Latest news and stories about opera in Portugal for expats and residents.
Opera singer Joyce Bastos was born in the outskirts of São Paulo and graduated from the Musik-Akademie Basel in Switzerland. Between May 29 and June 7, she will participate in the Cascais Ópera, an international singing competition.
The opera returns to a Portuguese stage (at the CCB) after more than 30 years. The director and conductor present the production, built upon the “controversy and monumentality” of Richard Wagner.
The opera focused on Gaza will premiere on Saturday in Guimarães. It is a creation by the Setúbal Voz Association inspired by real events and is part of the Guimarães Lyric Singing Festival.
The award-winning comic book by Portuguese artist Filipe Andrade and Indian writer Ram V will open the 2026-2027 season at the Minnesota Opera, with a world premiere on October 31st.
Also coming to the net are the opera Um Amor de Perdição, the play Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, and the music of Jethro Tull.
Premiered last September as part of BoCA – Bienal de Artes Contemporâneas, this five-act opera arrives in Porto this Thursday, occupying the main auditorium of the Coliseu.
Composer of the opera “The White Raven”, from Lisbon's Expo 98, has joined a boycott by several artists.
In March 1958, Lisbon welcomed Maria Callas for a performance that would become known as the “legendary Lisbon Traviata.” Before the performance, a television reporter managed to obtain a brief interview.
The Portuguese composer serves as guide in a series that demystifies the cliché of an anachronistic, elitist art. Premiering this Monday on RTP2, it takes viewers on a journey to the heart of contemporary opera.
The television documentary series about contemporary opera, “Opera. Now”, written and directed by composer Vasco Mendonça, premieres on 5 January on RTP2, which co-produced it with the French channel Mezzo and the streaming platform Medici.tv.
This year, the festival programme will also have a second part in the summer.
There were months of uproar and very expensive tickets that sold out in 48 hours. One hundred and forty years before Rosalía, after cholera and the quarantine, Patti, the 19th-century diva, polarised the capital in 1886.
