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Ongoing: 277 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Afternoon 3 events
Maintaining the Gulbenkian Garden in Autumn

13:30 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Other

In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.

What I Want to Tell You: Written Portraits by André Pereira

14:30 Biblioteca Municipal de Cascais - Casa da Horta Cascais e Estoril Cascais

Free Other

On World Senior Citizens' Day, André Pereira sets up his typewriter at the library and writes — without exchanging a word with the person — portraits in poem form for anyone who wants to take home a unique keepsake.

Lino Brocka | Jaguar

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of 'Jaguar', a classic by Filipino director Lino Brocka, at the Cinemateca. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for Friends of Cinemateca, Youth Card holders, students and seniors.

Evening 8 events
Margaret Tait | Margaret Tait: From Beginning to End

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A session in the Margaret Tait cycle, 'From Beginning to End', tracing the Scottish filmmaker's career. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and retirees.

Techno Yoga with Kate Zubok

19:00 Teja House Lisbon

DJ set

Breathwork, yoga and conscious movement fused with dancing to Berlin minimal techno, guided by DJ, producer and yogi Kate Zubok every Wednesday at TEJÁ House on the Cais do Sodré riverside — no experience needed.

Carmen

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

45€ Live music

Georges Bizet's Carmen, based on Prosper Marimée's novella, tells the story of the gypsy woman who dies in the name of freedom and love. Revisited by countless directors, it remains one of the most striking contemporary myths.

Ricardo Reis Soares | Daniela Galhoz

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

12€ 6+ Family friendly Live music

A concert by Ricardo Reis Soares and Daniela Galhoz at Coliseu Club, featuring intimate songwriting and indie/alt sounds. The show is expected to last 1h40 and is recommended for ages 6 and over.

Mothership

23:59 Lisboa Rio Lisbon

10€ DJ set

Every Wednesday from midnight to 6am, the Visionaries and Freaky Fiction alliance invites you aboard the Mothership at Temple Club for galactic journeys with ritualistic aesthetics, with open bar (beer) until 1am and free entry on your birthday.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 277 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music 25€

Saturday 14 November · 18:30

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Teatro Camões Parque das Nações · Lisbon
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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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