OPERAFEST LISBOA, in its 4th edition was another success of audience
with wide national and international recognition!

Operafest Lisboa presented its 4th editon in the marvelous Garden of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga and in Roman Theatre, Centro Cultural Belém and Cinemateca Portuguesa, during a all month of varied and vibrating program, celebrating opera with full houses and continuing to win over new opera devotees!

This 4th edition, brought the emotion of opera almost month-long directly to 6300 people, one third of international audience, among which a great number of young people and children and a growing loyal audience of different ages and backgrounds, year after year enjoying enthusiastically, its challenges and proposals! 
 

5 New Opera Produtions

13 performances

1 opera in absolute premiere

40 singing lessons to curious amateurs

Maratona Opera XXI - Contemporary Opera Competition

Performance

Cine-Opera: 3 films

1 Operatic Rave

Soprano Beatriz Maia won 1st Prize Carlos de Pontes Leça Award and Audience Award of Maratona Ópera XXI- 4th edition of opera contemporary Opera contest "Great Singers for the Opera of Today".

And baritone Tiago Amado Gomes won the 2nd Prize!!

Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Carmen - Georges Bizet - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Suor Angelica - Giacomo Puccini - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva​
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva
Dose Dupla - Rigor Mortis - Francisco Lima da Silva - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
The Magic Flute - Mozart - @Susana Paiva
Maratona Ópera XXI - Great Singers for the Opera of Today - @Susana Paiva
Maratona Ópera XXI - Great Singers for the Opera of Today - @Susana Paiva
Maratona Ópera XXI - Great Singers for the Opera of Today - @Susana Paiva
Occult Forces - performance by Gustavo Sumpta - @Susana Paiva
Occult Forces - performance by Gustavo Sumpta - @Susana Paiva
Occult Forces - performance by Gustavo Sumpta - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva
Operatic Rave - @Susana Paiva

On the 25th October we celebrate opera!

World opera day was launched on the 25th of October of 2019, celebrating Georges Bizet’s and Johann Strauss’ birthday - two majors characters of opera realm. It’s a day to evoke, remember, reflect and project the power of this performing art form.

" Opera devotes time to emotional peaks and abysses of human existence: life, love, death, loss, passion, joy, anger. She is the first multi media form of all time, keeping us in contact with what is below the surface, " Carlos Conceição, Film Director

"Courage, audacity, imagination, qualities we should see more often in great European Classical Music Institutions,
perfectly embody young Opera festival in Lisbon!", Première Loge