The Catalan viol player Jordi Savall received last night in Munich the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2026, one of the most prestigious awards in the world of classical music. The ceremony took place at the Prinzregententheater, with a concert by Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya under his direction.
From filling New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater for 11 years with his The Late Show after replacing the icon David Letterman to hosting Only in Monroe, a program on Michigan’s public access community television, along with guests like Jeff Daniels, Steve Buscemi, or Eminem and with Jack White as volunteer musical director.
Sin rencor (Diéresis) is not a testimonial book about bullying as usual. It goes much further. The literary debut of Elena de Juan García (Girona, 2004) transcends the personal experience marked by harassment, social emptiness, and digital violence, which she suffered during her last year of high school, to become a profound philosophical reflection on the anatomy of evil, dignity, and forgiveness.
As if they were two travelers who happen to be on the same flight, and in adjacent seats, Rosa Tous Oriol and Roberto Verino settle into their chairs prepared to have one of those endless conversations between two possible soulmates. In this case, belonging to the world of Spanish fashion. After a first exchange of impressions – the Galician designer shows interest in the jeweler’s parents, the well-known Rosa Oriol and Salvador Tous, now retired – the course of the conversation unfolds with a connection and affection that only two people who share the same approach to their profession can share: with passion, enthusiasm, and respect for the client.
As a child, the movie The Butterfly Effect left me with a disturbing and ingrained idea: that a minimal, almost invisible gesture could completely alter the course of a life. Years later, this chaos theory is glimpsed, not in the wings of a butterfly, but in the red and black body of a queen ant.
“Dying didn’t matter to me, but stopping making violins…”. The phrase perfectly defines its author, David Bagué (Barcelona, 1964), considered one of the best luthiers in Spain and with the greatest international projection. Beyond having a Creu de Sant Jordi, which is no small thing, the Vienna Philharmonic has three of his instruments (two violins and a cello) and Leonidas Kavakos, one of the best violinists in the world, owns between four and five of his violins. However, at the age of 28 (now he is 61), Bagué began a ordeal that almost took away what he loves most in this life and which is his reason for being: making violins. He was diagnosed with Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare disease from the group of systemic vasculitis, which recently had its world day.
On April 15, 1945, when the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II was already imminent, a high-ranking official arrived at Hans Huber’s paper factory on the outskirts of Munich with a strict and secret order. According to the instructions, several trucks loaded with papers would arrive at his factory, which had to be destroyed immediately.
“Welcome to Cannes!” said the head of the prestigious French festival, Thierry Frémaux, yesterday to Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo as they climbed the steps of the Palais. Shortly after, Los Javis excitedly took the stage to receive the award for best direction for La bola negra, a distinction they shared with the Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, author of Fatherland, a beautiful and harsh black-and-white portrait of Germany after World War II through the figure of the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika.
In the same place where Joan Laporta delivered the final blow to Barça’s 2021 elections, with his famous banner in front of the Bernabéu alongside the slogan “Looking forward to seeing you again,” Florentino Pérez launched an electoral campaign 22 years later. A message to highlight his legacy, with the names of the seven cities where the white team lifted the Champions League under his leadership, and a message for the future: “Much history to make.” The omnipresent “best president in history” won the elections in 2000 and 2004, left a year later, and returned in 2009 after a period during which Ramón Calderón led the club.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero defined Julio Martínez Martínez as “a good friend” during his appearance in the Senate. The former president also acknowledged that he worked drafting reports for one of Martínez’s companies, Análisis Relevante. It has now emerged that the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the Police maintains that Martínez was also the alleged frontman for Zapatero: “He is the boss’s bank.”