Operafest Lisboa 2023

Great Singers for the Opera of Today

Maratona Ópera XXI (4th Edition)
Contemporary opera competition

 

6 SEP | 21h00

Centro Cultural de Belém

 

Length: 1h

Subtitled in Portuguese and English

 

Carlos de Pontes Leça Award

 

Portuguese contemporary opera competition and award - Maratona Ópera XXI presents in Partnership with Centro Cultural de Belém, GREAT SINGERS FOR THE OPERA OF TODAY, in its 4th edition, betting on emerging singing talent and on the interpretation of the opera of our time, sung in Portuguese, in co-production with MPMP, alive music patrimony.

 

The main mission of Maratona Ópera XXI is to project this total art form into the future, fostering emergence of new composers, new repertoire, new opera creatives and interpreters, enhancing contemporary opera production and bringing it closer to interpreters, audience and world of today!

 

Starting from a thrilling alignment of arias and excepts from last decades’ opera repertoire by Portuguese composers such as Alexandre Delgado, António Chagas Rosa, Daniel Moreira, Francisco Fontes, Sara Ross among others, the challenge is in a staged final performance, evaluate contemporary opera interpretation and Portuguese singing skills from a group of selected singers, empowering Portuguese singing tradition and appropriation, specialization and diffusion of Portuguese contemporary opera repertoire among new generations of interpreters. The winners will receive Carlos de Pontes de Leça Award in three categories. Staging is signed by Rodrigo Aleixo (winner of Maratona’s last edition) conducted by Rita Castro Blanco.

 

Programa

Dimitris Andrikopoulos

Onde andará a minha filha, in Ópera Real

1- Sofia Marafona, soprano

 

Alexandre Delgado

O meu nome é Maria , in A Rainha louca

Ária da solidão , in A Rainha Louca

2- Nataliia Stepanska, soprano

 

António Chagas Rosa

Pois bem, eu consegui variar a existência!, Cena 2, in O Homem dos Sonhos

3- Ana Sofia Ventura, soprano

 

Francisco Fontes

Agora estou a brincar, in Maria Magola

Eu ainda não falei, in Maria Magola

4- Marta Martins, soprano

 

Nuno Côrte-Real

Fidélia, in Twitter ópera

5 -Tiago Amado Gomes, barítono

 

Hugo Ribeiro

Que posso eu esperar ainda desta vida , in "Os mortos viajam de metro"

6- Juliana Macedo, soprano

 

Nuno Côrte-Real

Exaltação, in Livro de Florbela 

Os versos que te fiz, in Livro de Florbela

7- Beatriz Maia, soprano

 

Musical direction: Rita Castro Blanco
Stage direction Rodrigo Aleixo

Light design: Pedro Santos

 

Cast/Candidates
Ana Sofia Ventura, Beatriz Maia, Juliana Macedo, Nataliya Stepanska, Marta Martins, Sofia Marafona e Tiago Amado Gomes

 

Ensemble MPMP

 

Jury

Catarina Molder, soprano, general & artistic director OPERAFEST Lisboa
Jan Wierzba, conductor & artistic director MPMP
Cesário Costa, conductor & programmer CCB
Sandra Faleiro, actress and stage director
Rui Vieira Nery, Musicologist