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PSC Iberica - Round 6

Autódromo do Estoril Alcabideche Cascais

Sport

The Porsche Sprint Challenge Ibérica, promoted by P21 Motorsport, visits Estoril on 31 October and 1 November for the sixth round of the season.

Morning 6 events
Bonsai Workshop

10:00 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

75€ Workshops & talks

Hands-on workshop with Márcio Meruje to learn how to care for a bonsai, covering history, styles, maintenance techniques and myths of this art.

Fermentation Workshop

11:00 Albuquerque Foundation Sintra

40€ 18+ Workshops & talks

A workshop led by fermentation specialist Lola Superfoods on preserving and fermenting seasonal vegetables, where participants prepare two preserves to take home.

Wool Embroidery Workshop

11:00 MAAT Belém Lisbon

15€ 8+ Family friendly Workshops & talks

As part of the exhibition "VENUS - Valentino Garavani through the eyes of Joana Vasconcelos", A Avó Veio Trabalhar leads a wool embroidery workshop at MAAT where the grandmothers' know-how meets contemporary creation. Each participant receives a small woollen textile piece as the starting point to explore stitches, textures and colours and create a unique piece.

Afternoon 10 events
The Perfume Route - Oriental Plants and Fragrances Course

14:00 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

45€ Workshops & talks

Workshop on the perfume route, exploring oriental plants and fragrances with Luís Mendonça de Carvalho, covering history, extraction techniques and sampling of essences.

Silk Painting and Textile Memory Workshop

14:00 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

70€ Exhibition

A workshop with artist Paulo Valle on Saturday 26 September from 14.00 to 18.00, in which participants explore the ancient technique of silk painting and create an original work on natural silk to take home.

Landscape Through Times and Cultures

15:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

DJ set

In this visit, we discover representations of landscape along a route that crosses several galleries of the Museum.

Casa dos Bicos - Muslim Lisbon - Tour

15:00 Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta Campo Grande Lisbon

7€ Other

A tour to discover Muslim Lisbon, starting from Casa dos Bicos to the Islamic Houses of São Jorge Castle, exploring traces of the city.

Once upon a time… And then you'll see!

15:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

3–6 Family friendly Live music

A sound-and-music story concert for families with children aged 3 to 6, where the little ones help search for a voice someone has lost.

THE WIZARD OF OZ | A POP MUSICAL

15:00 Casino Estoril Estoril Cascais

M/6 Family friendly Live music

A pop musical adaptation of the classic story The Wizard of Oz.

Family Saturdays | Films from the Early Days

15:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Family friendly Cinema

A family cinema session featuring films from the early days of cinema, part of the Family Saturdays series. General admission 3,20€.

Bloom presents Monkey Project - Lisbon - Halloween 2026

16:00 Pátio da Galé Lisbon

18+ DJ set

Bloom joins forces with the international collective Monkey Project on 25 July at one of Lisbon's most premium riverside locations, for a special collaboration featuring Antdot, Charmeine, Notre Dame, Parallelle, People Like Us and SHIA.

XDB Residency

17:00 Collect LX Factory Lisbon

18+ DJ set

A club night built around a residency from XDB, with more information on the event still to be announced.

Evening 18 events
Book presentation of "Meditating with Fernando Pessoa", by Paulo Borges and Marcelo Demarzo

18:00 Casa Reynaldo dos Santos e Irene Quilhó dos Santos Carcavelos e Parede Cascais

Free Literature

The book "Meditating with Fernando Pessoa", by Paulo Borges and Marcelo Demarzo, brings together poetry, meditation and mindfulness to create a space for inner discovery. The presentation is led by Nuno Ribeiro, philosopher and specialist in Fernando Pessoa's estate, with free entry.

Serenada Concert OCCO

18:00 Centro Cultural de Cascais Cascais e Estoril Cascais

5€ Live music

An OCCO concert with a string programme built around the idea of the serenade, including works by Elgar, Skalkottas, Gyula Beliczay and Robert Fuchs.

Journey to the End of Silence | Frau In Mond

18:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Cinemateca screens 'Frau In Mond' as part of its 'Journey to the End of Silence' series, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for students, seniors and other audiences.

Lisbon Boat Party

19:00 Lisbon Boat Party Lisbon

18+ Party

A four-hour party on a boat cruising the Tagus every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 pm, with a DJ mixing techno, deep house, reggaeton and club anthems, a welcome drink and long drink included, food onboard and entry to an after-party once the boat docks.

Martinu Concert | Metropolitana Soloists

19:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

10€ Live music

Concert by the Metropolitana Soloists dedicated to Bohuslav Martinu, featuring works that reflect the neoclassical intimacy, jazz sounds and Bohemian identity of the composer.

Margaret Tait | Margaret Tait and Luke Fowler: Reflections

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Cinemateca's Margaret Tait series pairs films by Margaret Tait and Luke Fowler in a reflective dialogue on the Scottish filmmaker's cinema; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts available.

Not Your Halloween

20:00 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

25€ Live music

On 31 October, República da Música hosts a heavy-music night marking the return of HILLS HAVE EYES, with CX and BAD TOMATO opening and a special NYS party edition with BLASPHEMO, BAILE EMO and ROCKLINE running until 04h00.

Scary Tales: In for a Fright!

21:00 Biblioteca Municipal de Cascais - Casa da Horta Cascais e Estoril Cascais

Free 6+ Family friendly Family

Bruno Batista has prepared a special Halloween edition of 'Contos na Horta' full of surprises and scarily fun moments, promising real frights and plenty of laughter. Aimed at families with children aged 6 and over, with free participation subject to prior registration.

MEO COMMEDIA A LA CARTE FEST"26 | IMAGINA

21:00 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

25€ 12+ Theatre

Porchat, Mourão, Vicente and Miranda present 'Imagina', an improvisation show at MEO Commedia a La Carte Fest, where the audience is invited to imagine what happens when these four comedians get together.

Rô Rosa

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

22€ 12+ Live music

Rô Rosa, one of the great promises of Brazilian music, presents her recent releases 'Sotaquin do Rio' and 'Improvável' in a concert at Casa Capitão.

SUPERSTAR

21:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

A theatre production titled SUPERSTAR.

Halloween Haunts: Lisbon Pub Crawl Experience

22:00 Local a anunciar Lisbon

18+ DJ set

A Halloween-themed pub crawl setting off from Praça Luís de Camões through three bars and Bairro Alto, ending with VIP entry to a haunted club. Along the way: a complimentary Bloody Mary shot, an hour of free-flowing beer and sangria, drinking games and a costume challenge with a champagne prize.

AFRO ENCIRCLE - HALLOWEEN EDITION

23:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

DJ set

Halloween edition of Afro Encircle, on Saturday 31 October from 23h to 06h.

TABANKA DJAZZ

23:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

Live music

Tabanka Djaz return to Lisboa Ao Vivo for a tribute to Caló Barbosa, with guests such as Yuri da Cunha, Rui Sangara, Loony Johnson, Dom Kikas and Nifeko.

Bashment | Halloween Special Edition

23:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

10€ 6+ Live music

Bashment debuts at Coliseu Club with a Halloween special edition, featuring dancehall, shatta, bouyon, afrobeats and amapiano in a night full of energy.

Elless & Benn

23:59 5A Lisbon

18+ DJ set

Elless & Benn join forces behind the decks for a two-person DJ set.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 277 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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