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Cordel - new date!

Auditório Camões Lisbon

Live music

Cordel, a project by Edu Mundo and João Pires, performs at the Auditório do Liceu Camões on November 4, with the new album Volume II.

Evening 5 events
Eros Prado - Pagode da Ofensa @ Estoril

21:00 Casino Estoril Estoril Cascais

25€ Theatre

Brazilian comedian Eros Prado brings the "Pagode da Ofensa" show to Portugal, with humour, improvisation and audience interaction.

FESTA DO JAZZ 2026 | BITOI

21:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

The Swedish-Danish hybrid BITOI, built on bass and three female voices, brings to Festa do Jazz 2026 its maximalist sound crafted from phonetically transcribed birdsong, layering close harmonies and dissonances over deep, pulsing basslines.

Mondo Negro x ZDB: Poison Ruïn ⟡ Bated Breath

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

15€ Live music

In partnership with Mondo Negro, ZDB presents the Pennsylvania quartet Poison Ruïn, whose punk is haunted by a black metal aura running from Venom to Darkthrone's D-beat era, with Bated Breath also on the bill.

NIÑA PASTORI | CAMINO 2025 TOUR | LISBOA

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

40€ 6+ Family friendly Theatre

Niña Pastori’s Camino tour show at Coliseu dos Recreios, previously postponed to 4 November, has been cancelled. Ticket refunds must be requested at the point of purchase by 4 December 2026.

FESTA DO JAZZ 2026 | FES

22:15 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

To mark the centenary of John Coltrane's birth, the Flat Earth Society Orchestra performs 'The Coltrane Mutations', deconstructing and reinventing Coltrane classics through its eccentric, experimental orchestral language alongside new compositions touched by the 'Trane virus'.

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Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music M/06

Sunday 15 November · 17:00

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Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval Sintra

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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