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, Conferences, debates, workshops, the unique Operatic Rave in Titanic sur mer, closing with Cine-ópera in Cinemateca Portuguesa with the same verismo double bill, which started this edition!

Welcome to Operafest and the tragic world of opera!