sentences:  He himself tells us that his father gave him many symphonic works and operas so he read them in the piano.In spite of the difficulty they were having, the child came out pretty shamelessly.His first opera, "Juana de Nápoles" (produced when he was 19), was well received at the Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona, and he immediately followed this with "Acté", for which (as for all his later operas) he wrote his own libretto.