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Ongoing: 315 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 1 event
FULL PASS | Baião in Lisboa Festival 2026

10:00 Vários Locais Lisboa Lisbon

130€ Live music

The FULL PASS for the Baião in Lisboa Festival 2026 grants access to all activities from December 4-6, including dance workshops, concerts and parties, at one of Europe's biggest forró festivals.

Afternoon 1 event
TURN ME ON

17:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

Party

Party TURN ME ON on Friday, December 4th, from 5 PM to 6 AM.

Evening 7 events
AUTO DA CRIAÇÃO DO MUNDO

19:30 Museu da Marioneta Lisbon

7,5€ Theatre

Theatre performance 'Auto da Criação do Mundo', with tickets at €7.50.

Candlelight: The Best of Joe Hisaishi

19:30 Academy of Sciences Rua Academia das Ciências 19, Lisboa, 1249-122 Lisbon

Family friendly Live music

The Candlelight concerts illuminate the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa with a sea of candles, as a string quartet performs the best of Joe Hisaishi, from 'My Neighbour Totoro' to 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle'. The 60-minute concert is open to ages 8 and up.

Francisco Sales

21:00 BOTA Lisbon

12€ Live music

Francisco Sales presents his new album 'EOS', a contemplative work that turns sunrise into a sonic experience, in a language between folk and jazz.

SWAN LAKE | BALLET OF KIEV

21:00 Teatro Tivoli BBVA Santo António Lisbon

M/6 Family friendly Dance

The Ballet of Kiev performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Swan Lake.

Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer

21:30 Academy of Sciences Rua Academia das Ciências 19, Lisboa, 1249-122 Lisbon

Family friendly Live music

A Candlelight tribute concert at the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, where a string quartet performs Hans Zimmer's greatest film scores — from Interstellar and Dune to The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean — in an atmosphere lit by a sea of candles.

Idiot Festival

21:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

15€ Live music

The Idiot Festival celebrates 5 years with a show that fills a room of nearly 800 seats at Cinema São Jorge on December 4, featuring idiotic ideas and special guests.

Hammok ⟡ Roy Batty

22:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

13€ Live music

Norway's Hammok bring the urgent, melody-laced hardcore of their album 'When Does This Place Become Our Scene' to ZDB, sharing the night with Roy Batty.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 315 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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