“We have L'Auditori, the TNC, the Disseny Hub...: unim-los, fem la plaça de les Arts!”

Robert Brufau will now go to the captain of L'Auditori de Barcelona - 18 years to the house - when on June 1 he takes the suitcases with the family to Stockholm to artistically direct the Konserthuset, the home of the city's Royal Philharmonic and also the Nobel Prize ceremonies. Els seus bessons de nou anys, he explains, will react in a very diverse way in knowing that Marxaven –“un, amort i l'altre, gens d'acord, tot i que és pragmàtic i es va ficar a internet aveure què hi menjaven a Suècia”–, but everyone at home is learning the language. Brufau makes a positive balance from the stage to the direction of the equipment: the renovation of the OBC, the acoustic improvement of the Pau Casals room, the parity on the podium, the sustainability of both the photovoltaic panels of the stand...

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What are you most proud of?

From a band, from the artistic personality of the equipment. We have made an endavant country and we have given a certain unit and manner of fer, and we have advised that L'Auditori is a reflection of the country's musical wealth and complexity, clearly projected to the international circuit. I have seen many of the city's ecosystems, both the Palau and the Liceu, contributing to this value of modernity and diversity. We are an eminent classical team that today is the one that has to do more to embrace diversity, promote creation, and adapt to minority music: we have adventures with new music that does not exist here and we aim to be an actor more in modern music. organic, meaning entering into competitive competition in the private sector. I això, finally we started talking about SitBack and invented this whole story, it wasn't així. Sovint is treballava from the perspective of the convertible, which also the tenim, but each copy is more of a co-curatorship, a co-production... In the end, diversity is part of the statutes of this team, for now it has four sales, for now it is going to admire the Cité de la Musique of Paris.

Should you plant a bunker?

It could be a more open equipment to the neighborhood and be more permeable to the city's teixits. Sometimes these walls seem inaccessible to part of the population. But he became the public house dedicated to music.

Will Stockholm be able to pay a composer a billion for a contract?

No, these markets are very standardized. Both publishers are very transparent: they say what the main promoter, like the BBC Philharmonic, will pay for when the rest of the orchestras play. We are not against L'Auditori, no. Fa temps que som al mercat.

“Marxo in a very good moment: he has a clear creixement of the OBC and it is time that someone else arrived and made his project.”

Who balances in favor of the orchestra?

It is the most difficult and sophisticated part, a complex gear. In this case anys l'hem renovat by 30%. In addition, the 2008 law prohibiting contracting in the public sector and replacing pensions if they do not serve essential purposes will affect all instruments. Jo l'agafava amb 74 músics, tot fold a mica demotivat, and hem fet mota feina and mot maca, sumant renewals and pre-retirements, in the absence of 23. When we are about to arrive, a plan for reconstruction and finding finances will be ready. I is exhausting, because when you are injecting people and changing things, it is not all in positive, because you generate a pressure, you generate more ambition: ens en anem de tour, gravem això i there... In this sense, marxo in molt bon moment: hem fet un creixement claríssim i es tiempo que arribi algú altre i faci el your project.

But if we estimate that there are three weekly concerts and two, will the orchestra lose the public?

It's a good question. The budget balance is good, so when you do more activities you earn more, but you spend more, therefore, here we adjust a mica. It is certain that it does not connect the cities of the middle of Barcelona and the offer that Barcelona has on it has an orchestra that gives three concerts. There are two fans in Stockholm, for example, and they are two great orchestras. Therefore, I thought it was well adjusted. Faced with programs that in women three, but each cop menys, because the work loads are excessive – they had a lot of wear, we have a brutal accident, a large number of downtimes and això has reduced–. And we are public believers.

Two concerts are great if you can find them. S'omplen?

No, but this room is excessively large for this city, and I can't say that it's not the best place. But if an exit concert is 1,600 people and has a capacity of 2,200... They are monstrous sales. What is evident is that the fertilizer is decreasing. The current model will change. It is also true that at the income level it has been better because all those who are not subscriptions are tickets. Pateixes porquè estàs a l'last minute that you don't know who the occupation will be, but it is noted an increase in income regarding the one that happened after the pandemic. There were 8,000 OBC subscriptions and now it's about 5,000. If we add up all the L'Auditori subscriptions (OBC, Antiga, Cambra i Banda) it is around 7,000.

I don't know if Ludovic intended to renew. It is important that the propers are anys and the relationship that is established with the new direction.”

Morlot's contract ends for the 2027-28 season. Did you intend to renew?

I don't know. It is important that they come and the relationship that is established with the new direction and how to follow the moment of congratulations that the orchestra is experiencing. Això is when they go on tour. Anys would also be enough to develop a project. They have statuses of molta feina. In the house there are powerful people, we have a very good equipment in a first-class building.

Do you think that despite the best acoustics, the Pau Casals is the best room in the Spanish State?

Ho ho tinc molt clar. The next day I will be at the National Auditorium with the concert that will be exchanged between the ONE and the OBC and all those who are with me, who govern with the criteria, and they are in agreement. Ara, if you ask the musicians, they are in love with the National Auditorium. At that moment the experience will be very enjoyable.

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Has there been a lot of criticism for proposing parity between the batutes invited to the OBC podium?

At first there will be a difference. Per part of some music, yes. More than dins will come from the house. I have run over cliffs all along this path. When we set the objective to change the situation, we are at the moment of transformation of the sector and the market. Ens hi apuntem, but it was not a camí llaurat. Having a leading lady who felt the maximum authority of that week of the orchestra was an unusual thing. We have Simone Young and little else. You start talking to the agencies, you start investigating, you start researching, and you see that it is a market to explore. Ara fa estona that we are 50% of gifts and men to the podium. They are more of a young profile, per logic, but ho vam fer. Always partint of quality, obviously.

Is being a public consortium supposed to be a problem?

There are some advantages, they are well equipped – you may have problems if you see a pandemic – but we have great inoperability. The system does not adapt to the business, which exists independently of the system. We have to think about whether we want to change the legal personality to be more flexible, versatile and agile. Adaptar-nos als nous temps.

Has he landed on the table?

There has been talk and there has been awareness on the part of the consortium managers. The people are hanging by tax processes very strong and això is very exhausting. It is very positive to be aware that we are managing public money and taxing it, but there has come a time when the apparatus does not adapt to the business. I always think about models with the foundation, because the Liceu is also well taxed.

One of the seus objectives that the management of L'Auditori is going to achieve was to ensure that it is the Plaça de les Arts. I no s'ha mogut res.

No s'ha mogut res. The best thing to do will be at the moment of the pacification of the super-illes. It is clear that the current government is very aware of the situation, and has made the first proposals from groups of important architects. The difficult thing is to generate international projection projects with the Auditori, the TNC or the Hub. Això they have nothing, they are here, they are reference equipment. Unim-los! We finished fer la plaça de les Arts. I enllaçant amb això, L'Auditori can think about working on the theme of restoration, which Moneo had foreseen in the space that now remains to arrive at the Meridiana. I have the issue of pacifying the roads leading to the Auditori and connecting with the TNC. It is possible to generate commune exploitation spaces: imagine an open-air theater that is publicly owned and has all two regular programmes.