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Ongoing: 279 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 1 event
Training for hospitality and tourism professionals

10:42 Biblioteca Municipal de Sintra Sintra

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Sintra City Council and Turismo de Portugal offer training for hospitality and tourism professionals entitled “Criar e Inovar o seu Modelo de...”.

Afternoon 2 events
Linocut Workshop

14:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

45€ Workshops & talks

An introductory workshop on linocut technique with Maria Manuel Lyra, where participants learn the basics of composition, carving, and manual printing.

Lado BB | A Simple Favor

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB strand screens A Simple Favor, Paul Feig's dark mystery comedy in which a vlogger mum investigates the disappearance of her glamorous best friend; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts for students, seniors and Friends of the Cinemateca.

Evening 6 events
Linha de Sombra | Finding Neverland

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A Linha de Sombra cycle screening of 'Finding Neverland', the film about the story that inspired Peter Pan.

COCK

21:00 Teatro Maria Matos Alvalade Lisbon

M/16 Theatre

This provocative play centers on João, who falls for a woman after a pause with his boyfriend.

TEJAM Sessions

21:00 Teja House Lisbon

Free DJ set

A curated jam on the house sound system every Tuesday night until midnight — bring an instrument or just come to listen, free at the door.

Tashi Dorji ⟡ Erica Dawn Lyle

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

12€ Live music

A night of free improvisation where Tashi Dorji presents his singular guitar vision shaped by punk, free jazz, blues and academic experimentalism, joined by Erica Dawn Lyle.

Paulo Branco | Loin de Manhattan

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of 'Loin de Manhattan', Aki Kaurismäki's film produced by Paulo Branco, as part of the cycle dedicated to the producer.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 279 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music M/06

Sunday 15 November · 17:00

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Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval Sintra

The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Swensen, performs key works of French modernism alongside a Portuguese voice, featuring Debussy's La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and Ravel's Pavane, in a concert mapping the creative effervescence of early modernism.

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What if, in a single program, one could map the creative effervescence of early modernism, its boundary-breaking, its interartistic dialogues, and its relentless search for a new musical language? The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Joseph Swensen, presents key works of French modernism centered around a Portuguese voice shaped by the same currents. Opening the concert, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), a landmark in music history born from Mallarmé's symbolist poetry. By dissolving the boundaries between rhythms, harmony and orchestral color, this work introduced a new conception of musical time, in which atmosphere supersedes argument and the sinuous theme of the flute drifts adrift, like consciousness itself. Luís de Freitas Branco's Violin Concerto (1916), here performed by Carlos Damas (soloist of the work's Parisian premiere), constitutes a singular achievement in Portuguese music. Based on modal exploration and cyclical forms closer to César Franck than to Impressionism, it reveals a composer navigating between the heritage of the past and an unmistakably personal harmonic voice, decades ahead of its wider recognition. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), a meditation on a Renaissance court dance, brings stillness and luminous orchestral restraint to the program. Closing the evening, Debussy's ambitious La mer (1905): three symphonic sketches in which the sea becomes an inexhaustible source of color, movement and emotional depth; a work in infinite renewal, like the tides it evokes. Four works, three composers, but a shared conviction: that music, when free from convention, becomes something close to nature itself.

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E se, num único programa, se pudesse mapear a efervescência criativa do modernismo inicial, o seu galgar de limites, os seus diálogos interartísticos e a sua busca incansável por uma nova linguagem musical? A Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, sob a batuta de Joseph Swensen, apresenta obras-chave do modernismo francês em torno de uma voz portuguesa moldada pelas mesmas correntes. A abrir o concerto, o Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894) de Debussy, um marco da história da música gerado a partir da poesia simbolista de Mallarmé. Ao dissolver as fronteiras entre ritmos, harmonia e cor orquestral, esta obra introduziu uma nova conceção de tempo musical, na qual a atmosfera suplanta o argumento e o tema sinuoso da flauta flutua à deriva, como a própria consciência. O Concerto para violino e orquestra (1916) de Luís de Freitas Branco, aqui interpretado por Carlos Damas (solista da estreia parisiense da obra), constitui um feito singular na música portuguesa. Baseando-se na exploração modal e de formas cíclicas mais próximas de César Franck do que do Impressionismo, revela um compositor a navegar entre a herança do passado e uma voz harmónica inequivocamente pessoal, décadas à frente do seu reconhecimento mais amplo. A Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) de Ravel, uma meditação sobre uma dança de corte renascentista, traz quietude e luminosa contenção orquestral ao programa. A fechar o serão, o ambicioso La mer (1905) de Debussy: três esquissos sinfónicos nos quais o mar se converte em fonte inesgotável de cor, movimento e profundidade emocional; uma obra em infinita renovação, como as marés que evoca. Quatro obras, três compositores, mas uma convicção partilhada: a de que a música, quando livre de convenções, se torna algo próximo da própria natureza.

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