#classical art performance

I am so proud of Rosalía, and everyone behind this production is a genius from the lighting, stage design, to the live orchestra. She brought together theatre, art, dance, opera, and music into one breathtaking experience. It felt like watching a story unfold like a painting in motion. Lux is like a living museum filled with art.

If you notice the moon behind her, it feels like a symbol of time its phases, its passage. From the theatrical entrance with the hand-painted back of the canvas parts open to the unboxing of the wooden box, it reminded me of Degas’ Little Dancer. When she sang Sexo, Violencia y Llantas, it felt like the beginning dreams, longing, a wish.

The men behind her felt like workers maintaining a museum, while she moved from piece to piece, transforming through different inspirations. Like a ballerina, there is discipline in her art controlled, intentional, precise. Porcelana to Divinize feels so enchating. Then the lighting shifts, her costume darkens, and the mood turns into midnight blue. With songs like Berghain, La Fama, La Combi Versace, and De Madrugá, it feels like night deepening, but also hinting that dawn is coming.

Dawn finally came with El Redentor, like an echo signalling a new awakening. She transforms again, each performance becoming another painting. There’s a haunting energy, like The Witches’ Sabbath within Berghain. Her concert feels like the transformation of a human journey constantly shifting, evolving.

At one point, she becomes like a Mona Lisa still, iconic, observed with fans observing her. Then comes a more intimate moment, a confession with a fan, followed by La Perla, elevated further through the staging and direction by Dimitris Papaioannou, turning it into something almost sacred.

From Sauvignon Blanc to La Yugular, the seasons begin to shift Sauvignon Blanc feels like autumn, a slow transition, a shedding, while La Yugular becomes winter, cold, stark, and almost still, as if everything has been stripped down to its core. There’s a sense of movement and transformation, even snowfall, as she continues evolving.

When she performs Dios es un Stalker in the pannier, birdcage-like skirt, it feels raw as if she is shedding something, stripping down her humanity and moving toward something divine.

Then comes La Rumba del Perdón a dance of forgiveness to CUUUUuuuuuute. The smoke rises around her like myrrh, almost like a ritual cleansing. From La Noche De Anoche to Bizcochito, the stage opens like it is telling us we are in Part 4 the finale and lights up. Everyone is now wearing white. She continues to perform Novio Robot to Fuccu Ranni. She runs across the stage like an angel in motion. The lighting turns white, and the space opens—it feels like ascension.

And then she falls.

Like in Black Swan, her fall carries the tragedy of a ballerina beautiful, intense, and consuming. She falls with grace, with acceptance. Then Magnolias, everything quiets. The audience listens. The staircase opens, she walks backwards, and the light slowly consumes her. It feels like she has come full circle from longing to fulfilment. From dreaming to reaching something beyond.

The final movement of the painted slide closes the story. It truly felt like a museum of living art.

In a world where people say classical art is dying, Rosalía proved that classical and modern can coexist and evolve together. One day, her work will be studied and remembered. You can feel how much she loves music and art she doesn’t just perform it. She embodies it, almost like a form of devotion.

And I hope that those who called this production “cheap” would also take a moment to truly observe and try to comprehend the art behind it because not everything is meant to be loud or grand to be meaningful.

This is just my own interpretation, and I didn’t mention all the songs in the setlist, only some that stood out to me, but it was incredibly beautiful and moving. I also feel like I missed out on some other art references. Rosalía please drop the Lux Tour Album. We need the orchestra version, pleeeaaaassse, pleeaaaaaseee

Congratulations Rosalía for wrapping up your first stop. Love you. ✨

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