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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Barcelona opera production among first to use intimacy coordinator

Ita O’Brien, right, at work during a rehearsal of Antony and Cleopatra in Barcelona.
Ita O’Brien, right, at work during a rehearsal of Antony and Cleopatra in Barcelona. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters

Love, lust and power pulsate through Shakespeare’s tale of Antony and Cleopatra. Now, in what is believed to be a first for Spain, so will the concept of consent as Barcelona’s main opera house prepares to stage an adaptation of the tragedy.

The operatic version, due to open this week at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, is among the first in Europe to have worked with an intimacy coordinator in an effort to ensure performers are comfortable as they tackle scenes that include everything from touching to kissing and caressing.

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