Opera for everyone in the XXI Century Operafest Lisboa e Oeiras Liedfest Art Song Festival POP Portuguese Opera Portal Maratona Ópera XXI Contemporary opera Contest and Award Audio-visual Lab Opera XXI Independent Opera Creations New repertoire Emerging artists New audiences Great Classics Inedited Opera Satellite
Opera for everyone in the XXI Century Operafest Lisboa e Oeiras Liedfest Art Song Festival POP Portuguese Opera Portal Maratona Ópera XXI Contemporary opera Contest and Award Audio-visual Lab Opera XXI Independent Opera Creations New repertoire Emerging artists New audiences Great Classics Inedited Opera Satellite
The 7th edition of Operafest Lisboa e Oeiras, under the theme of “enigma,” kicks off in the unique setting of the Cartuxa Convent with Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished opera and one of the grandest operas ever created. This is followed by a symphonic concert commemorating the 500th anniversary of Camões, with the world premiere of Nuno da Rocha’s symphonic poem Lusíadas in a double feature with Luís de Freitas Branco’s Vathek, and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Returning to the capital, the festival features the world premiere of the performance Anátema, celebrating Camilo Castelo Branco, Cine-opera at the Portuguese Cinematheque, conferences within El Corte Inglés, and concludes with the 5th edition of the national contemporary opera competition – Maratona Ópera XXI, with two world premieres of operas – The strange life of thing and Last movement at the Aula Magna.
Welcome to Operafest and the tragic world of opera!
The launch of the Portuguese Opera Portal is imminent, a digital platform to enhance access to and dissemination of Portuguese opera for all audience, professionals, and amateurs, bringing together information about Portuguese opera from its origins to the present day: context and evolution, composers, list of operas, free downloadable piano and song reduction scores, and much more!!
Ópera do Castelo is a leading independent opera production structure in Portugal, developing innovative projects, including audiovisual works, and focusing on a new body of repertoire and new paths for opera within the contemporary performing arts ecosystem.
It produces the Operafest Lisboa e Oeiras festival, which was born during the pandemic in 2020 and is now in its 7th edition. It has established itself as the largest national opera event and one of the most unconventional European opera festivals, the main gateway for new audiences to opera in Portugal, as well as the main stage for emerging opera talent. We have been strengthening and boosting the national opera market, in a public service approach, combining tradition and avant-garde.
In audiovisual, the award-winning series, Super Diva Opera for everyone, stands out, and soon the premiere on RTP2 of Cortina Vermelha (Red Curtain), the first operatic fiction series ever!
The Man of Dreams by António Chagas Rosa
Launch 28th April, 18h30, Auditório da Biblioteca Nacional
Course by Paulo Ferreira de Castro
May 10th and 12th, 18h30, Teatro da Comuna
5th edition with 2 opera in world premiere
September 11th, Aula Magna