Install app

Keep WhatsUp Lisbon a tap away on your home screen or desktop. No app store needed.

  1. In Chrome or Edge, look for the install icon in the address bar, or “Install WhatsUp Lisbon” in the browser menu.
  2. On a Mac with Safari, choose File → Add to Dock. On Android, look in the browser menu for “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”.

If your browser has no install option, bookmark this page or open it in Chrome, Edge or Safari. Already installed? Open it from your apps.

Live listings need a connection. Only content already stored on this device may be available offline.

Find your next plan.

Lisbon, Sintra & Cascais
Choose dates

October 2026

Tap a day, then a later one for a range.

Fri 13 Nov Friday 13 November

  1. Tue 10 8
  2. Wed 11 7
  3. Thu 12 7
  4. Fri 13 11
  5. Sat 14 35
  6. Sun 15 12
  7. Mon 16 3
  8. Tue 17 4
  9. Wed 18 4

Ongoing: 363 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

No time published 2 events
ANDREA VANZO

Teatro Tivoli BBVA Santo António Lisbon

M/6 Live music

Concert by Andrea Vanzo.

Migraaaantes

Chapitô Lisbon

Theatre

A theatre piece by Multifoco Companhia de Teatro, with text by Matéi Visniec, built from the accounts of refugees in Europe and examining the predatory effects of capitalism on the lives of thousands of migrants and refugees.

Evening 5 events
BCCO with ÜBERKIKZ, Mac Declos, Ketarina & More

20:00 Lx Factory Lisbon

21+ DJ set

BCCO returns to Lisbon for a proper warehouse night of high-pressure sounds with ÜBERKIKZ, Mac Declos, Ketarina and Meibi b2b TAXSH — heavy grooves and relentless energy until the lights come on.

CANCIONEIRO DE ELVAS | SETE LÁGRIMAS | SEXTA MAIOR

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

The ensemble Sete Lágrimas performs a hexalogy dedicated to the Cancioneiro de Elvas, a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript, singing the codex's 65 secular songs and premiering new music by Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto for 36 poems left without music. Includes a pre-concert talk by Manuel Pedro Ferreira at 19h30 and Portuguese Sign Language interpretation.

Azafrán - V World Music Week - BOTA

20:30 BOTA Lisbon

10€ Live music

AZAFRÁN blends the depth of Persian music, the rhythmic force of flamenco and the freedom of jazz in a concert at BOTA's World Music Week, with microtonal guitar, percussion, electric bass and flamenco dance.

RUBEL | "BEAUTY. RUBEL & GUITAR"

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

20€ 6+ Family friendly Live music

Rubel presents the tour 'Beauty. Rubel & Guitar', an intimate concert of voice and acoustic guitar spanning striking songs from his discography, including the album 'Beleza...'.

Azizam - V World Week Music - BOTA

21:45 BOTA Lisbon

12€ Live music

The Brussels-based duo AZIZAM fuses electronic production, hypnotic guitars and vocals in Farsi and English in a concert at BOTA's World Music Week, somewhere between pop, EBM and rock with Middle Eastern influences.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 363 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music M/06

Sunday 15 November · 17:00

Add to Google Calendar
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.

Full details

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.

Show original (Portuguese)

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.

Opens saocarlos.pt in a new tab