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Ongoing: 291 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 2 events
GYOTAKU - LITTLE FISH FROM THE GARDEN AND THE SEA | painting workshop

10:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

25€ M/14 Workshops & talks

In this workshop, participants observe fish representations in the Museu do Oriente exhibitions and learn the Japanese printing technique Gyotaku, applying it to fish and plants. Led by Isabel Constantino Gonçalves and Marisa Noblejas, it requires no previous experience and is aimed at ages 14+.

Journey to America

11:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Live music

The Sunday Concerts cycle kicks off with a program featuring works by Copland, Bernstein, Arturo Márquez, and Gabriela Ortiz.

Afternoon 9 events
Ikebana

12:00 Albuquerque Foundation Sintra

45€ Other

Workshop on Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, with access to exhibitions.

The Missing Half

16:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

9€ Todas as idades Live music

'The Missing Half' is a show-workshop about the search for what completes us, described as a declaration of love to things, from the simplest to the most complex, from a flower to a hug. It takes place at Casa Capitão as a standing-room-only performance.

Tonight We Shout - "Samotrácias"

16:00 Biblioteca de Marvila Lisbon

5€ Party

Tonight We Shout is a cycle of performed readings of theatrical texts, promoted by Companhia Cepa Torta, celebrating its 10th anniversary. This edition presents 'Samotrácias', a cry from three women longing to emigrate.

SAMBA DE OCASIÃO: 7th Edition

16:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

DJ set

Samba de Ocasião returns for its 7th edition on a Sunday afternoon, with a DJ set from 4pm to 10pm.

Tribute Concert to Prof. José António Piñeiro Nagy OCCO

17:00 Auditório Senhora da Boa Nova Estoril Cascais

Free Live music

An OCCO tribute concert honouring Prof. José António Piñeiro Nagy, creator and director of the Estoril Lisbon Festival, with a programme spanning Portuguese and international composers and ending with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.

PRAGA AT THE MUSEUM: performance tour

17:00 MAAT Belém Lisbon

15€ Exhibition

Teatro Praga challenges audiences to attend performance tours of the exhibition 'Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP', mediated by Cláudia Jardim and Diogo Bento in a celebratory, party-like spirit of creative freedom. Drawing on works by artists such as Adriana Proganó and Ana Jotta, rules can be turned upside down in a session of play and fun.

SUPERSTAR

17:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

The theatre show SUPERSTAR takes to the stage.

Evening 3 events
ISA BUZZI

18:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

M/6 Live music

Isa Buzzi brings her 'Clube dos Corações Partidos' tour to Casa Capitão, with regular, VIP and Meet & Greet ticket options. Under-16s may only attend accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

MARINA SENA | "NATURAL THINGS"

21:00 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

40€ 6+ Family friendly Live music

Marina Sena, one of the leading voices of contemporary Brazilian pop, presents her new project 'Natural Things' in a captivating live show.

Juliana Linhares

21:30 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

24€ 12+ Live music

Juliana Linhares presents her second album, 'Até Cansar o Cansaço', live in Lisbon, a record inspired by dialogues with neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro about collective exhaustion and the world of dreams. The concert takes place on the ground floor of Casa Capitão on 25 October.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 291 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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