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A City with 2000 Years

Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

5€ Family friendly Other

A tour through ruins, archaeological objects and fascinating stories that reveals how life was lived in Lisbon two millennia ago — from its inhabitants to the role of theatre in the Roman city — with accessible language and interactive moments.

Morning 4 events
FUROSHIKI | SUSTAINABLE CHRISTMAS WRAPPING

10:00 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

30€ M/16 Other

In this workshop with Tatiana Arazaki, participants learn to make Christmas wrapping with furoshiki, the reusable Japanese cloth, in a theoretical and practical session on folds and knots.

Trip to Japan | Gastronomy and Food Culture

10:15 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

40€ M/16 Other

A workshop with Yuko Higashi on Japanese gastronomy and food culture — beyond sushi and ramen — covering restaurant types, table etiquette and tips for anyone planning a trip to Japan. It runs on Saturday 28 November from 10h15 to 12h15, for ages 16 and up, with a bento lunch box and tea included (€40).

WORKSHOP / Discovering the Corners of the House

11:00 Casa Fernando Pessoa Lisbon

5€ Family friendly Other

A special visit to the Casa Fernando Pessoa museum with clues to discover who the writer was, across the three floors of the house, with stories and curiosities.

Afternoon 8 events
The Art of Storytelling: In India

14:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

30€ Exhibition

A session dedicated to the main narratives of India and the traditions of telling them in different sociocultural contexts, through words, movement, music and image.

Geometry in Islamic Art

15:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Exhibition

Marking International Day of Islamic Art, this tour explores the museum's gallery dedicated to Islamic cultures to discover the geometries underlying the design of some of its works.

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 Wizard of Oz, featuring songs and performances.

MARIA JOÃO & JOÃO FARINHA | MISTY FEST

17:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

Maria João, a major figure of Portuguese jazz, presents her new show O Coração é Um Músculo at Misty Fest, created in partnership with producer and multi-instrumentalist João Farinha.

WARM with Phil Evans (Pager Records)

17:00 Collect LX Factory Lisbon

18+ DJ set

WARM hosts a DJ set headlined by Phil Evans of Pager Records, with DJ Honesty and Telma completing the line-up; more info soon.

Evening 10 events
AFRO ENCIRCLE

19:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

DJ set

Afro Encircle takes place on Saturday, 28 November from 7 PM to 5 AM.

Hidden Dances

19:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Live music

Danças Ocultas presents Flúmen, a performance blending concertinas, contemporary music and nature-inspired soundscapes.

AL DI MEOLA | MISTY FEST

21:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

30€ Live music

American guitarist Al Di Meola, one of the most influential in the history of jazz, returns to Portugal for a special Misty Fest concert mixing iconic compositions and new interpretations.

ELIANA GLASS | MISTY FEST

21:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

Australian artist Eliana Glass presents the repertoire of her debut album E (2025) at Misty Fest — intimate songs built on piano, voice and poetic minimalism.

OMAH LAY

21:30 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

45€ Live music

Straight from Nigeria, Omah Lay brings his unique sound blending Afrobeats, R&B and Afro-Fusion to Lisbon for a night full of rhythm, emotion and the artist's biggest hits.

VIZINHOS LIVE AT THE COLISEUS

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

25€ 6+ Live music

Vizinhos, the Évora band that conquered Portugal with 'Pôr do Sol', play live at the Coliseus, presenting their debut album and the hits that made them a national phenomenon.

VIZINHOS | ALENTEJO TOURISM VIP

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

50€ Live music

VIP package for the VIZINHOS concert, including a ticket and a meet & greet with the band and an Alentejo cocktail after the show.

MagMell

22:00 Casa do Fauno Sintra

Other

MagMell, part of Casa do Fauno's story since its opening, take the audience on an energetic journey through Irish sounds and landscapes, revisiting and reinventing the language of Trad Folk on a stage where their music takes on a magical dimension of its own.

TWILIGHT RAVE

23:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

Free DJ set

A Twilight-themed rave with DJs playing the saga's soundtracks, dark pop, emo, and 2000s hits, with giant screens and a vampire-werewolf dress code encouraged.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 334 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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