Related to the Liceu's 2020/21 Season is Obsessió, the work invites a series of visual artists, music specialists, filmmakers, philosophers, writers and critics to investigate obsession as a mechanism of creation, but also as an inseparable aspect of the human condition. Julià de Jódar, Albert Serra, Anna Campesino, Oriol Pérez Treviño, Rafael Argullol, Javier Gomá, Pep Duran and Marta Rebón, among others, offer us an uncomplicated reading, almost always rowing in favour of obsession as a factor of the first order when investigating the processes of artistic creation. Their contributions are stimulating and necessary at a time when the fear of recognising ourselves in our obsessions leads us to hide them. In the same way as chance, one of the triggers that define art. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

The Gran Teatre del Liceu wants to rethink itself in order to talk about issues of concern in today's world; a centre for the arts and thought with opera as the main subject, but not the only one. As prescribers of happiness, this publication is a promise of enjoyment, but also of reflection, growth and future.