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Ongoing: 288 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

No time published 3 events
Live Music

Orixás Restaurante Bar Galeria Sintra

Live music

Live Brazilian music at the Orixás restaurant and gallery, every Friday and Saturday at dinner time.

Live Music

Clube da Praia Praia das Maçãs Sintra

Live music

Live music at Clube da Praia, on Praia das Maçãs beach, every Friday and Saturday night.

Live Traditional Music

Taverna dos Trovadores São Pedro de Sintra Sintra

Live music

Nights of live Portuguese traditional music at the Taverna dos Trovadores, every Friday and Saturday.

Afternoon 3 events
ASI CONTEST BEST SOMMELIER OF THE WORLD 2026

14:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

35€ 18+ Other

The ASI Contest Best Sommelier of the World 2026 is the world's most prestigious sommellerie competition. In the Grand Final, finalists face practical and technical challenges in a live show, with the winner crowned World Champion.

IMPULSO I

17:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

Party

Impulso I party on Friday, October 16, from 5pm to 6am.

[ju:dtend'en:s]

17:00 Collect LX Factory Lisbon

DJ set

The Swedish collective [ju:dtend'en:s] (Ljudtendens) celebrates 10 years of contributing to the Swedish underground scene with an intimate family-style party of sound, light and art at Collect, LX Factory, on October 16, 2026, from 5 pm to 2 am. Residents Daniel Lien, Flord King, Morganismen and Nico O'Konor are on music duty.

Evening 15 events
Lino Brocka | Insiang

18:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of 'Insiang', Lino Brocka's classic of Philippine cinema.

Sunset DJ

18:00 7 Seas Bistro Cascais

DJ set

A sunset DJ set at 7 Seas Bistro, every Friday from 18h00 to 21h00.

LISBON REVISITED / OPENING SESSION

19:00 Casa Fernando Pessoa Lisbon

6€ Theatre

The opening session of the Lisbon Revisited poetry festival brings together poets from different countries to share stories, talk about writing and read their poems.

Lado BB | La Femme Et Le Pantin

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB cycle screens La Femme et le Pantin at the Cinemateca, Julien Duvivier's classic with Brigitte Bardot as the seductive Conchita; tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for Cinemateca friends, young people, students and seniors.

MARGARIDA CAMPELO

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

17,5€ Live music

Concert by Margarida Campelo, presenting her musical journey through pop, soul, R&B and experimental jazz, including tracks from the album 'Supermarket Joy' and the ballad 'Eu Sei Que o Amor'.

SUPERSTAR

21:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

SUPERSTAR is a theatre production taking to the stage.

Strawberry Guy

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

21,63€ 12+ Live music

Strawberry Guy, the musical project of Alex Stephens, brings his sonic impressionism to Lisbon, in a concert at Casa Capitão.

Lino Brocka | Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of 'Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang' as part of the series dedicated to Filipino director Lino Brocka. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, young people, students and over-65s.

Playing on the Grass!

21:30 Auditório Roma Lisbon

15€ Theatre

A comedy show written and performed by Joa Vítor, Pedro Durão and Ricardo Maria, testing each one's creativity and including music.

João Melgueira ~ at Pensão Amor

22:00 Pensão Amor Lisbon

Free 18+ DJ set

João Melgueira provides the music for a night at Pensão Amor, the iconic bar at R. Nova do Carvalho 38 in Cais do Sodré, Lisbon.

Impulso I

23:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

Free DJ set

Impulso I is the debut party of a new music community, taking over Village Underground Lisboa on 16 October 2026 from 5 pm to 6 am with Phyros, Luis FMR, CIINTRA live and Enkō, and free entry until 11 pm.

Rufo

23:59 5A Lisbon

18+ DJ set

A DJ set by artist Rufo, performing a solo set on the night.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 288 events

Un ballo in maschera

Live music 45€

Wednesday 28 April · 20:00

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Centro Cultural de Belém Belém · Lisbon
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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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