Gran Teatre del Liceu

This guide to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opens on the night of November 7, 1893, when an anarchist named Santiago Salvador brought two bombs into a packed opera house during a performance of Rossini's William Tell. It traces why he chose the Liceu specifically, a theater built entirely with private money and long read by the city's anarchist underground as class privilege in stone, and follows what happened to Salvador afterward. You'll also hear about the fire that gutted the building in January 1994 and the opera that reopened it five years later.