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Ongoing: 267 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Afternoon 1 event
The Stranger | 27th French Film Festival

16:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

François Ozon adapts Albert Camus's celebrated novel: in Algiers, 1938, Meursault, a young clerk with a routine life and a distant attitude, is led by a tragic turn of events into a situation that will radically transform his life.

Evening 8 events
Nights of the Rescue of Being

18:00 Eco Retiro de Galamares Sintra

Party

A party night with Noites de Resgate do Ser at the Eco Retiro de Galamares on 5 October 2026.

The Plague | 27th French Film Festival

19:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, Sarah Arnold's black comedy thriller follows an explosive gendarme and a psychologist in crisis who reopen the investigation into the disappearance of a farmer in north-eastern France, in a delirious ride that evokes the Coen brothers.

FORWARD IS NOT THE ONLY WAY | OCP

20:00 São Luiz Teatro Municipal Lisbon

6€ Live music

A concert exploring the idea that progress is not linear, presented by OCP.

I Will Get Up and Bite a Fig ~ Mondays at z

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

Other

A performance imagining a laboratory where altruism is biological law and every body serves a system of function and repetition, presented on Mondays at z.

The Unknown Woman | 27th French Film Festival

21:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Oscar winner Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall) adapts his own graphic novel into a radical thriller starring Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider, in which a photographer who follows a woman at a party wakes up in her body, beginning a vertiginous crossing between identities.

João Melgueira ~ at Pensão Amor

21:30 Pensão Amor Lisbon

Free 18+ DJ set

João Melgueira plays a DJ set at Pensão Amor on Rua Nova do Carvalho in Lisbon's Cais do Sodré.

Farewell, Cruel World | 27th French Film Festival

21:45 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

The closing film of the 65th Critics' Week at Cannes, Félix de Givry's film starts from the bullying suffered by Otto, a 14-year-old teenager, and a suicide attempt, transforming them into a surreal, tender and luminous tale with echoes of the Nouvelle Vague.

MONGOLIAN HEART LIVE IN PORTUGAL

23:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

Live music

Mongolian Heart, a band from Nepal, performs live in Portugal, bringing their sound of folk, pop, and slow rock.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 267 events

Strauss’s Domestic Symphony

Sinfonia doméstica de Strauss

Live music 20€

Sunday 10 January · 17:00

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Centro Cultural de Belém Belém · Lisbon

Richard Strauss’s singular Domestic Symphony, Op. 53, a programmatic work centred on family life, performed with his characteristic orchestral mastery.

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The Domestic Symphony, Op. 53 is a unique composition by Richard Strauss. The idea of composing a symphonic poem based on elements of his daily life, particularly centred on his family, reflects his vision of life during this period. As can be inferred from his biography, the family he had built was an important pillar for him, notably his wife Pauline, whom he married in 1894, and the couple's son, Franz, who would be born three years later in 1897. The choice of programme, albeit 'domestic', points to this period of stability in his closest family experiences. The musical themes therefore allude to the figures of the husband, the wife and the son, with the richness and mastery of orchestration characteristic of Strauss. The composer finished the work in 1903, shortly before beginning his tour of some cities in the United States of America. The work was premiered on 21 March 1904 at Carnegie Hall in New York by the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra, with considerable success. In Vienna, the premiere was conducted by Gustav Mahler that same year. Although well received, the work drew some criticism, particularly for the 'domestic' theme chosen by the composer. The Four Last Songs, of great emotional intensity, would be composed in 1948, when he was already 84 years old, constituting one of his final efforts. The work, revealing his musical fullness, would be premiered in 1950 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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A Sinfonia Doméstica , Op. 53 é uma composição singular de Richard Strauss. A ideia de compor um poema sinfónico baseado em elementos do seu quotidiano, em particular centrado na sua família, reflete a sua visão de vida neste período. Como se depreende da sua biografia, a família construída constituía, para si, um importante pilar, nomeadamente a sua esposa Pauline, com quem casara em 1894, e o filho do casal, Franz, que nasceria três anos depois, em 1897. A escolha do programa, ainda que “doméstico”, aponta para este período de estabilidade nas vivências familiares mais próximas. Os temas musicais aludem, por isso, à figura do marido, da esposa e do filho, com a riqueza e a mestria da orquestração características de Strauss. O compositor terminou a obra em 1903, pouco tempo antes de iniciar a sua digressão por algumas cidades dos Estados Unidos da América. A obra foi estreada a 21 de março de 1904 no Carnegie Hall, em Nova Iorque, pela Wetzler Symphony Orchestra, com um sucesso considerável. Em Viena, a estreia foi dirigida por Gustav Mahler, nesse mesmo ano. Apesar de bem recebida, a obra suscitou algumas críticas, sobretudo pela temática “familiar” escolhida pelo compositor. As quatro últimas canções, de grande intensidade emocional, seriam compostas em 1948, quando ele já tinha 84 anos, constituindo um dos seus últimos esforços. A obra, reveladora da sua plenitude musical, seria estreada em 1950, no Royal Albert Hall em Londres.

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