The Cap Roig Festival continued yesterday with this summer’s programming, hosting the American singer Christina Aguilera on its bill. Up to 2,400 spectators – among whom was the president of CaixaBank, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri – attended the event in the gardens that host this series. An audience of intergenerational fur that had paid between 200 and 340 euros, depending on the location of their location in the auditorium, to attend the concert.
Just a few minutes behind schedule, Aguilera kicked off the party after the corresponding canned intro and showy projections of carnal-futuristic bias in the background of the proscenium – with the song Dirrty . It is a track from the critically acclaimed 2002 album Stripped, as well as the next number in the set, Can’t Hold Us Down, on which she once teamed up with Lil’ Kim. First steps of a concert with a millimetric script, with intros, transitions and careful visual narrative reinforcing the show, a structure conceived in five acts.
In the initial moments of her presentation in Calella de Palafrugell, the one that her fans point out as a diva wore very long patent leather boots and a silver bra. She evolved together with a mixed dance group made up of six people, as well as three choristers and a band of four musicians, two of them (drums and keyboards) playing from elevated structures.
Successes of his career as Bionic and the impressive geometric game that accompanied it, Vanity or Genie in a bottle, marked the later development of the gig. At the time of writing this chronicle, we entered a new segment of the gala with a more Latin bias and with novelties in sight. The Santo theme sounded at a good trot, and it was anticipated that it would be followed by Let go of me and Pa my girls. Numbers, all of them, that are part of the very recent Aguilera , the ninth work –and the second performed in Spanish after My reflection in 2000– of her career: a discography started in 1999 that up to the present moment has been distinguished with five Grammy awards. and a Latin Grammy. In the same way, it was estimated that in the final stretch of the gala he would go to such outstanding pieces of Aguilera’s career as Fighter.
Christina Aguilera’s last professional visit to Catalonia had taken place almost 19 years ago, in the autumn of 2003, when the artist performed before some 6,000 spectators at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, ??precisely presenting the album Stripped. For this reason, and beyond her novelties, her appearance at the Cap Roig festival had the added value of her reunion with her followers from these latitudes.
