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This year’s Grec Festival is on from 26 June to 4 August and offers an extensive programme of 81 shows and over 50 parallel activities, combining local talent with tributes to global maestros in the performing arts.

The names forming part of the 48^th Grec Festival de Barcelona include La Veronal, La Brutal, Dagoll Dagom and Baró d’Evel, who will be performing at the Teatre Grec.

The venue will again be the opening scenario for the festival, which this year features Sílvia Pérez Cruz with the show Circular, based on her latest disc, Toda la vida, un día. The Girona artist will be joined by artists who have played a part in her career, such as Natalia Lafourcade, Rocío Molina, Andrés Corchero, Pepe Habichuela, Carles Dénia, Judit Neddermann and Salvador Sobral. The show can be seen on 26, 27 and 28 June.

The theatre agenda includes international names such as Angélica Liddell, Lola Arias, Christiane Jatahy, Nat Randall, Anna Brackon, Jan Lauwers and Krzysztof Warlikowski, in a top-class programme with a clear women’s accent and in collaboration with the Festival d’Avignon.

The main programme is complemented by fifty activities around various venues, promoting the citywide expansion of the Grec. These include Tirant lo Blanc, directed by Joan Arqué; Tots ocells, by Wadji Mouawad, directed by Oriol Broggi, and texts by Catalan authors, such as Malamort, by Daniela Feixas, and Les mans, by Llàtzer Garcia.

Ticket sales

Ticket sales for Barcelona’s summer festival start on Thursday, 18 April, at 3 pm.

The blind ticket vouchers that went on sale over the Christmas holidays can be exchanged for tickets from 15 April, with multiple presentations offered to help spectators choose what to see.

Besides the usual discounts, there is also discount this year for people purchasing admission to four or more shows at the Teatre Grec, the Mercat de les Flors, the Teatre Lliure de Montjuïc, the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia and the Teatre CCCB.