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Lino Brocka | Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Cinemateca screens 'Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak', a film by Filipino director Lino Brocka. Tickets cost €3.20, with discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, Cartão Jovem holders, students, over-65s and other groups.

Evening 13 events
What Do We Do with Our Time?

18:30 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Other

A guided tour that invites visitors to question the boundaries between production and consumption, work, leisure, individual creativity and collective participation.

Lino Brocka | Macho Dancer

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Cinemateca screens 'Macho Dancer', Lino Brocka's film set in Manila's nightclub scene. Tickets cost €3.20, with discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, Cartão Jovem holders, students, over-65s and other groups.

Lino Brocka | Ina, Kapatid, Anak

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Ina, Kapatid, Anak', Lino Brocka's classic drama about two Filipino families bound by blood and divided by class. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and other groups.

Evgeny Kissin / András Schiff

20:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Live music

Evgeny Kissin and András Schiff perform a four-hand and two-piano recital featuring works by Mozart, Schumann, Smetana, and Dvořák.

Myrath

20:00 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

28€ Live music

Tunisian progressive metallers Myrath return to Lisbon on 22 October to bring their "Wilderness of Mirrors, Second Strike" tour to República da Música, fusing powerful riffs with Middle Eastern melodies in an intense, theatrical show.

THE SOLOIST OF WIENER | MOZART ORCHESTRA

20:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

40€ 6+ Live music

The Vienna Mozart Orchestra presents a concert recreating the atmosphere of classical concerts in imperial Vienna, with music, opera singing and ballet, in a journey through time.

FRANK JORGE & CARLINHOS CARNEIRO

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

24€ 12+ Live music

Frank Jorge and Carlinhos Carneiro come together for a night of Brazilian rock from Rio Grande do Sul at Casa Capitão, with sophisticated songs and lots of energy.

JMSN

21:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

25€ Live music

JMSN, R&B phenomenon, makes his debut in Portugal at Lisboa ao Vivo on October 22. Tickets cost €25.

SUPERSTAR

21:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

The theatre show SUPERSTAR brings to the stage a reflection on fame and stardom.

Lino Brocka | Gumising Ka... Maruja

22:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca shows 'Gumising Ka... Maruja', Lino Brocka's supernatural drama in which Maruja's love outlives death itself. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

Ribatexas

23:00 5A Lisbon

18+ DJ set

A Ribatexas DJ night with Fonzi (2) behind the decks.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 279 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music M/06

Sunday 15 November · 17:00

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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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