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Ongoing: 269 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 2 events
PALÁCIO PIMENTA - MIGRATIONS - GUIDED TOUR

11:00 Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta Campo Grande Lisbon

5€ Other

Guided tour of the long-term exhibition at the Museu de Lisboa – Palácio Pimenta, exploring the migrations that shaped Lisbon over the centuries.

Afternoon 5 events
Gulbenkian Building in Dialogue with the Landscape

15:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Other

In this visit, you will explore several spaces, including areas normally closed to the public, and discover how architecture and nature are in permanent dialogue in this singular building.

Evening 8 events
Tonight We Shout - "Vitória" by Pau Miró

18:00 Casa do Comum 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 'Vitória' by Pau Miró, about a widow in 1950s Barcelona who discovers the need to fight.

MARCO RODRIGUES SINGS CARLOS DO CARMO | THERE IS FADO AT THE QUAY

19:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

5€ Live music

Marco Rodrigues pays tribute to Carlos do Carmo in a concert celebrating the legacy of the fado singer, featuring songs from the album 'Canta Carlos do Carmo' and other highlights from his career.

Japanese Music for Piano | António Alves da Silva

19:00 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

15€ Live music

Launch recital for António Luís Silva's first solo album, one of the first records ever devoted entirely to Japanese piano music recorded by a Western performer, with works by Karen Tanaka, Saburo Takata, Minako Tokuyama and Hisatada Otaka at Fundação Oriente.

THE EMO FESTIVAL

19:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

Live music

The Emo Festival returns to Lisbon for a big emo tribute night with a live band, DJs, performers and confetti, as a standing event. Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is postponed or cancelled.

Carla Prata - It All Leads Back South

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

19,50€ 12+ Live music

Carla Prata presents her new project 'It All Leads Back South' at Casa Capitão, blending influences from the UK, Angola and Portugal.

António Raminhos - Be Right Back

21:30 Aula Magna Cidade Universitária Lisbon

18€ Theatre

António Raminhos presents 'Be Right Back', a comedy show that tackles death and finitude with his characteristic humour, turning grief into laughter.

DAPHNÉ CHENEL

21:30 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

12+ Live music

French singer-songwriter Daphné Chenel presents songs from her new album for the first time at Casa Capitão, featuring ethereal, cinematic sounds, with special guests and surprises.

JOSÉ PINHAL POST-MORTEM EXPERIENCE

22:00 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

18€ 6+ Live music

For the last 10 years, José Pinhal Post-Mortem Experience has kept alive the flame of the immortal singer José Pinhal, master of dance, romantic icon and major figure of northern popular culture. Born in 2016 as a spontaneous tribute, the band grew to become an improbable phenomenon, crossing generations, styles and geographies. After more than a decade taking José Pinhal's name to stages across the country, the time for farewell has now come. The last concerts of José Pinhal Post-Mortem Experience promise to be an intense celebration of life, music and the legacy of José Pinhal. Immortal, always! A big thank you.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 269 events

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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