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September 2026

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Ongoing: 286 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 1 event
MU.SA invites you to discover the art of illustration

10:00 MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra Sintra

Other

On 14 and 17 October, MU.SA — the Museum of Arts of Sintra — hosts the “Danuta Wojciechowska” illustration workshops, an invitation to discover the art of illustration.

Afternoon 1 event
Lado BB | The Truth

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB strand screens La Vérité, Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama in which Catherine Deneuve plays a film star whose fragile relationship with her daughter resurfaces; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts available.

Evening 8 events
Joshua Decter - The History of Art on Social Media

18:00 Pavilhão Julião Sarmento Lisbon

Free Exhibition

A series of three lectures by Joshua Decter, in partnership with AIR 351, proposing a revisionist history of contemporary art through its recontextualisation on social media. The event will be conducted in English.

Noémia Delgado | Máscaras

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Noémia Delgado's film "Máscaras", with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, students, over-65s and other groups.

Techno Yoga with Kate Zubok

19:00 Teja House Lisbon

DJ set

Kate Zubok — DJ, producer, free diver and yogi — leads Techno Yoga, a fusion of breathwork, conscious movement and dancing to Berlin minimal techno, every Wednesday at TEJÁ House on the Cais do Sodré riverside.

Lado BB | Et Dieu... Créa La Femme

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB programme at the Cinemateca screens Et Dieu... Créa La Femme, with general tickets at 3,20€ and discounts available.

TEMPERS

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

24€ 12+ Live music

Tempers, Jasmine Golestaneh's solo project, brings the songs from the new album 'Delusion' (2026) live to the Rés do Chão on 14 October. Synth-pop, techno, post-punk and shoegaze continue to define her sonic universe.

Lado BB | Viva Maria!

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB cycle dedicated to Brigitte Bardot screens Viva Maria!, Louis Malle's adventure comedy starring Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, at the Cinemateca; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts for Cinemateca friends, young people, students and seniors.

Nina Maia

22:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

11€ 12+ Live music

Nina Maia presents the songs from her acclaimed debut album 'INTEIRA' (2024) at the Sótão da Casa on 14 October, where MPB and bossa nova meet indie-pop. Tickets cost €10 + fees online and €13 at the door.

Mothership

23:59 Lisboa Rio Lisbon

10€ DJ set

Every Wednesday from midnight to 6am at Temple Club, the Visionaries x Freaky Fiction alliance boards the Mothership for galactic explorations, with an open beer bar until 01:00 and free entry on your birthday.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 286 events

Un ballo in maschera

Live music 45€

Wednesday 28 April · 20:00

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Centro Cultural de Belém Belém · Lisbon

Verdi's opera about a king in love with his best friend's wife, a political conspiracy and a masked ball where all the threads of the plot converge; this new São Carlos production adds another chapter to Lisbon's long relationship with the work.

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A king in love with his best friend's wife; a conspirator who discovers the betrayal too late to act honourably; a fortune-teller whose prophecy no one wants to believe; and a masked ball where all the threads of the plot converge. Premiered at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17 February 1859, Un ballo in maschera is one of Verdi's most singular works. The story of its creation is as dramatic as the plot itself: commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, it was blocked by the censors in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Napoleon III of France. Verdi refused the censors' corrections and eventually broke his contract with the Neapolitan institution. When it finally reached the stage, with the original Swedish setting transformed under Roman censorship into colonial Boston, the opera had survived a lawsuit and two years of obstacles. The libretto by Antonio Somma, inspired by Eugène Scribe, is based on a historical event: the murder of King Gustav III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792. In Verdi's hands, a political conspiracy and a secret love become inextricable, as the friendship between the King and Renato, his adviser, collapses under the weight of a passion neither can control. The score moves between tragedy and lightness with remarkable ease, especially in the pages entrusted to Oscar, the King's page, whose music radiates the distinctly French lightness that Verdi absorbed from his experience on Parisian stages. Lisbon holds a special place in the history of this opera: on 15 April 1860, just over a year after the Rome premiere, the then Royal Theatre of São Carlos was the first opera house to stage Un ballo in maschera outside Italy, with Gaetano Fraschini, the tenor who had created the title role, repeating it in the Portuguese capital. Since then, the opera has returned to São Carlos several times. This new production adds another chapter to that long relationship.

Show original (Portuguese)

Um rei apaixonado pela mulher do seu melhor amigo; um conspirador que descobre a traição demasiado tarde para agir honradamente; uma vidente em cuja profecia ninguém quer acreditar; e um baile de máscaras onde convergem todos os fios da trama. Estreado no Teatro Apollo de Roma em 17 de fevereiro de 1859, Un ballo in maschera é uma das obras mais singulares de Verdi. A história da sua criação é tão dramática quanto o próprio enredo: encomendada pelo Teatro di San Carlo de Nápoles, acabou barrada pelo crivo da censura no rescaldo da tentativa de assassinato de Napoleão III de França. Verdi recusou as correções dos censores, acabando por romper o contrato com a instituição napolitana. Quando, finalmente, chegou ao palco , com o cenário original sueco transformado, sob censura romana, na Boston colonial , , a ópera sobrevivera a um processo judicial e a dois anos de obstáculos. O libreto de Antonio Somma, inspirado em Eugène Scribe, baseia-se num acontecimento histórico: o assassínio do rei Gustavo III da Suécia, num baile de máscaras, em 1792. Nas mãos de Verdi, uma conspiração política e um amor secreto tornam-se inextricáveis, quando a amizade entre o Rei e Renato, seu conselheiro, se desmorona sob o peso de uma paixão que nenhum dos dois consegue controlar. A partitura move-se entre a tragédia e a leveza com notável facilidade, sobretudo nas páginas confiadas a Oscar, o pajem do Rei, cuja música irradia a ligeireza distintivamente francesa que Verdi incorporou da sua experiência nos palcos parisienses. Lisboa ocupa um lugar especial na história desta ópera: a 15 de abril de 1860, pouco mais de um ano após a estreia em Roma, o então Real Teatro de São Carlos foi a primeira casa de ópera a levar Un ballo in maschera à cena fora de Itália, com Gaetano. Fraschini, o tenor que havia criado o papel do protagonista, a repeti-lo na capital portuguesa. De então para cá, a ópera regressou várias vezes ao São Carlos. Esta nova produção acrescenta outro capítulo a essa longa relação.

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