Festivals

OPERAFEST LISBOA & OEIRAS

FROM 22 AUGUST TO 11 SEPTEMBER 202

5th Edition of Operafest Lisboa is back, with new exciting venues and vibrating opera for everyone, under the moto "Basic Instinct"!

The "out of the box" Operafest 2024 Lisboa & Oeiras led by soprano Catarina Molder and produced by Ópera do Castelo, crossing tradition and vanguardism, is back in new incredible venues to enjoy exciting opera for everyone doubling its audience!

Operafest Lisboa 2024 will spread to Oeiras town. This 5th Editions under the moto "Basic Instinct" launches in sumptuous Gardens of Palácio Marquês de Pombal, in Oeira, a dreamlike setting, right on the edge of Lisbon - with two masterpieces of Italian verismo: Cavalleria rusticiana" by Mascagni and Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, right after for the younger ones, opera tale "Little Thumb" by Isabelle Aboulker. In the new Lisbon epicentre in Open-air Amphitheatre of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. Celebrating five hundred years of birth one of the greatest poets of all time and father of Portuguese language Luís Vaz de Camões, the absolute premiere of cantata performance "Torment" based on Canto V of epic poem "Lusiads" in Lisbon Trienal, Maratona Ópera XXI new dynamics for today’s opera: workshop and New Libretto Awards, Cine-Opera, Conferences, debates, workshops, closing with unique operatic rave in Titanic sur mer.

Welcome to Operafest and the tragic world of opera!

Tickets available on Bol, Fnac, Worten, CTT and El Corte Inglés