OPERAFEST LISBOA & OEIRAS

FROM 22 AUGUST TO 11 SEPTEMBER 2024

Operafest Lisboa 5th edition under "basic instinct" kicks off with most popular Italian verismo operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Gardens of Palácio Marquês de Pombal, in Oeiras!

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, 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!

Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

Mascagni & Leoncavallo

Great Classics

 22, 24 and 26 AUG

21h00

Palácio Marquês de Pombal Gardens - Oeiras

Little Thumb

Isabelle Aboulker - Contópera

Audience of the Future | Inedited

 28, 29, 30 and 31 AUG

21h00

Palácio Marquês de Pombal Gardens - Oeiras

Don Giovanni

W. A. Mozart

Great Classics

  30, 31 AUG - 2, 4 SEP

21h00

Open-air Amphitheatre Gulbenkian

Torment

Camões 500 Years

Opera Satellite | Creations

5 and 6 SEPTEMBER

21h00 and 22h

Trienal de Lisboa

Lyrich Machine

SINGING LESSONS FOR CURIOUS AMATEURS

Opera Satellite

24 AUG to 8 SEP

11h00 - 18h00

Palácio Marquês de Pombal

Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul

Operatic Rave

"Basic Instinct" 

Opera Satellite

7 SEPTEMBER

23h

Titanic sur mer

Operafest kicks-off in the amazing Gardens of Palácio Marquês de Pombal in Oeiras!

"Courage, audacity, imagination that we should see more often in great European musical institutions, perfectly embody the young Lisbon festival!" Première Loge

 

"Impressive public loyalty for this festival with modest means but impressive vitality." Opera online