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Ongoing: 276 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Afternoon 2 events
Lino Brocka | Dalaga Si Misis, Binata Si MIster

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Lino Brocka's Dalaga Si Misis, Binata Si MIster at the Cinemateca, a comedy about a married couple with swapped roles. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts available.

The Song of the Birds

17:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Other

This visit introduces the bird species that make up the avifauna of the Foundation's Garden, with a focus on their songs.

Evening 9 events
Lino Brocka | Bayan Ko:Kapit Sa Patalin

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko:Kapit Sa Patalin at the Cinemateca, a drama about a country clinging on at the edge. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts available.

Lino Brocka | Wanted: Perfect Mother

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Lino Brocka's Wanted: Perfect Mother at the Cinemateca, a comedy in search of the perfect mother. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts available.

COCK

21:00 Teatro Maria Matos Alvalade Lisbon

M/16 Theatre

A theatre play titled COCK.

Curbside Lambsear ⟡ Anaís

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

13€ Live music

The duo Curbside Lambsear — Magdalena McLean (caroline) and Annabelle Mödlinger — performs folk threaded with loops on the border between pop and experimental rock, on a bill that also includes Anaís.

IMARHAN

21:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

25€ Live music

Imarhan bring the desert blues revolution to Portugal, presenting their new album Essam in two concerts: 19 October at Casa da Música, Porto, and 20 October at Lisboa Ao Vivo, Lisbon.

Nemzzz - Locked In Tour

21:00 Capitólio Arroios Lisbon

25€ Live music

Nemzzz, one of the biggest voices in UK Rap, brings his new project 'Locked In' to Capitólio, Lisbon, for a first headline show.

TEJAM Sessions

21:00 Teja House Lisbon

Free DJ set

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

Falso Nove | Não sonho quase nada

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

15€ 6+ Live music

Falso nove perform their second album 'Não Sonho Quase Nada' live for the first time at the Coliseu Club, a Portuguese-language indie rock record built around childhood, memory and the anxieties of adult life.

Lino Brocka | Sa Kabila Ng Lahat

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Lino Brocka's Sa Kabila Ng Lahat at the Cinemateca, a drama about what lies beyond appearances. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts available.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 276 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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