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Ongoing: 290 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

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Morning 1 event
2nd Meeting of Archives of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

09:00 Centro Cultural de Cascais Cascais e Estoril Cascais

Free M/18 Workshops & talks

The Regional Delegation of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area of BAD and Cascais City Council promote the 2nd Archives Meeting, dedicated to sharing experiences and discussing contemporary archival policies and practices.

Afternoon 2 events
Lino Brocka | Orapronobis

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Orapronobis', one of Lino Brocka's most hard-hitting political films, following an activist who returns from exile and confronts a fanatical cult. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and other groups.

SPECIAL GUESTS × CAVO TERRACE • DAY&NIGHT

16:00 Cavo Rooftop Lisbon

Free 18+ DJ set

DAY & NIGHT returns to Cavo Rooftop at the Lisbon Cruise Terminal on Friday 23 October, with Bungee Residents and special guests still to be announced. From 16h00 to 3h00, the riverside terrace is free and open-air by day and turns into a ticketed club by night.

Evening 18 events
Lino Brocka | Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang', a landmark of Lino Brocka's new Philippine cinema, following a boy's friendship with an outcast woman in his small town. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

Lino Brocka | Oca + Ano Ang Kulay Ng Mukha Ng Dyios?

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca presents a Lino Brocka double bill, pairing 'Oca' with 'Ano Ang Kulay Ng Mukha Ng Dyios?' ('What Is the Colour of the Face of God?'). Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and other groups.

A MIND IN THE HEART | JOANA GAMA | SEXTA MAIOR

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

Concert by Joana Gama presenting the work 'a mind in the heart' by composer Ivan Vukosavljevic, a cycle of eight piano pieces inspired by themes such as transformation and birth.

Irish Trad Session

20:00 Casa do Fauno Sintra

Other

Lisbon Irish Session brings the tradition of Irish sessions to Casa do Fauno: an informal musical gathering with no stage, where fiddles, concertinas, bagpipes and other traditional instruments bring jigs, reels and polkas to life. Three hours travelling through the soundscapes of Ireland, also passing through Portuguese, Galician, Scottish and Swedish tunes.

ANGERFIST & USH| LISBON 2026

21:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

18+ Live music

Hardcore pioneer ANGERFIST joins INVDRS in Lisbon on 23 October at LAV – Lisboa Ao Vivo, with more artists to be announced.

Ava Rocha

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

12.98€ 12+ Live music

Brazilian singer-songwriter Ava Rocha performs live at Sótão in a concert of her own music.

BLOCO DOS APAIXONADOS

21:00 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

Live music

Sotam brings Bloco dos Apaixonados to Lisbon on 23 October at 21h at República da Música, after the show became a success in Brazil. Expect the hits fans sing on repeat plus more attractions to be announced soon.

Tonight We Shout - "Samotrácias"

21:00 Palácio Galveias Lisbon

5€ Party

Interpreted readings of theatrical texts, with 'Samotrácias', a cry from three women who want to emigrate, in a celebration of the theatrical text aloud.

Gli Allunati

21:00 Boutique da Cultura Lisbon

12€ Family friendly Live music

A concert by Gli Allunati, the original-music project of Italian pianist and composer Alessio Vellotti, blending composition and improvisation in a cinematic musical narrative.

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.

Touch the Grass!

21:30 Auditório Roma Lisbon

15€ Theatre

A comedy show written and performed by Joa Víctor, Pedro Durão and Ricardo Maria, in which their creativity is put to the test through several moments — with a few little tunes along the way.

Lino Brocka | Jaguar

21:45 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Jaguar', Lino Brocka's drama about a young mechanic who becomes chauffeur to the son of a wealthy family and slides towards crime. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

ELECTROBEAT

22:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

Party

A night of electronic beats and dancing from 10 PM to 6 AM on Friday, October 23rd.

Heith & Tarawangsawelas ⟡ Jardín

22:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

13€ Live music

Heith & Tarawangsawelas present Duori, a project born from remote collaboration that blends West Javanese sacred music with electronics, in a bill that also features Jardín.

Sotam - Bloco Dos Apaixonados Lisboa

23:30 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

Live music

Sotam brings the hits everyone plays on repeat to República da Música in Lisbon on 23/10 at 21h as part of Bloco dos Apaixonados.

Kokeshi

23:59 5A Lisbon

18+ DJ set

Kokeshi takes the decks for a DJ set, billed as the night's only act.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 290 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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