moved from the beginning of the third act to the start of the fourth, with a projection of the vast sea as a visual element with which to bear witness to the journey that Des Grieux and Manon take towards their desert and North American destiny. This magical moment caused a packed-to-the-rafters Teatro Real to erupt, which seemed to be to unleash the audience's desire to applaud, which had been meager, and those that did emerge, a little too subdued.

Three of the most prominent voices in Majorcan music, Maria del Mar Bonet, Júlia Colom, and Maria Jaume, have been recognized by critics in the ninth edition of the Enderrock Balearic Music Awards. The awards will be presented on November 18th at the Teatre Principal in Palma.

The diagnosis is practically unanimous: there has been an extraordinary advance in the professionalization of culture creators in the Balearic Islands in this 21st century, but there is still much to be done. The improvement of working conditions, the support of institutions, and the adaptation to technical transformations are among the challenges faced by art professionals in the Archipelago.

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF) will celebrate its 15th edition from October 28th to November 4th, 2026, and has announced the main awards and protagonists of the event at a preliminary act held at the INNSiDE Calviá Beach hotel.

The Nit de l’Art celebrated its 30th anniversary on Saturday with more than 50 exhibitions and the participation of over a hundred artists. The event brought together galleries, museums, and cultural spaces in Palma, but also in Andratx, Pollença, and Santanyí.

There were still a few hours left before the Council proclaimed him Favorite Son of Mallorca, but Rels B preferred to start the celebration without waiting for the diploma. In front of more than 30,000 people gathered between the Parc de la Mar and the Passeig Marítim and with the Cathedral illuminated in the background, Daniel Heredia wanted to celebrate the distinction in his own way: with a free concert, on the eve of the Diada, so that anyone could share the recognition with him.

In an overcrowded territory that annually breaks records for tourist arrivals, it is not news that a group of 28 students comes to spend two weeks there. However, things change when the reason for their stay is known: they have come to learn Catalan. During these two weeks, Palma has hosted nearly thirty university students of Catalan from various countries around the world. They have come from the United Kingdom, Serbia, Romania, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and Poland to immerse themselves and learn firsthand about our language, culture, and territory.

In the summer of 1967, Michael Caine arrived in Portals Vells to shoot a film set in Greece. It was not the initial plan. The Magus, the film adaptation of the novel by John Fowles, was supposed to bring to the screen a story set on a remote Greek island, but the political instability caused by the coup of the colonels forced the production to seek an alternative. It found it in Mallorca.

The Majorcan artist Daniel Heredia, artistically known as Rels B, will offer a free concert in Palma on September 11th to mark Mallorca Day and his appointment as Favorite Son of Mallorca. The performance, organized by the Consell de Mallorca, will begin at 9:30 PM in the area between the Parc de la Mar and the Paseo Marítimo of the Balearic capital.

Fabrizio Plessi, one of the great pioneers of video installations, has died at 86. The Italian artist, born in Reggio Emilia on April 3, 1940, died this Sunday in Venice, the city where he trained and which marked a good part of his career. But for three decades he also maintained a particularly close bond with Mallorca, to the point of establishing his residence in Santanyí and developing an important part of his work from the island.

“Speak to me, O Muse, of the man of many turns, who wandered far...”. No one would ever have thought that the Odyssey, a 2,700-year-old classic, would unleash heated controversies on social media, as it is doing, thanks to Christopher Nolan's recent film adaptation. For the islanders, there is still another point of interest in Homer's story: whether its hero, Odysseus – or Ulysses – passed through any of the Balearic Islands, during his decade of journeys across the Mediterranean, after the Trojan War – ten more years – to return to his home island, Ithaca. Perhaps he did?

The keyboard chords of a version of Whitney Houston coming from the Hotel Mariant Park are mixed with the notes, at full volume, of Barbie Girl, a hit from the 90s coming from the surroundings of the Hotel Playamar. The August night is heavy and the hotel terraces are full of tourists looking for the promised entertainment. Right in the middle, immutable and eternal, oblivious to anachronism, remain the millenary stones of the Talayotic settlement of l’Illot.

The ME_MMIX festival, dedicated to contemporary music and experimental and avant-garde arts, and the Red Carpet recording studios have joined forces to organize, on August 20 at 7 p.m., the first of the preview experiences with which this year's edition, the most complete and ambitious in its history, will be presented.

The ‘Viu la Cultura’ program will incorporate 36 new activities in the 2026-2027 academic year with the aim of bringing the heritage, history, and culture of the Archipelago closer to students from the Balearic Islands. The new offer includes visits, workshops, and educational activities related to folk tales, archaeological sites, historical memory, and literature. Among the new proposals are The mystery of the lost folk tales, a visit to the Son Espases sites, an activity on the air-raid shelters of Palma, Pioneer and brave students, Joan Alcover in the Serra, and Filasons.

Kick-off to the 65th edition of the Pollença Festival with the Sant Domingo Cloister packed to the rafters and a few extra chairs. Those responsible for this situation came with names and surnames of proven prestige, Daniel Harding conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniil Trifonov on piano. But for contrasts, those they offered us in the first piece of the program, the "Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. A monumental and careful musical combat between the soloist and the ensemble of major subtlety and a modest reading, as if wanting to transmit with absolute fidelity all that was going through the composer's mind and heart. It was not spectacular, for the simple reason that it was not the author's purpose or intention – he took five years to finish it – but there was the contained tension to convey a whole series of subtle sensations that Trifonov's piano distilled with such a deep and gigantic Majestic. A first movementthat begins the orchestra with ninety energetic bars, until the solemn entrance of the soloist. Permanent, unfading communion, between the protagonists of a concert more symphonic than anything else, but which in some way draws from the sources of chamber music and with a duration that exceeds that of theEmperor of Beethoven. The collaboration between Trifonov and the Hardings was exemplary, reaching its peak in the exciting and moving Adagio which was so well received by the intended recipient, Clara Schumann. An introspective Trifonov displayed great, meticulous sensitivity, where each touch, each phrase, each silence, opened up a whole spectrum of emotions and numerous interpretations. Nor did the third movement, Allegro non troppo, increased the dose of vehemence, and the Rondo sounded with a more subdued tone than usual. It is a choice that somehow gave even more solidity to the whole. Strange the encore, mournful, gloomy, it can be a bit too much for a summer night. A tu cantem, by Pàvel Txesnokov.

Nobody who attended the concert that on May 23, 2019, the Balearic Islands City Auditorium offered, will forget the voice of the Norwegian soprano who had come to replace the American Lise Lindstrom. The name Lise Davidsen began to be spoken of in earnest, in a dazzling ascent, while she captivated everyone, without exception. Even those responsible for the Wagnerian oracle, where in the same year, two months later, she debuted with the role of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser with a tremendous success. From here, the possibility of a return was not even remote. Once again the predictions that more than a few soothsayers had made were shattered when the Cap Rocat Festival announced that we would have the opportunity to once again enjoy the immeasurable talent of Lise Davidsen, moreover in her Spanish debut as Floria Tosca. This circumstance alone made the semi-staged version of Puccini's opera an event of the highest possible caliber. 

The film Lionel, by Carlos Saiz, has been the big winner of the 16th edition of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest, which this Sunday lowered the curtain after registering its most massive edition. The festival also honored the French composer Alexandre Desplat, winner of two Oscars and distinguished with the Master of Cinema award for a career that includes soundtracks such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water.