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The Metropolitan Opera of New York presents Mozart's Così fan tutte in a vibrant production set in 1950s Coney Island.
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M/6 Live music
The Metropolitan Opera of New York presents Mozart's Così fan tutte in a vibrant production set in 1950s Coney Island.
Live music
Yeol Eum Son performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, in a program that includes a premiere by Carlos Caires.
Exhibition
A visit to the exhibition 'Gulbenkian, 70 anos em cartaz', touring the posters of activities programmed or supported by the different services of the Gulbenkian Foundation over its 70 years.
South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins the Gulbenkian Orchestra under conductor Andrey Boreyko for Prokofiev's demanding Piano Concerto No. 2, followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1. The programme opens with the world premiere of Carlos Caires's 'Celebration', commissioned for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's 70th anniversary, and lasts about two hours.
Family friendly Family
Art Cart is a workshop that invites families with children aged six and up to do creative activities together.
Workshops & talks
In this drawing workshop, we'll get to know and see with fresh eyes some works from the Gulbenkian Museum, in the company of Catarina Dias.
In this visit, we explore the biography, paths, inspirations, ideas, techniques and works of artist Inês Zenha through her forgotten objects.
A guided tour of a selection from the CAM collection, arranged in fourteen thematic clusters inspired by the fictional device of the thousand-year-old story of 'One Thousand and One Nights'.
Exclusive visit exploring Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles' interventions in the Gulbenkian Garden between 2000 and 2014.
In this guided tour with Ivo Meco, we'll discover botanical curiosities in the Garden.
A visit to the masterpieces gathered by Calouste Gulbenkian, a journey through their extraordinary diversity, from Ancient Egypt to French Art Nouveau.
Live music
South Korean duo Dal:um reinvents traditional instruments gayageum and geomungo in a fusion of contemporary music and Asian tradition.
Free Family friendly Family
A monthly open-access workshop for families where experimentation is the watchword.
6–12 Family friendly Family
In this activity, families learn to make ink from the garden's oak galls and draw what they like most about the space. Aimed at children aged 6 to 12.
Live music
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana presents a Bach recital, highlighting her virtuosity and interpretive depth.
Exhibition
In this visit, we question what we understand by art, artist and creation, starting from the exhibition 'Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!'.
In this guided tour of the exhibition 'Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!', we are invited to question what art is, who makes it and how it is produced, following the clues of an exhibition that turns the visitor into a participant.
Perpetual. Through places never before imagined offers an experience that moves through uncharted spaces, guided by the idea of the perpetual and the never-before-imagined.
Exhibition
An exclusive tour led by the Museum Director to discover the vision behind the renovation and the new exhibition route.
Free Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Workshops & talks
In this course, participants will discover some of the most notable ceramic works from the Gulbenkian Collection.
Workshops & talks
Drawing course led by artist Catarina Dias, where drawing is explored as a process of discovery.
Other
Event of the category 'other' titled 'Fio de voz'.
Exhibition
A series of lunchtime visits proposing an in-depth observation of a single work of art.
Live music
Paweł Kapuła conducts the Gulbenkian Orchestra in a performance of Brahms' luminous Symphony No. 2.
Exhibition addressing the revolution of the gaze on 19th-century French landscape, from outdoor painting to Impressionism.
Family friendly Live music
A musical workshop for families that invites you to dive into an underwater sound universe, exploring sounds and music inspired by the bottom of the sea.
Exhibition
Immersive exhibition by artist Inês Zenha, featuring painting, sculpture and installation.
Workshops & talks
The Coleção em Série workshop, developed by artists Rita Cachão and Tiago de Sá, offers an introduction to screen printing based on the collection of the Museu Gulbenkian.
Family friendly Live music
A musical tour introducing the families of instruments, following a little turtle on a journey through the seas of music and emotions.
Exhibition
In this themed visit, gemologist Rui Galopim de Carvalho guides participants through the Gulbenkian Museum's painting collection, highlighting the jewels and gems depicted in the works.
Live music
A Met Opera Live in HD presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, in a powerful production conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
6+ Family friendly Exhibition
The Gulbenkian Museum opens its Art Studio to families with children aged 6 and over, inviting them to explore creative processes together.
Family friendly Exhibition
A family-friendly visit to the Xerazade exhibition: armed with a suitcase in hand and a special passport to fill in along the way, visitors embark on a journey through the world of the arts.
Live music
The Trio Amatis and Thomas Quasthoff present Humanity in War, a concert that blends music and letters from World War I in a reflection on humanity and peace.
A presentation session introducing the Oliveira Lima Library and its documentary and artistic collection to the research community and Portuguese academia.
Other
This visit introduces the bird species that make up the avifauna of the Foundation's Garden, with a focus on their songs.
Live music
Concert by the Gulbenkian Choir conducted by Martina Batič, featuring motets by Bach and works by Portuguese composers, including the premiere of Andreia Pinto Correia.
A guided tour that invites visitors to question the boundaries between production and consumption, work, leisure, individual creativity and collective participation.
Live music
Evgeny Kissin and András Schiff perform a four-hand and two-piano recital featuring works by Mozart, Schumann, Smetana, and Dvořák.
A visit with dinner designed exclusively by chef Diogo Formiga, honoured with one of the most recognised accolades in international gastronomy.
Exhibition
Recalling the Gulbenkian Itinerant Libraries, CAM and the Gulbenkian Museum launch a new cycle focused on the practice of democracy and active citizenship.
In this visit, curator Ana Maria Campino discusses the history of the display cases dedicated to the Museum's European books and graphic documents, works that periodically return to storage for conservation reasons.
Live music
The Sunday Concerts cycle kicks off with a program featuring works by Copland, Bernstein, Arturo Márquez, and Gabriela Ortiz.
Workshops & talks
A course built around the Gulbenkian Música 25/26 season, designed to deepen participants' understanding and enjoyment of the classical music presented throughout the season.
Other
A guided visit to discover some of the birds that make up the birdlife of the Jardim da Fundação and learn to recognise their songs and vocalisations.
In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.
Exhibition
In this visit, architect Teresa Nunes da Ponte guides us through the intervention that combined the technical and museographic updating of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
Live music
Cellist Maximilian Hornung joins the Gulbenkian Orchestra under conductor Nuno Coelho for Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, alongside Andreia Pinto Correia's Xántara and Ives' Symphony No. 2.
Exhibition
A visit to discover Inês Zenha's exhibition, in which the artist creates a path marked by fluidity and transformation.
In the context of the MAR+ project, this conversation explores different perspectives on contemporary dance and its creative processes.
A guided tour that ironically and provocatively questions what art is, who produces it and for whom it is made, inviting visitors to follow the instructions of an unexpected 'do it yourself'.
In this visit, we discover representations of landscape along a route that crosses several galleries of the Museum.
3–6 Family friendly Live music
A sound-and-music story concert for families with children aged 3 to 6, where the little ones help search for a voice someone has lost.
A course on integrating generative AI into research practice in an informed, ethical and productive way, focused on drafting funding proposals.
Live music
The Van Kuijk Quartet returns to Gulbenkian Music with a programme dedicated to great chamber music.
Live music
Elina Vähälä performs Olli Mustonen's Violin Concerto No. 2 in a program that includes Stravinsky's Petrouchka.
Exhibition
In this exhibition, the artworks make us think about the processes artists use to create their works.
Exhibition
In this guided tour of the exhibition 'Lugares que se desenham', we start from the notion of place to explore different ways of creating, delimiting, inhabiting and transforming space through art.
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.
In this workshop, participants will learn more about tits and build wooden nest boxes for them to use in the next breeding season.
A visit that proposes drawing places based on the CAM Collection.
This visit offers a panoramic tour of the major questions and challenges of modern and contemporary art.
Other
A visit that, based on a selection of works from CAM, invites students to discuss, observe, and make decisions about looking and perception.
The new Botanical Academy will be a space dedicated to the discovery and study of the plants that fill the Gulbenkian Garden with life.
Live music
During a general rehearsal of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir, participants are invited to sketch while listening to music, bringing drawing and music together.
David Nirenberg reflects on institutions as spaces of intellectual experimentation and dialogue between fields of knowledge.
Live music
Hannu Lintu conducts works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn inspired by spirituality and German Romanticism.
Historian and medievalist David Nirenberg joins a public conversation about the role of the humanities in contemporary society.
In this tour, curator André Afonso presents some of the 18th- and 19th-century French goldsmith masterpieces that fascinated Calouste Gulbenkian.
Family friendly Family
In this workshop in the Gulbenkian Garden, families will build looms using plant materials.
The winner of the second edition of the Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA) will be announced on November 17 in a ceremony at the Grande Auditório.
Family friendly Live music
A Gulbenkian Orchestra school concert that presents the orchestra in a fun and different way, designed to spark interest and enjoyment of music.
Live music
A live colloquium concert with no additional details provided.
Exhibition
This exhibition brings forth an 'imaginary collection' woven together by material, formal and conceptual affinities.
Exhibition
Artist Teresa Pavão and curator João Carvalho Dias talk with the public on a walk through the Museum, sharing the process behind the exhibition A Coleção Imaginária.
Exhibition
In the Gulbenkian Garden, this experience teaches you to observe nature, discover the invisible and turn small details into surprising images using your mobile phone.
Workshops & talks
Following the success of the first workshop, this activity returns to tufting, a contemporary textile creation technique, with artist Francisco Couto.
Live music
Birds that sing, insects that buzz and creatures that take shape through instruments: a concert that invites audiences into the Musical Bestiary.
Live music
This Sunday Concert celebrates music inspired by great narratives, with works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Humperdinck.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Exhibition
In this guided tour, discover the works of Carpeaux and Rodin and the stories, details and meanings hidden behind their sculptures.
Live music
The ensemble Apollo’s Fire and soprano Jeanine De Bique explore the musical ties between Europe and the Caribbean in the 18th century.
Exhibition
A visit to the exhibition Coleção Imaginária, bringing together works by Teresa Pavão and the Museu Gulbenkian collection in an intimate encounter.
Exhibition
An exhibition bringing together more than fifty artists from the CAM Collection — among them several leading figures of national and international art history — organised around the notion of place as its conceptual axis.
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.
Live music
Danças Ocultas presents Flúmen, a performance blending concertinas, contemporary music and nature-inspired soundscapes.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs works by Alban Berg, Schubert, Mahler and Dobrinka Tabakova in a program dedicated to European Romanticism and Modernism.
Dance
This tour focuses on movement, dance and bodily expression as tools for reading and interpreting artistic objects.
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns, in a production starring Aigul Akhmetshina and Clay Hilley.
An exhibition bringing poetry and art together in the gallery, featuring Alice Neto de Sousa.
Live music
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho presents a recital marked by virtuosity, lyricism and interpretive maturity.
Live music
Anika Vavić performs Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Live music
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino presents "Il Mito", a show that reinvents the Italian tradition of pizzica in contemporary language.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Live music
Martina Batič leads the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra in an emotional Christmas concert dedicated to beauty, sharing, and spirituality.
Family friendly Dance
Alexandra Dariescu reinvents The Nutcracker with piano, dance and digital animation in a multi-sensory experience inspired by Tchaikovsky.
Over six sessions, this course explores exceptional objects—true masterpieces designed to give everyday spaces meaning, beauty and craftsmanship.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra celebrates the New Year with soprano Erin Morley and conductor Domingo Hindoyan.
Live music
Les Vents Français and pianist Éric Le Sage present a recital dedicated to the great repertoire for wind instruments.
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs John Williams' iconic music from the Indiana Jones films.
Live music
A concert that takes us on an interplanetary space-and-music exploration of Gustav Holst's suite 'The Planets'.
Live music
A concert that takes us on an interplanetary space-and-music exploration of Gustav Holst's suite 'The Planets'.
Workshops & talks
In this five-session course, Alexandre Delgado contextualises and analyses in detail Beethoven's revolutionary symphonies, composed between 1800 and 1824.
In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.
Live music
Martina Batič conducts the Gulbenkian Choir in an a cappella program dedicated to Italian and Portuguese music, from Monteverdi to Eurico Carrapatoso.
Workshops & talks
A course that reflects on landscape as a space of memory, identity and collective project, understanding landscape heritage as a living legacy and a responsibility towards the future.
Live music
Sergei Babayan performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
Family friendly Dance
A family visit that unravels the riddles of the Tapestries, spins dances, and creates soundscapes together.
A workshop where participants discover the principles of natural cosmetics through direct contact with plant-based raw materials and traditionally used body-care plants.
In this practical workshop, participants follow the stages of artisanal therapeutic natural soap making, while reflecting on consumption habits, waste reduction, and more sustainable alternatives for everyday life.
This visit explores the innovative Gulbenkian Building and Garden, decoding the symbiotic relationship between architecture and landscape architecture taken to its highest expression.
Live music
Pianist Daniil Trifonov performs a recital marked by virtuosity, imagination, and emotional intensity.
Live music
The orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro and cellist Anastasia Kobekina perform a concert dedicated to Baroque and Classical repertoire.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Family friendly Literature
Tales that go in and out of books and life, featuring daring, clever, fearless, capricious, and also fearsome girls.
Exhibition
A visit that looks at ivory sculptures, medieval illuminated manuscripts, and Renaissance paintings from the 13th to the 16th centuries, exploring the attributes, symbols, and narratives associated with the Virgin.
A laboratory of imagination for young people aged 18–25, exploring how we dream and imagine in uncertain times over 15 weeks, guided by a guest artist.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 and Joly Braga Santos' Symphony No. 4.
Starting from a vocabulary that is at once poetic and political, the artist proposes an underground journey through the systems of the body and of human infrastructures, in which water, bodily fluids and clay become the guiding threads of transformation.
A guided visit offering the chance to learn about the project from the artist and curators themselves, diving into murky waters.
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, starring Sondra Radvanovsky.
Live music
The Sonico ensemble celebrates Eduardo Rovira's centenary with a concert dedicated to contemporary tango.
Live music
Works by Liszt and Berlioz inspired by literature take center stage in a concert dedicated to Dante and Théophile Gautier.
Live music
Marie-Ange Nguci presents a piano recital spanning Baroque, Romantic, and contemporary repertoires.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Live music
A narrated concert that brings the audience closer to Beethoven's repertoire, with musical examples and a conductor leading the way.
Live music
Javier Perianes, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Tabea Zimmermann perform Brahms and Schumann in a chamber music recital.
Family friendly Live music
A concert that turns the alphabet into a musical story, where letters come to life through notes and imagination, in a creative adventure from A to Z.
Other
A guided tour led by one of the project's architects to rediscover the CAM building and learn about its recent transformation.
Exhibition
Poetry workshops led by established poets, exploring spoken and written word through artworks at CAM, ending with surprise readings beside the pieces.
Family friendly Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra presents works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Maria Theresia von Paradis in a family concert.
Live music
A recital by Tamara Stefanovich and baritone Matthias Goerne dedicated to contemporary repertoire and lieder.
Live music
Inmo Yang performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
A guided visit through the 18th-century French furniture pieces collected by Calouste Gulbenkian, revealing how changing French society shaped their design.
A guided tour of the Gulbenkian Garden focusing on photosynthesis, plant reproduction, adaptations, and nomenclature of the plant kingdom.
A cyanotype workshop where students create small botanical albums of blue images.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, one of the most striking choral works inspired by peace.
A tale about determination, courage, and believing in one's dreams, inspired by the story of Judith Heumann.
A visit that starts from the Coromandel screen and other pieces in the Calouste Gulbenkian collection to explore the meaning of the Chinese Zhuazhou tradition, still practised in several regions of East Asia.
Other
An activity to explore soundscapes and discover six city trees through listening, contemplation and imagination.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Live music
Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Exhibition
A session exploring the power of art and the museum as spaces for critical thinking, participation and knowledge building, through methodologies and practices of art education.
Live music
Petar Pejčić performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
A guided tour of one of the most emblematic modernist gardens, to discover how subtle geometry mimics nature and celebrates the Mediterranean landscape.
Live music
Elionor Martínez performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Live music
Quarteto Javus performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Other
In this workshop we will make wild seed bombs to help spring arrive in all its splendor.
Live music
Ava Bahari performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Live music
Trio Amelio performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, during a musically intense day.
Live music
Camila Mandillo performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, during a musically intense day.
Live music
Grigory Sokolov returns to Gulbenkian Música for a piano recital dedicated to the great classical repertoire.
Live music
Johan Dalene performs Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto in a program that includes Sibelius's Symphony No. 7.
Other
A visit to discover the Gulbenkian Garden as a place of diversity, designed in the image of the landscape and recreating natural ecosystems.
Live music
Met Opera Live in HD presents Silent Night, by Kevin Puts, an opera inspired by the Christmas truce of World War I.
Live music
Martina Batič conducts Bach's monumental St Matthew Passion with the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra.
Live music
Concert uniting European and Middle Eastern musicians in a dialogue between cultures and musical traditions.
Family friendly Other
In this workshop-visit, first-cycle students explore and discover the fauna, flora and biodiversity of the Gulbenkian Garden.
Live music
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as Manon in a new production by the Metropolitan Opera.
Live music
Piano recital by Bertrand Chamayou dedicated to Ravel, Liszt, Schumann, Fauré and György Kurtág.
Live music
Truls Mørk performs Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Live music
Violin and piano recital with Beethoven sonatas performed by Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace.
Live music
Concert by Ensemble Sepidar dedicated to the tradition of Persian classical music and the dastgāh system.
Live music
Chamber music recital with works by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Boulanger performed by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor.
Workshops & talks
In this writing workshop with Maria Giulia Pinheiro, participants write the way children play, giving all their attention and energy to a playful challenge or a deliberately useless occupation.
Live music
Sunday concert featuring works by Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, and other Nordic composers on a musical journey to Scandinavia.
Live music
Martina Batič conducts the Gulbenkian Choir in a programme devoted to North American choral music, from Bernstein to Randall Thompson.
Live music
Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Verdi's Otello in a production starring Brian Jagde and Ailyn Pérez.
Live music
Igor Levit gives a recital devoted to Beethoven's sonatas and the creative world of the German composer.
Live music
Christina Nilsson performs Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Joshua Weilerstein.
Live music
Pianist Bruce Liu performs a recital featuring works by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Ligeti, and Mompou.
Live music
The Participatory Concerts return with John Adams's 'El Niño,' conducted by Joana Carneiro.
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The Belcea Quartet performs Beethoven quartets in a recital dedicated to the intimate world of the German composer.
Live music
A narrated concert with musical examples designed to bring the audience closer to the chosen repertoire, culminating in the conductor's grand entrance.
Live music
The concert Music and Nature explores the inspiration of the natural world in works by Mendelssohn, Dvořák and Ester Mägi.
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
Live music
Clara-Jumi Kang presents a violin recital with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, marked by virtuosity and romantic repertoire.
Live music
Kiya Tabassian and Ghalia Benali present a concert inspired by the Sufi poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, titled Constantinople.
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Sebastian Fagerlund premieres The Strangest Sea in a program that includes the last symphony of Shostakovich.
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Víkingur Ólafsson presents a piano recital dedicated to Bach, Debussy, Rameau and Philip Glass.
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Met Opera Live in HD presents Wagner's Parsifal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with a stellar cast including Piotr Beczała, Elīna Garanča, and Peter Mattei.