Palau de la Musica Orfeo Catalana

I cannot comment on the music and on the dress code (being a performer I always travel with a black suit). But the Palau is a fantastic place to be, unbelievable architecture and colors. On a Barcelona visit, it should be on the same priority level of Sagrada Familia.

The tour is very good. I absolutely recommend it. Given the chance, I'd go to the performance, too. Is your hesitation about time? If so, I'm remembering that the tour was about an hour or so. The Palau is walkable to and from many other places of interest, so you won't be spending a lot of time getting to or from it.

Just for info: the name is "Palau de la Música Catalana" (Palace of the Catalan Music) -another video- and the resident choir is named "L'Orfeó Català" (Catalan Choral Society). The Palau was built around 1905 for L'Orfeó which had been founded in 1891. Here you can see one of the choirs of l'Orfeó on a performance, on Boxing Day last Christmas, singing a very patriotic song. There are several choirs within l'Orfeó, among which the main one, the adult's choir, and also the children's choir, the teen's choir and the chamber orchestra.

In general terms there's no dress code as such enforced, and except for very specific concerts (ie Christmas' or New Year's Eve for example), the typical dress code for the majority -as in most other venues in Barcelona, including the opera- is smart casual albeit these past years there is a trend in many to just dress casual (ie plain jeans). Still that depends a lot on one's 'background' if you catch my drift. Note in any case that 'casual' is not this, LOL! :))

Thanks to all of you!

We're going there to see a Flamenco performance on the 29th. The show starts at 2130 (9:30pm) so there wilol be time for the tour.

Thanks Enric for the link to the wonderful patriotic music at the Palau! As for the very casual couple at least they were the epitome of "color coordination"! And, I am pleased to report I too will take the Palau de la Musica Catalana tour on the morning of April 15 and then attend the Gran Gala Flamenc performance on the evening of April 17. Those and various other tickets in hard, and getting excited!

Enjoy you all guys! :))

Does anyone know when the last tour is?

Gina, you will need to go to the Palau's web site and go to the Tickets page, to look into the particular dates when you will be in Barcelona. There are 1-hour tours in various languages. It appears that the final English tour is at 3:00 pm. But there are a number of days when no tours are offered, and it may be that those are the days when there are performances scheduled. Good luck!