Fundació (2026)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: composition.
Performers: Jaume Santonja (Conductor), Judit Lanxun Serres Frontera (Flute, Piccolo Flute, Alto Flute), Isaac Tortajada Gasent (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Ana Membrives (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Abril Mateu i Llorà (Trumpet), Josep Mercadal Piris (Trombone), Ramon Vagué Zuazo (Double Bass), Júlia Mercader López (Percussion), Joan Ignasi Liebanas (Percussion), Escola Ítaca and Escola Poblenou (Children’s Choir).
Foundation is a commission from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (www.esmuc.cat), created as part of the celebrations marking the institution’s 25th anniversary. The work was performed by the ESMUC Pedagogy Ensemble and conducted by Jaume Santonja (https://www.jaumesantonja.com/).
The work reflects on the current rise of the far right, its origins, and its consequences. It does so through the distinctive language of Agrupación Señor Serrano: powerful metaphors and social critique, conveyed through real-time video, object manipulation, and the use of scale models. On this occasion, the stage creation unfolds alongside the live performance of Roger Costa’s musical work, written for chamber ensemble and children’s choir.
Structured around a six-scene dramaturgy, the score offers a journey through a variety of contemporary musical languages, adapted with the aim of bringing this repertoire closer to a wider audience. It combines almost cinematic textures, passages of great rhythmic intensity, and children’s songs whose lyrics are rich in meaning.
History of Love (2025)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
Why is love still, after so many centuries of human history, at the center of everything? Why can it hurt so much? Why can it lead us to sublime states or to unbearable emptiness to which nothing else can take us? Is love the same in every moment of life? Is love today different? Is love a political statement? Is there anything left to wonder about love? Is there anything left to say?
This mature contemporary theater company believes that yes, it is worth dirtying our hands in a history of love. And that we have to follow this impulse we feel, an urge to share something so private with the public.
KAD DOĐEŠ, JAVI SE, IDEMO NA KAVU S BAKOM (2025)
Ivančica Horvat – Iva
Choreographers and Performers: Ivančica Horvat – Iva
and Nathalie Labiano Boutens
Roger Costa: Sound Editing
Kad dođeš, javi se, idemo na kavu s bakom (When You Arrive, Let Me Know, We’ll Have Coffee with Grandma) is a fictional biography of a mature artist and her relationship with her profession. The performance is built around the multidimensional nature of memories and their different versions, and explores how memory shapes our perception of time, the body, and space. The tragedy of transience invites reflection on life and existence.
Olympus Kids Volume 3: Demeter (2021)
The third volume of Olympus Kids stars Demeter, Erysichthon, the oak forests, the Rapa Nui deforestation, the low-cost clothing stores, the cell phones, and the extermination of animals to make the burgers we find in the supermarket.
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
Olympus Kids Volume 2: Amazons (2021)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
The second volume of Olympus Kids stars The Amazons, Pussy Riot, The Guerrilla Girls, Green Scarf Protesters from Argentina, Polish people dressed in black and feminists wearing purple on March the 8th. The show depicts all of the above and their antagonists from Heracles, Vladamir Putin to the nosy neighbour on the second floor.
Olympus Kids Volume 1: Prometheus (2020)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
The first volume of Olympus Kids introduces us to the Greek myth of Prometheus, who is punished by the god Zeus for giving fire to men. An eagle is set to eternally devour Prometheus’ liver for his disobedience.
Kingdom (2018)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Sound Advisor and Live Sound Mastering
Kingdom is an irreverent stage cocktail, mixing together bananas, consumerism, virile choreography, TV commercials, punk rock, King Kong, supermarket growth, confusion, expansion, multinationals, food shortages, coups d’état, bestiality, trap music and very macho men in an endless party.
Birdie (2016)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
Birdie is a multimedia performance with live video, object manipulation, Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ revisited, scale models, 2000 mini animals, wars, smugglers and a massive migration. Three performers handle this messy world with wit, criticism and commitment to humankind.
A House in Asia (2014)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
The house where Geronimo is hiding in Pakistan. An exact copy of that house in a military base in North Carolina. A third twin house in Jordan, where a film is shot. The largest manhunt in history. A Sheriff obsessed with a white whale. The boy band Take That drilling for a historic mission. Cowboys and Indians. Aeroplanes and beers. Copies, reflections, imitations and cheeseburgers.
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Brickman Brando Bubble Boom (2012)
Agrupación Sr. Serrano ( http://www.srserrano.com )
Roger Costa: Soundtrack and sound design
Brickman Brando Bubble Boom is a stage biopic of the life and times of Sir John Brickman, the greatest English builder of the nineteenth-century and the man who inspired the first mortgage system in history. Running parallel is Marlon Brando’s life story and a vindication of homes against market rules.
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