Moors and Christans in Pollensa 2023
Photo sent by Garth Hartley Booth who lives in Port Pollensa.
Mallorca events: What's On from Friday, August 4 to Sunday, August 6
Fiestas this weekend are: Mare de Déu d'Agost Fiestas, Sant Salvador, Santa Maria del Mar, Sant Domingo, Santa Candida, Sant Llorenç, Santa Eugenia, Sant Roc as well as summer fiestas in Palmanova, Sant Elm, Colonia de Sant Jordi and Puigpunyent.
“My favourite composer is the one I play at the moment”
The pianist Arcadi Volodos will be the star of the second day of the Cap Rocat Festival on Saturday August 5.
The renowned mezzo-soprano Elina Garança performs this Friday with the first evening of the Cap Rocat Festival
The renowned mezzo-soprano Elina Garança performs this Friday with the first evening of the Cap Rocat Festival.
“Reading the reviews immediately makes you elated or depressed”
Mezzo-soprano Elina Garança is one of the voices of the third Cap Rocat Festival.
The avant-garde Mary Halvorson
Mallorca Jazz Sa Pobla is a festival noted for the variety of styles of the artists.
German pianist Oliver Kern
German pianist Oliver Kern.
Mallorca’s oldest music festival
The Chopin Festival in Valldemossa is one of Mallorca’s most important musical events and is certainly the oldest.
The little-known story of Sant Elm’s Moors and Christians
The history behind the Pollensa and Soller Moors and Christians battles is widely known, but there is far less familiarity with the background to one of the other reenactments - Sant Elm in early August.
Old rivals first up at home for Mallorca
Real Mallorca rarely get to play a derby against Atlético Baleares.
A world-class soprano once rejected by a music academy
Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka was something of a late-starter as a singer.
Pollensa Music Festival 2023
One of the most in-demand sopranos in the world, Marina Rebeka.
Mallorca events: What's On from Monday, July 31 to Thursday, August 3
Not to be missed this week is the mock battle between Moors and Christians in Pollensa.
Kenny Barron - Embraceable you (George Gershwin)
Jazz pianist Kenny Barron.
The Moors and Christians reenactment is astonishing
The Moors and Christians reenactment is astonishing.
Cap Rocat Festival 2023
The spokesperson and coordinator of the Cap Rocat Festival, María Obrador.
Irish folk singer-songwriter Anna Mieke
Irish folk singer-songwriter Anna Mieke.