This is really a very important theatre of Barcelona!
The Grand Theatre of the Liceu was built
at the initiative of the Liceu Filharmōnico-Dramātic Barcelončs .
Joaquim de Gispert, a member and director of the institution,
won the concession of the lands of the former Trinity Convent in the Rambla,
where construction of the theatre began in 1844,
under the direction of the architect Francesc d'Assís Soler,
who was replaced a year later by Josep Oriol Mestres and Miquel Garriga i Roca.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu was inaugurated in 1848.


Over the years there have occurred two fires and a bombing.
The first fire was in 1861.
Once the reconstruction works finished,
the inauguration of the new Teatre del Liceu took place in October 1999
with the opera Turandot of Giacomo Puccini.